Founded in 2019, Kollektiv Collective is a London-based curatorial collective run by curators Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko. Working with and in support of emerging artists, Kollektiv focuses on exploring site-specificity and performativity as curatorial tools to transcribing the abstract into the visual. Thematically, their exhibitions are dedicated to investigating socio-political themes at large, dissecting thoughts and feelings that forge the image of the present time. Critically investigating contemporary thought, Kollektiv often reverts to a dissection of binaries in an attempt to promote multiplicity, complexity and the merit of leaning into uncertainty.
Zeitzen and Shevchenko work site-specifically, with the underpinnings of their projects being developed with and against a given exhibition space and setting. Kollektiv Collective conceives every project as an experiment in curating as a collaborative, artistic expression.
Past exhibitions include ‘Fa Razavi: Opera Rose,’ Palo Gallery, New York (2025); ‘nothing concrete,’ Inspection Pit, Sussex (2024); ‘IceBlink Luck,’ Generation & Display as part of London Design Festival, London (2024); ‘Obsidian Upset,’ Des Bains, London (2024); ‘Great Expectations,’ General Assembly, London, (2024); ‘things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,’ Tabula Rasa Gallery, London (2023); ‘On
the flip side was,’ Guts Gallery, London (2023); ‘Interlude,’ Kupfer, London (2023); ‘I knock on you skin,’ SET Woolwich, London (2022); ‘Un/sense,’ Christie’s, London (2022), and ‘In Nihilum,’ Swiss Church, London (2020).
Zeitzen and Shevchenko work site-specifically, with the underpinnings of their projects being developed with and against a given exhibition space and setting. Kollektiv Collective conceives every project as an experiment in curating as a collaborative, artistic expression.
Past exhibitions include ‘Fa Razavi: Opera Rose,’ Palo Gallery, New York (2025); ‘nothing concrete,’ Inspection Pit, Sussex (2024); ‘IceBlink Luck,’ Generation & Display as part of London Design Festival, London (2024); ‘Obsidian Upset,’ Des Bains, London (2024); ‘Great Expectations,’ General Assembly, London, (2024); ‘things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,’ Tabula Rasa Gallery, London (2023); ‘On
the flip side was,’ Guts Gallery, London (2023); ‘Interlude,’ Kupfer, London (2023); ‘I knock on you skin,’ SET Woolwich, London (2022); ‘Un/sense,’ Christie’s, London (2022), and ‘In Nihilum,’ Swiss Church, London (2020).
Sasha Shevchenko (left) and Pia Zeitzen (right). Image courtesy of Kollektiv Collective.