Taus Makhacheva Explained
Taus Makhacheva |
Native Name: | Таус Махачева |
Birth Name: | Taus Makhacheva |
Birth Date: | 14 August 1983 |
Birth Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Avar |
Known For: | Performance, installation, objects, video, audio |
Taus Makhacheva (Russian: link=no|Таус Османовна Махачева, born August 14, 1983) is a contemporary artist from Russia. She creates works that explore the restless connections between historical narratives and fictions of cultural authenticity. Often humorous, her art considers the resilience of images, objects and bodies emerging out of stories and personal experiences. Her methodology involves reworking of materials, landscapes and monuments, pushing against walls, opening up ceilings and proliferating institutional spaces with a cacophony of voices.
Family
Grandfather: Rasul Gamzatov - avar poet, prose writer, publicist, Soviet and Russian public and political figure, translator, the Laureate Stalin and Lenin Prizes, People's Poet of Dagestan ASSR, Hero of Socialist Labor (1923-2003).
Grandmother: Patimat Gamzatova - Head of the Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts (1964-2000).
Mother: Patimat Gamzatova - art historian, Сorresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Culture Worker of Dagestan Republic.
Father: Osman Makhachev - Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation.
Education
- 2011-2013 – MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London
- 2008-2009 – New Strategies in Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2003-2007 – BA (Hons) Fine Art (Studio Practice & Contemporary Critical Studies), Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
- 2002-2003 – Foundation Diploma in Photography, London College of Communication, London
- 2000-2005 Russian State University for the Humanities, World Economy, Moscow
Selected collections
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
- Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
- Gazprombank, Moscow
- Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, San Francisco
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
- Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
- Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp
- Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
- National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
- Pushkin Museum, Moscow
- P. S. Gamzatova Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts, Makhachkala[1]
- Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
- Tate Modern, London
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
- Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul
- Videoinsight Foundation, Turin
- YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku
Prizes
- 2021 Kandinsky Prize, Media Art, shortlisted, Moscow[2]
- 2021 Art Here 2021 Richard Mille Art Prize. Memory, Time, Territory, Abu Dhabi Louvre, shortlisted, Abu Dhabi[3]
- 2019 Future Generation Art Prize, shortlisted, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv[4]
- 2018 Cosmoscow 2018, Artist of the Year, Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art, winner, Moscow[5]
- 2016 Kandinsky Prize, Young Artist, Project of the year, winner, Moscow (as Super Taus)[6]
- 2015 VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Prize, winner, Moscow[7]
- 2013 Future of Europe, winner, (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig[8]
- 2013 Innovation Prize, Regional Project, shortlisted, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow[9]
- 2012 Innovation Prize, New Generation, winner, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow[10]
- 2011 Kandinsky Prize, Media Art, shortlisted, Moscow[11]
Selected solo exhibitions
2022
Space of Celebration, curated by Lucas Morin, Nora Razian, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai[12]
2021
It’s Possible to Raise the Ceiling a Bit, curated by Hanne Hagenaars, Fries Museum, Friesland[13]
2020
4`224,92 cm’2 of Degas, сurated by Nicole Schweizer, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne[14]
Hold Your Horses, curated by Helen Watson and Melissa Burntown, The Tetley, Leeds[15]
Sturdy Black Shoes, curated by Edit Molnar and Marcel Schwierin, Edit Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg [16]
2019
Superhero Sighting Society, conceived by Sabih Ahmed and Taus Makhacheva, KADIST Foundation, Paris[17]
Charivari, curated by Suad Garayeva-Maleki, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku[18]
D’une pierre, une montagne, curated by Nicolas Audureau, LE CAP - Centre d'arts plastiques de Saint-Fons, Saint-Fons[19]
The Strong Ones, curated by Lýdia Pribišová, Hit Gallery, Bratislava[20]
2018
Storeroom, curated by Christiane Berndes, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven[21]
BaidÀ, narrative projects, London[22]
Baida, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, the Gemma, Amsterdam
Tightrope, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala[23]
2017
Cloud Caught on a Mountain, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[24]
Second World, Third Attempt, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai[25]
2015
Vababai Vadadai!, narrative projects, London[26]
(In)sidenotes, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala[27]
