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Dr. Aleksandra Selivanova
b. 1982 in Moscow, currently lives and works in Weimar.

Dr. Aleksandra Selivanova is a curator and art historian specialising in the history and theory of the early Soviet culture. Since January 2023 she is a research fellow (PostDoc) at Bauhaus University Weimar.

Academia.edu profile

Academic profile at Bauhaus University Weimar, Department of Media Studies
in English

Academic profile at Bauhaus University Weimar, Department of Media Studies
in German

Research Areas

History and theory of the Soviet avant-garde, including visual art, architecture, theatre, cinema, literature, and design
History of experimental art education theories in the 1920s, including propaedeutics
Intersections between science, technology theory, and art in the USSR
Industry, labor, and the human in the 20th century

Education

2010
PhD, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
Creative Research in 1930s Soviet Architecture Theory and Practice
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Yury Volchok

2005–2009
Postgraduate Studies, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences

2004–2005
Trainee, The School of Contemporary Art "The Free Workshops"

1999–2005
Master’s in Architecture, Moscow Architecture Academy

Academic Employment and Curator Work

2024
Postdoc Fellow, Bauhaus University Weimar

2014–2022
Curator, Avant-garde Centre, Moscow

2014–2022
Senior Researcher, Curator, Museum of Moscow, Moscow

2013–2014
Director, Centre of the Avant-garde, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

2011–2021
Senior Researcher, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences

2012, 2014
Secretary in Charge and Coordinator of the I and II Khan-Magomedov Readings

1998–2012
Designer, Curator, Researcher, State Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Moscow

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

2024
Research scholarship, Bauhaus University Weimar, within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
project Animism/Machinism: Configurations of Critique between Science, Art, and Technology, The New Human/The New Machine: Alexei Gastev, the Central Institute of Labor, and the Representation of Labor Culture in the Soviet Avant-garde (1918−1945)

2023
Research fellowship for scholars and artists affected by the war in Ukraine, Bauhaus University Weimar
The Electrified Body in the Synthetic Art of the 1920s: Aleksei Gastev, Kliment Red’ko, Solomon Nikritin, Vasily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky

2019
Archive Research Scholarship, The Getty Foundation
Sevan Writers' Resort Conservation Management Plan (Armenia), Keeping It Modern: Report Library

2015–2017
Research Scholarship, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
1930s Small Urban Architectural Forms, Design and Furniture as Models of Monumental Architecture

2013–2014
Research Scholarship, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
Soviet Cinema Architecture: Prewar Experience in Art Deco and Postconstructivism Context and Their Impact on 1950s–1970s Projects

2012
Finalist, Socio-Cultural Programs Institute (Moscow) and Moscow Department of Culture
Development Concept of State Mikhail Bulgakov Museum

2010
Winner, Changing Museum in a Changing World Competition, Bulgakov Museum
The Fifth Dimension of the “Bad Apartment”

Exhibitions

2022

_{Exhibition Designer}

Grigory Gidoni and His New Art of Light and Color

ㅤㅤㅤAvant-garde Center on Shabolovka

2021–2022

_Co-curator

History of Moscow. Permanent Exhibition Project⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Museum of Moscow

2021

_Co-curator

Electrification. 100 Years of GOELRO Plan⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Museum of Moscow

_{Exhibition Designer}
Wandering Stars: Soviet Jewry in Prewar Art
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator
Beetles and Caterpillars. The Insect Culture of the 1920−1940s
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator
History of Moscow, XII-XX Centuries. Permanent Exhibition
Museum of Moscow

2020

_{Chief Curator}

VHUTEMAS 100. School of Avant-garde___________________________

Museum of Moscow

_{Exhibition Designer}
Donskoy Crematorium
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka__

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
VHUTEMAS for Children
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

2019

_Co-curator

Moscow Textile

Museum of Moscow

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
The Crystallography of Malevich and Leonidov
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
Gastev. How to Work
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Exhibition Designer}
Lefter than Left: The Georgian Avant-garde in Books
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

