About
Art Focus Now is an online platform founded by Inna Bazhenova (The Art Newspaper) and Dmitry Aksenov (The Aksenov Family Foundation) and created by an international team of journalists, critics and researchers. Our mission is to provide a well-reported, timely overview of the post-soviet art space to an international audience in English and focus on what is happening now in contemporary art in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics; the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Editorial Team
Publishers
Dmitry Aksenov Inna BazhenovaEditor-in-chief
Jo VickeryDeputy Publisher
Maria SavostyanovaArt Director
Vladimir PavlikovDeputy Editor
Ekaterina WagnerCoordinator
Anna GrositskayaDigital and Distribution Manager
Anna LevenDirector of Art Focus
Christina SoninaAdvisory Board
Dmitry AksenovPresident of the Aksenov Family Foundation, co-founder of Russian Art Focus
Inna BazhenovaOwner of The Art Newspaper international network, founder of the In Artibus Foundation, co-founder of Russian Art Focus
Anna Somers CocksFounder editor of The Art Newspaper, journalist
Nicolas V. IljineAdvisor to the Director of the State Hermitage
Jean-Hubert MartinArt historian, heritage conservator and curator
Mikhail PiotrovskyDirector of the State Hermitage
Zelfira TregulovaArt Historian and Curator. Former Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery (2015–2023)
Richard WallisJournalist, the first editor-in-chief of Russian Art Focus