Your Art Muse
The blog of Maria Hiltunen-Sedoshenko — curator, art historian and art manager. Covering what is happening in the art world and helping you build a career in art.

Making art through deep horror. An interview with Vanya Kasatka
Hi everyone! Friends, today I want to introduce you to a creative soul, an artist and poet — Vanya Kasatka, in issue…

Reflecting the world through a universe of cheetahs, symbols of how quickly time passes
Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 12 of #ourstudents — a series of interviews in which our students talk about themselves and their…

A Love of Fabric, Expressed Through Every Possible Technique and Texture
An Interview with Oksana Muratova Hi everyone! It’s hard to believe how fast the #ourstudents series is picking up speed! This is…

A cinematic approach to painting
An interview with artist Ilya Filatov Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 10 of our #ourstudents series — a run of interviews in…

Exploring the Art Scene of China’s Megacities
An Interview with Kostya Pavlov, a Graduate of the “I Want Into the Art World” Program Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 9…

Exploring the subconscious through the language of symbols
An interview with our graduate, artist Tatiana Ergunova Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 8 of our #ourstudents series — interviews in which…

Unlocking symbolism. An interview with artist Tatyana Vafina
Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 7 of our #ourstudents series, a run of interviews where our students talk about themselves and their…

An interview with our graduate, artist Alina Aparina
Hi everyone! Welcome to issue six of our #ourstudents series — interviews in which our students talk about themselves and their art.…

An artist whose work inspires people to dream and to act. An interview with Victoria Ark
Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 4 of our #ourstudents series — interviews in which our students talk about themselves and their art.…

Art is in everything. An interview with graduate and artist Xenia RAW
Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 5 of #ourstudents — a series of interviews in which our students talk about themselves and their…

Balancing Creative Projects and Personal Life
An Interview with Dmitry and Apollinaria, students of the program “Selling and Promoting Art for Artists in Russia and Abroad” A couple…

Art at the meeting point of abstraction and figuration
An interview with Arseny Blinov Hi everyone! Welcome to the second issue of our #ourstudents series, a run of interviews where our…

Magical realism, mythology and literature
An interview with Wei Hi everyone! Welcome to the first issue of #ourstudents — a series of interviews in which our students…

Exploring Voyeurism and Exhibitionism: an Interview with a Student on Our “I Want Into the Art World!” Program – TATIY
I’ve introduced you to TATIY (Tatyana Kozlova) before. She won a #Rosmolodyozh #TavridaGrants grant of 750,000 roubles, which backed her mental-health awareness…

Answers to society’s collective traumas come out of people’s small objects: an interview with a student of the program — Vivato Eka
Hi everyone! Welcome to issue 20 of our #ourstudents series, a run of interviews where our students talk about themselves and their…

An interview with Anna Malay, curator of the exhibition “Love. From A to Z” and founder of the PRANNA concept bureau
I shared the details of the opening of the exhibition “Love. From A to Z” with you in this post, and now…

Interview with Raúl Álvarez
Interview with Raúl Álvarez You have to believe in yourself and evolve with your work, not give up and think carefully about what…

Kostya Pavlov’s Story
Interview navigation: 1. Tell us how you’re connected to art and what you do. 2. What were your first works? 3. So what does the…

Lena Chigrina’s story
The course is incredibly rich — so many references, so many brilliant examples that I now start to notice out in the…