Olesya Turkina is an art critic and curator based in St Petersburg. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the State Russian Museum, Associate Professor on the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, where she also worked as a founding director of Curatorial Studies MA programme from 2014 to 2019. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including Beyond Zero at Calvert 22 Foundation.
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