Anna Petrova

Anna Petrova

ART HISTORIAN / CURATOR / EDUCATOR

Education

Mechnikov National University of Odesa Faculty of History and Philosophy bachelor of cultural studies Theme of the thesis: Semiotics of museum space in contemporary urban culture.

Projekts

  • OFAM Kids Camp 2020 and 2021 – – Development and implementation of an educational children’s programme Exhibition „Last Freedom – Late Sketches by Nikolai Gluschenko“
  • 2020 (OFAM) – Curator Exhibition „Sever and stylisch. Art of the long sixties“
  • 2020 (OFAM) – Assistant curator, catalogue compiler Exhibition „100 years later. Kyriak Kostandi“ 2021 (OFAM) – Author of the excursion programme Creation of the bilingual audio guide
  • 2021 (OFAM) – Author Children’s educational exhibition project „I am the curator“
  • 2021 (OFAM) – Curator, developer, teacher

Honors

  • Diploma for outstanding contribution to the development of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum
  • Issued by Olena Oleinyk – the Director of the Department of Culture, Nationalities and Religion of the Odessa State Administration

Workexprerience

  • 2016 DonauFest – Ulm, Germany Representative of Ukraine, Speaker – open talk about cross-cultural work
  • 2019 STEP school – Seattle, USA Methodist, cultural and educational supervisor – organising a children’s cultural and educational programme – lectures and field trips
  • 2019 Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine Researcher in the Education Department – guide service – lecturing
  • 2020 Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine Researcher in the Science Department
    • archival research
    • designing and producing exhibition catalogues
    • preparation and supervision of exhibition projects
    • 2021 Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine Researcher, Head of the Education Department, Head of the Children’s Education Department
  • 2022 Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany Researcher
Alyona Umanskaya

Alyona Umanskaya

Was born in Moscow. Graduated from the theater department of GITIS (Russian Institute
of Theater Arts). From 2015 to 2018 she worked at the Moscow School of New Cinema as a producer at the theater workshop of Yuri Muravitsky. She also supervised the theatrical part of Moscow festivals: „Archstoyanie“, „Art-ravine“, „Territory“.

Since 2018 she has been working as a film producer. She shot a large number of advertising projects for brands such as Loreal, Pepsico, Vogue, McDonalds, as well as music videos for SBPCh, Black Seed Oil, Husky, Scriptonite, etc.

In 2020, she made 6 documentaries about various ethnic cultures in Russia together with Pierre Christian Brochet. She also produced a feature short film by Alina Nasibullina „Objects in the Mirror“.

In 2021, she entered the Anatoly Osmolovsky BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art, where she continues her studies to this day.

In 2022 she moved to Berlin.