Dmitry Vilensky

is an artist, writer, activist and founding member of Chto Delat?/What is to be done?, a platform initiated in 2003 by a collective of artists, critics, philosophers and writers with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. Vilensky works mainly within a framework of interdisciplinary collective practices in film, photography, text, installation and interventions in the public sphere. He is also an editor of the Chto Delat? newspaper. Vilensky is a co-founder of ArtLeaks and co-editor of the ArtLeaks Gazette. He lives and works in St. Petersburg.