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Sepake Angiama is Head of Education and Audience Development for International
Manifesta Foundation. She develops the overall educational strategies for the biennial. As
curator and educator her interest lies in discursive practices and the social framework,
which has led her to work with artists who disrupt or provoke aspects of the social sphere
through action, design, dance and architecture. Her projects include What can we achieve
together? (2009-2012), Centre for Cooperative Living (2010), What can you achieve by
getting to know your neighbour?, A Space Between (2011) and collaborative project [...] at
the PUBLIC SCHOOL Brussels (2010), and Drawn to Dance (2005) at Hayward Gallery,
London. From 2004-7 she was Public Programmes Coordinator at Hayward Gallery. In
2008, she received the Monique Beudert Award. Previously she was the Curator of Public
Programmes at Turner Contemporary, Margate.
Anna Breu is a cross-disciplinary artist collective, using moving image, sound and
performance as its primary mediums. The group shares a shameless interest towards art
language and dyslexic confusion.
Lieven De Cauter is a philosopher, art historian and writer. He teaches philosophy of
culture in Department of Architecture of KULeuven, Luca, and RITS, school of arts. He has
published several books: on contemporary art, experience and modernity, on Walter
Benjamin and more recently on architecture, the city and politics. Besides this he has
published poems, columns, statements, pamphlets and opinion pieces in newspapers and on
the web. His latest books: The Capsular Civilization. On the City in the Age of Fear (2004);
Heterotopia and the city. Public space in a postcivil society (2008), co-edited with Michiel
Dehaene, Art and Activism in the Age of Gloablization, co-edited with Karel van
Haesebrouck and Ruben De Roo (2011), De oorsprongen of het Boek der Verbazing (The
origins of The book of amazement) and Entropic Empire. On the City of Man in the Age of
Fear (2012). He is co-founder of the BRussells Tribunal (www.brusselstribunal.org).
Hedwig Fijen is Director of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary art, since
its origin in Rotterdam in the early nineties. Under Fijen’s direction Manifesta has developed
into one of the four most influential biennial's in the world. Over this period Fijen has
expanded Manifesta’s operations with theoretical and education projects including
theManifesta Journal and the Manifesta Coffee Breaks. Fijen is in charge of all aspects of
the Manifesta organization including the selection of Host cities, thematic content and the
curatorial selection. The final execution of the concept of the curators is her responsibility.
Before Manifesta, Fijen worked as a curator at The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts and
worked in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Cuba and many other countries. Hedwig Fijen
is currently working on concurrent editions of the Manifesta Biennial: the jubilee edition of
the biennial, MANIFESTA 10, which takes place from 28 June – 31 October 2014 in St.
Petersburg, Russia, in partnership with the State Hermitage Museum; Manifesta 11, to be
hosted by the city of Zürich in 2016 and Manifesta 12, which will take place in 2018.
FRANK is an Oslo based platform run by the Norwegian artists Liv Bugge and Sille
Storihle, established to nurture art and critical discourse revolving around gender issues,
desire, and sexuality. Since April 2012, FRANK has developed a practice where Bugge
and Storihle functions as hosts, curators, and editors. The platform started as a salon, and
now operates in different locations and with various co-curators. The work they do with
FRANK is intertwined with their individual artistic practices, and aims at building community
while creating discussions that address hegemonic structures in society. FRANK has realised
projects in conjunction with institutions in Oslo such as Kunstnernes Hus (2012); UKS
(2013); Kunsthall Oslo (2014) and ONE Archives (2014) in Los Angeles. The platform has
worked with artists, writers and critics such as Katarina Bonnevier, Gerd Brantenberg,
Mathias Danbolt, Marie Høeg, Klara Lidén, Roee Rosen and Wu Tsang.
Masha Godovannaya is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Moscow. Masha holds
MFA degree in Film/Video from Bard College, US and now is enrolled at MA program at
the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at European University of St. Petersburg.
Masha’s films and visual works have been shown at many international film festivals,
screenings and galleries. She teaches film/video classes at the Department of Liberal Arts
and Science (Smolny College) of St. Petersburg State University.
