Elena Sorokina
IASPIS expert visit in Malmö 24–28 August 2025
Elena Sorokina is a curator, writer and art historian with a distinguished international trajectory. Her work explores curatorial practice as a critical, collaborative, and often interdisciplinary form—interweaving contemporary art, ecology, and care. She has curated exhibitions, developed large-scale artistic commissions, and contributed to international biennials and institutions such as BOZAR (Brussels), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Pera Museum (Istanbul), Rudolfinum (Prague), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Museum of Sufi Art and Culture (France), among others. In 2020, she co-founded with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care.
Photo: Frédéric Poletti
Elena Sorokina
She served as curatorial advisor to documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel) and as chief curator at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium (2017–2019). In 2022, she co-curated the Armenian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. A regular speaker on curatorial ethics of care, feminist practices, and diasporic knowledges, she served on the juries of the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS initiative, and has been a member of selection committees for institutions such as the Cité internationale des arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris, among others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Sorokina
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