I spent the last three years travelling around the world and now I am most of the time based in Piedmont, one hour from Turin, in Italian Alps. With my husband Sergey, we live in a beautiful traditional stone house that we turned into an art residency: here we promote and organise art projects hosting artists from all over the world. I would be happy to host you here and share with you the beauty of this space and our projects.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I met such wonderful and interesting couchsurfers around the world, that made me wishing to create this account. Couchersing community is a unique way to interact with different people, to understand the world's diversity, to appreciate it and value it.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Fabrizio De Andrè, Franco Battiato, Rino Gaetano, Buena Vista Social Club, Paco De Lucia, Almoraima, Amalia Rodrigues, Air, Flying Lotus, Radiohead, The Beatles, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane... and many others
Movies: The Consequences of Love, Il Divo, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Ecce bombo, Caro diario, Death in Venice, Il Gattopardo, Le vacanze intelligenti, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars and many many others (I have short memory) ...
Books: Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (Pellegrino Artusi), Petronille (Amélie Nothomb), La Luna e i falò, Il diavolo sulle colline (Cesare Pavese), The Loser (Thomas Bernhard), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Nausea (Sartre), A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf), ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I got married with Sergey without spending any money. We decided to celebrate our wedding in Montenegro, but we promised ourselves not to spend a penny, so we turned our wedding into an art project. The crowd of guests, the white gown, the limousine, rings, flowers, photographer, toaster, the endless lunch... – all this was on the walls in the form of collages. The morning after the opening of the exhibition, we left for our honeymoon hitching in all the Balkans.

Teach, Learn, Share

Meeting different people is like to study, it is a way of learning by living. Of course it is different from studying on books, but it is not less important.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my experiences, my knowledge, my culture. If you come to visit me in Italy, I can share my knowledge about natural gardening and cooking... and we can practice together :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Kenya, Montenegro, Morocco, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Italy