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. She thrives on creating layered realities, distorting images, amplifying colors, and pushing brightness to its extremes. Fascinated by illusions and mirages, she deconstructs objects and reconstructs them into kinetic, machine-like assemblages that flirt with the absurd. Within the electrified, viscous atmosphere of her worlds, dazzling mechanisms perform endless, puppet-like spectacles—spinning hypnotic carousels that both captivate and confound. 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). Awards Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award – Special prize of Institut Fançais de Russie (St. Petersburg, 2016) Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award – Best project of visual art (winner, 2014) Kandinsky Prize in the category Young Artist (short list nominee, 2010) Key residencies and grants Residence Atelier Mondial (Basel, Switzerland) with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, 2019 Residence at the International Center of Arts Cité des Arts (Paris) with the support of Institut Fançais de Russie (St. Petersburg), 2016 Works are in the collections of Kiasma (Helsinki) EMMA (Espoo, Finland) Turku Art Museum (Turku, Finland) The Pushkin State Museum (Moscow) The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow) The Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) The Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) as well as in private collections in Russia, Europe and Australia