Nu Simakina

The project page additionally lists a Kuryokhin Award Art&Science shortlist, separate from the ASTA recognition already recorded. The distinction concerns the work, not an individual nomination.

The project page lists Wave Forms on ASTA's neurotechnological-art shortlist and credits Nu Simakina for its performative score and choir. The linked February 2023 news excerpt covers the shortlist generally, without naming the work.

Was named among the 13 shortlisted artists in the Gucci and Biennale of Young Art competition, announced on 22 December 2020.

Caries of Capitalism, whose cast included Nu Simakina, was included in Golden Mask's longlist of notable theatre productions of the 2019–2020 season, according to its creator's project page. This was recognition of the production rather than an individual nomination.

Caries of Capitalism, whose performers included Nu Simakina, was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award for the 2019 award cycle. The nomination recognised the production, not Simakina individually.

Nu Simakina is credited with curatorial work on the Digital/Natural festival in Belgrade.

Nu Simakina and Neda Lapardina were listed together among the participating artists in the ninth edition of Sofia Art Week, running from 24 October to 1 November 2026.

Nu Simakina provided music alongside DJ Bokun at the Kanalisanje festival at the Strand in Sombor, a public event celebrating the Great Bačka Canal and its future.

Nu Simakina was announced among the participating artists in Flow, a performance-art festival at KP Radionica exploring the theme “The Personal is Political.”

Nu Simakina was credited as director of the online reading of Olga Ivannikova's Fifth Ocean in the September 2024 FRINGE Theatre of Resistance + Lyubimovka programme. The reading was scheduled for 15 September at 19:00 Moscow time.

Co-curated the mini-festival and exhibition I Am Vulnerability with Kota Davudova and AI artist endléa at the Roman Well in Belgrade, as part of the Biennial of Youth 2023.

Announced as a guest in the festival's 16 December round table, “The Language of the Author and Theatre in an Era of Upheaval: The Right to Speak,” moderated by Natasha Radulović.

Listed among the participating artists in PORTAE, a festival connecting contemporary art, magical practices and transitional states. Its programme linked venues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg from 22 October to 12 November 2022.

Participated in Elza Abdulkhakova's Forbidden Body Language in the main programme of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. The official roster credits Simakina with both Abdulkhakova Stroganov Dance Company and the Wish Fulfillment Choir.

Nu Simakina and Evgeniya Fomina were programmed to present Lake Soundscapes online in the Access Point Festival's Spontaneous Programme on 26 April 2020. The festival described the work as a performance exploring space and sound.

HSE's account records a 2018 Geek Picnic appearance by the Wish Fulfillment Choir, with which Anna Simakina is credited. No Geek Picnic-specific lineup establishes her individual participation.

Winzavod's interview page identifies Anna Simakina as a Wish Fulfillment Choir member and includes her comments on its practice. The stored excerpt does not document the collective's 2018 Museum Night appearance at Fabrika or her participation there.

HSE's account lists a 2018 Music Day appearance by the Wish Fulfillment Choir and credits Anna Simakina in its HSE lineup. The stored text cuts off the venue name, so Ground Khodynka and her participation there remain unconfirmed.

Was named among the independent artists selected to exhibit at blazar Young Art Fair in 2021. The fair was scheduled for 8–12 September 2021.

Nu Simakina is credited with curatorial work on The VVILL festival in Belgrade. The festival also appears among the projects in her artist portfolio.

Nu Simakina participated in Elena Morozova's Artpulation project at Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow.

Co-created Lake Soundscapes with Evgenia Fomina and choreographer Alyona Papina. By July 2019, the performance had been presented in Viktor Vilisov's Displacement laboratory at Taganka Theatre.

Co-created a video-art adaptation of Lake Soundscapes with director Maria Saprykina; the work existed by July 2019.

KP Radionica announced Nu Simakina as the music selector for its AntiHalloween gathering in Belgrade on 31 October 2026, playing Serbian music.

Sisters Room Art Space announced Nu Simakina and Alexander Kudryashov for a live concert and musical improvisation in Tbilisi on 25 August 2026.

