Keti Chukhrov ^(GE)

Keti Chukhrov is a guest professor at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. Until November 2022 she worked as a professor at the School of Philosophy & Сultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).  In 2012-2017 she was the head of Theory and Research department at the National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow. In 2017-2019 she has been a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow in UK, Wolverhampton University.  Her latest book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art (European Un-ty, 2011), and Pound &£ (Logos, 1999), and a volume of dramatic writing: Merely Humans (2010).  Her research interests and publications deal with 1.Сomparative epistemologies and political economies of capitalist and non-capitalist societies 2. Philosophy of performativity 3. Art as the Institute of global Contemporaneity.

This profile was last updated on 8 April 2025.