Andrei Fomenko (1971) lives and works in St. Petersburg as art critic. He graduated from an art college at Frunze (1991) and from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, department of theory and history of arts (his thesis was entitled: “Pop Art and the Art of the USA in the 1960’s”). Since 1997 he has published articles on the contemporary art. From 1998 till 2002 he was editor of the “Realm of Design” magazine in St Petersburg.
Currently Fomenko teaches Art History & History of Photography at the St. Petersburg University of Technology & Design.
Alexei Penzin received his PhD in philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, where he teaches now. His thesis was: “Representations of Sleep in Culture: Analysis of Conceptions in Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology”. He is an independent researcher, critic, and contributing author to journals on philosophy and the humanities. Next to this he is co-editor of Chto delat? / What is to be done? group publications.
Viktor Mazin is head of the department of Theoretical Psychoanalysis at the East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis in St. Petersburg. He is editor-in-chief of the arts and science journal Kabinet; editor of Acta Psychiatrica (Crimea); member of the editorial board of the journal Psychoanalysis (Kiev); Associate Editor of the Journal for Lacanian Studies (London) and correspondent of European Journal of Psychoanalysis (Rome). In 1999 he founded the Freud's Dreams Museum in St. Petersburg. He is honorary member of The Museumof Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Viktor Mazin is the author of numerous articles and books on the theory of psychoanalysis, deconstruction and visual arts. He has also curated many exhibitions of contemporary art, amongst others at the Freud’s Dreams Museum.
Olesya Turkina is an art critic, curator and a Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. She curated numerous exhibitions including the Russian Pavillion at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and co-curated Kabinet at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1997. Since 2003 she has been editing an on-line journal on Contemporary Russian Art. She teaches contemporary art at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, at the Pro Arte Institute, and at the Nordic Art School in Kokkola, Finland. She is a member of the Russian Space Federation since 1999.
Ilse Bulhof is a philosopher with an interest in the relation between philosophy and spirituality. She was, until her retirement in 1997, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Leiden. She published books on Nietzsche, Dilthey, and Freud and on the philosophy of science. An important book with a wide-spread influence in the Netherlands has been ‘From content to attitude: a new view on philosophy in pluralistic culture’. Together with Laurens ten Kate Bulhof published ‘Flight of the Gods. Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology’ (2000).
Rob van Gerwen is professor Philosophy of the Arts at the University of Utrecht and the Royal Conservatory at The Hague. His publication ‘Knowledge in Beauty’ is a clear introduction into modern aesthetics. He was the ‘Museumphilosopher’ of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (2000-2001). As a freelance philosopher he gives advice on philosophical matters through his own Consilium Philosophicum.
Erik Hagoort is a curator and researcher into the relation between contemporary art and philosophy of ethics. He studied Theology at the University of Amsterdam. As an art critic he published widely on contemporary art in art books, art magazines, catalogues and the Netherlands National Daily Newspaper ‘De Volkskrant’ (1997-2001). He teaches Theory at the Master of Fine Art course at the Academy of Art & Design St. Joost in Den Bosch/ Breda, and at at the Nordic Art School in Kokkola, Finland.
Hagoort is working on a doctoral research about ethics and practices of encounter in art.
Philip Westbroek studied theology, classics and slavonic studies at the universities of Amsterdam and Saint-Petersburg. In 2007 he received his PhD with the highest distinction at the university of Amsterdam. His thesis focuses on the Russian poet and philosopher Viacheslav Ivanov. In particular, Westbroek examines the influence of Nietzsche on Ivanov and the concept of the Dionysian. Currently Westbroek works as a lecturer of Russian literature at the university of Amsterdam.
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