Ksenia Nouril is Gallery Director and Curator of Exhibitions & Programming at The Art Students League of New York. She previously served as the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center in Philadelphia; Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Fellow for Eastern European Art at The Museum of Modern Art in New York; and Dodge Fellow for Soviet Nonconformist Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She also has organized exhibitions at the Bruce Museum and Lower East Side Printshop. She lectures widely and frequently writes for international exhibition catalogues, magazines, and academic journals, including ARTMargins Online, the Calvert Journal, the Institute of the Present, OSMOS Magazine, and Woman’s Art Journal. She has published three books: Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (editor and contributor; The Print Center, 2022); Dialogues: Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories About Ourselves (editor and contributor; Rutgers University Press, 2019); and Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (co-editor and contributor; MoMA, 2018). She holds a BA in Art History and Slavic Studies from New York University and an MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Like the subject of his world-renowned installation The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment (1981–88), artist Ilya Kabakov is no longer with us. While this reality was inevitable, pronouncing it still remains difficult. The giant hole in the ceiling of this installation—left by its protagonist, who abandoned his isolated Soviet existence by catapulting…
A major publication, Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology, presents key voices of this period that have been reevaluating the significance of the socialist legacy.
On November 15, 2017, post presented an evening of lectures and artist presentations titled Russian Cosmism: A Work of Art in the Age of Technological Immortality on the ideas of Russian Cosmism and their relevance to our time.
Over a dozen members of the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group traveled for research to Moscow in March 2017. As Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator of Photography, notes, Russia spans eleven time zones and includes two-hundred nationalities. From this vast and deeply complex nation, the participants report on their impressions below. Reflection by Ksenia Nouril, C-MAP Central…
Once in the XX Century, an eight-minute film by Deimantas Narkevičius shows a larger-than-life statue of Vladimir Lenin being erected in Vilnius’s main square to the cheers of a large crowd. MoMA acquired the film in 2011, and in 2013, it was included in the Museum’s Performing Histories (1), an exhibition of recent time-based art…
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