Olga Kopenkina
Olga Kopenkina is a writer and curator of contemporary art born in Minsk, Belarus who now lives and works in New York City. A pioneer in the field of contemporary art in Belarus and a regular contributor to Moscow Art Journal her curatorial work focuses on the cultural legacy of artistic expression after the fall of communism and modernism and includes exhibitions Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions in the framework of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2005, Russia: Significant Other (Russia as inspiration for the West) in the Anna Akhmatova Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2006 , Terror Tactics a film program organized for Apexart, New York City in 2007, and Properly Past an architecturally oriented exhibition at the Brooklyn Rotunda gallery in 2008. Her most recent project was Reading Lenin with Corporations, a month-long participatory reading group that took place during the first few weeks of the 2008 'Great Recession' at PS 122 in New York City. Kopenkina is a graduate of the Minsk State University and Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies and teaches on such topics as sustainable design, museum studies, and post-communist art at New York University. Her articles appeared in numerous publications on contemporary art including Modern Painters, Afterimage and Documenta Magazines Online Journal, and she contributed essays to the books Communist Guide to New York City and Lenin for your Library? both by Yevgeniy Fiks.