Svetlana Boym (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Бо́йм; 1959[1] – August 5, 2015)[2] was a Russian-American cultural theorist, visual and media artist, playwright and novelist.
[4] At the age of 19, she emigrated to Boston, after spending time at a refugee transit camp in Simmering, a district of Vienna.
[6][7] Boym's written work explored relationships between utopia and kitsch, memory and modernity, and homesickness and the sickness of home.
In addition to teaching and writing, Boym also sat on the Editorial Collective of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal Public Culture.
[10] The exhibition featured works by Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov, Grisha Bruskin, Eugene Yelchin, Irina Nakhova and Vadim Zakharov.