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TANYA AKHMETGALIEVA
b. 1983
Lives and works in St. Petersburg and Tbilisi
Works with
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
2021
Temporary home, KOPIKUZ, Kemerovo, Russia
2020
I can disappear, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
Heart Surgery, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
Videozavod, Lotsremark, Basel, Switzerland
2019
There Are Two Doors In My House, Freud’s Dream Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
A Day Full Of Hope, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Unexpected Guest, Centre Point, Basel, Switzerland
The Poisonous Berries, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2018
There Are Two Doors In My House, Moscow, supported by Australian Embassy
2017
Love These Flaming Moments, Gallery Regina, Moscow
2016
Fragile Island, Part of Fathers & sons Project, Museum and Exhibition association Manege, Moscow
2014
Allergy to Dust, Marina Gisich Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
Hello World!, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2013
Hello World!, gallery Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
2012
Toys, Triumph gallery, Moscow
Synthetic Syndrome, Tkachi, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
My Room, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2011
Happy Сhildhood, Freud Museum of Dreams, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Incubator, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2010
Clotho, The first Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art, The Sverdlovsk Wool Spinning Mill, Ekaterinburg
2009
The Chrysalis Phase, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, START – The platform for the young artists, 3 Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
Group exhibitions
2022
Great Void. RuArts Foundation, Moscow
2021
Summer Exhibition, Dom Radio, St. Petersburg, Russia
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art, Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Answer 42, Palace of Sports «Kuzbass», Kemerovo, Russia
Komi Biennale, National Gallery of Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, Russia
Le cru et le cuit, The Russian Museum of Ethnography, St.Petersburg, Russia
2020
Gifts to the Russian Museum from Artists and Collectors. Selected Works. 1898–2019, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Generation XXI – Gift from Vladimir Smirnov & Konstantin Sorokin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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, The Museum of Russian Railways, 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 Children’s Store in collaboration with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Mechanical Ballet, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018
Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall, NCCA, Moscow
Please, Thank You, I’m Sorry, NCCA, Moscow
There and Back Again, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Work never stops, Ivan Slovtsov Museum complex, Tyumen, Russia
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, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
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
Football – Hockey, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow
Festival PLAYMMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Russian Contemporary: Drawing. No Limits, Pushkin House (Independent Russian cultural centre), London
Russian Contemporary: Drawing. No Limits, Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Pazle of Piere Broshe, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2014
Other Capital, Museum of Moscow, Moscow 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
Feminism from the Avant-Garde until Now, Manege, Moscow
2012
The Meal of Being, Gallery RuArts, Moscow
2011
Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galery Forsblom, Helsinki
Patterns of The Mind, Turku biennale, The Aboa Vertus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
Practice for Everyday Lfe — Young Artists from Russia, Calvert 22 Foundation, London
The seventh Moscow International festival: Fashion and Style in Photography 2011, MMOMA, Moscow
2010
Kandinsky prize exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow
The Heroes of Our Time, Qui Vive? 2 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Open gallery, Moscow
The Eighth International Photography Month in Moscow: Photobiennale 2010, Gallery Na Solyanke, Moscow
New Speak, The State Hermitage museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2009
The Sixth International Festival: Fashion and Style in Photography 2009, Gallery Na Solyanke, Moscow
2008
Residual Radiation, Qui Vive? 1 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow
Random Politics, Qui Vive? 1 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, MMOMA, Moscow
Awards and Grants
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
Novoyaz – First prize, The Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Residencies
2021
Komi Biennale Residence, Vorkuta, Russia
2019
Residence Atelier Mondial with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Basel, Switzerland
2017
Artist-in-residence programm, The Ural industrial biennial of contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2016
Residence at the International Center of Arts Cité des Arts with the support of Institut Fançais de Russie (St. Petersburg), Paris
2010
The residence of The first Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art, The Sverdlovsk Wool Spinning Mill, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Concerts (with media art works and scenography by Tanya Akhmetgalieva)
2023
Psychoanalysis in the space of sounds. Schizoanalysis in music. Four Parts. Intermedia program by Victor Mazin. Dom Radio, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022
Inside Dorian Gray’s Head for 8 instruments, composer Mariana Ungureanu, REAKTOR, Vienna
2021
AV performance Obscuration. Together with Dima Anikin resequence. Fields Inventive Music Festival, Garage Screen cinema, Garage museum, Moscow
2016
Presentation of the opera Dorian Gray by composer Mariana Ungureanu. Petit Palais, Paris
Collections
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Moderns Art, Espoo, Finland
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
as well as in private collections in Finland, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, and Australia