Artist, curator and researcher. Based in Moscow. In my artistic practice, I create projects at the intersection of contemporary art and philosophy, addressing the themes of (self)knowledge, knowledge of the landscape and knowledge of the body, the human-(in)commensurable and (a)temporality.
| Education | |
| 2024– | Doctoral School of Philosophy, HSE University (Moscow) | Philosophy of Culture |
| – | Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow) | Programme “New Artistic Strategies” |
| 2022–2024 | School of Philosophy and Culturology, HSE University (Moscow) | MA Programme “Philosophical Anthropology” |
| 2018–2022 | HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL (Moscow) | Speciality “Fine Arts” | BA Programme “Contemporary Art” | Profile “Artist and Curator” |
| 2016–2018 | Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design | Speciality “Design” | BA Programme “Design and Ceramics” |
| Solo Shows | |
| 2023 | “Reduction of Objective Time”. School of Philosophy and Culturology, HSE University, Moscow |
| 2022 | “Reduction of Objective Time”. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow |
| 2020 | “Figurative Abstractions”. UGOL Gallery, Moscow |
| Group Shows | |
| 2025 | “Hunting and Eluding”. Izmaylovo Park, Moscow |
| - | “Recovery”. Tri Vokzala. Depo, Moscow |
| - | “The Nature of Nature”. Na Shabolovke Gallery, Moscow |
| - | “The Non-indifferent Nature”. Fabrika Project, Moscow |
| - | “Where the Eyes Look”. Elohovskiy gallery, Moscow |
| 2024 | “A Mirror for an Artist”. Museum Center “Peace Square”, Krasnoyarsk |
| - | “A Mirror for an Artist”. Gallery of Contemporary Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan |
| - | “A Mirror for an Artist”. Media Center of Zaryadye Park, Moscow |
| - | “Collection. The order of things”. MMOMA, Moscow |
| - | “Exercises in Conceptualism”. Na Peschanoy Gallery, Moscow |
| 2023 | “Frequencies 4.0. Sources of Knowledge”. Na Peschanoy Gallery, Moscow |
| - | “Utopia and Pause”. Botanical Orangeries of the Museum-Estate Arkhangelskoye, Moscow Region |
| - | “Exit. To Cosmos”. Gallery of Contemporary Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan |
| - | “[esc]”. Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg |
| 2022 | “Diploma22”. HSE ART GALLERY, Moscow |
| - | “Exit. To Cosmos”. Innovative Cultural Center, Kaluga |
| - | “Exit. To Cosmos”. Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow |
| - | “VYPUSK'22”. Media Center and Underground Museum of Zaryadye Park, Moscow |
| - | “Thought. Handmade”. School of Philosophy and Culturology, HSE University, Moscow |
| - | “In a Certain Kingdom”. HSE ART GALLERY, Moscow |
| 2021 | “Thought. Handmade”. GROUND Solyanka, Moscow |
| - | “Homo Tired”. HSE ART GALLERY, Moscow |
| - | “One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy”. The Earth Science Museum et Moscow State University, Moscow |
| - | “ZOOM. All the Important Things”. All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow |
| 2020 | “Enchantment”. HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL, Moscow |
| 2019 | “From… To. Series of Performances”. GROUND Solyanka, Moscow |
| - | HSE ART AND DESIGN Festival 2019. Museum of Moscow, Moscow |
| 2018 | “Solid Things”. HSE ART GALLERY, Moscow |
| - | “Future culture”. Final exhibition of “Future culture lab”. Saint Petersburg Modern Art Museum (mispxx-xxi), Saint Petersburg |
| 2015 | “WE”. City Exhibition Hall, Рetrozavodsk |
| Curating | |
| 2025 | “Hunting and Eluding“. Exhibition-action. Izmaylovo Park, Moscow, |
| 2024 | “Exercises in Conceptualism“. Group show. Na Peschanoy Gallery, Moscow |
| 2023 | “Reduction of objective time”. Solo show. School of Philosophy and Culturology, HSE University, Moscow |
| 2022 | “Thought. Handmade”. Group show. School of Philosophy and Culturology, HSE University, Moscow |