Tue Greenfort is and artists and his interdisciplinary practice deals with issues such as the
public and private realm, nature and culture. Interweaving these subjects with the language
of contemporary art the artist formulates an often direct critique of current economical and
scientific production practices. Fascinated by the dynamics in the natural world, Greenfort’s
work often evolves around ecology and its history, including the environment, social
relations, and human subjectivity. Tue Greenfort lives and works in Berlin where he is
represented by Johann König Gallery. As a participant in dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel,
Greefort was co-curator of an archive on multi-species co-evolution, The Worldly House. He
has had extensive solo presentations at Berlinische Galerie (2012), South London Gallery
(2011), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2008) and Secession, Vienna (2007). He has
participated in numerous international exhibitions at institutions including Kunstverein
Hannover (2011), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2009), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
(2009), the Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2008), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007)
and Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006). Among his publications the most comprehensive,
Linear Deflection, was published by Walther König in 2009.
Hanna Horsberg Hansen is Associate Professor at the Academy of Contemporary Art of
UiT, The Artic University of Norway, Tromsø, where she teaches art theory and art history.
She is also working on developing strategies for the artistic research programme at the
Faculty of Fine Arts. She received her PhD in art history at The Artic University of Norway
with the thesis Lines of Flight: Understandings of Sami Contemporary Art. From 2011 until
2013 she held a postdoc position in the Sami Art Research Project at The Artic University of
Norway. Her research field is contemporary Sami Art, with a special focus on the relations
and frictions between Sami artistic practice and art-historical.
Olga Jitlina is an artist based in St. Petersburg. Her practice is as a continuation of the
Russian tradition of socially engaged art which began in the second part of the 19th century
by a group of painters called Peredvizhniki. Even though Jitlina always hated the dominance
of gray and dull brown in their palette, she shares their responsible approach to art pieces
as public statements and their profound interest in social problems. On the other hand, her
work attemps to describe or protest the tragic situations in which history, government and
our own passivity. Through humor, paradoxical interpretations and imagination Jitlina finds
ways to address these tragic situtions. Being a product of pure love between a Russian man
and a Jewish woman she considers herself a perfect example of successful national
integration, and therfore she believes that better scenarios for the class-national policies in
the post-Soviet territories could be formulated.
Anna Johansson is an artist who explores the relationship between the individual and the
network society we live in. Through video, sculpture and installations she reflects on her own
personal encounter with the physical and the virtual space. During the Master program
(2013-2014) she developed further subjects as time, the body, language and the
anonymous compared with the public. As a graduating student, she was awarded the grant
of Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. She is based in Stockholm and is currently working with a
video project influenced by repetitive digital images.
Alevtina Kakhidze is a Ukrainian artist that works with performance, installation,
drawings, texts and design objects. She has been a participant in numerous international
and Ukrainian art projects including, Drawing Class for Collectors within the 7th Berlin
Biennial, You are at Home of Vladimir Alevtina Suzi Penelopa at Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Working
for Change, a project for the Morocco Pavilion within the 54th Biennale di Venezia, I’m late
for a plane that’s impossible to be late for, Якщо/Если/IF (Perm, Museum for
Contemporary Art PERMM), 1989–2009: Turbulent World – Telling Time (Berlin, Art
Academy, Kiev, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Moscow, National Center of
Contemporary Art etc.),Endless Sphere (Kyiv, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA)
etc. Kakhidze is a co-founder of a private residency for international artists in the village of
Muzychi.
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen are artists based in Helsinki. They
began to collaborate in 2003 by organizing “The First Summit of Micronations” in Helsinki
(Amorph!03 festival). Since that they have created numerous participatory art projects, for
example Complaints Choirs (2005 -), which has spread in more than 120 cities as an open
source concept. They made several cinematic works such as The Making of Utopia (2006),
People in White (2011) and Archipelago Science Fiction (2012). They are founding
members of The Speech Karaoke Action Group and YKON. They have exhibited in venues
including Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), P.S.1 (New York), Shedhalle (Zürich), Kunsthalle
Fridericianum (Kassel), Hamburg Kunsthalle (Hamburg), KUMU (Tallinn), KIASMA (Helsinki),
S.M.A.K. (Gent) and Ars Electronica Center (Linz). Their film works have been shown in
venues such as Hot Docs (Toronto), Rome Film Festival (Rome), New Media Festival (Tokyo)
and MoMa (New York). In 2012 they won the AVEK media award prize and in 2014 they
won the biggest art prize of Finland, Ars Fennica.
