TANYA AKHMETGALIEVA
Born 1983, Kemerovo, Russia.
Lives and works
in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Artist, works in the genres of painting, video, installation.
Studied at The Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy by A. Stieglitz and Institute Pro Arte.
Her works were exhibited at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia), The Russian Museum (St.Petersburg, Russia), Winzavod (Moscow, Russia), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Calvert 22 Foundation (London, UK), Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki, Finland), Marina Gisich Gallery (St.Petersburg, Russia), Regina gallery (Moscow, Russia). Рarticipant of parallel program of 57th La Biennale Di Venezia.
In 2010 reached the final of the Kandinsky Prize in the category Young Artist. Project of the Year; in 2015 won the first prize of Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in the category The best project of visual art.
Works are presented in collections of such museums as The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia), Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), EMMA (Espoo, Finland), Turku Art Museum (Turku, Finland), as well as in private collections in Russia and Europe.
Works with Galerie Forsblom
Education
2011
St.Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry by A. Shtiglitz, department of Fine Textiles, St.Petersburg, Russia
2008
Pro Arte Institute of St. Petersburg Art and Culture Fund, course New Technologies in Modern Art
2002
Kemerovo Regional Art College, Department of Design, Kemerovo, Russia
Solo exhibitions:
2019
There Are Two Doors In My House, Freud’s Dream Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
A Day Full Of Hope, exhibition of Mechanical Ballet series, Marble Palace,The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
The Unexpected Guest, Centre Point, Basel, Switzerland
The Poisonous Berries, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2018
There Are Two Doors In My House, apartment exhibition supported by the Austrian Embassy, Moscow, Russia
2017
Love These Flaming Moments, Gallery Regina, Moscow, Russia
2016
Fragile Island, Part of Fathers & sons Project, Museum and Exhibition association Manege, Moscow, Russia
2014
Allergy to Dust, Marina Gisich Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
Hello World!, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2013
Hello World!, gallery Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
2012
Toys, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
Synthetic Syndrome, TKACHI, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
My Room, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2011
Happy Сhildhood, Freud Museum of Dreams, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Incubator, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2010
Clotho, The first Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art, The Sverdlovsk Wool Spinning Mill, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2009
The Chrysalis Phase, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, START — The platform for the young artists, 3 Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
Group exhibitions:
2019
La Nuit La Plus Longue, Institut Français, St.Petersburg, Russia
Abstraction in Art, Kuryokhin Center, St.Petersburg, Russia
Constructed Situations, Santa Maria della Pieta, Venice, Italy
The 15th Festival Contemporary Art In The Traditional Museum, RZD Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
The Only Thing That Survived From My Youth Is An Accumulation Of Things, Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
A Day Full of Hope, Vitrine of the Central Kids Store in collaboration with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
2018
Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall, NCCA, Moscow, Russia
Please, Thank You, I’m Sorry, NCCA, Moscow, Russia
There and Back Again, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2017
Artist-in-residence programm, The Ural industrial biennial of contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Man as Bird, The collateral event of The 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2016
House of Impressions, Classic and Contemporary Media Art’ in The Framework of the Summer Program of the Pushkin Museum Quarter and my.com, Moscow, Russia
Festival Finlayson Art Area 2016, Himmelblau Printmaking Studio, Tampere, Finland
Borsch and Champaign, selected works from the collection of Vladimir Ovcharenko. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Football – Hockey, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Festival PLAYMMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Russian Contemporary: Drawing. No Limits, Pushkin House (Independent Russian cultural centre), London, UK
Russian Contemporary: Drawing. No Limits, Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Pazle of Piere Broshe, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2014
Other Capital, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Generation Start, parallel program of Manifesta 10, First Military School, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Crystallizations. Contemporary Art from Saint Petersburg, Waino Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
Contemporary Drawing, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
2013
Senseless, Tkachi, St.Petersburg, Russia
Surface, loft-project Etazhi, St.Petersburg, Russia
Videoprogram Variable landscape, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
Dreams for Those Who are Awake, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
Feminism: From the Avant-garde to Today, Manege, Moscow, Russia
2012
The Meal of Being, Gallery RuArts, Moscow, Russia
2011
Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Patterns of The Mind, Turku biennal 2011, The Aboa Vertus & Ars Nova Museum, Finland, Turku
Practice for Everyday Lfe — Young Artists from Russia, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK
The seventh Moscow International festival: Fashion and Style in Photography 2011, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
2010
Kandinsky prize exhibition, Central Arts House, Moscow, Russia
The Heroes of Our Time, Qui Vive? 2 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Open gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Eighth International Photography Month in Moscow: Photobiennale 2010, Gallery Na Solyanke, Moscow, Russia
New Speak, The State Hermitage museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2009
The Sixth International Festival: Fashion and Style in Photography 2009, Gallery Na Solyanke, Moscow, Russia
2008
Residual Radiation, Qui Vive? 1 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Random Politics, Qui Vive? 1 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
Scholarships and awards.
2016
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award – Special prize from L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award – The best project of visual art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2010
Kandinsky Prize – finalist in the category Young Artist, Moscow, Russia
Novoyaz – First prize, The Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Residencies
2019
Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
2017
Artist-in-residence programm, The Ural industrial biennial of contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2016
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2010
The residence of The first Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art, The Sverdlovsk Wool Spinning Mill, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Collections
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
EMMA — Espoo Museum of Moderns Art, Espoo, Finland
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Turku Art Museum, Turku Finland
Private collections