Experience

I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
• Italy
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Craig Hugh Smyth Fellow

  • Mar 2023 - Present


Bibliotheca Hertziana

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Mar 2022 - Feb 2023

  https://www.artforum.com/news/hermitage-museum-s-contemporary-art-chief-quits-over-russia-s-war-in-ukraine-89411 (could have been a better photo) https://www.artforum.com/news/hermitage-museum-s-contemporary-art-chief-quits-over-russia-s-war-in-ukraine-89411 (could have been a better photo)



The State Hermitage Museum

• Russian Federation
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Contemporary Art Dptm

  • Apr 2009 - 2022

  Built the Contemporary Art Dptm of the State Hermitage museum and organised over 30 contemporary art exhibitions on visual arts, photography, and architecture including solo shows by Anselm Kiefer, Jan Fabre, Ilya Kabakov, Chuck Close, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Markus Lüpertz.

• Curator of French prints of 15th - 18th centuries, Print-Room

  • Mar 1999 - 2022

  Large Hermitage print collection was studied and several exhibitions curated, including 'The Triumph of Eros' in Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House, London (2006). Papers include:• The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles: a Rare Series of Prints from the Collection of the Duc deMortemart // Hermitage magazine No. 31, December 2020, p. 98-106• Antiquités romaines sans frontiers: Vincenzo Brenna (1741–1820) // Les Européens: ces architectes qui ont bâti l’Europe. Peter Lang, 2017, p. 208-230• Deutsche Vernunft, russische Seele // Deutscher Professorenstand in den Büchern des 18.– Anf. des 20. Jhrst. St.Petersburg, 2014, p. 19-32• La bibliothèque d’architecture de Catherine II // Bibliothèques d’architecture. Paris, INHA, 2009, p. 183-210• Das Grafikkabinett Heinrich von Brühls // Bilder-Wechsel. Sächsisch-russischer Kulturtransfer im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Köln, 2009, S. 151-220• Jakob Philipp Hackert's Russian associates // Europa Arkadien. Jakob Philipp Hackert und die Imagination Europas um 1800. Göttingen, 2008, S. 147-163