Art as a Choice. The Story of My Life

The incredible life story of one of the most successful and well-known domestic art historians and exhibition curators, Zelfira Tregulova, told by herself – a story of how a girl from Riga, who fell in love with art, became a... leading expert in contemporary art and the director of the Tretyakov Gallery (from February 2015 to February 2023). Zelfira Tregulova reveals her personal history for the first time, shares her unique experience of creating exhibition blockbusters, and writes with utmost sincerity about her family and friends, colleagues and like-minded individuals, and many fascinating events in the cultural life of the last decades of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries. This is an insider's view of the processes that we, as viewers, only see in their completed form within the walls of the world's best museums. The book features never-before-published photographs from the author's personal archive.