Marat Ismagilov

Marat Ismagilov graduated with an MA in Art History from the European University at St. Petersburg in 2012. Afterwards, he worked as an independent curator at various museums in St. Petersburg. His most recent position was at the Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum, where he developed and conducted educational programs for exhibitions and also worked on museum partnership programs. In September 2022, he left Russia and relocated to Berlin. He then became affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum and received a scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Currently, he is working on his doctoral thesis, which focuses on the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and its role in the representation of contemporary art in 19th-century Tsarist Russia.