Nikolay Smirnov (born 1982) is a geographer, artist, curator, and researcher, working with geographical imaginations and the representations of space and place in art, science, museums, and everyday life. His practice focuses on analyzing and implementing complex narratives through texts and exhibitions. Smirnov studied at the Geography Department of Moscow State University and the Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). Co-curator of the projects Metageography (2014–2018) and Permafrost (Arctic Biennale, Yakutsk, 2016), Nikolay Smirnov participated in the main projects of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial (2019, curator Xiaoyu Weng) and the 2nd Riga Biennial (2020, curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel). His research texts are published on the platforms e-flux, syg.ma and posle.media. In 2023–24, he was a research assistant at the documenta Institut (Kassel).
E-Mail: smirnov@uni-kassel.de