Lena Pozdnyakova

Lena Pozdnyakova is a Berlin-based artist, curator and doctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. She is an alumna of the Design Theory and Pedagogy program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor's degree in architecture from Sheffield University and a Master's degree in architecture from DIA University of Applied Sciences. Her research project focuses on socially-oriented art, with a particular interest in artistic practices that manifest through various forms of organizing, services and affective labor. As an artist, Lena has exhibited works at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery as well as the Ars Electronica, Bauhausfest, Unsound, and CTM festivals. In 2014, she received the Robert Oxman Prize, and in 2016 as part of the2vvo duo, the Independent Projects Award by CEC Artslink. In 2024 she presented her work at the 60th Venice Art Biennial as part of the Kazakhstan Pavilion.