Karina Abdusalamova

Proffesional ExPERience

CULTURAL MANAGMENT
COORDINATION/PRODUCTION
Exhibitions
  • Talisman | April 2024, culto colecta (Mexico/Italy)
  • Yo sé que te acordarás | Feb 2024, Clavo Art Fair, culto colecta (Mexico)
  • Endémica | Nov 2023 – Jan 2024, Espacio Unión, culto colecta (Mexico)
  • 100 Sculptures | Sep 2018 – April 2019, anonymous gallery (Mexico)
  • No Longer Yours (CONDO) | April – May 2018, anonymous gallery (Mexico)
  • San Isidro’s Still | Feb – March 2018, anonymous gallery (Mexico)
  • Brendan Lynch, Different Dances | Nov 2017 – Jan 2018, anonymous gallery (Mexico)
  • Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan | March – May 2012, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia)
  • Impossible Community | Sep – Nov 2011, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia)
  • Necrorealism. Retrospective exhibition | Sep – Oct 2011, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia)
Other
  • DocMX, International Documentary Film Festival, June — Oct 2017 (Mexico)
  • Pasaporte Cultural, Mexico City Network of Independent Cultural Spaces | Nov 2016 – Feb 2019 (México)
EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT/ TRANSLATION/COPYWRITING
  • Schwung Furniture | Copywriting (English) Nov 2021 – Dec 2023, Freelance
  • Pre-Texts International, Harvard University Press | Bilingual Editorial Coordinator (Spanish/English) March 2019 – April 2021, Freelance
  • Documentary The Caravan of Dreams | Russian/Spanish interpreter and fixer, April 2019 (Mexico)
  • DocsMX | Festival catalogue translator (Spanish/English) June — Oct 2017 (Mexico)
ART WRITING
Exhibitions
  • Margret Eicher & AES+F, Longing and Misery in Culture and Mass Media, 2025, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Augusto Albor, Aurae, 2024, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Anders Kjellesvik, Conceptual Romance, 2024, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Jana Cordenier, Tides, 2024, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Yafeng Duan, The Form of the Formless, 2023, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Christoph Steinmeyer, Haben oder sein – To Have or to Be?, 2023, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Jade van der Mark, Collection Spring/Summer, 2023, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Margret Eicher, Post Human Dance of Death, 2022, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Iabadiou Piko, Eureka Threshold, 2022, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
  • Margret Eicher, BATTLE: RELOADED, 2022, Art Museum Moritzburg Halle
  • Monique Van Genderen, After Images, 2022, Michael Janssen Gallery
  • Yonamine, PARLA_MUTE, 2022, Michael Janssen Gallery Berlin
Artist profiles/Catalogue texts
  • Aleksandra, We’re All Mad Here: Art Behind Mental Hospital Walls, 2024
  • Angela Ferrari, What’s Hidden Inside Angela Ferrari’s Post-Human Landscapes? 2024
  • Carleti López Traviesa, Meta Realms of Carleti Lopez Traviesa: Where Conceptual Art Meets Meme Culture, 2023
  • Jade van der Mark, The Spirit of Time in the Fashioned Realities of Jade van der Mark’s Paintings, 2024
  • Klaus Liebig, 2023
  • Yafeng Duan, 2023
JOURNALISM
  • Batenka (2017–2021, online/Russian)
  • Mel (2019, online/Russian)
  • Knife (2016–2019, online/Russian)
  • Hype (2017, online/Russian)
  • The Bubble (2015, online/English)
  • Metropol Magazine (2013–2016, print/Russian)
  • Prowl Magazine (2013–2014, print/English)
  • San Francisco Art Quarterly (2013, online/English)
  • DI (2010–2012, print/Russian)

EDUCATION

MA in Critical Studies and Psychoanalysis

17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos — Mexico City, Mexico

Jan 2025 – Present

BA in Journalism​

Lomonosov Moscow State University — Moscow, Russia

2008 - 2012

ADDITIONAL EDUCACTION
SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/ART PROGRAMS

Sobrevivir: la vida la muerte la escritura. ¿Qué queda hoy de la deconstrucción?

Seminar on Jaque Derrida taught by Dr. Eliza Mizrahi Balas & Dr. José Luis Barrios

MUAC Campus Expandido, Mexico City

January - June 2025

Vivir en tiempos de exterminio. Política y estética, más allá de lo humano

Seminar taught by Dr. Helena Chávez Mac Gregor

Institute of Aesthetic Research, the UNAM, Mexico City

February - June 2025

Las islas también se desplazan: Diálogos sobre arte, política y territorio

Art program coordinated by Ariadna Ramonetti

Islario, online

September 2024 - November 2025

Umbrales de opacidad

Artistic production workshop by Octavio Gómez

Mexico City

October - December 2024

En vez de corazón tenía un hilito. El uso del miedo

Literary workshop by Sabina Urraca

CCEMX, Mexico City

August 2024