The Heresies exhibition programme at KP radionica in Belgrade announced a ritual performance by Nu Simakina and Denny DeLito on June 26, 2026, at 19:19.

Co-created and performed Abyss Rising with media artist Nika Blue and musician Egor Kurchugin at KP Radionica in Belgrade on 6 June 2026. The interdisciplinary performance explores anxiety through voice, live modulated sound and video projections.

The linked Performance Art Salon listing has no stored text, so the available evidence does not verify Nu Simakina’s participation, the work’s title, or the proposed 23 November 2025 date and venue.

Nu Simakina was announced as vocalist for an improvisational concert at KC Radionica on 12 July 2025, alongside Nikolai Kutkovoy, Nikolai Mushkov and Anton Smagin.

Was the music collaborator on Filip Vinogradov's production of Chekhov's The Seagull at Bora Stanković Theatre in Vranje, which premiered in December 2024.

Programmed to present Emergency Search at the international Performance Art Salon at Ostavinska in Belgrade on 9 August 2024. Serbian press subsequently covered the work under the title Hitna Potraga.

The programme for Echoes of Family Relations 2024 scheduled an untitled performance by Nu Simakina at KC Dorćol on 2 March at 17:30.

The linked excerpt documents Echoes of Family Relations 2024 at KC Dorćol, Belgrade, from 26 February to 2 March 2024; it does not confirm Simakina's Family performance or the opening-party programme.

Programmed for a musical performance with saxophonist Sergei Khramtcevich at 21:00 on 25 February 2024 at M10 Bar in Belgrade, during the opening party for Echoes of Family Relations 2024.

Nu Simakina participated in the public performative discussion and participant presentations concluding Chto Delat’s School of Emergency at the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade.

Jointly credited with Sergei Khramtcevich on “Untittled,” released by Incompetence on the compilation Skrepka-1 on 11 August 2023.

Nu Simakina created the breath score for Anastasia Albokrinova’s immersive performance about memory, presented within The Feast exhibition series at Victoria Underground.

Ksenia Bakhtina's public recording credits Bakhtina with music and Nu Simakina with voice.

The Echo of Lyubimovka programme credits Simakina as director of the staged reading of Pyotr Tantsov's play, scheduled for 17 December 2022 in Belgrade.

Named in Winzavod's programme as a co-performer with Alexander Kudryashov, with participation by Evgeny Zubarev, in An Evening of Linguistic Music. The performance was scheduled within Rites of Decolonisation: Act 2 at the II Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives.

Performed in Anna Semenova-Ganz and Maria Markina's collective vocal ritual of mourning, presented at GES-2 on 3–5 February 2022. The work was commissioned and produced by the V–A–C Foundation.

Performed as a vocalist in Pelageya Shcheglinskaya's Wall of Lamentation at Archstoyanie in 2022. The performance reinterprets lamentation traditions to create a collective space for grief.

Contributed to the performative score and choir for Wave Forms, a multimedia research installation developed with support from the Skoltech–Khodynka project.

Nu Simakina was named on the team for Procession of Wish Fulfillers, a musical performance scheduled at GES-2 on 25 December 2021. Developed from the Wish Fulfilment Laboratory, the project involved professional actors with Down syndrome.

Nu Simakina performed in Elza Abdulkhakova's U&A in the Comfort waiting room at Moscow's Kazan Railway Station on 4 December 2021, as part of the Voznesensky Center's Playing Cities programme.

The linked page has no stored text to verify Nu Simakina’s credited co-authorship of the participatory eco-opera (Un)natural with Yuri Sorokin, Anna Gilyova and Dima Efremov, or its selection for The Access Point Festival’s Free Programme in July 2021.

Published documentation for Alienation credits Sasha Konnikova with Nu Simakina's participation in Matryoshka of Alienations. The planned 20 June 2021 foyer presentation was cancelled because of coronavirus restrictions; the wider project instead held open-air picnics and published documentation of planned events and preparations online.

Nu Simakina directed and facilitated an audience-participatory performance sketch based on Elina Petrova's Recording Interrupted at Da! studio in Saint Petersburg during a feminist laboratory in March 2021.

