Kira
Tselishcheva

VR installations in museum contexts fail for a predictable reason: technical complexity lands in non-technical hands. Setups break, no one on site can diagnose them, and the visitor experience degrades in front of a paying audience.

Designed full operational documentation engineered for two distinct user groups.

• Technical crew — hardware checklists, network and power diagrams, troubleshooting trees, and daily operating routines.
• Visitors — onboarding designed around live, staff-led interaction rather than written instruction.

An international cultural project staged in Georgia, 2025: three stakeholders with conflicting logics — a European fund, a Georgian organization, and the venue itself — inside a politically sensitive context, housed in a residential building with real physical constraints and actual neighbors.

Held the center of a project that could have fractured at any seam.

• Managed communication between all three stakeholders, keeping conflicting agendas aligned to one event.
• Navigated cultural-political sensitivity across Russian artists, a Georgian venue, and European funding.
• Selected artists balancing concept, logistics, and context simultaneously.
• Designed three rooms — bespoke light, sound, and spatial solutions per artwork.
• Hired technical specialists to assess the building's load capacity.
• Personally negotiated with neighbors over noise and schedule.

Contemporary art about surveillance is hard to make accessible without losing its conceptual depth. The standard "white cube" format kills the very tension that defines the subject.

Initiated the concept and led the project from zero to opening.

• Wrote the curatorial statement and selected 20+ international artists.
• Split the exhibition across two Milan venues — a conceptual move making visitors physically enact the surveillance experience.
• When works proved technically incompatible with one venue during install, redistributed across locations and renegotiated with artists under time pressure.