Pavel Golubev

Postdoctoral Researcher

project

Life Writings of Queer Artists from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900s–1960s

 

contact

pavel.golubev@uni-potsdam.de

+49 331 977-153084

Vita

Dr. Pavel Golubev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Potsdam. His work focuses on queer art history and the life writings of queer artists from the Russian Empire and the USSR. Golubev earned his PhD in art history from Moscow State University in 2018 while working as an independent researcher in Russia. That same year, he curated an exhibition at the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum and, in 2021–2022, served as Director of Exhibitions. After the museum’s evacuation, he moved to the United States and became a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. A leading scholar on Konstantin Somov (1869–1939), Golubev has edited and published four volumes of Somov’s erotic diaries, shedding new light on the work and personal life of this major figure of Russian modern art and an openly gay artist.

His current project, “Life Writings of Queer Artists from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900s–1960s,” focuses on Sergey Kalmykov, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Konstantin Somov, exploring self-mythology, temporality, and queer subjectivities in the art of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

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