Created Human Music, an audio diary of encounters with visitors while mediating Paweł Althamer's Silence project at Garage. The work assigns distinctive sounds to individual visitors and was published among the museum's mediators' diaries.

Co-authored a site-specific work with Mariam Nagaychuk and performed it with her and Andrey Tikhonov at Moscow's Kazansky railway station. The work was realised by the Voznesensky Centre within the Playing Cities project.

Nu Simakina participated in Vsevolod Lisovsky's three-day performance marathon Through / Sliding Through Possibilities in 2021. Fellow participant and theatre critic Alla Shenderova described her participation in a review of the theatre season.

Nu Simakina was listed among the Wish Fulfillment Choir performers for the public programme of The Art of Being: A Space of Care at Typography Centre for Contemporary Art in Krasnodar, scheduled for 15 November 2020.

The VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art programme listed “Wish Fulfillment Choir for the Unification of Art Objects” within forbidden body language, curated by Elza Abdulkhakova, at the Museum of Moscow, with a scheduled time of 16:00–17:00.

The linked Vimeo page for “pandembodiment” contains only a verification challenge. The biennale programme lists rehearsals by Nu Simakina and Gala Izmaylova within the Club of Anonymously Dancing in October 2020, but does not identify them as this work or verify its performance date or method.

Nu Simakina was listed as an actor in Vsevolod Lisovsky’s hundred-day performance, announced to begin on 30 September 2020. A January 2021 retrospective describes its October–January run, mainly on Moscow’s streets.

Nu Simakina is credited among the participants in Natalia Pshenichnikova’s La Gol voice-theatre production Orders: An Imaginary Dialogue Between Alexei Gastev and John Cage, presented with Gallery on Shabolovka at Winzavod.

Sang in Vsevolod Lisovsky's Sex as Utopia, presented to a small audience in Moscow during the May 2020 lockdown. Theatre critic Alla Shenderova described Simakina's vocal performance in an eyewitness report for Meduza.

Shared the sound-engineering credit with Ilya Truskovsky on Yulia Saponova's documentary Eat an Elephant, produced by InterAction, MTS Media and the Love Syndrome Foundation.

Anna Simakina is credited among the sound recordists on Julia Saponova’s documentary about four young men with autism.

Performed in The Caries of Capitalism, a production about precarious cultural labour devised by Ada Mukhina, Alyona Papina, Olga Tarakanova and Daria Yuriichuk. The production premiered at Moscow's Meyerhold Theater Center on 1 October 2019.

Credited in the production of Tori Wrånes's Lips Don't Cry, a performance commissioned for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art's 2019 exhibition The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100. The published credit does not specify her individual function.

The Central Manege programme lists the Here and Now! exhibition for 1–20 August 2018, but the supplied text does not confirm Anna Simakina's participation or the choir's 17 August appearance.

Co-authored and performed Agapa's Shtrabovnitsa, a participatory investigation of embarrassment and bodily constraint. Published criticism discusses the work and its presentation at ZIL Cultural Center in March 2019.

Credited in the cast of Vasily Berezin's opera The Gospel, based on the Gospel of Luke, in the 2017 NET Festival programme. Performances were advertised at Khlebozavod 9 on 1 and 2 December.

Worked on Natalia Gurkina's short film RED, which was selected for the short-film competition at the 28th Kinotavr festival in Sochi.

Performed in Vik Lashchenov's Wish-Fulfilment Choir at HSE Art Gallery in Moscow during an exhibition curated by Sasha Burenkov.

Moscow Film School lists the Friday! television programme General Cleaning among Nu Simakina's on-set sound-work credits.

PUT (The Path) is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

Fifth Ocean is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

Five Stages of Grief is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

Skin Limits is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

Cut Peace is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

Dear Love, What Have You Done to Us is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

Accept is an artistic project listed under Nu Simakina's name in her portfolio.

The linked Paradajz Radio archive has no stored text. The available evidence therefore does not establish the performers of Prstenovi na vodi, its description as an evening reinterpreting Slavic folk music, or a 26 September date.

