About

Asia
Bazdyrieva

researcher and art historian

Asia Bazdyrieva is an art historian whose research spans visual culture, feminist epistemology, and environmental humanities at large. Her projects focus on a hybrid of European and Soviet modernities and its ideological and material implications in spaces, bodies, and lands. She studied analytical chemistry at the National University of Kyiv and art history at The City University of New York as a Fulbright grantee in 2017. Previously, she worked for Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, IZOLYATSIA platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, ART UKRAINE magazine, Kyiv, among others. Bazdyrieva co-authored Geocinema—a collaborative project exploring the possibilities of a planetary notion of cinema. She is currently associated with Critical Media Lab, at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, and is 2022–2023  transmediale artist-in-residence with the fellowship of Weltoffenes Berlin funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.