The School’s faculty members are practicing artists and curators deeply embedded in contemporary artistic processes, with experience teaching at institutions of modern art.
Natalia Serkova — a philosopher, art theorist, and curator. She is a graduate of HSE Art and Design School, the «Baza» institute, and holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from RSU. She is a co-founder of the TZVETNIK project, which focuses on exhibiting and researching the latest trends in contemporary art, and the founder of the Color Art School (TSCA). She serves as a curator for exhibition projects in Moscow, Krasnodar, Berlin, Vienna, and other cities. She is the author of books written in the genre of theory fiction. She contributes to publications including «Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal, ” „Dialogue of Arts, ” e-flux journal, RevistaArta, OFluxo, and others.
Vitaliy Bezpalov — an artist, co-founder of the contemporary art project TZVETNIK, and founder of the exhibition project Spas Setun. Selected exhibitions include Quintessence II (Solo), Plague Space, Krasnodar, Russia, 2021; Salt Seller (Solo), Money Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2019; The Blood of the Poor (Solo), Oktogon, Wuppertal, Germany, 2018; The Corporate Stoner, QUARTAIR, The Hague, Netherlands, 2021; MIRROR VS. MOLD, Other Subjects, New York, USA, 2021; Grositsky. Thingness, Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), Moscow, Russia, 2021; Ghosthouse, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020.
Artur Golyakov — artist, curator, and co-founder of the curatorial collective Plague, the exhibition space Plague Space (Krasnodar), and Plague Office (Kazan). He is a curator at the Smena Center for Contemporary Culture. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Graphics at KubGU in Krasnodar. He completed the «Art of Quick Response» course at KISI (Krasnodar). In 2018, he co-founded the curatorial collective Plague with artists Vanya Venmer and Stas Lobachevsky. He lives and works in Kazan.
Ilya Smirnov — Co-founder of Alyssa Davis Gallery (New York), Lead Curator at Money Gallery (Moscow / Saint Petersburg). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in «Art and Digital Media» from the Vienna Academy of Arts and a Master’s in Classical Philology from RSU. Among his notable solo and duo exhibitions are: Mechanics Alley (63rd–77th STEPS, Bari, 2015), Hector Servadac (Lily Robert, Paris, 2019), and Perfect Getaway (Rhodes, 2019).