In her public channel, Nu Simakina documents Visibility Tuning, a carousel-concert combining singing and instrumental improvisation with audience interaction.

A Colta article by Natasha Timofeeva, published on 20 December 2021, describes Moscow's Bomba Gallery, an artist-run space in Fabrika's bomb shelter. The stored excerpt does not document Nu Simakina's musical appearance or establish its date or title.

Participated in the Young Choreographers Residency at ZIL Cultural Center, as documented in her 2019 biography.

Undertook a joint residency with Evgenia Fomina at ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art in Vladivostok from 21 July to 21 August 2019. Their residency focused on developing Lake Soundscapes, combining performance, improvisation and research into acoustic environments.

Nu Simakina's artist biography published by ULUS lists a residency at Station in Kostroma; the residency dates are unspecified.

Nu Simakina held an artist residency at the Meyerhold Center in Moscow.

Served as the named contact for musicians joining the eighth Music Field improvisational jam session at KP Radionica in Belgrade on 18 September 2026.

Co-curated Residue of Contacts with Olya Eliseeva, presented at KP Radionica on 4 September 2026. A collaboration with Tbilisi's Sisters Room Art Space, the exhibition explored contact as a language of body, gesture, movement, material and space.

KP Radionica's announcement for Music Field No. 7 — Synth Edition directed electronic musicians to Nu Simakina for registration for the improvisational jam session on 19 August 2026.

Co-curated and participated in Ne Ti Rusi, a KP Radionica group exhibition at KC Grad addressing stereotypes about Russian-speaking migrants in Serbia. The exhibition ran from 30 March to 5 April 2026.

Nu Simakina curated Kristina Burbela's exhibition A Tigress Must Have Fur at Auditoria Belgrade, addressing bodily autonomy, menstruation, shame and feminist resistance.

Nu Simakina was listed among the confirmed artists for Auditoria's Work in Progress creative coworking gathering in Belgrade on 16 February 2026.

Represented KP Radionica in Shared Visions workshop #5 at SULUV Gallery in Novi Sad in 2025. The project was organised by the Fund B92 Foundation, with workshop organisation and coordination by SULUV.

Miloš Janjić's Plestelin programme at U10 Art Space ran from 1 August to 6 September 2024 as a temporary self-organised performing-arts school and platform; Simakina's participation is not documented in the stored excerpt.

Nu Simakina was included in the guest programme of new-media and film artists at Belgrade's Students’ Cultural Centre from 4 to 14 June 2024, accompanying the 56th May Exhibition: Genesis.

Co-curated Rites of Decolonisation: Act 2 with Viktor Zhdanov at Winzavod on 19–20 February 2022. The performance programme concluded the exhibition presented by the II Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives.

Nu Simakina was listed in the Club of Anonymously Dancing programme at the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art for a rehearsal with Gala Izmaylova on 6 October 2020; another rehearsal for Gala and Nu was announced for 9 October.

Co-organised Cosmic Cobras and Leeches, a costumed karaoke closing event at ZARYA with Evgenia Fomina and Alena Papina, following the residency-project presentation.

Anna Simakina is credited with the Wish Fulfillment Choir in the 2019 inclusive exhibition project The Art of Being, presented at three venues in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. The organiser also names her in the choir's July 2019 presentation at Moscow's Apothecary Garden.

Laboratory DACHA by Anna Semenova at CCI Fabrica is listed among Agapa's performances. The stored evidence documents the collective's association with the project but does not establish Simakina's individual contribution or the described research and installation.

A collective performative investigation of the Russian constitution and participants' personal experiences of its operation, led by Vik Lashchyonov and Anna Belousova.

Participated in Garage's interdisciplinary Aerocene laboratory, organised as part of the public programme for Tomás Saraceno's project. The laboratory participants collectively launched an aerosolar sculpture powered by the sun without fuel, motors or batteries.

Nu Simakina worked as a curator on Ren Convention in Moscow.

Nu Simakina curated Embo(e)d(d)ied tekhno party in Belgrade.

