Anton Belov and Ekaterina Inozemtseva’s open lecture: «Presentation of the Joint Project with the Higher School of Economics and the Masters Program»

Anton Belov is Director of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Graduate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (NITU “MISA”) with a degree in Physics and Chemistry, he founded the non-profit Project Gallery White in Moscow, which worked with young artists, and launched the bilingual magazine and online resource ARTGUIDE. From 2012 to 2013, Belov was a member of the Public Council of the Russian Ministry of Culture.

Ekaterina Inozemtseva is a Senior Curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 2004 and subsequently obtained her Candidate’s Degree in Philology there in 2007. From 2003 to 2004, she worked in the Department of Experimental Programs at the National Center for Contemporary Arts. From 2004 to 2005, she was a curator at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, and from 2006 to 2011, she was deputy art director at Proun Gallery, Moscow. From 2011 to 2014 she was chief curator and deputy director of Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, where she curated over fifty projects. Inozemtseva has worked at Garage since 2014, where she became Senior Curator in 2017. Author of multiple publications in exhbition catalogs and periodicals. Kariatida Award laureate (2013).

Maria Polnikova is Head of Academic Programs at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, deputy head of the Joint Department of Garage Museum and HSE. In 2005, she graduated from the Faculty of Law at HSE, where, in 2013, she also received her Candidate’s Degree. Expert in the field of transport infrastructure and the application of public-private mechanisms in partnership initiatives, Maria is advisor on special projects of the Chairman of the Board of the state company “Avtodor” and a teacher at MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations). In 2010 she became the first director of the Open Law School at the Faculty of Law at HSE.

Higher School of Economics is one of Europe’s largest and Russia’s only national research center in the field of socio-economic studies, bringing together some of the leading specialists in economics, sociology, history, philology, linguistics, mathematics, physics, engineering, design and computer science. The university's training programs cover all levels, from lyceum to postgraduate education. HSE operates more than 100 research institutes and centers, with more than thirty international laboratories led by foreign scholars, including Nobel and Fields Medal laureates.