Xenia Nikolskaya

Biography

Xenia Nikolskaya Russian-Swedish photographer; Curator of international exhibition projects; Member of the Russian Artists’ Union; Former Curator of the ROSFOTO Russian National Centre of Photography, Head of Rossiya Segodnya exhibition project department. Taught photography at the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, American University in Cairo, and Rutgers University, New Jersey. Took part in more than 40 international exhibitions, 20 of them solo shows. Her works are preserved at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Author of the books Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture and Anatoly Garanin, Soviet Union.

Solo Exhibitions

2017 “The Land In Between”, Inner Voice Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

“Dust. Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture”, Museum of the Radvilas Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania

2015 “Dust. Cairo’s Forgotten Architecture”, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2013 “Dust”, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden

2012 “Dust” Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2010 “Wondering Egypt” Alliance Française, Port-Said, Egypt

2008 “Ecclesiastical Spirituality” with Sherif Sonbol, Bibliotheca Alexandria Arts Centre, Alexandria, Egypt

2007 “Gotland. Looking for Russian tracks on a Swedish Island” Museum of Regional Studies, Murmansk, Russia

2007 “Dust” Palkin Gallery , St. Petersburg

2007 “Production”, Design Hotel, Värnamo, Sweden

2006 “Dust” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery , St.-Petersburg,

2006 “Gotland. Looking for Russian tracks on Swedish island” Museum of Fine Arts, Arkhangelsk ,Russia

2006 “Dust” Diplomat Hotel, Stockholm

2006 “Gotland. Looking for Russian tracks on Swedish island” Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St. Petersburg,

2004 “Jewels” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery , St. Petersburg

2004 “Gotland”, Archeological Museum, Staraya Ladoga, Russia

2003 “Gotland” Museum of Russian Academy of Art, St. Petersburg

2002 “Extension of landscape” , Uliza OGI, Moscow

2002 “Gotland”, Visby University , Sweden

2000 “Extension of landscape”, St.-Petersburg State University, Contemporary art center

1997 “Pskov-Copenhagen”, Pskov Museum, Russia

Group exhibitions

2014 “Tea with Nefertiti”, Das Staatliche Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich

2013 “Tea with Nefertiti”, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern.

“Tea with Nefertiti”, L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

2012 Baltic Biennale, St. Petersburg, Rizzordi Art Foundation

“Tea with Nefertiti”, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar

2011 “Bursa International Photo Festival” Bursa, Turkey

2010 “FUTUROPOLIS” Saad Zagloul Cutural Center, Cairo

2009 “Hit it big!” Mason Gross Gallery, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, USA

2008 “Contemporary Perspectives” Selection Art Fair, Dmitry Semenov Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2008 “Moscow Art Fair” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery, St. Petersburg

2007 “Border Crossing Exercise”, Galleri Nord Norge, Harstad, Norway

2006 “Art Athens” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery, St. Petersburg

2006 ”New Hansa Ligue” with Andrew Moore, Museum of the History

2005 Norilsk Industrial Region, Norilsk, Russia

2005 “Krasota” Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Russia

2005 “Moscow Art Fair” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery, St. Petersburg

2005 “Russians + Non-Russians” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery, St. Petersburg

2004 “Moscow Art Fair” Dmitiy Semenov Gallery, St. Petersburg

2003 “Motherland-Fatherland” Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives

2001 “Art-Tourism” Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives

2001 “Women’s view, woman’s room”, Zagreb, Croatia