Olga Shisko (b. 1967) is a curator, media art specialist and researcher, and Founding Director of the MediaArtLab Center for Culture and Art, which was created in 1998 and has been part of Ca Foscari University (Venice) since 2023. Currently, Shishko is a PhD candidate in Heritage Science at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), working with the Media Art Lab Archive to research media art in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having previously completed her degree in Art History at the Moscow State University, Russia (1988–1992), Olga Shishko has directed major cross-disciplinary initiatives, curated large-scale exhibitions, and managed leading international institutions at the intersection of contemporary art, media theory, and moving-image culture, including: Moscow International Film Festival, Founder and Curator of the Media Forum Program (2000–2015); Museum of Screen Culture – Manege / MediaArtLab, Moscow, Founder and Director (2012–2015); Museum Exhibition Complex Manege, Moscow, Deputy Director for Innovations in Contemporary Art (2013–2015); The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Head of the Department of Cinema and Media Art, Chief Curator of the Pushkin Museum XXI Contemporary Art, Curator of the Collection of Cinema and Media Art (2016–2022); Mapping Diaspora, Curatorial Advisor (2022-present); CIFRA Platform for Media Art, Head of Art Department and Chief Curator (2023-present). Shishko lives and works in Venice, Italy.

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