2014
Dagestan. Not for sale, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, artSumer, Istanbul[28]
A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual, curated by Ilina Koralova, (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig[29]
2013
What? Whose? Why?, curated by Daria Kirsanova, Raf Projects, Tehran[30]
Story Demands to be Continued, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Republic of Dagestan Union of Artists Exhibition Hall, Makhachkala[31]
On Historical Ideals of Labour in the Country that Conquered Space, curated by Carlos Noronha Feio, The Mews Project Space, London[32]
The Process or Instance of Breaking Open, curated by Emmeli Person and Maria Kotlyachkova, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar[33]
2012
City States, Topography of Masculinity, curated by Irina Stark and Kelly Klifa, the 7th Liverpool Biennial, LJMU Copperas Hill Building, Liverpool[34]
Let Me Be Part of A Narrative, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Paperworks Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow[35]
2011
Affirmative Action (mimesis), curated by Marco Scotini, Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan[36]
2010
Affirmative Actions, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Panopticon Inutero, Moscow
2009
A Space of Celebration, Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala, Dagestan
Selected group exhibitions
2022
In the heart of another country, curated by Dr Omar Kholeif, Contemporary Art of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg[37]
I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, curated by Weng Xiaoyu, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Shandong[38]
The Circus We Are, curated by Joanna De Vos, Namur, Four locations in Namur - Le Delta, musée Félicien Rops, Musée des Arts Anciens, Belgian Gallery, Namur[39]
Hurting and healing. Let's imagine a different heritage, curated by Charles Esche, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm[40]
Migrations in Art – the Art of Migrations, curated by Danilo Vuksanović, Jelena Ognjanović and Luka Kulić, Novi Sad[41]
Moving Woman, curated by Maria Lind, Smena, Kazan[42]
2021
Biennial of Difficult Heritage, curated by Anton Valkovsky, Volgograd[43]
One Point Five, curated by Stefanie Böttcher, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz[44]
Hands, curated by Madhursee Dutta and Ala Younis, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln[45]
Metamorphosis and Time of Mourning, curated by Daniela, Linda Dostálková, PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava[46]
2020
Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, curated by Raqs Media Collective, Yokohama[47]
Lahore Biennale 02: Between the Sun and the Moon, curated by Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, Lahore[48]
2019
Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human, curated by Kathryn Weir with associate Cosmopolis curator Ilaria Conti in collaboration with associate curators Charléne Dinhut and Zhang Hanlu, Centre Pompidou, Paris[49]
New Archive of Limited Edition Art (NATI), Shaltai editions exhibition, сurated by Irina Gorlova and Antonio Geusa, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow[50]
Somewhere in Between, curated by Ulrika Flink, Boras Konstmuseum, Boras[51]
Art Encounters Biennial, curated by Maria Lind and Anca Rujoiu, Timișoara[52]
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, curated by Adélaïde Blanc, Daria de Beauvais, Yoann Gourmel, Mat-thieu Lelièvre, Vittoria Matarrese, Claire Moulène, Hugo Vitrani, 15th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Fagor Factory, macLYON, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon[53]
The Life of Things, curated by Maria Wills Londono in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson,16th MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Quebec[54]
Happiness is Born in the Guts, curated by Jagna Domżalska, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan[55]
The Art of Being Good, curated by Siim Preiman, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn[56]
After Leaving | Before Arriving, curated by Elisabeth Del Prete, Daniel Milnes, Lýdia Pribišová, Neringa Stoškutė and Alessandra Troncone, 12th Kaunas Biennial, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas[57]
Future Generation Art Prize, curated by Björn Geldhof and Tatiana Kochubinska, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, collateral event, Palazzo Ca’ Tron, Venice[58]
The Keeper; To Have And To Hold, curated by Emer McGarry, The Model, Sligo[59]
Future Generation Art Prize, curated by Björn Geldhof and Tatiana Kochubinska, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv[60]
2018
Punk Orientalism, curated by Sara Raza, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan[61]
Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing[62]
Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday, curated by Andrey Misiano, ERTY gallery, Tbilisi[63]
Alter Heroes Coalition, curated by Daria Khan, Mimosa House, London (as Super Taus)[64]
Supernature in Two Parts: Part I, curated by Daria Khan and Mimosa House, Lisson Gallery, London (as Super Taus)[65]
The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts, Ekaterinburg, Almaty and Tashkent[66]
