Georg Sokolov

PhD student
 

E-Mail: georg.sokolovv@gmail.com

 
Current PhD project:

• “A Field of Tension: The Genesis of Leningrad Nonconformist Art”, within the framework of the DFG project "Between Avant-Garde and Nonconformism. Soviet artists and their alternative practice between thaw and stagnation"

Research areas

• Soviet nonconformist art

• social history of art

• history of art institutions

• post-war abstract art

• Soviet and Russian gender and feminist art history

Short CV

Professional Employment
 

Since 2023: Research Associate and Ph.D. student, Constructor University Bremen

2021 – 2022: Curator of the Russian drawing collection, Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg

2016 – 2021: Assistant curator, Department of the Russian Culture, Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg

2013 – 2016: Assistant curator, Oriental Department, Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg

2008 – 2013: Specialist, History of the Russian and Western European Culture, St. Petersburg State University (Diploma title: “Writings of Leonid Andreev and the Russian Silver Age”)


Selected Publications

Books:

The Painterly Collection of Alexander Andruschenko. – SPb.: NP-Print, 2022.

Unofficial art of Leningrad. The Circle of Freedom. – Moscow: Slovo/Slovo, 2021.

Reviews:

A Soviet woman under a microscope. Review on Nadia Plungian’s book “The Birth of the Soviet Woman: The Worker, the Peasant, the Pilot, the “Ex,” and Other Women in Art, 1917–1939” // Artguide.ru, September 2022.

Culture of the late-Soviet underground: new research // New Literary Observer [Novoye Literaturnoye obozrenie]. №5 (177). – М., 2022.

Articles:

Painting by A. N. Okun "The Butchers" (1974) from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum // Reports of the State Hermitage Museum №79. – St. Petersburg: The publishing house of the State Hermitage Museum, 2021.

Hermitage as a factor in the history of Leningrad unofficial art // New Art Studies. №4 (2019). – St. Petersburg, 2019.


Selected Exhibitions

Russian Avant-Garde. Revolution in Art. Hermitage Amsterdam, 29/01/2022 – 04/03/2022: co-curator.

‘Believe not thine eyes.’ Trompe l’oeil in Art. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 08/12/2018 – 10/03/2019: working group.

The Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace in 1917. History was made here. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 25/10/2017 – 04/02/2018: working group.

1917. Romanovs & Revolution. The End of Monarchy. Hermitage Amsterdam, 04/02/2017 – 17/09/2017: working group.

The Sacred Gift to the God. Sculpture of South-Eastern Asia in the Hermitage Collection. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 12/02/2016 – 08/05/2016: assistant curator.