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Svetlana Usoltseva

Svetlana Usoltseva

Curator, art critic, since 2023 - director of the Yeltsin Center Art Gallery. Studied at the Faculty of Art and Graphics in Nizhny Tagil, received a master's degree in art history at the Ural Federal University and graduated from the Third Moscow Curatorial Summer School (2014). She was also a lecturer of curatorial courses at the Krasnodar Typography.

In 2006 - 2019 was the head of the curatorial department of the Ural branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art (Ekaterinburg). Among the completed projects: Work is never finished (4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Tyumen, 2017); The beginning, the end and almost everything in between (to the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman. Ekaterinburg, 2018); Ideal Exhibition (5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Ekaterinburg, 2019).

Nominee for the Award for Contemporary Visual Art Innovation 2018 (nomination Curator Project), Innovation 2012 (nomination Regional Project), long-listed for the Kuryokhin Prize 2017 (nomination Curator Project). Project manager of the creative association Where the Dogs Run “Trialogue”, winner of the D. Zimin Dynasty Foundation (2012). Nominee for the Award for Contemporary Visual Art Innovation 2017 (nomination Work, as part of the creative team). Winner of the Museum Landing 2019 competition by the V. Potanin Charitable Foundation. In 2020 became a nominee for the Innovation Award with the project Ideal Exhibition, shown at the fifth Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Among her latest projects: Center for the Study of Elmash, a residential area in the northeast of Ekaterinburg, and the exhibition Stop at Cosmonauts, dedicated to one of the longest streets in the city.

Exhibitions:

Превью 5-й Уральской индустриальной биеннале современного искусства (вместе с Мариной Федоровской)