Nina Danilova

Nina Danilova is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at the UCP, Lisbon (founded by the FCT). She studied art history at the St. Petersburg University and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She worked for the Contemporary Department of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, where she curated several projects, e.g. exhibitions of Lee Ufan and Anselm Kiefer. Her thesis project "Watching Oneself Live: Contemporary Art Negotiating the Temporality of Déjà Vu" examines contemporary practices of image-making as a mediation for the ways we perceive and handle time and explores the ways digital technologies come to be embedded into art.