artist, curator.
Zulfiia explores national and urban narratives, develops a personal understanding of the cultural past and the difficult heritage of the people of her native land, the Tatars. She creates installations and public art; uses digital and analog photography, video art, and other media. Also works in collaboration with children, teenagers, and city residents.
Zulfiia was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, in 1997. Currently, she is based in Naberezhnye Chelny and Kazan.
ZULFIIA ILKAEVA
artist, curator.
Zulfiia explores national and urban narratives, develops a personal understanding of the cultural past and the difficult heritage of the people of her native land, the Tatars. She creates installations and public art; uses digital and analog photography, video art, and other media. Also works in collaboration with children, teenagers, and city residents.
Zulfiia was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, in 1997. Currently, she is based in Naberezhnye Chelny and Kazan.
Zulfiia explores national and urban narratives, develops a personal understanding of the cultural past and the difficult heritage of the people of her native land, the Tatars. She creates installations and public art; uses digital and analog photography, video art, and other media. Also works in collaboration with children, teenagers, and city residents.
Zulfiia was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, in 1997. Currently, she is based in Naberezhnye Chelny and Kazan.
Selection of group exhibitions
2024 – Contour maps, CCA Smena, Kazan
2024 – One–way street, City Culture Center, Perm
2024 – Camp's Echo, ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ufa
2023 – Kazan as a meeting place, CCA Smena, Kazan
2023 – Our and other, MOÑ, Kazan, Russia
2023 – Local history exposition, ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Voskesenskoe, Russia
2023 – Disappearances, City Culture Center, Perm, Russia
2022 – Four angles, MYTH х Space Four Lab, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022 – Seems there will be an exhibition in Kazan. On edge, CCA Smena, Kazan, Russia
2022 – Art Workshop XXI, Kazan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan, Russia
2022 – Archive.05, Bashnya Legend, Derbent, Russia
2021 – Weightless, Kazan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan, Russia
Curatorial projects
2024 – Long as a river, Debarcader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny
2024 – Out of the cave, ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ufa
2024 – New Course, Debarcader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny
2024 – Concourse, Debarcader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny
2023 – GES of Wizards, Naberezhnye Chelny
2023 – Our and other, MOÑ, Kazan, Russia
2023 – How to cross the square in a non-boring way, festival CHO, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2022 – Architectural Hooliganism, Zainsk, Russia
Education
Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Architecture, 2020
Residencies and workshops
2024 – Smena x Sphere Foundation, CCA Smena, Kazan
2024 – Exit to the City Laboratory, MOMMA, Samara
2023 – Camp, art residence of ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Voskesenskoe, Russia
2023 – Sfera, art residence of MaxArt Foundation, Perm, Russia
2022 – Sil'no, art residence, Derbent, Russia
Publications in the press
Snob (2024) https://snob.ru/art/5-rabot-khudozhnitsy-zulfii-ilkaevoi-v-proekte-artakt/
Arttube (2024) https://arttube.ru/articles/my-vzyali-na-sebya-rol-eksperimentatorov
Enter (2024) https://entermedia.io/people/hudozhnitsa-zulfiya-ilkaeva-o-gorodskih-issledovaniyah-i-natsionalnyh-temah-v-iskusstve/
Inde (2024) https://inde.io/article/88538-debarkader-30-v-naberezhnyh-chelnah-vystavki-biblioteka-i-lektsii-na-pereosmyslennoy-kamskoy-pristani
Afisha (2024) https://daily.afisha.ru/culture/27929-tatarstan-supergud-luchshie-molodye-hudozhniki-respubliki-i-chto-ih-vdohnovlyaet/
Smena (2022) https://s-m-e-n-a.org/2022/10/15/10432/
2024 – Contour maps, CCA Smena, Kazan
2024 – One–way street, City Culture Center, Perm
2024 – Camp's Echo, ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ufa
2023 – Kazan as a meeting place, CCA Smena, Kazan
2023 – Our and other, MOÑ, Kazan, Russia
2023 – Local history exposition, ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Voskesenskoe, Russia
2023 – Disappearances, City Culture Center, Perm, Russia
2022 – Four angles, MYTH х Space Four Lab, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022 – Seems there will be an exhibition in Kazan. On edge, CCA Smena, Kazan, Russia
2022 – Art Workshop XXI, Kazan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan, Russia
2022 – Archive.05, Bashnya Legend, Derbent, Russia
2021 – Weightless, Kazan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan, Russia
Curatorial projects
2024 – Long as a river, Debarcader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny
2024 – Out of the cave, ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ufa
2024 – New Course, Debarcader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny
2024 – Concourse, Debarcader-30, Naberezhnye Chelny
2023 – GES of Wizards, Naberezhnye Chelny
2023 – Our and other, MOÑ, Kazan, Russia
2023 – How to cross the square in a non-boring way, festival CHO, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2022 – Architectural Hooliganism, Zainsk, Russia
Education
Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Architecture, 2020
Residencies and workshops
2024 – Smena x Sphere Foundation, CCA Smena, Kazan
2024 – Exit to the City Laboratory, MOMMA, Samara
2023 – Camp, art residence of ZAMAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Voskesenskoe, Russia
2023 – Sfera, art residence of MaxArt Foundation, Perm, Russia
2022 – Sil'no, art residence, Derbent, Russia
Publications in the press
Snob (2024) https://snob.ru/art/5-rabot-khudozhnitsy-zulfii-ilkaevoi-v-proekte-artakt/
Arttube (2024) https://arttube.ru/articles/my-vzyali-na-sebya-rol-eksperimentatorov
Enter (2024) https://entermedia.io/people/hudozhnitsa-zulfiya-ilkaeva-o-gorodskih-issledovaniyah-i-natsionalnyh-temah-v-iskusstve/
Inde (2024) https://inde.io/article/88538-debarkader-30-v-naberezhnyh-chelnah-vystavki-biblioteka-i-lektsii-na-pereosmyslennoy-kamskoy-pristani
Afisha (2024) https://daily.afisha.ru/culture/27929-tatarstan-supergud-luchshie-molodye-hudozhniki-respubliki-i-chto-ih-vdohnovlyaet/
Smena (2022) https://s-m-e-n-a.org/2022/10/15/10432/