Georg Sokolov 

Georg Sokolov is a research associate and PhD candidate at Constructor University Bremen. Since 2023, he has been working on his doctoral thesis, “A Field of Tension: The Genesis of Leningrad Nonconformist Art,” as a member of the joint research training group “Between Avant-Garde and Nonconformism: Soviet Artists and Their Alternative Practice between the Thaw and Stagnation,” which includes researchers from Constructor University and Bremen University. He graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a specialist degree in 2013 and worked as a curator of the Russian drawing collection at the Hermitage Museum (2013—22). His publications include the books The Unofficial Art of Leningrad. Circle of Freedom (2021) and The Painterly Collection of Alexander Andruschenko (2022, both in Russian). He is organizing the independent research initiative Soviet Art Seminar (active since 2019) and is a member of the Russian(?) Art & Culture Group.