Akhmetgalieva Tanya

Tanya Akhmetgalieva is an artist working within the traditional genres of contemporary art — painting, graphics, and sculpture — while pushing boundaries through active experimentation in new media.

Born in Western Siberia, in Kemerovo in 1983. Graduated from Saint-Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, and also studied New Media at the Institute Pro Arte (St. Petersburg).

She explores themes like the sublime and the uncanny, the internal and the external, illusions and escapism, artificial and imaginary, fracture and shift. Her artistic practice is ever-evolving, oscillating between two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces, analog and digital mediums, figurative and generative forms.

Her works have been exhibited in Saint Petersburg (Russian Museum, Marina Gisich Gallery, Dom Radio), in Moscow (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Tretyakov Gallery, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall Manege), in Yekaterinburg (Ural Industrial Bienniale), in Helsinki (KIASMA, Galerie Forsblom), in Solothurn (Haus der Kunst St. Josef), in Basel (Lotsremark), in London (Calvert 22 Foundation), and in Venice (Parallel Program of the 57th Venice Biennale).

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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

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Primary solo exhibitions

2024

• "Electrodream", Marina Gisich Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2021

• "Temporary home", KOPIKUZ, Kemerovo, Russia

2020

• "Videozavod", Lotsremark, Basel, Switzerland
• "Heart surgery", Haus Der Kunst Sankt Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
• "I Can Disappear", Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2019

• "The Poisonous Berries", Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
• "The Unexpected Guest", Centre Point, Basel, Switzerland
• "A Day Full Of Hope", exhibition of Mechanical Ballet series, Marble Palace,The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
• "There Are Two Doors In My House", Freud’s Dream Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

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

• My Room. Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
• "Toys", Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
• "Synthetic Syndrome", TKACHI, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011

• Whisper.Turku biennal, Aboa Vertus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
• Patterns of the Mind". Turku Biennial, Aboa Vertus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
• "Happy Сhaildhood", Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia
• "Incubator", Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2010

• "Clotho", The first Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art 2010, 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

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Public exhibitions

2024

• Exhibition "About depth and smoothness: in the space of screens", ITMO Art & Science Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
• "Tidings", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2022

• "Great Void", RuArts Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2021

• "Le cru et le cuit", The Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
• "Komi Biennale", National Gallery of Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, Russia
• "Answer 42", Palace of Sports "Kuzbass", Kemerovo, Russia
• "Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
• "Summer exhibition", House of Radio, St. Petersburg, Russia
• "Generation of Thirty Years in Contemporary Russian Art", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2020

• "Gifts to the Russian Museum from Artists and Collectors. Selected Works. 1898–2019", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Russia
• "Gifts to the Russian Museum from Artists and Collectors. Selected Works. 1898–2019", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

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
• "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
• Festival "Finlayson Art Area 2016", Himmelblau Printmaking Studio, Tampere, Finland
• "Russian Contemporary: Drawing. No Limits", Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur, Berlin, Germany
• "Puzzle 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 Life — Young Artists from Russia", Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK

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

• "Random politics", Qui Vive? 1 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
• "Residual Radiation", Qui Vive? 1 – Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

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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 in Russia, Europe and Australia

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Education

2011

• Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design

2008

• Pro Arte Institute of St. Petersburg Art and Culture Fund

2002

• Kemerovo Regional Art College

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