Sofiya Glukhova, Russia / France

Art historian and researcher specializing in 20th century Modern and Contemporary art, with a focus on avant-garde, conceptual and non-conformist art, Sofiya Glukhova has worked on numerous exhibition and publication projects. Born in Ijevsk, Russia, she completed her first Masters Degree in museology at Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, accompanied by a Cultural Guide Certification. She went on to study history and French literature in the Collège Universitaire Français (French University College) in Saint-Petersburg.

Since she had moved to France in 2013, Sofiya has completed two master’s degrees. The first, from Université Paris 8 Vincennes—Saint-Denis, specializing in contemporary French and francophone literature and text & image studies. The second, from the École du Louvre, where her first year’s research was dedicated to Appropriation art and French copyright law, while her graduate research was focused on a Soviet non official art through a study of an immigrant art review A-Ya, published in France between 1979 and 1986.

Between 2016 and 2018, she worked at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, for an exhibition "Kollektsia. Art contemporain en URSS et en Russie, 1950-2000" (Kollektsia. Contemporary art in the USSR and Russia, 1950-2000), alongside Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov and Natasha Milovzorova, before working with Angela Lampe as a research fellow and exhibition manager for "Chagall, Lissitzky, Malévitch. Les avant-gardes russes à Vitebsk, 1918-1922" (Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich. The Russian avant-garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922) show.

After this experience in one of the world’s leading museums of modern art, she entered the field of art market expertise in 2019, joining the Marc Chagall Committee whose mission is to authenticate, defend and promote the work of Marc Chagall. The following year, she joined the new project team dedicated to the Marc Chagall catalogue raisonné, archives and website, where she is currently working on the Ceramics tome, scheduled for online publication in September 2024. Co-author of texts, provenance researcher, coordinator and content manager, she is also in charge of research and communication of Marc and Ida Chagall Archives.

Sofiya Glukhova regularly contributes to publications for institutions, exhibitions and magazines (Le Centre Pompidou, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Musée d’Art modern (Céret), Palazzo Roverella (Rovigo), Fundacion MAPFRE (Madrid)), writing on 20th century avant-gardes and modern artists such as André Masson and Marc Chagall among others.