Flo Kasearu is director of Flo Kasearu's House Museum, Tallinn. The majority of her work
focuses on social issues, which she has practiced in various media from painting and
drawing to performance and video art. She has exhibited everywhere in Estonia and taken
part of a number of group exhibition around Europe.
Kasper König is curator of Manifesta 10. He was only twenty-three years old when he
curated the Claes Oldenburg exhibition in a museum in Stockholm. While still a student, he
organized several exhibitions and published numerous books. In 1985, König became
Professor of Art and the Public, a then newly created position at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Düsseldorf. Three years later, he accepted a professorship at the Städelschule Frankfurt,
where he has served as president of this fine arts college since 1989. During this same
period he became founding director of the Portikus, an exhibition hall in Frankfurt/Main.
König has organized several large exhibitions, including Westkunst (1979) in the
Messehallen, Cologne; von hier aus (1984) in the Messe, Düsseldorf; and Der zerbrochene
Spiegel (1993) in Vienna and Hamburg. In 2000 he was responsible for In-Between
Architecture, the arts projects of the EXPO Hannover. König was the director of the Museum
Ludwig in Cologne from 2000 till 2012. Together with Klaus Bußmann, he organized the
first sculpture projects muenster in 1977. In summer 2014 Manifesta 10 St. Petersburg
curated by Kasper König opened.
Jussi Koitela is a curator and visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. He is finalizing
studies at Praxis – Master’s Programme in Exhibition Studies in Finnish Academy of Fine
Arts. As a curator he is currently focused to artist’s reactions to economic discourses and
realities. Recent curatorial work include To Use As a Capital at One Night Only
Gallery/Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Skills of Economy – Post Models: Ore.e Refineries exhibition
at SIC Space, Helsinki and Dissolving Frontiers at Hiap/Gallery Augusta, Helsinki.
Upcoming selected curatorial work include Not a Another Public Process to Upper Art,
Bergamo.
Per-Oskar Leu is a Norwegian artist. He has presented solo projects at Dortmund
Bodega, Oslo; 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, Italy; Vanish, Frankfurt, Germany; and Johan
Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden. His work has been included in group exhibition at EVA
International Biennial, Limerick, Ireland; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Henie Onstad Art Centre,
Høvikodden, Norway; the Anthology Film Archives, New York; Malmö Konstmuseum,
Malmö; Entree, Bergen, Norway; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
and SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland. Leu has also contributed to LISTE Performance Project,
Basel, Switzerland and Frieze Projects, London, UK.
Antti Majava is a visual artist and writer who strives in his art as well as all his other
actions to find what it is all about. Majava is interested in hidden and unconscious
meanings and particularly the hiding of things in the centre of our attention so that our
understanding cannot reach them. His central working method is the observation of the
operational logic of individuals and groups by taking part in the workings of organizations
in different roles. From these observations he makes art and conclusions, out of which
Majava strives to produce strategies for the stopping of the development which endangers
the future of humankind and ecosystems. Majava is a founding member and director of the
Mustarinda Association. He works in Hyrynsalmi and Helsinki, Finland.
Deimantas Narkevičius is an artist from Lithuania where he continues to live and work.
In collaboration with the Foundation of Cossack culture Narkevicius stages a concert of war
songs based on the traditional repertoire of the Cossack cultures. The Cossacks are
predominantly East Slavic peoples, originally from the regions of Ukraine and southern
Russia. They played a vital role in the historical and cultural development of both countries.
The selected repertoire of poignant and sorrowful songs from the borders of the empire
reflect upon the concepts of freedom and of the right to expression and self-determination,
engaging with a distinction between a very open, international cultural tradition and its
simplified current interpretation. Deimantas Narkevičius started using film during the early
1990s. His films exercise the intricate practice of memory and portray a contemporary postSoviet society confronted with the painful processes of history. The camera offered him the
possibility of exploring different narratives, allowing him to play with the course of time. The
central characters of Narkevičius’s narratives are often absent from the screen, replaced by
objects, drawings, and other surrogates. He recently exhibited at the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and
the New Museum, New York.