2018

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}

Meer Eisenstadt. Toward Synthesis of the Arts

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}

Soviet Antiquity

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator

Mayakovsky. An Universal Answer to the Note-Writers
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator

Postconstructivism, or the Birth of Soviet Art Deco: Paris — New York — Moscow

Heritage Gallery, Moscow

_Co-curator

Factory of Happy People. Gorky Park

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

_{Exhibition Designer}

Institute of Izostat (Soviet ISOTYPE)

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

2017

_Curator

Ladovsky’s Experiments

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}

Surrealism in a Land of Bolsheviks

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Curator

Agit-Trains

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}

The Museum of the Avant-garde at Shabolovka

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator

Designing the City. A History of Urban Museum of Moscow

Festivities in Moscow

2016

_Co-curator

ABCs of the Museum. To 120th Anniversary of Museum of Moscow
Museum of Moscow

_Co-curator

Moscow Thaw

Museum of Moscow

_Co-curator

Bulgakov VS Mayakovsky

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Curator

Constructivism for Children Children’s Book of Avant-garde Period
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Сurator

AMO-ZIL — Uralmash: Heirs to the Dream

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

2015
_Co-curator
Shabolovka Avant-Garde Model for a New Life, 1:1 Scale
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

2014
_Curator
Avant-garde and Aviation
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre

_Co-curator
Vasily Maslov. Labor Commune Avant-garde
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre

2013
_{Exhibition Designer}
1920s Noise Orchestras
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre

2012
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Moscow, I See You in Skyscrapers! Architectural Graphics of the 1920s–1930s
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Permanent Exhibition. Project for the Bulgakov Museum. Version 2
Bulgakov Museum

2011
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Magazines Chizh, Yozh, and Kharms
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Editorial Office
Bulgakov Museum

2010
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Blue Cabinet
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
A Primus History
Bulgakov Museum

_Curator
The Fifth Dimension of the Bad Apartment (Award-Winning Project of the Competition A Changing Museum in a Changing World, in the Category Socially-Oriented Projects
Bulgakov Museum

2009
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
The Bulgakov Family Album. Assemblages
Bulgakov Museum

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
Studio. — Paintings and Graphics by Tjarke Maas
Bulgakov Museum

2008
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Living: Children’s Drawings of the 1920s–1930s
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Doctor Bulgakov II
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Seven Wonders: Favorsky—Marshak
Bulgakov Museum

2007
_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
The Noise of the City
Bulgakov Museum

2006
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Moscow 1920–1930: A Family Album
Bulgakov Museum

2005
_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Bulgakov’s House
Bulgakov Museum

2002
_{Co-curator, Artist}
Room. Audio Installation
Bulgakov Museum

_{Co-curator, Artist}
Les Reminiscences
Bulgakov Museum

2001
_Co-curator
A Portrait of Soviet Daily Life
Bulgakov Museum

2000
_{Co-curator, Artist}
An Installation of Seven Objects Inspired by M.A. Bulgakov’s Novel The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov Museum

1999
_{Co-curator, Artist}
Doctor Bulgakov I
Bulgakov Museum

1998
_{Curator, Artist}
Sadovaya, 302-bis
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Permanent Exhibition. Project for the Bulgakov Museum. Version 1
Bulgakov Museum

Books

2025
A. Selivanova, N. Plungyan: Surrealism in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Moscow: Garage, 400 pp

2024
A. Selivanova, N. Plungyan: Meer Eisenstadt: Organic, Archaic, Modernism, Moscow: Garage, 360 pp

2021
A. Selivanova, K. Guseva (authors, editors): Electrification: Light and Current in the Art and Culture of the 1920s-1930s, Moscow, 392 pp

2020
A. Selivanova, K. Guseva (authors, editors): VHUTEMAS 100: School of Avant-garde, Moscow, 336 pp (Special Red Dot Award, 2021)

2018 (2023)
A. Selivanova: Postconstructivism: Power and Architecture in the 1930s in the USSR, Moscow: BooksMArt, 320 pp

2018
A. Selivanova, K. Krasnyanskaya: Postconstructivism and the Birth of Soviet Art Deco: Paris — New York — Moscow, Moscow, 158 pp

