Yulia Tikhonova

  

Yulia Tikhonova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-based curator who promotes practices that strengthen art and culture’s central role in civic life. Upon her graduation from the CCS Bard college, Tikhonova took it upon herself to test academic ideas in the outlying neighborhoods of Brooklyn- Coney Island, Flatbush and Midwood. Inspired by the concepts of praxis as outlined by Hannah Arendt, and Paolo Freire Tikhonova founded the Brooklyn House of Kulture, a grass-roots, an experimental curatorial model created to test concepts for useful cultural production. During the past year BHK has developed strategies that merge the needs of neighborhoods and addresses the capacity of the arts to stimulate public dialogue about civic issues. The consequent programs are Boro to Boro: Artists in Libraries hosted by the Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx Public Libraries network. Sustainability Starts At Home-series of artists-run workshops in collaboration with NYCHA. Tikhonova was awarded a year-long leadership development fellowship We Are All Brooklyn dedicated to advancing the next generation of Brooklyn’s diverse community leaders.

Tikhonova collaborates with the Art Connects NY project in permanent placement of the artworks with the Amethyst project in Coney Island to support their mission of restoring dignity to the lives of women. Tikhonova has organized the participation of the Russian art-activists group Voina (War) at the exhibition Living as Form, and at the summit curated by Creative Time last September.