Olga Olkheft

Olga Olkheft (née Kaukhchan) holds a BA degree in Sociology (Pskov Volny Institute, 2006) and an MA degree in History of Arts (European University at St. Petersburg, 2014). From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a researcher on the “Ethnography of the Museum” project jointly organized by the EUSP and The State Hermitage Museum. Since 2019, she has been working on the PhD project “Inventing ‘Russian Avant-Garde’ in the Cold War.” The thesis delves into the intellectual history surrounding the creation and conceptualization of the “Russian avant-garde” within the backdrop of the Cultural Cold War. It aims to chart the evolution of the Russian avant-garde canon from its inception in the late 1950s through its complex connection with the art of the 1917 Revolution at international exhibitions in the 1980s and its subsequent re-evaluation in the 1990s.