Konstantin Akinsha

Konstantin Akinsha is an independent art historian, curator and journalist. He received the George Polk award for cultural reporting in 1991. Akinsha’s curatorial projects include ’Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907–1917’ (Neue Galerie, New York, 2015), ’Permanent Revolution: Ukrainian Art Today’ (Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2018) and ’Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now’ (Semperdepot, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2019). He is the founding director of the Avant-Garde Art Research Project (UK) and the author of several books, including Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe’s Art Treasures (1995).