Arseny Nikolaev was born in 1986 in Leningrad. In 2015 he completed a master’s degree at St Petersburg’s ITMO (Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics) University in multimedia technologies in theatre, film, and television.
In 2014 Arseny Nikolaev joined the Mariinsky Theatre’s Media Broadcasting Service as a video engineer and later began working as a camera operator and director of recordings and online broadcasts of Mariinsky productions and concerts. Since 2019 he has headed the theatre’s Internet TV Department.
As a video designer he prepared the ballet miniatures Second I (2015) and Elegy. Ophelia (2016), the one-act ballet Labyrinth (2016), the gala concert Maya Plisetskaya. A Portrait of an Era (2025) and the opera production Boris Godunov (2026) at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Arseny Nikolaev served as the technical director and director of photography for online broadcasts of the St Petersburg rounds of the XVI (2019) and XVII (2023) International Tchaikovsky Competitions as well as the 14th International Rachmaninoff Competition for Young Pianists (Veliky Novgorod, 2024), the 1st International Competition for Young Musicians Symphony of Yamal (Salekhard, 2024) and the II Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors (Moscow, 2025).
He also participated as the technical director and director of photography in the recording of all Beethoven symphonies performed by the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra under Eduard Topchjan (Yerevan, 2021–2023).
Nikolaev has created multimedia installations for numerous exhibitions and museum displays, including How to Build a Zoo (Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Exhibition Centre, Moscow, 2014), Bread in Sieged Leningrad (St Petersburg Bread Museum, 2015), “A Whole World Was Conquered by Them…” (dedicated to the bicentenary of Ivan Turgenev; Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), St Petersburg, 2018–2019), Tsaritsyno Park (Children’s Museum of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow, 2018–2019), Literary Wars of the 1920s–1930s: RAPP and Fellow-Travellers (Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature, Moscow, 2019), The Town of Velsk and Velsky District, 1917–1964 (Velsk Local History Museum named after V.F. Kulakov, Arkhangelsk Region, 2019), “This Book Was Written…” (Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature, 2022) and the permanent exhibition of the Vilegodsky District Local History Museum (rural locality of Ilyinsko-Podomskoye, Arkhangelsk Region, 2023).
From 2023 to 2025 he taught the course Technologies for Organising Multimedia Products at the Faculty of Arts of St Petersburg State University.
| user_name | | Exit |
