Nadezhda Svirskaia

Nadezhda (Nadya) Svirskaia is a Berlin-based curator and producer of animation projects, born in Naberezhnye Chelny. She studied journalism at Kazan State University and trained as an art curator at the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; until 2022 she organised exhibitions, screenings and events on artistic animation in Moscow with museums, galleries and festivals. In 2019 she co-founded Shcha7sec, an international nomadic micro-festival of animated films up to seven seconds long, and since 2013 she has worked as producer with her husband, director Sasha Svirsky.