︎ Keti Chukhrov

Keti Chukhrov (https://hfg-karlsruhe.academia.edu/KetiChukhrov)  is a guest professor in Philosophy of Art at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. She was guest professor at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, in 2022-2023 and 2024-2025. Until November 2022 she worked as a professor at the School of Philosophy & Сultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Her latest book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art (European Un-ty, 2011), and Pound &£ (Logos, 1999), and a volume of dramatic writing: Merely Humans (2010).  Her research interests and publications deal with comparative epistemologies and political economies of capitalist and non-capitalist societies and theories of performativity in art and institutional critique.