Kirill Chunikhin

PhD
Jacobs University

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2020-2021)
Category "New Lecturers" (2019)

2017 Symposium “The Pedagogy of Images II: Depicting Communism for Children” (Princeton University), “From Magic to Disenchantment: Experiments with Electricity in Soviet Children’s Books”

2017 Conference “East-West Cultural Relations: Interplay of Arts and Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–2017” (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), “The Exhibition Graphic Arts: USA, 1963–64, and the Evolving Approaches to Showcasing American Art in the Soviet Union”

2015 Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe (organized by CAA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Cubism and Soviet Art Criticism during the Cold War”

2013 Conference “Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West II” (University of Cambridge), “Exhibitions of American Visual Art in the USSR during the Cold War”

2013 Six-Day Boat-Conference “Modernity, Socialism and the Visual Arts” (MS Gretha von Holland), “American Visual Art and Soviet Art Criticism during the Cold War”

2013 Conference “Illustration in Print” (St. Petersburg, Russian National Library), “The Magazine Amerika and Representation of the US Visual Art in the Cold War USSR”

2013 Conference “100 Years of Abstraction” (Jacobs University, Bremen), “The reception of American Art in the Cold-War USSR.” (Also, chair of session “Post-War Approaches to Abstract Art”)

2012 Conference “Actual Problems of Art History and Theory” (St. Petersburg State University / Moscow State University), “Clement Greenberg and Evolution of ‘Historical Apology’ of Modernism”

2012 Conference “Art and Political Reality” (Kumumuseum, Tallinn), moderator of section “Instructions from Moscow”

2012 East-West Cultural Exchanges and the Cold War (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), “Reception of American Abstract Expressionism in Soviet Art-Criticism during the Cold War”

2012 Constructing the Soviet? Annual Conference, European University at Saint-Petersburg, “The Two Exhibitions of 1959:  a dialogue or an ideological struggle? (Reconsidering the American National Exhibition in Moscow and the USSR Exhibition in New York)” 

2011 VDNH (Vystavka Dostizhenii Nauchnogo Khoziaistva) Annual Conference, European University at St. Petersburg, “Clement Greenberg and the Institutionalization of American Abstract Expressionism”

2017 “Archival Summer”: one-month Research Stipend, the Garage Museum (Moscow)

2017 Terra Foundation Research Travel Grant to the United States

2016 Pontica Magna Fellowship at the New Europe College, Bucharest (10 months)

2016 German Historical Institute in Moscow, Research Stipend for Predoctoral Students

2015 EUSPb six-month Research Fellowship

2015 Leonard Lauder Travelling Grant for Participating in the Symposium “Charting Cubism”

2014 Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in American Art (12 months)

2013 Jacobs University one-year Research Grant

2013 EUSPb Alumni Travel Grant

2012 Summer School Grant (Centre for European Studies – EU Centre in Northwest Russia)

2012 EUSPb Alumni Travel Grant

2010 EUSPb Full Three-Year Fellowship

2007 Kuzbass Governor’s Grant for Socially Important Projects 

2006 Medal “The Pride of Kuzbass”