Beautiful World, Where Are You?, curated by Kitty Scott and Sally Tallant, 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool[67]
Transformatio. Contemporary Art of Dagestan, curated by Maria Filatova, Mardjani Foundation, Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg[68]
One Place After Another, curated by Viktor Misiano and Anna Zhurba, session IV of Viktor Misiano's "The Human Condition", Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow[69]
The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence, curated by Bregje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Mirjam Varadinis, Manifesta 12, Palermo[70]
Starting From the Desert, curated by Marco Scotini, 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan[71]
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, curated by Katerina Gregos,1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga[72]
Soon Enough, Art in Action, curated by Maria Lind, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm[73]
2017
Life from My Window, curated by Andrey Misiano, Laura Bulian gallery, Milan[74]
New Literacy, curated by Joao Ribas, 4 Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg[75]
The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn[76]
The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute at Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), Tbilisi[77]
How To Live Together, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna[78]
Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice[79]
Space Force Construction, curated by Matthew Witkovsky, Richard and Ellen Sandor (Art Institute Chicago), Katerina Chuchalina with Anna Ilchenko (V-A-C Foundation), Peter Taub, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice[80]
1st Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, curated by Kate Fowle, Katya Inozemtseva, Snejana Krasteva, Andrey Misiano, Ilmira Bolotyan, Sasha Obukhova, Tatiana Volkova, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow[81]
The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kiev, Minsk, Dortmund[82]
2016
The Withdrawal of the Red Army, curated by Ivan Galuzin and Lise Dahl, Northern Norway Art Museum, Blaker Old Dairy, Oslo[83]
Why Won’t We Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories, curated by Raqs Media Collective, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai[84]
Social Calligraphies, curated by Magda Kardasz, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw[85]
Millennials, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem[86]
Performing the Landscape, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary[87]
VII Permanent Collection Display Interaction: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection, curated by Elena Yaichnikova, MMOMA, Moscow[88]
The Travellers, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw[89]
Museum ON/OFF, curated by Alicia Knock, Centre Pompidou, Paris[90]
But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face, curated by Nat Muller, Lawrie Shabibi gallery, Dubai[91]
Lost in the Archive, curated by Inga Lace and Andra Silapetere, Exhibition hall Riga Art Space, Riga[92]
Baroque, Galerie Fons Welter, Amsterdam[93]
minus20degree Art & Architecture Winter Biennale, curated by Theo Deutinger and Heinz Riegler, minus20degree art and architecture biennale, Flachau, Austria.[94]
2015
Otwock, Season 5: Silvohortiaromatherapy, curated by Kasia Redzis and Magda Materna, Otwock, held by Open Art Projects and Polish artist Mirosław Bałka, Muzeum Ziemi Otwockiej (Museum of the Otwock Land), Otwock[95]
How to Gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the island of Eurasia, curated by Bart De Baere, Defne Ayas and Nicolaus Schafhausen, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNH, Moscow[96]
The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schollhammer, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv[97]
Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity, curated by Marco Scotini, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna[98]
2014
Russian Performance: a Cartography of its History, curated by Yulia Aksenova and Sasha Obukhova, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow[99]
Untitled... (Native Foreigners), curated by Andrey Misiano, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow[100]
An Opera of Labour and Revolution, curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Susanne Jaschko, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul[101]
Close and Far: Russian Photography Now, curated by Kate Bush, Calvert 22, London[102]
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai[103]
Sergey Parajanov. The Color of Pomegranate, сurated by Zaven Sargsyan, Vyacheslav Shmyrov, Katya Bochavar and Daria Khan, GROUND Solyanka Gallery, Моscow[104]
2013
Spaces of Exception, curated by Elena Sorokina and Jelle Bouwhuis, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow[105]
Nostalgia Nervosa, curated by Iliana Fokianaki, State of Concept, Athens[106]
Sensible Action, curated by Beral Madra, Alanika 2013, National Museum of Republic Northern Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz[107]
No Water Tomorrow, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[108]
