Julia Kissina is an artist and a writer. Born in Kyiv, she studied dramatic writing in Moscow, then moved to Germany, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and taught as a Professor of New Media and Art Photography. In 2000, Julia Kissina herded an actual flock of sheep into the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt as part of a performance. In 2003, she curated the Art & Crime festival in Berlin, and performed in a German prison. In 2006, she created The Dead Artist’s Society, which held séances to conduct Dialogues with Classics such as Duchamp and Malevich. A participant of the Moscow Conceptualist movement, Julia Kissina is the author of several novels and short story collections translated into several languages.