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Katia Krupennikova

Katia Krupennikova is a curator and educator based in Amsterdam. She is the guest editor of the upcoming issue of Errant Journal, titled Shifting Centres: Searching for Companions, with a public program at De Appel Arts Centre (2025–2026). Her other curated exhibition, Politics of Rotation, a solo show by artist Polina Kanis, is open at PAKT Foundation till the 26th of October. She previously curated at institutions in the Netherlands, such as De Appel Arts Centre, A Tale of A Tub, Oude Kerk, Nest Ruimte, Framer Framed and abroad at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Bergen Assembly 2017- 2019, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart, among others.
As of 2018, she is a lecturer in Curatorial Studies at the MA Fine Art programme at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. In 2024, she joined Stichting Landfall and Kunstwerk Kolderveen as a fundraiser. Krupennikova is a regular contributor to Metropolis M and a founding member of the collectives Oo(y)ster Mums and Non-Aligned Feminist Friendships (both established in 2024). She serves on the editorial board of Errant Journal and was invited as lecturer and external expert to BEAR Arnhem and St. Joost School of Art & Design, as well as a jury member for national and international prizes such as Apexart (2024–2025) and Rietveld Review (2022).

Exhibitions


Exhibition: Remembering Otherwise

Solo exhibition by artist belit sağ in collaboration with curator Katia Krupennikova on a pivotal 1978 labour dispute led by migrant women workers from Turkey

Exhibition: It Won't Be Long Now, Comrades!

Curated by Inga Lāce en Katia Krupennikova

Agenda


Beyond the Archival: Visual Memories of First-Generation Female Migrants from Turkey in the Netherlands
The panel discussion addresses the context of life and work in the Netherlands in relation to the first-generation migrant women workers from Turkey
Opening: Remembering Otherwise
Opening of the solo exhibition artist belit sağ, conceived in close collaboration with curator Katia Krupennikova.
Humans of the Institution: Censorship & Strategy working group
A programme as part of Amsterdam Art Weekend.
Museumnight Amsterdam 2017
Featuring the pop-up museum I’m So Angry, I Made a Sign
Project overview: PATTERNS & Impossible Dialogues (2016)
Overview of the project and program surrounding PATTERNS / Impossible Dialogues. Perspectives from within & about Central and Eastern Europe in the social sciences, arts and history.
Impossible Dialogues - Contested memories, conflicting presences
Presentation of a long-term interdisciplinary research project is conceived by curators Katia Krupennikova, Inga Lāce and Margaret Tali.
Impossible Dialogues
Curated by Katia Krupennikova, Margaret Tali and Inga Lace.

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