The Intersection of New Creative Elements
Natalia Kraevskaia (Natasha) is an art writer and independent curator specializing in Vietnamese contemporary art. In 1990, together with the artist Vũ Dân Tân she established the first independent space of contemporary art in Hanoi – Salon Natasha and since then has organized and curated numerous exhibitions of Vietnamese art in Vietnam, Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, Macao and Russia. She is the author of From Nostalgia towards Exploration. Essays on Contemporary Art in Vietnam (2005) as well as a contributor to exhibition catalogs and international art magazines. Kraevskaia holds a Ph.D. degree and is an associate professor of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Moscow and of the Vietnam National University (International School), Hanoi. She conducts multidisciplinary research related to Vietnam in culture, art, folklore, ethnography and archival studies.