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Over 15 years of experience in the art management field. Art Business Strategist, CEO @TAtchers' Art Management, Producer and a specialist in international PR. V-Art Advisor.
Olga Sivel is an art historian, independent curator, art consultant and coordinator of grand scale art events with experience in museum and gallery management as well as art festival organisation and the production of art related events.
Продюсер, независимый исследователь, куратор. CEO Polygon Center. Автор российских и международных арт-проектов.
Сооснователь и руководитель Центра современной культуры «Смена» (Казань), который включает в себя галерею, лекторий и книжный магазин.
В 2015 году Центр запустил одноименное книжное издательство. В 2018 году в «Смене» прошли кинопоказы, мастер-классы, книжный фестиваль, различные выставки и курсы.
В 2015 году Центр запустил одноименное книжное издательство. В 2018 году в «Смене» прошли кинопоказы, мастер-классы, книжный фестиваль, различные выставки и курсы.
Искусствовед, преподаватель, куратор отдела кино- и медиаискусства ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина, директор фонда Общество содействия искусству, куратор направления «Новые медиа в современном искусстве» Московской школы современного искусства.
Куратор и продюсер в области современного искусства, основатель креативной студии ipureland.art в Нью-Йорке, развивает международные стратегические партнерства искусства и бизнеса и программы профессионального обучения.
Olga Sivel
Olga Sivel is an art historian, independent curator, art consultant and coordinator of grand scale art events with experience in museum and gallery management as well as art festival organisation and the production of art related events. She worked as a Deputy Executive Director of the Riga Biennial Foundation and as a General Coordinator of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, RIBOCA (2017-2020, rigabiennial.com).
Olga received her MA in Art History and Art Business (2010) and MA in Translation Studies (2010), and her MA in Linguistics (2015) from the St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences. She began her career as the Head of Visitors’ Services at the Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg, the largest private contemporary art museum in Russia. Two years later she moved on to become the Erarta Global Galleries Coordinator, working across St. Petersburg, New York, London, Zurich and Hong Kong to promote Russian contemporary art worldwide.
She worked for Manifesta 10 in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg as a Specialist of Loan, Conservation and Transportation of the exhibition’s production team (2014). She was a Curatorial Assistant and Head of Production for Francis Alÿs' first solo exhibition in Russia Beyond the River: Afghan Projects 2010–2014 at the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg (2015). In 2016 she curated the Geek Picnic festival of science, new technologies and media art in St. Petersburg and in Moscow.
Olga worked as a Head of Art Projects department in the Baltic Travel Company developing the new destinations for business and contemporary art and culture in Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, 2015-2017). She also held a position of General Coordinator for YarkyFest festival of architecture (2016) and Art Prospekt public art festival (2016), as well as being one of the curators of the Yarky Hostel project (St. Petersburg, 2015-2017). As a non-profit art initiative she also served as Development Director at APERTO Reading Room project, a library and research platform for contemporary art (2015–2016), publishing the first edition of CA newspaper Aperto paper.
Lives and works in Riga since 2017.
Olga received her MA in Art History and Art Business (2010) and MA in Translation Studies (2010), and her MA in Linguistics (2015) from the St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences. She began her career as the Head of Visitors’ Services at the Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg, the largest private contemporary art museum in Russia. Two years later she moved on to become the Erarta Global Galleries Coordinator, working across St. Petersburg, New York, London, Zurich and Hong Kong to promote Russian contemporary art worldwide.
She worked for Manifesta 10 in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg as a Specialist of Loan, Conservation and Transportation of the exhibition’s production team (2014). She was a Curatorial Assistant and Head of Production for Francis Alÿs' first solo exhibition in Russia Beyond the River: Afghan Projects 2010–2014 at the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg (2015). In 2016 she curated the Geek Picnic festival of science, new technologies and media art in St. Petersburg and in Moscow.
Olga worked as a Head of Art Projects department in the Baltic Travel Company developing the new destinations for business and contemporary art and culture in Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, 2015-2017). She also held a position of General Coordinator for YarkyFest festival of architecture (2016) and Art Prospekt public art festival (2016), as well as being one of the curators of the Yarky Hostel project (St. Petersburg, 2015-2017). As a non-profit art initiative she also served as Development Director at APERTO Reading Room project, a library and research platform for contemporary art (2015–2016), publishing the first edition of CA newspaper Aperto paper.
Lives and works in Riga since 2017.