Asia Bazdyrieva

Asia Bazdyrieva (UA) is a researcher and art historian. Her research interests range from histories of modernist utopia to grassroots expressions that challenge dominant historical narratives. She studied analytical chemistry at the National University of Kyiv (2009) and art history at The City University of New York as a Fulbright grantee (2017). Previously, she worked for Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), IZOLYATSIA platform for Cultural Initiatives (Kyiv), ART UKRAINE magazine (Kyiv), amongst others. In 2018, she was a postgraduate researcher in The New Normal design think-tank at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design (Moscow). She is currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Together, Bazdyrieva and Suess co-author ‘Geocinema’— a series of documentary-led investigations that examine infrastructures of earth-sensing data as forms of cinema. In 2018-2019 they were Digital Earths fellows.

Joined:
Geocinema consists of art historian Asia Bazdyrieva and filmmaker Solveig Suess. Bazdyrieva studied analytical chemistry at the Kyiv National University (2009) and art history at The City University of New York as a Fulbright grantee (2017). Suess completed her undergraduate in Visual Communication at the Glasgow School of Art, with her postgraduate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University, London (2017). Bazdyrieva and Suess started their collaboration at the New Normal think-tank, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow (2018). In 2018-19 they were Digital Earth fellows. Together, Bazdyrieva and Suess co-author ‘Geocinema’— a series of documentary-led investigations that examine infrastructures of earth-sensing data as forms of cinema. Their first solo exhibition is currently open in Kunsthall Trondheim.
https://geocinema.network