| - | “Reduction of Objective Time”. Solo show. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow |
| 2021 | “Thought. Handmade”. Group show. GROUND Solyanka, Moscow |
| 2020 | “Enchantment”. Group show. HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL, Moscow |
| - | “Acquittance About”. Solo show of Aleksandra Kutsan. UGOL Gallery, Moscow |
| Residencies | |
| 2022 | Art residency “Kostomuksha”. Kostomuksha Nature Reserve, Republic of Karelia |
| Speeches | |
| 2025 | “(Post) History and Narratives of Contemporary Art”. Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy, HSE University, Moscow |
| - | “Contemporary Art vs Geistesgeschichte: Art in the Horizon of Hegelian Historical Narrative”. HSE Art and Design School, Moscow |
| 2024 | “Visualization of the History of Art in Traditional and Digital Mediums: Epistemological and Hermeneutical Issues”. XV International Conference of the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies “Culture in the Era of Digitalization”, HSE University, Moscow |
| - | “'We Write Sound', or the Philosophy of the Text in the Space of the Gallery: About 'Exercises in Conceptualism' and 'Fallen Leaves'”. Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy, HSE University, Moscow |
| - | “Exercises in Conceptualism: An Experiment in Applied Art Ontology”. HSE Art and Design School, HSE University, Moscow |
| 2023 | “Contemporary Art and the Phenomenology of the Temporal. Artistic Installation, Husserl and Heidegger”. Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy, HSE University, Moscow |
| 2022 | “The Thought of Handmade. About one Experiment on the Combination of Contemporary Art and Philosophy in Artistic and Curatorial Practice”. HSE Art and Design School, HSE University, Moscow |
| - | “Performances of Tehching Hsieh and the Teaching of Pierre Hadot About Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise”. Alyoshin Readings 2022: “Philosophy as a Way of Life”, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow |
| Academic Publications | |
| 2025 | Zhumatina, M.-S.D. 2025. “In the Eye of Cézanne, in the Spirit of Merleau-Ponty : The Dialectic of Seeing-Seen in Landscapes, Still Lifes and Portraits” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 9 (3). In print. |
| - | Zhumatina, M.-S.D., Lečić N.D. 2025. “Conceptual Prototyping : Methodology of Project Creative Work for Teaching the Philosophy of Contemporary Art”. In: Preparation of Professionals for a New Education. Issue 12. Ed. by M.A. Lytaeva. Мoscow: HSE Publishing House. P. 120–140. |
| 2024 | Zhumatina, M.-S.D. 2024. “Times of Anti-Hegelian (Hi)stories : Review of the Book on Temporality, Chronology and Anachrony in Contemporary Art Theory” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 8 (1), 257–272. DOI: 10.17323/2587-8719-2024-1-257-272. |
| 2023 | Zhumatina, M.-S.D. 2023. “Centaur at the Edge of the Forest : Нegelian Art History and Temporal Discursive Violence”. Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 7 (4), 143–172. DOI: 10.17323/2587-8719-2023-4-143-172. |
| 2022 | Zhumatina, M.-S.D. 2022. “Kant, Bergson, Einstein and Glaciers: Review of the Book by Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers about Philosophy of Time and Contemporary Art” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 6 (3), 385–401. DOI: 10.17323/2587-8719-2022-3-385-401. |
| Other Publications | |
| 2023 | Thought. Handmade : Catalog of a Philosophical Exhibition Project. Ed. by M.-S. Zhumatina and N.D. Lečić. Moscow, 2023. (46 pages). |
| 2021 | Zhumatina M.-S.D. 2021. The Art of Time : Dimensions of the Phaenomenon of Temporality in Artistic Installation. Moscow. (412 pages). |
| Membership | |
| 2022– | Creative Union of Artists of Russia |
