Katya Isaeva is a multidisciplinary artist and curator, born in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. She lives and works in Moscow, where she also received her artistic education. She has participated in exhibitions around the world, and her works are held in private collections in Germany, Austria, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Her artistic practice spans web-based and offline installations, video art, and objects. She creates a personal mythology not only in exhibition spaces but also on social networks, where she engages all the main sensory and physical aspects of reality—visual, auditory, tactile, and others. Katya frequently incorporates and reconfigures readymade objects, giving them new meaning through rearrangement. In this way, the objects tell new stories. Her work is marked by an interest in the mechanisms of memory, scientific knowledge, and its critical understanding. She often collaborates with natural science museum collections.Katya Isaeva invited visitors to her residency studio and presented an entire series of new textile works. She worked on new pieces based on research conducted at the Natural History Museum Vienna, in collaboration with her mentor, curator and Deputy Head of the Fish Department of the museum, Dr. Bettina Riedel.