Maria Vilkovisky is a poetess, musician, artist and curator born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from the Kazakh State Conservatory as a violist, worked in the opera house orchestra, studied in “Musagethes” literary school for writers and in Moscow curatorial summer school. In 2011—2014 has been running an artistic space in Almaty. Co-founder of a long-term para-institutional project krёlex zentre. Lives and works in Almaty and Vienna.