Love me, Love me not, curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi, 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, collateral event, Venice[109]
The Enchanted Wanderer, curated by Andrey Misiano, Chukotka Heritage Museum Center, Anadyr[110]
Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, 11th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah[111]
Looks Like Torture, curated by Nicholas Cohn and Amy Kisch, HERE Art Center, New York[112]
Take a Look at Yourself, Who Do You Think You Are?, curated by Andrey Parshikov, Victoria Gallery, Samara[113]
2012
I am who I am, curated by Olga Sviblova, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany[114]
Quarantania, curated by David Thorp, Enclave, London[115]
Animal Style, curated by Ilya Shipilovskikh, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg[116]
Happiness is a Warm Gun, curated by Ekaterina Shadkovska, Rizzordi Art Foundation, Loft Raf, Saint Petersburg[117]
Quarantania, curated by David Thorp, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton[118]
Joyful Archipelago, curated by Olga Grotova, Guest Projects, London[119]
Now&Then, Victoria Gallery, Samara[120]
Migrasophia, curated by Sara Raza, Maraya Contemporary Art Centre, Sharjah[121]
Génération P, Town Hall, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre[122]
2011
Rewriting Worlds, curated by Peter Weibel, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow[123]
Expanded Cinema, curated by Olga Shishko, XII Media Forum of 33rd Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[124]
Get Up and Run Away With It – About Love and the Impossible, curated by Nadine Wietlisbach, Palais Bleu Le-Lie, Trogen[125]
Greater Caucasus, curated by Irina Yashkova, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia[126]
North Caucasian Biennale, curated by Djamilia Dagirova, Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala[127]
Practice for Everyday Life, curated by David Thorp, Calvert 22, London[128]
2010
History of Russian Video Art, Volume 3, curated by Antonio Geusa, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[129]
Zones of Alienation, curated by Marina Fomenko, LOT gallery, Lexington[130]
Intimate Capital, curated by Andrey Parshikov and Alena Lapina, 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow[131]
2009
Aluminium, curated by Leyla Akhundzadeh, 4th International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Baku[132]
Let Me Think!, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October, Moscow[133]
Really?, curated by Aleksandr Sokolov, the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artplay, Moscow[134]
Topography of Happiness: Russian Wedding from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, curated by Olga Sosnina, Tsaritsyno State Museum, Moscow[135]
We Will Take the Lead From Now On, curated by Arseniy Zhilyaev and Maria Chekhonadskih, Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, Voronezh[136]
2008
Migration, curated by Daria Kamyshnikova, 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[137]
I Am Nature, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow[138]
Documenting Possibilities, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg
2006
Caucasica, curated by Giancarlo Vianello, Scuola Grande di S.Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
XII INTERBIFER International Biennale of Portrait, Drawings and Graphics 06, Tuzla
Residencies
- 2019 Kadist Foundation, Paris[139]
- 2018 SAM Art Project, Paris[140]
- 2018 Aki Aora, Tulum[141]
- 2016 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide[142]
- 2015-2016 Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht[143]
- 2015 Delfina Foundation, London[144]
- 2013 Alanica, Art Symposium, Vladikavkaz[145]
Academic сareer
Artist talks
- 2022 Open meeting with Taus Makhacheva, as part of the Family Ethnography course by Elmira Kakabaeva[146]
- 2022 Artist talk at M HKA, Antwerpen[147]
- 2022 Virtual Class Visit, Princeton University[148]
- 2022 Artist talk at Tselinny Center, Astana[149]
- 2022 In Conversation: Taus Makhacheva and Madina Tlostanova, Jameel Arts Center[150]
- 2022 Art Space SKLAD, online, Sukhumi[151]
- 2021 Territory Festival, MMOMA, Moscow[152]
- 2021 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden[153]
- 2021 Blazar young art fair, Moscow[154]
- 2021 Masters & Nova Art, online, Saint Petersburg[155]
- 2021 The Tetley, online, Leeds[156]
- 2020 British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow
- 2020 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds[157]
- 2019 LOOP Talks 2019, Barcelona
- 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool[158]
- 2017 In - conversation with Andrey Kovalev, Garage Education Center, Moscow[159]
- 2017 Talk for the members of the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group, Garage, Moscow[160]
- 2016 Goldsmiths, London[161]
- 2016 Open Studios, MMOMA, Moscow[162]
- 2015 In - conversation with curator Kasia Redzisz, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London[163]
- 2013 Yarat Contemporary Art Space, The International Mugham Center, Baku[164]
- 2013 At the Crossroads: Conversation with Taus Makhacheva, Contemporary art from Caucasus, Sotheby’s, London
- 2012 Calvert22
