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Curriculum Vitae

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”
2022–2024School of Philosophy and Culturology, HSE University (Moscow) | MA Programme “Philosophical Anthropology”
2018–2022HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL (Moscow) | Speciality “Fine Arts” | BA Programme “Contemporary Art” | Profile “Artist and Curator”
2016–2018Saint 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
2022Art 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
2025Zhumatina, 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.
2024Zhumatina, 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.
2023Zhumatina, 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.
2022Zhumatina, 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
2023Thought. Handmade : Catalog of a Philosophical Exhibition Project. Ed. by M.-S. Zhumatina and N.D. Lečić. Moscow, 2023. (46 pages).
2021Zhumatina 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