Ekaterina Degot is a writer and curator, a laureate of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory (2014), Artistic Director at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne (where she runs the multidisciplinary biannual festival Pluriversale) and professor at the Alexander Rodchenko Moscow School of New Media and Photography. Among her recent curatorial projects are Monday Begins on Saturday and First Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway, 2013 (with David Riff).