Kollektiv Collective

Kollektiv Collective is a London-based curatorial collective founded by independent curators and writers Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko in 2019. Kollektiv Collective specialises in site-specific curatorial projects with a research- and process-led collaborative practice. Zeitzen and Shevchenko’s work is rooted in their fascination with space – architecturally, conceptually and socio-politically – through which they engage with contemporary anxieties in order to critically and communally contextualise different modes of being in the present. Working site-specifically, the underpinnings of their projects are developed with and against a given exhibition space and setting.

Their most recent exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum London, on view until 18 July 2025, brings together the works of Austrian post-war avant-garde artist Wilhelm Traeger (1907–1980) and London-based contemporary artist Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991) in a site-specific, collaborative exercise
in temporal contextualisation.

Kollektiv Collective has previously exhibited in galleries and institutions including Palo Gallery, New York; Inspection Pit, Sussex; Generation & Display as part of London Design Festival; Des Bains, London; General Assembly, London; Tabula Rasa Gallery, London; Guts Gallery Projects, London; Kupfer, London; SET Woolwich, London; Christie’s, London; and Swiss Church, London.

Zeitzen and Shevchenko have a background in the institutional and commercial sectors, having previously held positions at the Venice Biennale and Galerie Max Hetzler, and the National Portrait Gallery and Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art respectively.

Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko are invited by Frame in the context of the Helsinki Biennial 2025. Their visit is made possible thanks to the support of the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.