2018
A. Selivanova, K. Gudkov, A. Dudnev: The Obrabstroy House on Basmanny Lane (The Unnoticed Avant-garde series), Moscow, 240 pp

2018
A. Selivanova: Moscow Textile, Moscow, 240 pp

2016
A. Selivanova: The ABCs of the Museum: To the 120th Anniversary of the Museum of Moscow, Moscow, 304 pp

2016
A. Selivanova, I. Starkov, P. Zueva: Bathing Complex of the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky District (The Unnoticed Avant-garde series), Moscow, 120 pp

2016
A. Selivanova, I. Starkov: Danilovsky Mostorg, (The Unnoticed Avant-garde series), Moscow, 152 pp

2014
A. Selivanova: Vasily Maslov: Labor Commune Avant-garde, Moscow

2014
A. Selivanova: Avant-garde and Aviation, Moscow

Selected Articles

2025
Aleksandra Selivanova, Anna Andreeva in the Club of Energy Workers, in Christina Kiaer (ed.), Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory, Zurich, Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG, p. 86 (in English)

2024
Aleksandra Selivanova, The Installation Concert for Buchenwald by Rebecca Horn. Performances of Concertare Forte in 2024, in Concertare Forte — Reminiscence of Rebecca Horn’s work Concert for Buchenwald, Kunstfest Weimar, pp. 9, 22 (in German and in English)

2019
Aleksandra Selivanova, Les Trains d’Agit-prop, in Rouge. Art et utopie au pays des Soviets, Paris, p. 49

2017
Aleksandra Selivanova, Soviet Antiquity, in Modernism Without Manifesto. Catalogue of Roman Babichev’s Art Collection, Moscow, 2017 (in Russian)

2015
Aleksandra Selivanova, Transition from Mechanism to Organism in Postconstructivist Architecture, in Materials of S. O. Khan-Magomedov's Conference, St. Petersburg, Kolo, 2015 (in French)

2015
Aleksandra Selivanova, Architecture and Utopia. Avant-garde Today, in Projections of the Avant-garde, Moscow, 2015, p. 212 (in Russian)

2013
Aleksandra Selivanova, Soviet Architectural Theory Lexical Deformation in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s: An Attempt at Semantic Analysis, in The Process of Architecture and Town Planning: Regulations and Freedom, Moscow, 2013, p. 384 (in Russian)

2013
Aleksandra Selivanova, Architect Ludens and the 1935 Style, in Monumentalità & Modernità. Classical Tradition in Modern Architecture and Visual Arts. Collected Papers, St. Petersburg, 2013, p. 31 (in Russian)

2012
Aleksandra Selivanova, Auguste Perret and His Reinforced Concrete Classicism in the World of 1930s Architecture, in General Architectural History Issues. Issue 4: Personality, Era, Style, Moscow, 2012, pp. 263−276 (in Russian)

2006
Aleksandra Selivanova, Yury Volchok, Historiography and the Formation of a Respectful Attitude Towards 1920s-1930s Architectural Heritage, in 20th Century Architecture Preservation and World Heritage. Heritage at Risk. Conference Papers, Moscow, 2006, pp. 133−135 (in Russian)

Conferences, Presentations, Papers

2022
The Avant-garde Museum, Symposium, Lodz, PL

2022
Art et architecture soviétiques des années 1930: nouvelles perspectives, Paris, FR

2021
Challenges of New Sociocultural Space and the Museums of Decorative Art, Moscow, RU

2018
Atelier II: Exhibiting Archive, Berlin, DE

2017
Re-reading Soviet Modernism, Symposium, Yerevan, AM

2015
Architectural Heritage, Moscow, RU

2014
Docomomo-Russia Conference, Moscow, RU

2014
II Khan-Magomedov Readings, International Conference, Moscow, RU

2013
Soviet Modernism: Forms of Age, International Conference, Moscow, RU

2012
Khan-Magomedov Memorial Conference, Moscow, RU

2012
Architecture and State in the Context of Russian History, Moscow, RU

2012
Le Corbusier’s Oeuvre in the Context of 20th Century Creative Culture Research, Moscow, RU

2011
Monumentalità & Modernità. Italy, Germany, Russia…, St. Petersburg, RU

2008
IX International Conference on Town Planning History: Comparative History of European Cities, Lyon, FR

Research Areas

History and theory of the Soviet avant-garde, including visual art, architecture, theatre, cinema, literature, and design
History of experimental art education theories in the 1920s, including propaedeutics
Intersections between science, technology theory, and art in the USSR
Industry, labor, and the human in the 20th century

