Bio
Bio
Valentin Diakonov (b. 1980, Moscow, Russia) is the curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Whitworth, University of Manchester. From 2009-2016, he was art critic at the "Kommersant" newspaper, Moscow. He served as curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, in 2016-2022, organizing group projects (Congo Art Works/Chukotka Art Works, The Fabric of Felicity, A Beautiful Night for All the People) and solo shows by Rasheed Araeen, Juergen Teller, Sophia al-Maria and others. In 2022-2024 he was critic in residence at the Core Program in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where he organized Houston Hauntology, a three-day symposium on the esoteric, the hidden, and the ephemeral in Houston’s visual culture at TransArt Foundation. As an art critic, he published reviews and articles in many Russian- and English-language publications, such as Frieze, e flux Criticism, Glasstire, Burnaway, and others.
Bio
Valentin Diakonov (b. 1980, Moscow, Russia) is the curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Whitworth, University of Manchester. From 2009-2016, he was art critic at the "Kommersant" newspaper, Moscow. He served as curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, in 2016-2022, organizing group projects (Congo Art Works/Chukotka Art Works, The Fabric of Felicity, A Beautiful Night for All the People) and solo shows by Rasheed Araeen, Juergen Teller, Sophia al-Maria and others. In 2022-2024 he was critic in residence at the Core Program in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where he organized Houston Hauntology, a three-day symposium on the esoteric, the hidden, and the ephemeral in Houston’s visual culture at TransArt Foundation. As an art critic, he published reviews and articles in many Russian- and English-language publications, such as Frieze, e flux Criticism, Glasstire, Burnaway, and others.