Interdisciplinary artist and architect.
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 Kazan.
ZULFIIA ILKAEVA
Interdisciplinary artist and architect.
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 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 Kazan.
Selection of group exhibitions
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, CSC 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
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
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
2021 – Urban Practices workshop, Strelka Institute, Russia
2020 – Nature in the City/City in the Nature workshop, Street Art Research Institute, Russia
Publications in the press
Smena https://s-m-e-n-a.org/2022/10/15/10432/
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, CSC 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
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
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
2021 – Urban Practices workshop, Strelka Institute, Russia
2020 – Nature in the City/City in the Nature workshop, Street Art Research Institute, Russia
Publications in the press
Smena https://s-m-e-n-a.org/2022/10/15/10432/