Viktor Misiano was, from 1980 until 1990, curator of contemporary art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Also in Moscow, he was director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, from 1992 to 1997. He curated the Russian participation of the Biennials in Istanbul (1992), Venice (1995, 2003) and Valencia (1999) and took part in the curatorial team of the Manifesta I in Rotterdam in 1996. Up to now he is a founder and chief-editor of The Moscow Art Magazine (since 1993) and of The Manifesta Journal of Contemporary Curatorship (Amsterdam-Ljubljana) (since 2003). In 2005 he curated the first Central Asia Pavilion in the Venice Biennial. In 2007 Misiano realized the exhibition Progressive Nostalgia. Art from the Former USSR in Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy, which travelled to the Benaki Museum in Athens, the KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn and the KIASMA Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, both in Finland. Viktor Misiano is honorary doctor of the Helsinki University for Art and Design.