- 2012 In - conversation with Sara Raza, Cultural Representations, Migrasophia, Maraya Contemporary Art Centre, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah
- 2011 British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow
Invited guest lectures and studio visits
- 2022 Online program Possibilities and methods in international career, CEC ArtsLink
- 2022 Tashkeel Guest Mentoring as a part of Critical Practice Programme 2022
- 2021 Guest lecture and studio visit at St.Joost School of Art and Design
- 2021 Art and practices of hospitality, Vyksa
- 2021 Territory Festival, Moscow
- 2020 ICA Moscow (Institute of Contemporary Art)
- 2020 The Studio Visit, educational project, Worldwide online
- 2011- 2021 British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow
- 2021 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
- 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
- 2012 Calvert 22
Lectures and teaching
- 2011- 2021 British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow
- 2016 - 2017 Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS, Moscow
- 2014 The Art Department of Dagestan State Pedagogical University, Makhachkala
- 2013 Dagestan Art School n.a. M.A.Djemal, Makhachkala
- 2009 Moscow State University (elective course on the History of Performance)
- 2009 Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala—Kaspiysk
Performative lectures
- 2019 The Superhero Summit, produced by KADIST in collaboration with ‘Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human’, Paris[165]
- 2017 Field Meeting Take 5: Thinking Projects - "Microbeads", curator Leeza Ahmady, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Asia Society Museum & SVA Theatre, New York[166]
- 2015 3rd Garage international conference: "Where is the line between us?: Cautionary tales from now", Garage, Moscow (Super Taus)[167]
Panel discussions
- 2022 Uzbekistan National Pavilion sessions ‘Decolonizing Data On the Myth of Machine Objectivity’
- 2018 The artist: What We Are Made Of, Cosmoscow, Moscow
- 2017 Contemporary art and contemporary art science, HSE University, Art and Design, Moscow
- 2015 Reaching out: (Beyond) the Caucasus, ArtBasel, Hong Kong
- 2014 Close and Far, Calvert22, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
- 2011 Art schools: how to become an avant-garde artist, XV Art - Moscow International Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow
Workshops
- 2022 Space of celebration, Super Taus workshop for children, Jameel Arts Centre[168]
- 2021 Territory Festival, Moscow[169]
- 2018 Soon Enough, art in action, Super Taus workshop for children, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm[170]
- 2017 The Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Atrium, Moscow (Super Taus)[171]
- 2012 South London Gallery, London[172]
Conferences
- 2022 Tate and Institut National d’histoire de l’art (INHA) conference, Paris
- 2021 Art and practices of hospitality, Vyksa
- 2019 The Superhero Summit, produced by KADIST in collaboration with ‘Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human’, Paris
- 2014 Beyond Moscow, Glocal art scene in Dagestan, NCCA, Moscow
- 2013 Performative aspects of masculinity, Makhachkala City Museum, Makhachkala
Publications
- Raza, Sara. Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion. Dog Press, 2022
- Dekker, Elsbeth; Schweige, Robbie. Beginning in the Middle. Jap Sam Books, 2022
- Phaidon Editors. Prime - Art’s Next Generation, Phaidon Press, 2022
- Tlostanova, Madina. Decoloniality of being, knowledge and feeling, Tselinnii, 2020
- Schweizer, Nicole; Z. Rizvi Uzma, van Velsen, Vincent ed, Taus Makhacheva. 4`224,92 cm’2 of Degas, Fondation du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 2020
- Burrows, Dani, Cezar Aaron ed. Politics of Food, co-published by Delfina Foundation and Sternberg Press, 2019
- Kholeif, Omar. The Artists Who Will Change the World, Thames and Hudson, 2018
- Makhacheva, Taus. Tightrope, V-A-C Press, Mousse Publishing, 2017
- Makhacheva, Taus. Types du Caucase. Onestar Press, 2014
- Makhacheva, Taus; Maslyaev, Alexey ed. Story Demands to Be Continued. Self-published, 2013
- Amirsadeghi, Hossein; Vickery, Joanna ed. Frozen Dreams: Contemporary Art from Russia, Thames and Hudson, 2011
Interviews
- Artist of the Week: Taus Makhacheva, as a part of HANDS exhibition, Akademie der Kuenste der Welt, 2021
- Interview with Taus Makhacheva, Part 5, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, 2021
- Interview by Masha Komarova,Glavstroy, 2021
- Taus Makhacheva: My doubts became part of my method, Russian Art Focus, 2021
- Taus Makhacheva: Hold Your Horses at The Tetley, The Tetly, 2020
- Superhero Sighting Society, Kadist, Paris, 2019
- Beauty School: a conversation with Taus Makhacheva, Art in America, 2018
- The Art Newspaper Russia, 2018.08
- The Art Newspaper Russia, Taus Makhacheva: art as a balancing act, 2018.07
- Artists talk: Taus Makhacheva and Evgeny Antufiev, Harper’s Bazaar, 2016
- Art Guide, 2015
Articles
- Wynants, Jean-Marie. The Circus we are à Namur. Les acrobaties de l'art, Le Soir, August 2022
- Bidshahri, Yalda. Taus Makhacheva`s “A Space of Celebration”. ArtAsiaPacific, June 2022
- Duplat, Guy. Bienvenue dans le grand cirque de la vie, La libre Belgique. May 2022
- The artists. Taus Makhacheva. Daily Canvas. The Richard Mille Special Issue.
