Aléc Lutz joined Studio Weise7 in 2022 as a curator and educator focusing on alternative networks, collective memory, and media ecologies. Under his birth name, Oleg Lutohin, he researches post-socialist nostalgia in East European historical museums and collective memories of anti-authoritarian protests. Aléc conducts interdisciplinary investigations at Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS). Before embarking on this research, he was Director (2021-22) and Head of the Education Department (2016-2020) at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, also known as Yeltsin Center, in the central Russian city of Yekaterinburg.