ACROSS #14
Critic and curatorial residency program from Nice
Stay of Radoslav Ištok from 3 to 10 December 2017
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ACROSS #14 – December 2017
Sasha Pevak (1988, Moscow, Russia), art-researcher and independent curator, lives and works between Paris and Moscow.
PhD student at Paris 8 University, Sasha Pevak is particularly interested in the the relationship between art and power and is currently writing a thesis entitled “The body of artist as a medium of protest in Soviet and Russian art after 1974″, under the direction of Prof. Jérôme Glicenstein.
His curatorial practice, strongly influenced by the notion of “curatorial activism” and by the theory of curating of Viktor Misiano, relies on long-term intellectual exchanges and dialogue with the artists.
After graduating from Lomonosov Moscow State University and Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris 4), Sasha Pevak worked at “Monumenta” in Paris (2014) and at Le Frac Île-de-France – Le Plateau (2015). In 2016-2017, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Marges and curates numerous exhibitions in France and abroad.
At the beginning of 2017, he co-founded the platform for emerging art Shuttle 19 in Paris. In 2017, he co-curates the exhibition The Opposing Shore at the 7th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow, accompanied by a public program. He is also a guest curator in residency at the Générator in Rennes (March 2017) and the CCI Fabrika in Moscow (September 2017).
Since 2015, Sasha Pevak has been conducting research at Paris 8 University as a contractual doctoral student, where he is also a lecturer.
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CURATORIAL ACTIVISM (TAKING PLACES. Part. 1)
Saturday 9 December, at 3:00PM
Vigna Bookshop, 3 rue Delille, Nice