Denis Maksimov is a theorist and independent curator based in London and Athens. He is a co-founder of an artistic research collective and multidisciplinary think tank Avenir Institute. His work is focused on the genesis, legitimisation and transformation of knowledge systems of visual and rhetoric ideography, mythography and binding their elements aesthetico-political strategies of meaning making. Denis has been working as a political advisor for various think tanks in Moscow, Brussels, Washington and curated interdisciplinary projects at the biennales, galleries, festivals across Europe and Latin America.