Olga has been serving as a research curator for initiatives like the Future Museum and Museum Leadership House, as well as designing incubation and accelerator programs for EU Horizon projects such as DOORS (Digital Incubator for Museums) and EXCENTRIC. Convinced that instituting differently requires collective practice, she dedicates her work to cultivating new models of sharing, curating unexpected encounters and multi-constituent relationships across cultural ecosystems.
Trained as an art-historian, her long-term research focuses on art institutions as a medium and artistic forms of knowledge production. Alongside her institutional work, Olga maintains a curatorial practice and has been contributing to international juries and granting committees, including the Ars Electronica Prix and the TAICCA Innovative Content Grant.
At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2026, Olga Tykhonova will facilitate the workshop “Activating digital courage: Designing human-scale scaffoldings for the AI shift” on Tuesday 13 October.