Education

2010

PhD, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
Creative Research in 1930s Soviet Architecture Theory and Practice
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Yury Volchok

2005–2009

Postgraduate Studies, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences

2004–2005

Trainee, The School of Contemporary Art "The Free Workshops"

1999–2005

Master’s in Architecture, Moscow Architecture Academy

Academic Employment and Curator Work

2024

Postdoc Fellow, Bauhaus University Weimar

2014–2022

Curator, Avant-garde Centre, Moscow

2014–2022

Senior Researcher, Curator, Museum of Moscow, Moscow

2013–2014

Director, Centre of the Avant-garde, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

2011–2021

Senior Researcher, Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences

2012, 2014

Secretary in Charge and Coordinator of the I and II Khan-Magomedov Readings

1998–2012

Designer, Curator, Researcher, State Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Moscow

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

2024

Research scholarship, Bauhaus University Weimar, within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
project Animism/Machinism: Configurations of Critique between Science, Art, and Technology, The New Human/The New Machine: Alexei Gastev, the Central Institute of Labor, and the Representation of Labor Culture in the Soviet Avant-garde (1918−1945)

2023

Research fellowship for scholars and artists affected by the war in Ukraine, Bauhaus University Weimar
The Electrified Body in the Synthetic Art of the 1920s: Aleksei Gastev, Kliment Red’ko, Solomon Nikritin, Vasily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky

2019

Archive Research Scholarship, The Getty Foundation
Sevan Writers' Resort Conservation Management Plan (Armenia), Keeping It Modern: Report Library

2015–2017

Research Scholarship, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
1930s Small Urban Architectural Forms, Design and Furniture as Models of Monumental Architecture

2013–2014

Research Scholarship, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
Soviet Cinema Architecture: Prewar Experience in Art Deco and Postconstructivism Context and Their Impact on 1950s–1970s Projects

2012

Finalist, Socio-Cultural Programs Institute (Moscow) and Moscow Department of Culture
Development Concept of State Mikhail Bulgakov Museum

2010

Winner, Changing Museum in a Changing World Competition, Bulgakov Museum
The Fifth Dimension of the “Bad Apartment”

Exhibitions

⠀2022

_{Exhibition Designer}

Grigory Gidoni and His New Art of Light and Color

ㅤㅤㅤAvant-garde Center on Shabolovka

⠀2021–2022

_Co-curator

History of Moscow. Permanent Exhibition Project

Museum of Moscow

⠀2021

_Co-curator

Electrification. 100 Years of GOELRO Plan

Museum of Moscow

_{Exhibition Designer}
Wandering Stars: Soviet Jewry in Prewar Art
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator
Beetles and Caterpillars. The Insect Culture of the 1920−1940s
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator
History of Moscow, XII-XX Centuries. Permanent Exhibition
Museum of Moscow

⠀2020

_{Chief Curator}

VHUTEMAS 100. School of Avant-garde

Museum of Moscow

_{Exhibition Designer}
Donskoy Crematorium
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
VHUTEMAS for Children
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

⠀2019

_Co-curator

Moscow Textile

Museum of Moscow

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
The Crystallography of Malevich and Leonidov
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
Gastev. How to Work
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Exhibition Designer}
Lefter than Left: The Georgian Avant-garde in Books
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

⠀2018

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}

Meer Eisenstadt. Toward Synthesis of the Arts

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}

Soviet Antiquity

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator

Mayakovsky. An Universal Answer to the Note-Writers
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator

Postconstructivism, or the Birth of Soviet Art Deco: Paris — New York — Moscow

Heritage Gallery, Moscow

_Co-curator

Factory of Happy People. Gorky Park

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

_{Exhibition Designer}

Institute of Izostat (Soviet ISOTYPE)

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

⠀2017

_Curator

Ladovsky’s Experiments

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}

Surrealism in a Land of Bolsheviks

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Curator

Agit-Trains

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}

The Museum of the Avant-garde at Shabolovka

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Co-curator

Designing the City. A History of Urban Festivities in Moscow
Museum of Moscow

⠀2016

_Co-curator

ABCs of the Museum. To 120th Anniversary of Museum of Moscow
Museum of Moscow

_Co-curator

Moscow Thaw

Museum of Moscow

_Co-curator

Bulgakov VS Mayakovsky

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Curator

Constructivism for Children Children’s Book of Avant-garde Period
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

_Сurator

AMO-ZIL — Uralmash: Heirs to the Dream

Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

⠀2015

_Co-curator
Shabolovka Avant-Garde Model for a New Life, 1:1 Scale
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka

⠀2014

_Curator
Avant-garde and Aviation
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre

_Co-curator
Vasily Maslov. Labor Commune Avant-garde
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre

⠀2013

_{Exhibition Designer}
1920s Noise Orchestras
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre

⠀2012

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Moscow, I See You in Skyscrapers! Architectural Graphics of the 1920s–1930s
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Permanent Exhibition. Project for the Bulgakov Museum. Version 2
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2011

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Magazines Chizh, Yozh, and Kharms
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Editorial Office
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2010

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Blue Cabinet
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
A Primus History
Bulgakov Museum

_Curator
The Fifth Dimension of the Bad Apartment
(Award-Winning Project of the Competition A Changing Museum
in a Changing World, in the Category Socially-Oriented Projects)
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2009

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
The Bulgakov Family Album. Assemblages
Bulgakov Museum

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
Studio. — Paintings and Graphics by Tjarke Maas
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2008

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Living: Children’s Drawings of the 1920s–1930s
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Doctor Bulgakov II
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Seven Wonders: Favorsky—Marshak
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2007

_{Co-curator and Exhibition Designer}
The Noise of the City
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2006

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Moscow 1920–1930: A Family Album
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2005

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Bulgakov’s House
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2002

_{Co-curator, Artist}
Room. Audio Installation
Bulgakov Museum

_{Co-curator, Artist}
Les Reminiscences
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2001

_Co-curator
A Portrait of Soviet Daily Life
Bulgakov Museum

⠀2000

_{Co-curator, Artist}
An Installation of Seven Objects Inspired by M.A. Bulgakov’s Novel The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov Museum

⠀1999

_{Co-curator, Artist}
Doctor Bulgakov I
Bulgakov Museum

⠀1998

_{Curator, Artist}
Sadovaya, 302-bis
Bulgakov Museum

_{Curator and Exhibition Designer}
Permanent Exhibition. Project for the Bulgakov Museum. Version 1
Bulgakov Museum

Books

2025

A. Selivanova, N. Plungyan: Surrealism in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Moscow: Garage, 400 pp

2024

A. Selivanova, N. Plungyan: Meer Eisenstadt: Organic, Archaic, Modernism, Moscow: Garage, 360 pp

2021

A. Selivanova, K. Guseva (authors, editors): Electrification: Light and Current in the Art and Culture of the 1920s-1930s, Moscow, 392 pp

2020

A. Selivanova, K. Guseva (authors, editors): VHUTEMAS 100: School of Avant-garde, Moscow, 336 pp (Special Red Dot Award, 2021)

2018 (2023)

A. Selivanova: Postconstructivism: Power and Architecture in the 1930s in the USSR, Moscow: BooksMArt, 320 pp

2018

A. Selivanova, K. Krasnyanskaya: Postconstructivism and the Birth of Soviet Art Deco: Paris — New York — Moscow, Moscow, 158 pp

2018

A. Selivanova, K. Gudkov, A. Dudnev: The Obrabstroy House on Basmanny Lane (The Unnoticed Avant-garde series), Moscow, 240 pp

