Born in St. Petersburg, New York and Paris based art researcher and independent curator.
Education:
Since 2020 — PhD candidate in Art and Science, the Sorbonne University of Paris.
2020 — Master’s Degree in Contemporary Fine Arts, University Paris 8.
2006 — Master’s Degree in Art History, Saint-Petersburg State University.
Research projects:
2020 - in progress — Networks aesthetics, for PhD Program at the Sorbonne University of Paris.
2020 — Images connection in contemporary art exhibitions, University Paris 8.
2017 — Intertextuality in textual works of contemporary art, University Paris 8.
Curatorial Residencies:
2015 – Curator in Residence program Courant du Monde in Paris (France), in the frame of
the program of the Arts Center Maison des cultures du Monde and Ministry of Culture of
France.
2012 – Curator in Residence program at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), in the frame of
EUNIC (The European Union National Institutes for Culture) program.
Exhibitions and curatorial projects :
2021 - Commissaire de l’exposition Recyclage des formes, Espace Voltaire, Paris (France).
2019
Co-curator The Common Goal Philosophy Project. Cosmoscow / GUM-Red Line Gallery, Moscow,
(Russia).
Curator of the Exhibition by Gosha Ostretsov How to Learn the Upside Down World?, NK Gallery,
Antwerp, (Belgium).
2018
Curator of the Artefacts Exhibition by Alexander Pogorzhelsky, NK Gallery, Antwerp, (Belgium).
Curator of the Two ways Exhibition, The Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, (Italy).
2016
Co-curator of the exhibition Traces des hommes, in the frame of The 1st Subversive Film Festival
Metz, (France).
Curator of the Public Art program of the Access Point Festival of Arts in Saint Petersburg (Russia).
Curator of the Repast Exhibition by Andrey Filippov, Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-
Petersburg (Russia).
2015
Curator of the Intertext Exhibition, Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Curator of the Pink box. Exhibition of VGLAZ group, Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-
Petersburg (Russia).
Curator of the And Paris was the gift Exhibition by Oscar Rabine, Erarta museum of contemporary art,
Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Curator of the Interspace, Russian-British art project, Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-
Petersburg (Russia).
Curator of the Engineers of the art, the Parallel project of the biennale of contemporary
art MANIFESTA 10, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
2014
Curator of the After the comics Exhibition about comics influence on contemporary visual art, Erarta
museum of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg; Novgorod center for contemporary art,
Novgorod (Russia).
Curator of the Structures of the time, Exhibition by Dmitry Plavinsky, Erarta museum of
contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg, (Russia).
2013
Curator of the View East, View West, as a part of the project the Netherlands-Russia year 2013,
Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
2012
Exhibition Mitki in the Space, The Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow (Russia).
2011-2013
Curator of the program Museum night, Museum of the Mitki association, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
2010
Curator of The Exhibition Conversation with the executioner by Mikhail Shemyakin, DiDi art gallery,
Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Curator of the summer festival of young artist Ascent, DiDi art gallery, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
2009 -2010
Curator of the exhibition "Le labyrinthe français", in the frame of the Year of France in Russia 2010.
2009
Curator of the exhibition of Finnish artists Anni Viinikainen "Snow White and Redrose", DiDi art gallery, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
2008
Curator of the exhibition TEII, non-сonformist russian artists from Experimental Visual Arts Group, DiDi art gallery, Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Selected Publications:
Shagina, E. 2020. “NetWork”, EDEN project online catalogue.
Shagina, E. 2020. L’assemblage d’images dans les expositions contemporaines, University Paris 8.
Shagina, E. 2019, The Common Goal Philosophy Project, Exhibition Catalogue, GUM-Red Line
Gallery, Moscow.
Shagina, E. 2019. “How to Learn the Upside Down World?, Antwerp Art Weekend”, Russian Art and Culture, online review.
Shagina, E. 2019. “The exhibition Party for Time Travellers by Gosha Ostretsov“, Syntax Gallery.
Shagina, E. 2018. “The exhibition Artefacts“, NK Gallery.
Shagina, E. 2016. “Public Art in Russia“, University Paris 8 online review.
Shagina, E. 2016. Repast, Catalogue of the exhibition by Andrey Filippov, Erarta museum of
contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2016. “Public art program“, Access Point Festival Catalogue, Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2016. Observations, Catalogue of the exhibition by Alexander Pogorzhelskyi,
Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2015. Intertext, Exhibition Catalogue, Erarta museum of contemporary art, Saint-
Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2015. Pink box, Catalogue of VGLAZ group exhibition, Erarta museum of
contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2015. Oscar Rabine, Exhibition Catalogue, Erarta museum of contemporary art,
Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2015. Bound, Catalogue of the exhibition of Olga Boldyreff, Erarta museum of
contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2014. “Engineers of art” / Biennale MANIFESTA 10, Parallel events, Catalogue.
Shagina, E. 2014. After the comics, Exhibition Catalogue, Erarta museum of contemporary
art, Saint-Petersburg.
Shagina, E. 2007. "Mitki", Mitkat Suomessa, Exhibition catalogue, Aboa Vetus et Ars Nova,
Turku; Art Museum, Jyvaskyla; Art Museum, Hyvinkaa; Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Aboa
Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, (Finland).