Xenya Vytuleva

Architecture historian and theorist and curator. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Moscow State University, and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University in NY. 

A recipient of various grants and awards, and most recently the Graham Foundation for the Project "Soviet Secret Cities during the Cold War", dr. Vytuleva is writing extensively on theory of preservation, the fading heritage of Soviet Empire and theory of Architectural Representation. 

She has curated a number of exhibitions including: IMMaterial Box of Innovative Ideas and Materials (Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow), Oscillations (Moscow Exhibition Hall Manege) “Music on Bones” (MAXXI, Rome) and recently ZATO Soviet Secret Cities during the Cold War (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), New York. A head researcher at the Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture (NIITIAG) at the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Vytuleva is currently working on a book entitled “Aesthetics of Uncertainty in Experimental Practices of the 20th Century”. She is a member of DoCoMoMO, Russia, and the program “Preserving the Architectural Heritage” in Moscow, co-organizing the Columbia University event :experimental preservation” at Venice Biennale  and an official historic consultant of the Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2014.