Anton Usanov
25.06.1992
Kyiv, Ukraine
(+3) (8066) 692-65-01
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Curator and researcher interested in the fate of the object in contemporary art. Special attention is paid to working with the provincial context, where conservative pressure gives rise to Unexpected forms of art.
Work Experience
Asortymentna kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine) - affiliated curator
February 2023 – ...
Jump contemporary art center, Poltava (Ukraine) – curator
May 2017 – ...
Art-critic (Freelance)
September 2017 – ...
Jump gallery, Poltava (Ukraine) – assistant curator (running social media, assembling expositions)
March 2016 – May 2017
Moviegram (https://moviegram.com.ua) – journalist and content creator
April 2015 – September 2016
PROJECTS
«Long night» (2023) - exhibition about the art object during blackouts.
«When was the story interrrupted?» (curated with Dmytro Chepurnyi) (2022-2023) - artist residence on commemoration of the war in Ukraine.
«Neutralization» (2022) - exhibition about the war in Ukraine.
«Garden after the Gods» (curated with Nikita Kadan) (2021) - exhibition about antique myths in the art of contemporary artists.
«Upper Layers of Earth Conference» (curated with Kateryna Tykhonenko and Shaza Musa) (2020) - theoretical and practical conference about the role of periphery in creating a cultural canon.
«White noise» (2019) – exhibition and research about the media art scene in Poltava
«Oste ste» (2018) – exhibition of a street photographer Steven Jensen
«DuSt: Poltava 90s underground art» (2017) – research project on the lives and works of unknown artists during the transitional period of ukrainian history.
«White on white» (artists: Yuri Leiderman, Tereza Barabash, Vartan Markaryan, Alina Litvinenko) (2017) – a project about the cultural life in the periphery and it’s connections with other world peripheries.
Education
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv (Ukraine) – master of philosophy
2009 – 2014
Carpathian school of literature
February 2015
Curatorial training, Kharkiv municipal gallery
September 2017
Seminar “Creating ruin”, Method Fund
June 2019
Curatorial Platform at Pinchuk Art Centre
November 2019 - March 2020
Publications
«The art of the periphery» for prostory
«The event of the periphery» for prostory
«Сurator as operator of boredom» for «Landscape as monument»
«About contemporary art of Poltava» for mitec
Researcher and author of the book «DuSt: Informal Art of the 90s in Poltava»
Curator and main editor of the catalog for «Upper Layers of Earth Conference»
«Розширення пам’яті. Нові слова, якими ми описуємо війну, культуру і комеморацію» for post impreza
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