- Sinha, Vamika. Art from the Fault Lines. Canvas, May-June, 2022
- Dekker, Elsbeth; Schweiger, Robbie. Beginning in the middle. Mister Motley, April 2022
- Beredian, Razmig. Russian artist Taus Makhacheva entwines the real with reveries in solo Dubai show. The National, March 2022
- Ex, Nicole. Taus Makhacheva. See All This Art Magazine, No. 20, 2020/2021
- Schellenberg, Samuel. Taus Makhacheva. Remodelage. Le courrier, March 2020
- House, Arthur. Bread and Soviet circuses – a letter from Baku. Taus Makhacheva, Charivari’ installation, October 2019
- Serafinowicz, Sylwia. Taus Makhacheva. narrative projects. ArtForum, December 2018
- Verhagen, Marcus. Taus Makhacheva. BaidÀ. narrative projects. Art Monthly, November 2018
- Jeffreys, Tom. In Search of the Ridiculous: Taus Makhacheva’s Performative Follies. Frieze, 7 October 2018
- Sutton, Kate. Taus Makhacheva. Openings. ArtForum, February 2016
- Ahmady, Leeza. From Central Asia to the Caucasus. In conversation with Taus Makhacheva. Ibraaz, March 2015
- Pertenava, Lali. Taus Makhacheva. ArtForum, February 2014
- Bailey, Stephanie. Her Dagestan. ArtAsiaPacific No.87, 2014
- Laia, Joao. Taus Makhacheva. Frieze magazine No.160, 2014
- Tolstova, Anna. Continuation of heart and hand. Taus Makhacheva in Makhachkala. Kommersant No.187(5218), 2013
- Avdeev, Maxim. One day with Taus Makhacheva, Art Chronika No. 4, 2012
- Scotini, Marco. Strategies of Camouflage. Taus Makhacheva’s actions. ArteCritica No.67, 2011
- Chekhonadskikh, Maria. Shots into the Sand by Taus Makhacheva. Moscow Art Magazine No.81, 2010
- Gamzatova, Patimat. Karakul by Taus Makhacheva. ANTENNAE No.4, 2007
Links
Notes and References
- Web site: P. S. Gamzatova Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts.
- Web site: Kandinsky Prize.
- Web site: Art Here 2021 Richard Mille Art Prize. Memory, Time, Territory. Abu Dhabi Louvre.
- Web site: Future Generation Art Prize. Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
- Web site: Cosmoscow 2018. Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Kandinsky Prize. Project of the year.
- Web site: VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Prize.
- Web site: Future of Europe. (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst.
- Web site: Innovation Prize. National Centre for Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Innovation Prize. National Centre for Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Kandinsky Prize.
- Web site: Space of Celebration. Jameel Arts Center.
- Web site: It’s Possible to Raise the Ceiling a Bit. Fries Museum.
- Web site: 4`224,92 cm’2 of Degas. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts.
- Web site: Hold Your Horses. The Tetley.
- Web site: Sturdy Black Shoes. Edit Russ Haus für Medienkunst.
- Web site: Superhero Sighting Society. KADIST Foundation.
- Web site: Charivari. Yarat Contemporary Art Space.
- Web site: D’une pierre, une montagne. LE CAP - Centre d'arts plastiques de Saint-Fons.
- Web site: The Strong Ones. Hit Gallery.
- Web site: Storeroom. Van Abbe Museum. en. 2019-03-27.
- Web site: BaidÀ. narrative projects, London, Contemporary Art Gallery. en-GB. 2019-03-27.
- Web site: Tightrope. Uppsala Konstmuseum.
