Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь; b. December 2, 1958, Moscow) is a Russian art historian, art writer, and curator based in Graz, Austria.
Biography
A member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, she received her doctoral degree in art history, specializing in Russian art of the 20th century and Russian contemporary art. She has worked as a senior curator at the State Tretyakov Gallery, art columnist at the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, and senior editor from 2008 to 2012 at an independent online magazine dedicated to art news, art criticism, and cultural analysis—www.openspace.ru/art. She is a regular contributor to international art journals and magazines such as Artforum, frieze, and e-flux magazine. She has taught at the European University at Saint Petersburg and the Alexander Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media in Moscow and held guest professorships at various American and European universities.
In 2013, she was Artistic Director of the first Bergen Assembly in Norway. In 2014, she was appointed Artistic Director of Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne. In 2017, she was appointed Director and Chief Curator of Steirischer Herbst, Graz.
Curated exhibitions
(with Julia Demidenko). 2000. Body Memory: Underwear of the Soviet Era. City History Museum (St Petersburg), City Museum (Helsinki), Volkskundemuseum (Vienna), et al.
(ed., with Joseph Backstein and Boris Groys) 2010.Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s. London: Haunch of Venison.
(ed. with Marta Dziewańska and Ilya Budraitskis) 2013. Post-Post-Soviet? Art, Politics and Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade. Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
(ed., with David Riff and Jan Sowa) 2021. Perverse Decolonization? Berlin: Archive Books.
