TATA GORIAN
Tata Gorian is visual artist based in St.Petersburg, Russia. Works in various artistic media, including installation, performance, photography, and video. In her projects, she often draws on a speculative approach and constructs alternative scenarios for the present and future, responding to the phenomena of modern culture. She considers her entire art practice as a separate autofiction project and an artistic gesture.
EDUCATION
2019 — New Media Laboratory (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2019 — International Summer School of Photography (Zalenieki, Latvia), Workshop "Astronauts vs. Poets: Utopia, Dystopia and Visual Ecology" by The Cool Couple
2016-2018 — Docdocdoc School of Modern Photography (St.Petersburg, Russia)
2009-2010 — Wordshop Communication Academy at British Higher School of Art & Design (Moscow, Russia)
EXHIBITIONS
2020 — installation "Garden-4470. Anabiosis", FFTN. Art Gallery, St. Petersburg
2020 — collective exhibition «( )», Egorka communal gallery, St. Petersburg, installation Milk
2020 — Ars electronica 2020 festival for Art, Technology & Society, The Pangardenia project, St. Petersburg – Linz, installation "Garden-4470"
2020 — collective exhibition “NEMOSKVA IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER” (The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg, Russia), installation “Sensitive Service”, working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2020 — festival “Geek Picnic” (online), online performance-excursion "In-Out Lab”
2020 — Collective exhibition “Measure of Chaos” (NCCVA, Novosibirsk, Russia), documentation "Projects of a nonexistent corporation”, working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2020 — collective exhibition “PARADISTOPIA: contours of imaginary societies” (online), conference announcement "Four Ways to Save the World Before It Collapses", working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2020 — collective exhibition “Measure of Chaos” (The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications, St.Petersburg), documentation "Projects of a nonexistent corporation”, working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2019-2020 — solo exhibition "Horror: You are here" (ZGA Gallery, St.Petersburg)
2019 — collective exhibition "Animal Internet" (Gallery Khodynka, Moscow), transmedial performance "In-Out Lab”, working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2019 — сollective exhibition "Impulse" (Sergey Kuryokhin Art Center, St.Petersburg), total installation "Lunarium"
2019 — сollective exhibition "Impulse" (Sergey Kuryokhin Art Center, St.Petersburg), the installation "Resistance to fragile destruction of a stable organism”, working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2019 —"101" Festival of Media Poetry (St.Petersburg), performance "Presentation iBiom Box", working as part of the artist collective iBiom
2019 — Projection mapping installation "Goes by Ze", New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre (St.Petersburg, Russia), collaboration with Olga Zubova
2019 — Day of experimental synthesis "Six" (St.Petersburg, Russia), performance "Avent"
2018 — сollective exhibition "The Family of No Man: Revisioning the World through Non-Male Eyes" (Arles, France)
2018 — сollective exhibition "Young photographers of Russia" (Moscow, Russia)
2017 — сollective exhibition "Young photographers of Russia" (Moscow, Russia)
2017 — Piterfotofest (Saint Petersburg, Russia), projection
AWARDS
2018 — Nominee of PhotogrVphy Grant
2018 — Winner of the Young Photography competition, Moscow, Russia
2018 — Winner of "The Layered Cake" of Neighbourness Competition (Russia, Finland), third place
2017 — Honorable mention of Efremov Report Photography Competition
2017 — Finalist of the Young Photography Competition
PUBLICATIONS
International PhotogrVphy Magazine
Реч#порт.
CONTACTS
tata.gorian@gmail.com
PORTFOLIO