Hi there
I’m Kira Bayankina, a Mexico City-based curator and private art advisor with an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. I serve as Director at Call Me Lola — a live-in gallery and cultural platform that has exhibited over 100 artists.
I lead curatorial projects across the city with a focus on immersive, emotionally resonant experiences — work that dissolves the boundary between viewer and artwork, and brings contemporary art into real, living spaces. Recent projects include Algo Más de Lola, a multisensory installation at Casa Basalta featuring Mexican artists Fernanda Brunet and Sandra Leal with a soundscape by New York-based Iris in the Sky; Intimate Space by Evgenia Berestneva at Casa General, exploring love, memory, and personal mythology through painting and live performance; and Surface, a photography exhibition by Nirvana Nungaray for Vagabundo Nomadic Art Gallery at Patio 77.
Education & Expertise
2012 - 2014
MA Art Business
2011 - 2012
BA Art History
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, NY
Thesis: “Third party guarantees in the auction market”.
Long Island University, Brookville, NY
The Ercole & Joyce Rosa Award for
the Outstanding Senior in Art History
2022 - present
2020 - 2022
Independent art advisor, Mexico City, Mexico
Independent art advisor, Saint Petersburg,
Russia
2015 - 2018
Arts Wanted Limited, art advisor, Moscow, Russia
2014
2014
2013
2012
Cosmoscow International Art Fair, VIP manager, Moscow, Russia
artnet Auctions, photography department, New York, NY
Museum of Russian Art, New Jersey, NJ
Horton Gallery, New York