Dr Margarita Kuleva

Dr. Margarita Kuleva is a curator, scholar and artist, based in New York. Currently, she works as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies. In 2023-2024, she was a visiting professor at Tufts University, following a postdoctorate position at New York University Jordan Centre. Her curatorial practice centers around the critical exploration of knowledge production via methods of social practice and institutional interventions. As a trained cultural sociologist, she explored horizontal ways artists and institutions can create a more open and fair environment, actively engaging the visitors and the site as co-creators. Working on overcoming the boundaries between born digital and physically present art, she uses institutional critique to challenge website form as a framework.Margarita received her BA in Liberal Arts from Smolny College, the joint program of St Petersburg State University, Russia and Bard College, NY. She graduated with an MA in Sociology from the Higher School of Economics. Her PhD in cultural sociology from the Higher School of Economics in collaboration with Bielefeld University (2019) entailed a comparative study of the careers and professional identities of young cultural workers in visual art sectors in Moscow, St Petersburg and London.Margarita has worked with a number of esteemed cultural institutions, including the Manifesta Biennale, Pushkin House in London, Boston Centre for the Arts, Goethe Institute, and Garage Museum. In 2022, she joined TAEX as a Curator.