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 in Architecture Degree from Sheffield University and a Masters 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 exhibited works at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Ars Electronica, Bauhausfest, Unsound, and CTM Festivals. In 2014, she received the Robert Oxman Prize, and in 2016 as part of the2vvo duo, Independent Projects Award by CEC Artslink. In 2024, she showed her work at the 60th Venice Art Biennial as part of the Kazakhstan Pavilion.