Commissioner of the Ural Industrial Biennial and Director of the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Yekaterinburg will share her experience in creating a unique cultural environment that factors in business community, government and creative community. She will also tell about turning Yekaterinburg into an important location on the art map.

Yekaterinburg has been hosting the Ural Industrial Biennial since 2010. And contemporary art has become a new tool to develop the urban environment and human capital. Yekaterinburg combines industrial era heritage and new formats, and that’s how it’s now able to create cultural products that reflect local problems and to communicate those ideas and senses to the outside world.