Kollektiv Collective is the joint curatorial practice of independent curators and writers Sasha Shevchenko and Pia Zeitzen. Based in London and working internationally, they have curated exhibitions and programmes since 2019, working in close dialogue with contemporary artists across media.
Spanning exhibition-making, writing, and collaborative research, their work is rooted in decentralised structures and collective authorship. Kollektiv Collective approach curation as a fluid, process-led act that relies on site-specific methodology, grounding every project in an intersectional analysis of the historical, socio-economic, architectural, aesthetic and structural context of a given space. Their work explores the politics of space, labour and language, foregrounding multiplicity, friction and care.
With an emphasis on collaboration and exchange, the curators have worked with London institutions, cultural centres and festivals including the Austrian Cultural Forum, London Design Festival, Christie’s, the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK, the Embassy of Denmark, Goldsmiths CCA and Pushkin House, and with international galleries such as Palo Gallery, New York and Galerie Gato, Lima. Their work has been featured in AnOther Magazine, Dazed, Les Nouveaux Riches, Floorr, Fetch Paper Magazine and The Observer, among others.
Words by Kollektiv have been published by Something Curated, YAC | Young Artists in Conversation, Glimpse Magazine, Plinth Magazine, METAL Magazine, The Art Columnist, Curatorial Affairs and Where’s The Frame (wtf?). They have contributed essays to various artist and exhibition publications, including a forthcoming monograph on artist Marc Henry.
Zeitzen and Shevchenko hold an MA in Contemporary Art Theory and an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths University; a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences; Museum Studies and Marketing from University College Maastricht, and an LLB Law from Queen Mary, University of London respectively. They were previously invited to speak at Christie’s Education and Chelsea College of the Arts as visiting lecturers.
Zeitzen and Shevchenko have a background in the institutional and commercial sectors, having previously held positions at the Venice Biennale and Galerie Max Hetzler, and the National Portrait Gallery and Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art respectively.
Kollektiv Collective has been supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Frame Finland, the Embassy of Denmark in the UK and the European Parliament.
Spanning exhibition-making, writing, and collaborative research, their work is rooted in decentralised structures and collective authorship. Kollektiv Collective approach curation as a fluid, process-led act that relies on site-specific methodology, grounding every project in an intersectional analysis of the historical, socio-economic, architectural, aesthetic and structural context of a given space. Their work explores the politics of space, labour and language, foregrounding multiplicity, friction and care.
With an emphasis on collaboration and exchange, the curators have worked with London institutions, cultural centres and festivals including the Austrian Cultural Forum, London Design Festival, Christie’s, the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK, the Embassy of Denmark, Goldsmiths CCA and Pushkin House, and with international galleries such as Palo Gallery, New York and Galerie Gato, Lima. Their work has been featured in AnOther Magazine, Dazed, Les Nouveaux Riches, Floorr, Fetch Paper Magazine and The Observer, among others.
Words by Kollektiv have been published by Something Curated, YAC | Young Artists in Conversation, Glimpse Magazine, Plinth Magazine, METAL Magazine, The Art Columnist, Curatorial Affairs and Where’s The Frame (wtf?). They have contributed essays to various artist and exhibition publications, including a forthcoming monograph on artist Marc Henry.
Zeitzen and Shevchenko hold an MA in Contemporary Art Theory and an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths University; a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences; Museum Studies and Marketing from University College Maastricht, and an LLB Law from Queen Mary, University of London respectively. They were previously invited to speak at Christie’s Education and Chelsea College of the Arts as visiting lecturers.
Zeitzen and Shevchenko have a background in the institutional and commercial sectors, having previously held positions at the Venice Biennale and Galerie Max Hetzler, and the National Portrait Gallery and Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art respectively.
Kollektiv Collective has been supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Frame Finland, the Embassy of Denmark in the UK and the European Parliament.
Pia Zeitzen (left) and Sasha Shevchenko (right). Image courtesy of Kollektiv Collective. Photography by Gillies Adamson Semple.