- Web site: Cloud Caught on a Mountain. Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
- Web site: Second World, Third Attempt. Leo Xu Projects.
- Web site: Vababai Vadadai!. narrative projects.
- Web site: (In)sidenotes. Uppsala Konstmuseum.
- Web site: Dagestan. Not for sale. artSumer.
- Web site: A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual. (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst.
- Web site: What? Whose? Why?. Raf Projects.
- Web site: Story Demands to be Continued. Republic of Dagestan Union of Artists Exhibition Hall.
- Web site: On Historical Ideals of Labour in the Country that Conquered Space. The Mews Project Space.
- Web site: The Process or Instance of Breaking Open. Kalmar Konstmuseum.
- Web site: City States, Topography of Masculinity. the 7th Liverpool Biennial.
- Web site: Let Me Be Part of A Narrative. Paperworks Gallery.
- Web site: Affirmative Action (mimesis). Laura Bulian Gallery.
- Web site: In the heart of another country. Contemporary Art of Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
- Web site: I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping. Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: The Circus We Are.
- Web site: Hurting and healing. Let's imagine a different heritage. Tensta Konsthall.
- Web site: Migrations in Art – the Art of Migrations.
- Web site: Moving Woman. Smena.
- Web site: Biennial of Difficult Heritage.
- Web site: One Point Five. Kunsthalle Mainz.
- Web site: Hands. Akademie der Künste der Welt.
- Web site: Metamorphosis and Time of Mourning. PLATO Ostrava.
- Web site: Afterglow. Yokohama Triennale.
- Web site: Between the Sun and the Moon. Lahore Biennale.
- Web site: Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human. Centre Pompidou.
- Web site: New Archive of Limited Edition Art (NATI). Tretyakov Gallery.
- Web site: Somewhere in Between. Boras Konstmuseum.
- Web site: Art Encounters Biennial.
- Web site: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water. Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: The Life of Things. 16th MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Galerie de l'UQAM.
- Web site: Happiness is Born in the Guts. Galeria Miejska Arsenal.
- Web site: The Art of Being Good. Tallinn Art Hall.
- Web site: After Leaving. Before Arriving. 12th Kaunas Biennial, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.
- Web site: Future Generation Art Prize. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
- Web site: The Keeper. To Have And To Hold. The Model.
- Web site: Future Generation Art Prize. Pinchuk Art Centre.
- Web site: Punk Orientalism. MacKenzie Art Gallery.
- Web site: Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis. Red Brick Art Museum.
- Web site: Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday. ERTY gallery.
- Web site: Alter Heroes Coalition. Mimosa House.
- Web site: Supernature in Two Parts. Mimosa House, Lisson Gallery.
- Web site: The Border. Goethe Institute at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts.
- Web site: Beautiful World, Where Are You?. 10th Liverpool Biennial.
- Web site: Transformatio. Contemporary Art of Dagestan. Erarta Museum.
- Web site: One Place After Another. session IV of Viktor Misiano's "The Human Condition", Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre.
- Web site: The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence. Manifesta 12, Palermo.
- Web site: Starting From the Desert. 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan.
- Web site: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Soon Enough, Art in Action. Tensta Konsthall.
- Web site: Life from My Window. Laura Bulian gallery.
- Web site: New Literacy. 4 Ural Industrial Biennial.
- Web site: The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe. Kumu Art Museum.
- Web site: The Border. Goethe Institute at Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla).
- Web site: How To Live Together. Kunsthalle Wien.
- Web site: Viva Arte Viva. 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.
- Web site: Space Force Construction. Palazzo delle Zattere.
- Web site: 1st Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: The Border. Goethe Institute.
- Web site: The Withdrawal of the Red Army. Northern Norway Art Museum.
- Web site: Why Won’t We Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories. 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art.
- Web site: Social Calligraphies. Zachęta National Gallery.
- Web site: Millennials. Museum Arnhem.
- Web site: Performing the Landscape. TRUCK Contemporary Art.
- Web site: VII Permanent Collection Display Interaction: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection. MMOMA.
- Web site: The Travellers. Zachęta National Gallery.
- Web site: Museum ON/OFF. Centre Pompidou.
- Web site: But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face. Lawrie Shabibi gallery.
- Web site: Lost in the Archive. Exhibition hall Riga Art Space.
- Web site: Baroque. Galerie Fons Welter.
- Web site: 2016-01-27 . Minus20degree: Kunst im Skigebiet . 2022-03-07 . salzburg.orf.at . de. minus20degree Art & Architecture Winter Biennale.
