Ekaterina Degot

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Ekaterina Degot (2012)

Ekaterina Degot ( Russian Екатерина Дёготь ; born December 2, 1958 in Moscow ) is a Russian art historian and curator . From 2014 she was artistic director of the Academy of the Arts in Cologne . Since January 2018 she has been director of the Styrian Autumn Festival .

Life

Ekaterina Degot graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in art history . From 1981 she worked in an exhibition hall there and from 1988 as head curator in the State Tretyakov Gallery . From 1993 she wrote as an art journalist for the daily newspaper Kommersant . In 2000 she presented a standard work on 20th century Russian art. From 2008 to 2012 she was the editor of www.openspace.ru/art, an online magazine for news from the art world, art criticism and cultural analysis. From 2014 she was artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne , in which position she was succeeded by Madhusree Dutta in March 2018 . As director of the Styrian Autumn Festival , she succeeded Veronica Kaup-Hasler in January 2018 .

Among other things, she regularly writes articles for the art magazines Artforum , Frieze and e-flux and taught at the European University of Saint Petersburg , was visiting professor at various European and US universities and has a teaching position at the Alexander Rodchenko School for Photography and New Media in Moscow.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Body Memory: Undergarments from the Soviet era , together with Julia Demidenko; City History Museum St. Petersburg , City Museum Helsinki , Folklore Museum Vienna
  • 2001: Russian pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2001
  • 2003/04: Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000 , among others with Jürgen Harten , Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin and the Moscow History Museum
  • 2005: Soviet idealism , Musée de l'art wallon, Liège
  • 2008: The fight for the banner - Soviet art between Trotsky and Stalin , retrospective on the work of Pyotr Subbotin-Permjak
  • 2010: Ukrainian Art in Transition , PERMM Art Hall, Perm
  • 2010: Shock workers of the mobile pictures , together with Cosmin Costinas and David Riff, Ural Industrial Biennale, Yekaterinburg

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Contemporary painting in Russia. Craftsman House, 1995, ISBN 978-9768-0972-9-3 .
  • Terroristic Naturalism / Terroristic Naturalism. Ad Marginem, 1998, ISBN 978-5-88059-038-4 .
  • Russian 20th-Century Art / Russian Art of the XX. Century. Shamrock, Moscow 2000, ISBN 978-5-89480-031-8 .
  • with Vadim Zakharov : Moscow Conceptualism. 2005.
  • with Joseph Backstein , Boris Groys : Glasnost - Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s. Haunch of Venision. Gallery Volker Diehl , London 2010.
  • with Ilya Budraitskis, Marta Dziewanska: Post-Post-Soviet? Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade. 2013.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Ekaterina Degot  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Ekaterina Degot is the new "Herbst" director . Article dated April 7, 2017, accessed March 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ Ekaterina Degot will be the director of steirischer herbst from 2018 . Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  3. ^ Academy of Arts: Dutta becomes director . Article dated December 14, 2017, accessed March 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b derStandard.at: Ekaterina Degot new director of the Styrian autumn . Article dated April 7, 2017, accessed March 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Academy of the Arts of the World: Members of the Academy: Ekaterina Degot . Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Portrait of Ekaterina Degot: Politically committed fighter for culture . Article dated April 7, 2017, accessed March 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Degot, Ekaterina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дёготь, Екатерина (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian art historian, curator and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow