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Tanya Akhmetgalieva (b. 1983, Russia) works in painting, graphic arts, video, and installation. She studied at The Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy by A. Stieglitz and Institute Pro Arte, Saint Petersburg. Large-scale textile installations form the recognizable artistic style of Tanya Akhmetgalieva. Her works were presented at international art fairs: Contemporary Istanbul, Art Miami, COSMOSCOW, Viennacontemporary, and is in collections of EMMA Museum (Espoo), The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), Kiasma (Helsinki), Pori Art Museum (Finland), The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation (Moscow), Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation (Moscow), The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Russian Museum (St.Petersburg). 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). She is the participant of 57th La Biennale Di Venezia parallel program. Works with Galerie Forsblom ( Helsinki, Finland) and Marina Gisich Gallery (St Petersburg, Russia) Solo exhibitions 2021 Temporary Home, KOPIKUZ, Kemerovo, Russia 2020 I Can Disappear, The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia 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 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, an apartment exhibition supported by the Australian 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!, galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy 2012 Toys, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia Synthetic Syndrome, TKACHI, St Petersburg, Russia My Room, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland 2011 Happy Сhildhood, Freud Museum of Dreams, St Petersburg, Russia; Incubator, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland 2010 Clotho, The 1st Ural Industrial Biennial 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, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Selected group exhibitions 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 Сru et le Сuit, 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, 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 Pietà, 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 The artist-in-residence program, 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 Quarter and my.com (summer Program of the Pushkin Museum), 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 Puzzle of Pierre 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 Video Program Variable Landscape, Università Cà Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy Dreams for Those Who are Awake, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia Feminism: From the Avant-garde to Today, Manege, Moscow, Russia 2011 Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Patterns of The Mind, Turku Biennale 2011, The Aboa Vertus&Ars Nova Museum, Finland, Turku Practice for Everyday Life — Young Artists from Russia, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK The 7th 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 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 Awards and Grants 2016 Sergey Kuryokhin Award — Special prize from L'INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, St Petersburg, Russia 2015 Sergey Kuryokhin Award — The Best Project of Visual Art, St Petersburg, Russia 2010 Shortlisted for Kandinsky Prize, The Young Artist of the Year nomination, Moscow, Russia 2010 Novoyaz — First prize, The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Residencies 2021 Komi Biennale Residence, Vorkuta, Russia 2019 Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland 2017 Artist-in-residence program, The Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia 2016 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 2010 The residence of The 1st Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Sverdlovsk Wool Spinning Mill, Ekaterinburg, Russia Collections 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 The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, Russia Private collections