Alisa Savitskaya

Chief curator of the Tikhaya Studio in Nizhny Novgorod, guest curator at the Museum of Moscow. In 2009−2021, she was the head of the exhibition department at the State Centre of Contemporary Art in Nizhny Novgorod (the Arsenal). As a curator and manager, she has carried out more than 130 exhibition projects, including «Zhivoy Ugolok» («Living Corner»), «Muzei Velikikh Nadezhd» («Museum of Great Expectations»), «Zhizn Zhivykh» («Life of the Living») and «Prostye Chuvstva» («Simple Feelings»), which were short-listed for the state award in the field of contemporary art Innovation. She wrote such books, as «Communal Avant-Garde. A Catalogue Guide to the Social Cities of Avtozavod and Uralmash in Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg» («Коммунальный авангард. Каталог-путеводитель по соцгородам Автозавода и Уралмаша в Нижнем Новгороде и Екатеринбурге») in 2011, co-authored with Elena Belova and Alexey Gordin and «A Brief History of Nizhny Novgorod Street Art» («Kratkaia istoriia nizhegorodskogo ulichnogo iskusstva») in 2019, co-authored with Artem Filatov. Winner of the «Top 50. The Most Famous People of Nizhny Novgorod» by Sobaka magazine in 2018. As chief curator of the Quiet Studio, she is now in charge of operating activities: exhibitions, residencies, research and archival work, and artist support. At the Museum of Moscow, she is in charge of the ambitious project «Moskva Bez Okrain» («Moscow Without Suburbs»), which explores the local identity of individual districts of the capital.