Elizaveta Orlovskaya
Currently
Research Fellow, Department of Photography, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Currently writing a book on Terayama Shūji and Moriyama Daidō as part of the Garage Museum publishing programme
Department of Prints and Drawings, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2023–2025
2023–2025
MA, HSE University, Cultural History and the Art Market
MA thesis: Postwar Japanese Photography as a Site of Trauma: Tōmatsu Shōmei and Domon Ken, from Reportage Realism to Subjectivity
2019–2023
BA, HSE University, Cultural Studies
BA thesis: Photography as Gesture: The Destruction of the Medium and Reconstruction of the Image in the Works of Terayama Shūji and Moriyama Daidō
2023–2025
Rodchenko Art School
Valery Nistratov’s workshop; Vladislav Efimov’s workshop
Selected exhibitions and projects
Photobooks held in the MMOMA Library collection: For a Rainy Day, Under the Clepsydra, We Shared an Orange
The Conduit and Shvambrania | Moscow, Furtseva Library, October 2024
Preserving without Pain or Sugar | Moscow, September 2024
Photo Exhibition in Honor of This Year’s Student Peace Prize Winners | Oslo, 2023
Terminus | Moscow, Rodchenko Art School, 2023
In Process | Moscow, Rodchenko Art School, 2023
Everything I Can Carry | Moscow, Rodchenko Art School, 2023
Support. Don’t Punish / Andrey Rylkov Foundation | Paris, 2023
Dried Celebration | Moscow, Sklad 3, 2023
Absolute | Moscow, Rodchenko Art School, 2022
Please Don’t Think Too Much | Moscow, NII SREDA Space, 2022
Inside-Out of the Inside-Out | Moscow, Sklad 3, 2022
For a Rainy Day | Moscow, Shchepkina 62, 2020 (apartment project)
Talks and lectures
Regular course: Japanese Photography: From Tenran to PROVOKE, Okno School
First edition: February–March 2025; second edition: September–October 2025
25 October 2025, talk: Encounters Along the Way: A Conversation on Japanese Photography and Georgy and Irina Totibadze’s Exhibition Komorebi | Moscow, MMOMA
31 May 2025, lecture: On Terayama Shūji | Moscow, Cinema about Cinema Festival, KINOKO
20 March 2025, lecture: Art Historians’ Club. Dorothea Lange: Cotton Fields, the Farm Security Administration, and Photography as Social Action | Moscow, Furtseva Library
19 February 2025, lecture: Miyako Ishiuchi | Moscow, Furtseva Library
24 December 2024, lecture: Postwar Japanese Photography | Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
24 October 2023, lecture: SHASHIN: Photography | Moscow, Dostoevsky Library
23 April 2023, lecture: A History of Anime | Moscow, Dostoevsky Library
27 March 2024, round table: Ligature | Seminars for Artists and Enthusiasts of Artist’s Books | Session No. 5: Multitool. Gathering Material Beyond Paper: Between Document and Instrument | Moscow, MMOMA
29 October 2023, round table: Small Editions: Presentation and Discussion of Non-Editioned Books from the MMOMA Library Collection | Moscow, MMOMA