Mariana Guber-Gogova is a curator, art historian and founder of the the Gogova Foundation—a noncommercial foundation supporting contemporary art. In 2012, she launched Moscow’s Artwin Gallery together with Madina Gogova. Guber-Gogova is an active participant of international contemporary art events, including the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Arbat Festival of Contemporary Art, The Armory Show Art Fair (New York), Art Dubai, and Cosmoscow among others.
Valentin Dyakonov is an art critic and curator. From 2009 to 2017, he was a newspaper columnist for Kommersant writing about culture and the arts. His works have been published by NoMI, Artkhronika, Frieze, artinfo.com and artnet.com. His curatorial projects include Laughter in the Gallery (2015), Detective (2014) and Philosophy of the Common Deed (2012). Dyakonov has been working as a Research Curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art since 2017.
Anna Titova is an artist. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (2006), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2007) and the Valand Academy, Gothenburg (2010). Her solo and group shows have taken place at a variety of venues, including The Triennial of Contemporary Russian Art (2017), The Armory Show (2017), the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Lins (2016), Special Program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), Parallel Program of Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg (2014), the State Russian Tretyakov Gallery (2013), the 3rd Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2012), and the ILLUMInations exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). In 2012 she founded the Agency of Singular Investigations. Titova lives and works in Moscow.
Alexandra Shestakova is an art critic and author writing for aroundart.org. Her texts have been published in Hudozhestvenny Zhournal, Kommersant, Colta.ru, etc.
Stanislav Shuripa is an artist, curator, author writing on contemporary art, and co-founder of the Agency of Singular Investigations. Since 2006, he has been lead tutor at the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow, and editorial board member of Hudozhestvenny Zhournal since 2007. His latest personal shows include the Russian Museum (2017), the ROSIZO Pavilion (2016), the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), Manezh Central Exhibition Hall (2015), Special Program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), Parallel Program of Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg (2014), the State Russian Tretyakov Gallery (2013), Case dei Tre Oci (2012). Among other projects, he curated From the Realm of the Practical Knowledge (2011), Things, Words and Consequences (2012), and It Seems There Is Something Missing (2012). Shuripa lives and works in Moscow.
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