Taus Makhacheva

Her methodology involves reworking of materials, landscapes and monuments, pushing against walls, opening up ceilings and proliferating institutional spaces with a cacophony of voices.

• Name — Taus Makhacheva • Native Name — Таус Махачева • Birth Name — Taus Makhacheva • Born — 14 August 1983 • Birthplace — Moscow, Soviet Union • Training — Russian State University for the Humanities, London College of Communication, Goldsmiths College, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Royal College of Art • Works — Tsumikh (2023), Superhero Sighting Society (with Sabih Ahmed, 2019), Aerostatic Experience (2019), Charivari (2019), Quantitative Infinity of the Objective (2019), Baida (2017), Super Taus (Untitled II, 2016), Tightrope (2015), Gamsutl (2012),Space of Celebration (2009) • Known for — performance, installation, objects, video, audio

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.

• 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

2022 — Space of Celebration, curated by Lucas Morin, Nora Razian, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai 2021 — It’s Possible to Raise the Ceiling a Bit, curated by Hanne Hagenaars, Fries Museum, Friesland 2020 — 4`224,92 cm’2 of Degas, сurated by Nicole Schweizer, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne 2020 — Hold Your Horses, curated by Helen Watson and Melissa Burntown, The Tetley, Leeds 2020 — Sturdy Black Shoes, curated by Edit Molnar and Marcel Schwierin, Edit Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg 2019 — Superhero Sighting Society, conceived by Sabih Ahmed and Taus Makhacheva, KADIST Foundation, Paris 2019 — Charivari, curated by Suad Garayeva-Maleki, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku 2019 — D’une pierre, une montagne, curated by Nicolas Audureau, LE CAP - Centre d'arts plastiques de Saint-Fons, Saint-Fons 2019 — The Strong Ones, curated by Lýdia Pribišová, Hit Gallery, Bratislava 2018 — Storeroom, curated by Christiane Berndes, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 2018 — BaidÀ, narrative projects, London 2018 — Baida, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, the Gemma, Amsterdam 2018 — Tightrope, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala 2017 — Cloud Caught on a Mountain, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow 2017 — Second World, Third Attempt, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai 2015 — Vababai Vadadai!, narrative projects, London 2015 — (In)sidenotes, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala 2014 — Dagestan. Not for sale, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, artSumer, Istanbul 2014 — A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual, curated by Ilina Koralova, (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig 2013 — What? Whose? Why?, curated by Daria Kirsanova, Raf Projects, Tehran 2013 — Story Demands to be Continued, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Republic of Dagestan Union of Artists Exhibition Hall, Makhachkala 2013 — On Historical Ideals of Labour in the Country that Conquered Space, curated by Carlos Noronha Feio, The Mews Project Space, London 2013 — The Process or Instance of Breaking Open, curated by Emmeli Person and Maria Kotlyachkova, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar 2012 — City States, Topography of Masculinity, curated by Irina Stark and Kelly Klifa, the 7th Liverpool Biennial, LJMU Copperas Hill Building, Liverpool 2012 — Let Me Be Part of A Narrative, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Paperworks Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow 2011 — Affirmative Action (mimesis), curated by Marco Scotini, Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan 2010 — Affirmative Actions, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Panopticon Inutero, Moscow 2009 — A Space of Celebration, Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala, Dagestan