- Web site: Otwock, Season 5: Silvohortiaromatherapy. Muzeum Ziemi Otwockiej (Museum of the Otwock Land).
- Web site: How to Gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the island of Eurasia. 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: The School of Kyiv. Visual Culture Research Center.
- Web site: Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
- Web site: Russian Performance: a Cartography of its History. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Untitled... (Native Foreigners). Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: An Opera of Labour and Revolution. Kasa Gallery.
- Web site: Close and Far. Russian Photography Now. Calvert 22 Foundation.
- Web site: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Lawrie Shabibi.
- Web site: Sergey Parajanov. The Color of Pomegranate. GROUND Solyanka Gallery.
- Web site: Spaces of Exception. 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Nostalgia Nervosa. State of Concept.
- Web site: Sensible Action. National Museum of Republic Northern Ossetia-Alania.
- Web site: No Water Tomorrow. Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
- Web site: Love me, Love me not. 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
- Web site: The Enchanted Wanderer. Chukotka Heritage Museum Center.
- Web site: Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography. 11th Sharjah Biennial.
- Web site: Looks Like Torture. HERE Art Center.
- Web site: Take a Look at Yourself, Who Do You Think You Are?. Victoria Gallery.
- Web site: I am who I am. Kunst im Tunnel.
- Web site: Quarantania. Enclave.
- Web site: Animal Style. National Centre for Contemporary Arts.
- Web site: Happiness is a Warm Gun. Rizzordi Art Foundation, Loft Raf.
- Web site: Quarantania. John Hansard Gallery.
- Web site: Joyful Archipelago. Guest Projects.
- Web site: Now&Then. Victoria Gallery.
- Web site: Migrasophia. Maraya Contemporary Art Centre.
- Web site: Génération P. Town Hall.
- Web site: Rewriting Worlds. ARTPLAY Design Center.
- Web site: Expanded Cinema. Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
- Web site: Get Up and Run Away With It – About Love and the Impossible. Palais Bleu Le-Lie.
- Web site: Greater Caucasus. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: North Caucasian Biennale. Pervaya Gallery.
- Web site: Practice for Everyday Life. Calvert 22.
- Web site: History of Russian Video Art. Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
- Web site: Zones of Alienation. LOT gallery.
- Web site: Intimate Capital. 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”.
- Web site: Aluminium. 4th International Biennale of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Let Me Think!. the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October.
- Web site: Really?. the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artplay.
- Web site: Topography of Happiness: Russian Wedding from the 19th to the 21st Centuries. Tsaritsyno State Museum.
- Web site: We Will Take the Lead From Now On. Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art.
- Web site: Migration. Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
- Web site: I Am Nature. Contemporary City Foundation.
- Web site: Kadist Foundation.
- Web site: SAM Art Project.
- Web site: Aki Aora.
- Web site: Civitella Ranieri.
- Web site: Jan Van Eyck Academie.
- Web site: Delfina Foundation.
- Web site: Alanica, Art Symposium.
- Web site: Open meeting with Taus Makhacheva, as part of the Family Ethnography course by Elmira Kakabaeva.
- Web site: Artist talk at M HKA.
- Web site: Virtual Class Visit, Princeton University.
- Web site: Artist talk at Tselinny Center, Astana.
- Web site: In Conversation: Taus Makhacheva and Madina Tlostanova.
- Web site: Art Space SKLAD.
- Web site: Territory Festival, MMOMA.
- Web site: Fries Museum.
- Web site: Blazar young art fair.
- Web site: Masters & Nova Art.
- Web site: The Tetley.
- Web site: School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
- Web site: Liverpool Biennial.
- Web site: In - conversation with Andrey Kovalev.
- Web site: Talk for the members of the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group.
- Web site: Goldsmiths.
- Web site: Open Studios, MMOMA.
- Web site: In - conversation with curator Kasia Redzisz, Institute of Contemporary Arts.
- Web site: Yarat Contemporary Art Space.
- Web site: The Superhero Summit.
- Web site: Field Meeting Take 5.
- Web site: 3rd Garage international conference.
- Web site: Space of celebration, Super Taus workshop for child. Jameel Arts Centre.
- Web site: Territory Festival.
- Web site: Soon Enough, art in action, Super Taus workshop for children. Tensta konsthall.
- Web site: The Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Web site: South London Gallery.