Ekaterina Degot

Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь; b. December 2, 1958, Moscow) is a Russian art historian, art writer, and curator based in Graz, Austria.

She has worked as a senior curator at the State Tretyakov Gallery, art columnist at the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, and senior editor from 2008 to 2012 at an independent online magazine dedicated to art news, art criticism, and cultural analysis—www.openspace.ru/art.

She has taught at the European University at Saint Petersburg and the Alexander Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media in Moscow and held guest professorships at various American and European universities.

In 2014, she was appointed Artistic Director of Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne.

In 2017, she was appointed Director and Chief Curator of Steirischer Herbst, Graz.