2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Riyadh Wunderkammer to Come: From the Uncompleted, a Beginning, curated by Yoko Nose, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan Perhaps Here, curated by Tarek Abu El Fetouh, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah 2023 14th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Sook-Kyung Lee, Gwangju the only constant, curated by Maya Allison, NYUAD ART Gallery, Abu Dhabi After Laughter Comes Tears, curated by Joel Valabrega, MUDAM, Luxembourg Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys, curated by Helen Hirsch and Katrin Sperry, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun 2022 In the heart of another country, curated by Dr Omar Kholeif, Contemporary Art of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, curated by Weng Xiaoyu, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Shandong 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 Hurting and healing. Let's imagine a different heritage, curated by Charles Esche, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm Migrations in Art – the Art of Migrations, curated by Danilo Vuksanović, Jelena Ognjanović and Luka Kulić, Novi Sad Moving Woman, curated by Maria Lind, Smena, Kazan 2021 Biennial of Difficult Heritage, curated by Anton Valkovsky, Volgograd One Point Five, curated by Stefanie Böttcher, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz Hands, curated by Madhursee Dutta and Ala Younis, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln Metamorphosis and Time of Mourning, curated by Daniela, Linda Dostálková, PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava 2020 Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, curated by Raqs Media Collective, Yokohama Lahore Biennale 02: Between the Sun and the Moon, curated by Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, Lahore 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 New Archive of Limited Edition Art (NATI), Shaltai editions exhibition, сurated by Irina Gorlova and Antonio Geusa, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Somewhere in Between, curated by Ulrika Flink, Boras Konstmuseum, Boras Art Encounters Biennial, curated by Maria Lind and Anca Rujoiu, Timișoara 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 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 Happiness is Born in the Guts, curated by Jagna Domżalska, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan The Art of Being Good, curated by Siim Preiman, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn 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 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, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv The Keeper; To Have And To Hold, curated by Emer McGarry, The Model, Sligo 2018 Punk Orientalism, curated by Sara Raza, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday, curated by Andrey Misiano, ERTY gallery, Tbilisi Alter Heroes Coalition, curated by Daria Khan, Mimosa House, London (as Super Taus) Supernature in Two Parts: Part I, curated by Daria Khan and Mimosa House, Lisson Gallery, London (as Super Taus) 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 Beautiful World, Where Are You?, curated by Kitty Scott and Sally Tallant, 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Transformatio. Contemporary Art of Dagestan, curated by Maria Filatova, Mardjani Foundation, Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg 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 The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence, curated by Bregje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Mirjam Varadinis, Manifesta 12, Palermo Starting From the Desert, curated by Marco Scotini, 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, curated by Katerina Gregos,1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga Soon Enough, Art in Action, curated by Maria Lind, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 2017 Life from My Window, curated by Andrey Misiano, Laura Bulian gallery, Milan New Literacy, curated by Joao Ribas, 4 Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute at Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), Tbilisi How To Live Together, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice 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 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 The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kiev, Minsk, Dortmund 2016 The Withdrawal of the Red Army, curated by Ivan Galuzin and Lise Dahl, Northern Norway Art Museum, Blaker Old Dairy, Oslo Why Won't We Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories, curated by Raqs Media Collective, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai Social Calligraphies, curated by Magda Kardasz, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw Millennials, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem Performing the Landscape, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary VII Permanent Collection Display Interaction: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection, curated by Elena Yaichnikova, MMOMA, Moscow The Travellers, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw Museum ON/OFF, curated by Alicia Knock, Centre Pompidou, Paris But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face, curated by Nat Muller, Lawrie Shabibi gallery, Dubai Lost in the Archive, curated by Inga Lace and Andra Silapetere, Exhibition hall Riga Art Space, Riga Baroque, Galerie Fons Welter, Amsterdam minus20degree Art & Architecture Winter Biennale, curated by Theo Deutinger and Heinz Riegler, minus20degree art and architecture biennale, Flachau, Austria. 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 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 The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schollhammer, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity, curated by Marco Scotini, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna 2014 Russian Performance: a Cartography of its History, curated by Yulia Aksenova and Sasha Obukhova, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Untitled... (Native Foreigners), curated by Andrey Misiano, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow An Opera of Labour and Revolution, curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Susanne Jaschko, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul Close and Far: Russian Photography Now, curated by Kate Bush, Calvert 22, London So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai Sergey Parajanov. The Color of Pomegranate, сurated by Zaven Sargsyan, Vyacheslav Shmyrov, Katya Bochavar and Daria Khan, GROUND Solyanka Gallery, Моscow 2013 Spaces of Exception, curated by Elena Sorokina and Jelle Bouwhuis, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow Nostalgia Nervosa, curated by Iliana Fokianaki, State of Concept, Athens Sensible Action, curated by Beral Madra, Alanika 2013, National Museum of Republic Northern Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz No Water Tomorrow, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Love me, Love me not, curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi, 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, collateral event, Venice The Enchanted Wanderer, curated by Andrey Misiano, Chukotka Heritage Museum Center, Anadyr Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, 11th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah Looks Like Torture, curated by Nicholas Cohn and Amy Kisch, HERE Art Center, New York Take a Look at Yourself, Who Do You Think You Are?, curated by Andrey Parshikov, Victoria Gallery, Samara 2012 I am who I am, curated by Olga Sviblova, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany Quarantania, curated by David Thorp, Enclave, London Animal Style, curated by Ilya Shipilovskikh, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg Happiness is a Warm Gun, curated by Ekaterina Shadkovska, Rizzordi Art Foundation, Loft Raf, Saint Petersburg Quarantania, curated by David Thorp, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Joyful Archipelago, curated by Olga Grotova, Guest Projects, London Now&Then, Victoria Gallery, Samara Migrasophia, curated by Sara Raza, Maraya Contemporary Art Centre, Sharjah Génération P, Town Hall, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre 2011 Rewriting Worlds, curated by Peter Weibel, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow Expanded Cinema, curated by Olga Shishko, XII Media Forum of 33rd Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Get Up and Run Away With It – About Love and the Impossible, curated by Nadine Wietlisbach, Palais Bleu Le-Lie, Trogen Greater Caucasus, curated by Irina Yashkova, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia North Caucasian Biennale, curated by Djamilia Dagirova, Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala Practice for Everyday Life, curated by David Thorp, Calvert 22, London 2010 History of Russian Video Art, Volume 3, curated by Antonio Geusa, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Zones of Alienation, curated by Marina Fomenko, LOT gallery, Lexington Intimate Capital, curated by Andrey Parshikov and Alena Lapina, 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow 2009 Aluminium, curated by Leyla Akhundzadeh, 4th International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Baku Let Me Think!, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October, Moscow Really?, curated by Aleksandr Sokolov, the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artplay, Moscow Topography of Happiness: Russian Wedding from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, curated by Olga Sosnina, Tsaritsyno State Museum, Moscow We Will Take the Lead From Now On, curated by Arseniy Zhilyaev and Maria Chekhonadskih, Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, Voronezh 2008 Migration, curated by Daria Kamyshnikova, 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow I Am Nature, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow 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

• 2019 Kadist Foundation, Paris • 2018 SAM Art Project, Paris • 2018 Aki Aora, Tulum • 2016 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide • 2015-2016 Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht • 2015 Delfina Foundation, London • 2013 Alanica, Art Symposium, Vladikavkaz

• 2022 Open meeting with Taus Makhacheva, as part of the Family Ethnography course by Elmira Kakabaeva • 2022 Artist talk at M HKA, Antwerpen • 2022 Virtual Class Visit, Princeton University • 2022 Artist talk at Tselinny Center, Astana • 2022 In Conversation: Taus Makhacheva and Madina Tlostanova, Jameel Arts Center • 2022 Art Space SKLAD, online, Sukhumi • 2021 Territory Festival, MMOMA, Moscow • 2021 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden • 2021 Blazar young art fair, Moscow • 2021 Masters & