Elena Sorokina has held key positions within major art events, notably as Associat Curator of documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel) and as Director of HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Belgium in 2017. In 2022, she co-curated the Armenian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. Her curatorial practice unfolds on an international scale, within museums and art platforms such as BOZAR (Brussels), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Pera Museum (Istanbul), the Rudolfinum (Prague), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris).
Simona Markel Dvorák is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art, ecology, and care, combining critical theory, poetic imagination, and participatory methodologies. Dvorák has collaborated with institutions including the National Gallery Prague, Musée Picasso–Paris, Frac Île-de-France, Rockbund Art Museum, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. She participated in documenta fifteen, the 59th, and the 60th Venice Biennale. Between 2021 and 2023, she served as Curator for Public Programs at the Centre Pompidou and co-curated, with Tadeo Kohan, Actes de Langage at Maison Populaire in Montreuil.
The Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care was founded in 2020 by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Elena Sorokina in the Greater Paris region. It brings together a diverse group of practitioners across the arts, crafts, philosophy, healing, and therapy, spanning multiple geographies. Neither a classical collective nor a rigid structure, the Initiative researches and reinvents modes of sustainable institutionalism. Rooted in friendship as much as in professional collaboration, it functions as an ecosystem, fostering interdependence and solidarity beyond fixed identities. Through fluid artistic and curatorial ventures, the Initiative embraces languages, energies, histories, landscapes, bodies, and materials that reflect a non-extractive and sensitive relationship to both human and more-than-human worlds.
Photo by Jérôme Bonnet