Tero Nauha is a performance and visual artist. He has studied fine arts at the
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He is finishing his PhD in Artistic
Research at The Theatre Academy of University of the Arts Helsinki. He has presented his
research at the ‘Performance Studies international’ and ‘Performance and Philosophy’
conferences. His research interests are subjectivity and performance in the context of postindustrial capitalism. His artistic works have been presented at Theatrediscounter in Berlin,
CSW Kronika in Bytom, Poland, Performance Matters in London, New Performance Turku
festival and Kiasma Theatre in Helsinki among several other venues.
Marie Nerland is an artist and curator based in Bergen. She holds a master in theatre
studies from the University of Bergen and in creative curatorial practice from the Bergen
Academy of Art and Design. As an artist she has made several performance projects in
collaboration with different artists. She was co-editor of 3t, a Norwegian journal of
contemporary theatre and performance (1997-2007), and co-editor of the Norwegian Art
Yearbook (2009- 2013). In 2008 she founded Volt, a long term curatorial project. Volt
commissions and presents new projects by Norwegian and international contemporary
artists, working across several media and modes of expression. Past projects have taken the
form of exhibitions, time-based media, performances, discursive projects and sound art.
Emily Newman is an American artist who has spent many years living and making work
in St Petersburg. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004 and
has since shown internationally including in the context of Manifesta 10 as part of the
exhibition's public program.
Dr. Dimitri Ozerkov is a curator and writer. Director of contemporary art department of
The State Hermitage Museum. Director of Hermitage 20/21 Project for contemporary art
since 2006. Previously curator of French prints of 15-18 centuries in The Hermitage.
Curated exhibitions in The Hermitage, in Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in Hermitage
Rooms in London, and at Venice Biennale.
MAKE / Anton Polsky is an artist, activist, and art historian. He graduated from the art
history department in Russian State University for the Humanities and is Co-founder of
Partizaning.org website.
Sasha Sizova is a performer, arts manager, and curator, was born and lives in St.
Petersburg. Since 2012 she has worked at several arts organizations in St. Petersburg as a
cultural manager, including the Anna Nova Gallery, New Holland/Iris Foundation, and
Project Media on an architecture publishing project. She also worked as a curator together
with Vika Ryskina at 14579 Garage Off-Space in 2014. As a performer and dancer, she
has taken part in many projects in Russia and Europe. In Russia, she has primarily worked
as part of the 23/32 collective (together with Olga Zubova) since 2011.
Madina Tlostanova is a professor of Philosophy at the Russian Presidential Academy of
National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow), a trans-diasporic scholar with
mixed ethnic origins (Circassian, Tatar, Uzbek) living in Moscow but extensively teaching
abroad. Trained in Moscow State University as an American Studies major focusing on US
Southern fiction, she gradually drifted to multiculturalism and transcultural aesthetics to
finally shift to post/ decolonial interpretation of the post-soviet space, subjectivities, literature
and the arts. Tlostanova has authored 8 scholarly books and over 200 articles on
contemporary culture and art, social theory, alter-globalism, postcolonial and decolonial
discourses, many of which were published in Europe, Latin America and the US. The most
recent are Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands (New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010) and Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflection from Eurasia and the
Americas (co-authored with Walter Mignolo, Ohio State University Press, 2012). Currently
she is finishing a book on decolonial aesthetics, contemporary art and the post-socialist
imaginary.
Timo Toots is an artist based in Estonia. He works with computer technology and identity
card based surveillance, on local identities and subjectivities. He won the Prix Ars
Electronica Golden Nica in 2012. Toots has shown his work in Germany, Finland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Russia, and Switzerland.
Tatiana Volkova is a Member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). She has
held curatorial positions at the Tsaritsino Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Reflex Gallery,
the Garage and ZHIR project, Moscow. Since 2009 Tatiana has been dedicated to
research and development of Russian activist art. Tatiana curated a serious of exhibitions of
the young Russian activist artists at ZHIR project, Moscow (Winzavod Art Centre, 2009 –
2010); “Silence=Death” exhibition (Artplay Centre, 2012, Moscow) . Since 2011 Tatiana
has been initiator and moderator of MediaImpact Festival of Activist Art, that was held in
Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod and Moscow (two times) since then. In 2013
Tatiana became a member of project team of the “Global Activism” exhibition, the Center of
Art and Media – ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) Tatiana has written for exhibition catalogues
and Web and given a course of lectures on Russian activist art.
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