Keti Chukhrov

Keti Chukhrov is a guest professor in Philosophy of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart. In 2022/2023 and 2024/2025 she was a guest professor at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG Karlsruhe). In 2023/2024 she was a Tage Danielsson guest professor at Linkoping University. Until November 2022 she worked as a professor at the School of Philosophy & Сultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. From 2017–2019 she was a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Her latest book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art (European University, 2011), Pound &£ (Logos, 1999), and a volume of dramatic writing: Merely Humans (2010). Her research interests and publications deal with 1. philosophy of performativity, 2. comparative epistemologies and political economies of capitalist and non-capitalist societies, 3. art as the institute of global contemporaneity. She authored the film plays “Afghan-Kuzminki” (2013), “Love Machines” (2013), “Communion”(2016), and “Undead” (2022), which featured at the Bergen Assembly (2013), Specters of Communism (James Gallery, NY, 2015), the Ljubljana Triennial U-3 (2016), and Steirischer Herbst (2022), amongst others.