Theory

Theory and philosophy

• Joseph Backstein, Ph.D., commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, “Codes of the international art world”

• Stas Shuripa, artist and curator, “History of ideas in the art of the second half of the XX century”

• Oleg Aronson, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Technical reproduction and the XX century art”

• Helen Petrovsky, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Art as the subject of philosophy”

• Mikhail Ryklin, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Russia in the West: the era of archive”

• Kety Chukhrov, Ph.D., department of art history of the Russian State University for the Humanities, “Basic concepts of contemporary philosophy”

Art History

• Alexandra Obukhova, art historian, head of research department of the Garage Museum of contemporary art, “The phenomenon of unofficial art and its genealogical link to contemporary art”

• Irina Kulik, Ph.D., art critic, “The historical avant-garde and multimedia art”

• Antonio Geusa, independent curator and art critic, Ph.D., “History of video art”
   

Workshop teachers

• "ABC-group", artists, gallerists

• "AES+F", artists

• Yuri Albert, artist

• Nikita Alexeev, artist

• Viktor Alimpiev, artist

• Tatiana Arzamasova, artist

• "Blue Noses", artists

• Sergey Bratkov, artist

• Olga Chernysheva, artist

• Aristarkh Chernyshev, artist

• Ivan Chuikov, artist

• Katy Deepwell, art historian, art critic, chief editor of n.paradoxa magazine

• Ekaterina Degot, Ph.D., art critic and curator, art director of Akademie der kuenste der Welt (Cologne), “History of Russian art of the XX century in the international context”

• Jeremy Deller (UK), artist

• Willie Doherty (Ireland), artist

• Vladimir Dubossarsky, artist

• Valery Eisengerg, artist

• Lev Evzovich, artist

• Dmitry Gutov, artist

• Leslie Johnson, artist, professor at Valand Academy of University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was Director in 2003-2011 (Sweden)

• Peter Kogler (Austria), artist

• Oleg Kulik, artist

• Elena Kuprina, director of E.K.ArtBureau gallery

• Yuri Leiderman, artist

• Georgy Litichevsky, artist

• Andrey Monastyrsky, artist

• Irina Nakhova, artist

• Vladimir Ovcharenko, director of Regina gallery

• Georgy Ostretsov, artist

• Pavel Pepperstein, artist

• Rostan Tavasiev, artist

• Aidan Salakhova, artist, director of Aidan Studio

• Evgeny Svyatsky, artist

• Elena Selina, director of XL gallery

• Lisa Schmitz (Germany), artist

• Alexey Shulgin, artist

• Frederic Wretman (Sweden), artist

• Vadim Zakharov, artist