She holds a joint Bachelor’s degree in History of Art (2021) from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) and Bard College (USA), as well as an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Media Arts Cultures (2025) from Danube University Krems (Austria), Aalborg University (Denmark), and the University of Łódź (Poland). Her academic background is both international and interdisciplinary, traversing art history, media theory, and aesthetic philosophy.
Her research focuses on the relationship between aesthetic dissent and the culture industry; her undergraduate thesis examined the historiography of the Situationist International, drawing on theoretical analysis in an attempt to reconcile the conventionally counterposed aesthetic and political phases of the movement, with a particular focus on the writings of Guy Debord, Theodor Adorno, and Jean Baudrillard. Her Master’s thesis, in turn, analysed the post-1968 gradual integration of radical critique into institutional frameworks. Inspired by Jacques Rancière’s theory of aesthetic politics, she developed the concept of “consensual dissent” to describe how oppositional practices are publicly staged yet structurally absorbed within the art world. She is particularly interested in how cultural institutions negotiate critique, and how forms of dissent are transformed into aesthetic and symbolic capital.
In April 2026, she began her doctoral research as a DECADOCS fellow on the project Decadent Aesthetics in European Cinema, 1890–1930, under joint supervision at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), and Université Bourgogne Europe, France. Her PhD positions cinema as a prime site for engaging with decadence, aiming to define what might be construed as “decadent cinema” through the study of adaptations of decadent literary texts, alongside archival research and cinematic analysis.
Selected publications
– “Annulment of Aesthetic Principles in the Situationist Spectacle” (in Russian), Terra Aestheticae: Russian Journal of Aesthetics, Spring 2022.
– “Das Kunstmuseum im Dopaminzeitalter: Zur Neuvermessung postdigitaler Gestaltungsräume zwischen Reiz und Reflexion” (in German, co-authored with Eva Mayr and Florian Windhager – Danube University Krems), in Kunst und Digitaler Humanismus, Berlin: DeGruyter, expected 2026.
– “The Digital Spectacle and Situationist Aesthetics”, in RE:SOURCE 2023 – Media Art Histories, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, 2023.
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