2018

A. Selivanova: Moscow Textile, Moscow, 240 pp

2016

A. Selivanova: The ABCs of the Museum: To the 120th Anniversary of the Museum of Moscow, Moscow, 304 pp

2016

A. Selivanova, I. Starkov, P. Zueva: Bathing Complex of the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky District (The Unnoticed Avant-garde series), Moscow, 120 pp

2016

A. Selivanova, I. Starkov: Danilovsky Mostorg, (The Unnoticed Avant-garde series), Moscow, 152 pp

2014

A. Selivanova: Vasily Maslov: Labor Commune Avant-garde, Moscow

2014

A. Selivanova: Avant-garde and Aviation, Moscow

Selected Articles

2025

Aleksandra Selivanova, Anna Andreeva in the Club of Energy Workers, in Christina Kiaer (ed.), Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory, Zurich, Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG, p. 86 (in English)

2024

Aleksandra Selivanova, The Installation Concert for Buchenwald by Rebecca Horn. Performances of Concertare Forte in 2024, in Concertare Forte — Reminiscence of Rebecca Horn’s work Concert for Buchenwald, Kunstfest Weimar, pp. 9, 22 (in German and in English)

2019

Aleksandra Selivanova, Les Trains d’Agit-prop, in Rouge. Art et utopie au pays des Soviets, Paris, p. 49

2017

Aleksandra Selivanova, Soviet Antiquity, in Modernism Without Manifesto. Catalogue of Roman Babichev’s Art Collection, Moscow, 2017 (in Russian)

2015

Aleksandra Selivanova, Transition from Mechanism to Organism in Postconstructivist Architecture, in Materials of S. O. Khan-Magomedov's Conference, St. Petersburg, Kolo, 2015 (in French)

2015

Aleksandra Selivanova, Architecture and Utopia. Avant-garde Today, in Projections of the Avant-garde, Moscow, 2015, p. 212 (in Russian)

2013

Aleksandra Selivanova, Soviet Architectural Theory Lexical Deformation in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s: An Attempt at Semantic Analysis, in The Process of Architecture and Town Planning: Regulations and Freedom, Moscow, 2013, p. 384 (in Russian)

2013

Aleksandra Selivanova, Architect Ludens and the 1935 Style, in Monumentalità & Modernità. Classical Tradition in Modern Architecture and Visual Arts. Collected Papers, St. Petersburg, 2013, p. 31 (in Russian)

2012

Aleksandra Selivanova, Auguste Perret and His Reinforced Concrete Classicism in the World of 1930s Architecture, in General Architectural History Issues. Issue 4: Personality, Era, Style, Moscow, 2012, pp. 263−276 (in Russian)

2006

Aleksandra Selivanova, Yury Volchok, Historiography and the Formation of a Respectful Attitude Towards 1920s-1930s Architectural Heritage, in 20th Century Architecture Preservation and World Heritage. Heritage at Risk. Conference Papers, Moscow, 2006, pp. 133−135 (in Russian)

Conferences, Presentations, Papers

2022

The Avant-garde Museum, Symposium, Lodz, PL

2022

Art et architecture soviétiques des années 1930: nouvelles perspectives, Paris, FR

2021

Challenges of New Sociocultural Space and the Museums of Decorative Art, Moscow, RU

2018

Atelier II: Exhibiting Archive, Berlin, DE

2017

Re-reading Soviet Modernism, Symposium, Yerevan, AM

2015

Architectural Heritage, Moscow, RU

2014

Docomomo-Russia Conference, Moscow, RU

2014

II Khan-Magomedov Readings, International Conference, Moscow, RU

2013

Soviet Modernism: Forms of Age, International Conference, Moscow, RU

2012

Khan-Magomedov Memorial Conference, Moscow, RU

2012

Architecture and State in the Context of Russian History, Moscow, RU

2012

Le Corbusier’s Oeuvre in the Context of 20th Century Creative Culture Research, Moscow, RU

2011

Monumentalità & Modernità. Italy, Germany, Russia…, St. Petersburg, RU

2008

IX International Conference on Town Planning History: Comparative History of European Cities, Lyon, FR