Arseniy Zhilyaev

Arseniy Zhilyaev (born 1984 in Voronezh, Russia) is an artist, writer and political activist who lives and works in Moscow and Voronezh. His artistic practice poses questions about сultural production under the post-Soviet condition and as an artist and activist he is involved in intense debates around precarity. Within his recent projects Zhilyaev reexamines the heritage of Soviet museums of revolution (“Museum of Proletarian Culture” – an ongoing project reassessing art history from the viewpoint of an imaginary future after a socialist revolution; “Pedagogical Poem” – a project in the form of school dedicated to the history and possible representation of history in a contemporary museum).