Ekaterina Kenigsberg

Ph. D. in Art History, Associate Professor. Curator of exhibitions and international exhibition projects in Belarus and abroad, head of the creative association “Students’ Centre for Contemporary Art ‘Alla prima’” at BSAA. She studied at the Minsk State Medical Institute (now the Belarusian State Medical University) from 1982 to1986 and graduated with honours from the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now the Minsk State Linguistic University) with a degree in German Philology in 1992. She worked as an interpreter/translator at the Institute of Radiation Medicine, from 1995 to 2010 as a coordinator of cultural programmes at the Goethe Institute in Minsk at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Republic of Belarus, then she worked as a senior researcher at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk. In 1992, she received an advanced level certificate (C1) in German from the Goethe Institute. From 1997 to 2009, she took a number of courses in contemporary art and in working with the press and the public in Moscow, Munich and Berlin. She did internships in contemporary art in Germany: at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Media Technologies in Karlsruhe (2000), at documenta 11 in Kassel (2002), at the Fifth Berlin Biennale (2008). She has many years of extensive experience of curatorial work in international contemporary art projects. Since 2011, she has been the Head of the International Relations Department at BSAA.She is the author of over 300 publications in Belarus and abroad on contemporary Belarusian and international fine art, including the research monographs “The Exhibition Project in Contemporary Fine Art of Belarus (on the Example of Belarusian-German Exhibition Projects of the 1990s – 2010)” (2013), “Curatorial Activity in the Contemporary Fine Art of Belarus of the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries” (2020), the book “The Contemporary Art of Belarus of the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries: A Panorama of Projects and Authors’ Searches” (2020, in collaboration with M.Barazna), the textbook “Methodology for Organizing International Exhibition Projects of Contemporary Art” (2016). Furthermore, she is the author of special courses for the first and second higher education levels “Introduction to Contemporary Art”, “Contemporary Art Practices”, “Fundamentals of the Curator’s Work”, “Curatorial Project”, “Methodology for Organizing Contemporary Art Exhibition Projects”, “Working with the Press and the Public in Contemporary Art Projects”, the training programmes on “Information Technology in Art History”, “Information Technology in Art”, etc. Since 2000, she has been the curator of exhibitions and exhibition projects in Austria, Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Croatia, Switzerland, including international thematic exhibition projects “The Illusion of Distances” (2000), “Windows of One City” (2001-2002), “The Illusion of Time” (2004-2005), “The Stop Europe” (2006-2007), “Travel Notes. Europe” (2007-2008), “New Texts” (2017-2018). She was a guest curator from Belarus of the international exhibition project “1989-2009: The Changing World – The Captured Time. Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Germany” (2009-2010), a guest curator of the project “Belarus: Between Europe and Europe” of the Benetton Foundation, Italy (2016). She also curated a number of BSAA foreign exhibition projects in cooperation with diplomatic missions of the Republic of Belarus abroad: “Messages”, Lithuania (2015), “City | Urbs”, Austria (2015), “On the Way. In Search of the Alphabet”, Germany (2015), “Nonverbal / Verbal”, Italy (2017), “An Ode to Joy”, Austria (2017), “Ad astra”, Poland (2017), “Augmented Reality”, Germany (2018), “The Tape of Time”, Switzerland (2019).