Prof. Ekaterina Degot

Between 1993-2000 colomnist of the daily newspaper “Kommersant” in Moskow (R.F.). Since 2000 ‘free-lancer’, Author and Curator. Lives in Moskow.

EXHIBITION PROJECTS
2000
The View from Here. Modern Art from Russia and America (with Sarah Tanguy) National Tretjakov Galerie, Moskow2000 Cold War - Hot Culture. Russian Non-Conformist Art in America. University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA)
2001
Russian Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy)2000-2004 BODYMIND: Underwaer of Soviet’s Times. (With Julia Demidenko). StPetersburg, Museum for urban culture; Nizhni Novgorod, Central Exhibition Hall; Moskow, Central Artists House; Vienna, Volkskundemuseum; Helsinki, Urban Museum
2003
Laboratory of Luck. Pro Arte Institut, StPetersburg
2003-2004
Moskow-Berlin 1947-2003. (with Juergen Harten, Pavel Khoroshilov, Viktor Misiano, Angela Schneider, Christoph Tannert) Berlin, Martin-Gropius Bau; Moskow, Historical Museum

FILM
2000
Bruchpunkte (Break points) Russian Art in the 20th Century. Script and Moderation (with Lev Lurie). ProArte Institut, StPetersbusg

PROFESSUR
2002
Guest professurate at the University of Konstanz (Germany)
2001
European University, StPetersburg
1999
Pro Arte Institut, StPetersburg
1995-1998
RGGU (Russian Humanitery University), Moskow
1999
Guest professurate Duke University, Durham NC (USA)
1998
Guest professurate William&Mary college, Williamsburg VA (USA)

STIPENDIATES
2004
Post Communist Condition. ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe (Germany)
2003
Center for literature research, Berlin (Germany)
1998
Fulbright Scholar
1995
Courant d’Est, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)

PUBLISHED BOOKS
1995
Contemporary Painting in Russia. - London-Melbourne: Craftsman House
1998
Terroristicheskij Naturalism. [Terroristischer Naturalismus]. - Moskow: Ad Marginem
2000
Russkoje Iskusstvo XX veka [Russische Kunst XX Jhs]. - Moskow: Trilistnik
2002
Triokhprudny Lane. - Oslo: Hongkong Press
2003
Koerpergedaechtnis: Unterwaesche Sovietischer Zeiten. (Hrsg). Ausstellungskatalog. Wien - Vienna (Austria)

SELECTED ESSAYS
1994
Die Moskower Szene im Entreact. - Fluchtpunkt Moskow. Werke der Sammlung Ludwig und Arbeiten fuer Aachen. Ludwig Forum, Aachen. Muenchen: Cantz Verlag Erlaubte Kunst (mit Vladimir Levashov). - idem.
1995
Contemporary Moscow Art: Restoration of the Artist`s Body. - No Man`s Land. Art from the Near Abroad. Copenhagen: Nicolaj, Contemporary Art Center. Volume 1
1995
Terroristischer Naturalismus. - Springer (Wien), September 1995
1995
New Moscow Photography: Images of Scepticism and Utopia. - Contemporary Photographic Art from Moscow. - Muenchen: Prestel Verlag
1995
Verlust des Verlustes als Mittel gegen Nostalgie. - Flug-Entfernung- Verschwinden. Konzeptuelle Moskower Kunst. Galerie Hlavnego Mestu Prahy, Prag; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel., Muenchen: Cantz Verlag
1995
Die Kunst im Raume der Illegitimitaet. - Interregnum . Russische Kunst zur Zeit. - Nuernberg: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst
1996
Moskower Akzionismus. - Kraeftemessen. Eine Ausstellung ost- oestliche Positionen innerhalb der westlichen Welt. - Muenchen: Cantz Verlag
1999
Kritik der Kritik, oder der Triumph des Moeglichen. - Neues Moskow. Kunst aus Moskow und St.Petersburg. - [Berlin]: IFA, 1999, s.56-65.
1999
The Logic of the Absurd: From Dumbness to Idiocy. - After the Wall. Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by Bojana Pejic and David Elliott. Stockholm: Modern Museum, 1999, p.60-62.
1999
Creative Women, Creative Men and Paradygms of Creativity. - Amazons of the Russian Avant-Garde. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1999.
2000
To Be an Artist in the Post-Soviet World. - The View From Here. Issues of Cultural Identity and Perspective in Contemporary Russian and American Art. - Moscow: Hand Print Workshop International, State Tretyakov Gallery
2000
Soviet Photography: Post-Montage and Pre-Reproduction. - Artificial Reality. Soviet Photography 1930-1987. Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art
2003
Vom Genuss zum Genossen. - Koerpergedaechtnis: Unterwaesche Sovietischer Zeiten. Wien: Volkskundemuseum
2003
Die transmediale Utopie der Russischen Avant-Garde und des Sozialistischen Realismus. - Musen der Macht. Muenchen: Wilhelm Fink
2003
The Revenge of the Background. - Primary Documents. Sourcebook for Russian and Easterneuropean Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art
2003
Moscow Conceptualism as an Institutional Project. - Moscow Conceptualism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University (im Druck)
2003
A Copy is a Crime: Official Photography and Unofficial Art. - Russian Photopraphy in Zimmerly Museum Collection. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University (im Druck).
2003
Phaenomenologie des Sozialismus. - Boris Mikhailov. Ausstellungskatalog. Wintertur
2003
Kollektivisierung des Modernismus. - Traumfabrik Kommunismus. Ausstellungskatalog. Frankfurt: Shirn Kunsthalle