An announcement names Nu Simakina as a performance artist and curator speaking about women's networks supporting her creative work. The discussion was scheduled at Auditoria, Vojvode Dobrnjca 48, on June 17; the recovered text does not explicitly supply the year.

Featured and quoted in Elizaveta Biriukova's article about migrant-led art spaces in Georgia and Serbia. Simakina discussed KP Radionica, stereotypes about Russian-speaking migrants, and horizontal cultural organisation.

Appeared with Fyodor Kokorev and Yuri Sorokin in a 58-minute podcast discussion of performance artists' working lives, project work, rest and community.

Simakina is listed as a signatory to the published open letter calling for fair payment of performers.

Nu Simakina signed the public letter advocating fair remuneration and rejecting unpaid professional performance work.

Maria Koroleva's essay, published by SPECTATE on 13 July 2021, examines red banners and collective artistic action in contemporary Russian art, using an iconological approach to explore the legacy of Collective Actions' Slogan-1977.

Contributed texts to the Experiments in Choreology laboratory handbook, which lists her under the name Anna Simakina.

Contributed to Artem Baluev's interview with the Wish-Fulfilment Choir about improvisation, audience participation and the performative fulfilment of wishes.

Nu Simakina was identified as co-curator of Free From Cooperative in a September 2023 institutional biography.

Performed as a soloist in the La Gol voice theatre led by Natalia Pshenichnikova, as documented in her 2019 biography.

Nu Simakina was a participant in director Vasily Berezin's Binary Biotheatre.

Co-founded KP Radionica with Nadezhda Lopardina in Belgrade in 2024. The independent cultural space combines exhibitions with educational and cultural programmes, bringing together a predominantly migrant community.

Co-founded the collective Agapa Music Lab with Evgenia Fomina and other musicians in 2017.

ZARYA's 2019 artist biography identifies Simakina as a participant in the Museum of Sensing Practices.

Nu Simakina was announced as leader of a ten-session performance laboratory investigating verbal and nonverbal communication, starting on 14 January 2026. Final presentations were scheduled for 25 March at KP Radionica and 30 March at KC Grad.

Co-created and facilitated an inclusive laboratory using vocal and bodily performance practices for young people aged 12–18 with Down syndrome. The V–A–C programme was organised in partnership with the Interaction theatre project.

Led Discovering Inner Music meditation sessions using internal sound and bodily vibration within Paweł Althamer's Silence installation at Garage. The sessions formed part of the museum's 2021 public programme.

The VII Moscow International Biennale of Young Art programme lists a performance resulting from the Aphonia laboratory within forbidden body language, but does not identify Simakina as its leader.

Co-led a public site-specific laboratory with Alyona Papina and Evgenia Fomina during the ZARYA residency on 10–12 August 2019. Participants explored body, voice and urban space, concluding with a work-in-progress presentation.

Nu Simakina and Evgenia Fomina were announced as co-speakers for a public lecture at ZARYA about their projects combining music, dance and performance.

Taught extended voice practices in the Seems Like Dance workshop at Winter Summer School on 30 January–3 February 2019 and extended vocal techniques during the summer cycles on 6–21 July 2019.

Listed on the teaching team as the sound specialist for Moscow Film School's Filmmaking Teens programme for participants aged 13–15.

Nu Simakina advertises independent vocal teaching through her Behance portfolio, which lists her location as Belgrade, Serbia.

Studied at Vsevolod Lisovsky's School of Aesthetic Extremism, as documented in her 2019 biography.

Nu Simakina participated in Chto Delat’s five-day transdisciplinary School of Emergency in Belgrade, mentored by Nina Gasteva, Nikolay Oleynikov, Olga Egorova and Dmitry Vilensky.

Participated in Experiments in Choreology, a laboratory researching historical dance archives with support from Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. The handbook lists her as Anna Simakina among participants whose texts appear in the publication.

Graduated from Moscow Film School's Sound Engineering and Sound Design programme.

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Her Behance profile, found at onboarding.

Her Telegram profile, found at onboarding.

Telegram channel @nevtemy, with posts signed Nu Simakina.