Conferences & Discussions
2025 Maker’s Summit cum Interdisciplinary RPg Seminar, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2025 Olfactory Heritage: How Should We Preserve the Scents of the Past and What For?, International Scientific Conference Vectors 2025, Shaninka, Moscow
2025 Joseph Backstein: Curating Contemporary Art, in and from Russia, Pushkin House, London, UK
2024 Besieged by the Future 6: Undefined, Unspeakable, Unpredictable, BASEES Annual Conference, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK
2022 The Politics of Environmental Knowledge: Shaping Environments through Research, Art, and Activism in the Baltic Sea Region – and Beyond, CBEES Environmental Conference, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Testimony With Lost Credibility, Uppsala International Literature Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
2020 Russia and Garbage: The Landfill as a Cultural Phenomenon, Station Dno, Dostoevsky Library, Moscow, Russia
2019 Memory as a Historical and Cultural Phenomenon: Russia and the West, 20th–21st Centuries, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
2019 Patriotism from Below, panel discussion, Krasnoyarsk Fair of Book Culture, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2019 How Microhistory Is Formed: The Experience of Art, Public Talk, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2018 Contemporary Art and the Memory of the Soviet, Round Table, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Public Talks
2025 Pavel Otdelnov: The Future in the Past, Imperial College London
2025 Who Am I? And Other Cursed Questions, Pushkin House, London
2024 Hometown: Artist / Author Talk, in conversation with Svetlana Stephenson (Professor of Sociology), London Metropolitan University, The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, London
2024 The Experience of Estrangement: An Artist Talk with Pavel Otdelnov, Oxford New Russian Society, Worcester College, Oxford
2022 Industrial Ruins and Rediscovered Histories, Pushkin House, London
2024 May’s Social: Pavel Otdelnov, Pushkin House, London
2023 Pavel Otdelnov Artist Talk, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
2022 Pavel Otdelnov Artist Talk, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm
2021 The Art of Trauma Series: Pavel Otdelnov, GULAG History Museum, Moscow
2021 Ringing Trace, in conversation with art critic Marina Sokolovskaya, Lecture Hall “Books, Coffee and Other Dimensions”, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia
2021 Painting as a Medium of Contemporary Art and the Context of the Soviet Era, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2021 Russian Nowhere, Artist Talk, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
2020 Empty City, online artist talk, Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow
2019 DOCA-Talk: Pavel Otdelnov — Monuments of Mismanagement, Institute of Humanitarian Education and Information Technologies, Moscow
2019 PROMZONA, Artist Talk, Moscow State University, Moscow
2018 Factory Anecdotes, Creative Industrial Cluster Oktava, Tula
2017 Painting in Installation, Victoria Gallery, Samara
2016 Surface and Depth, in conversation with Konstantin Zatsepin, Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow
2016 Artist Talk, Centre for Contemporary Art SMENA, Kazan
Art Residencies
2024 Montenegro European Art Community, Budva, Montenegro
2022 Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Ural Biennale Residence Programme, Sokol, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia
2017 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2016 Department of Research Arts, Kazan, Russia
2012 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Collabs & Commissions
2025 The House Shared With Stalin, Illustrations for the essay by Sergey Lebedev, Weekendavisen, Denmark. PDF
2024 Vivacissimo (2023), composer Eugene Birman, Neues Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland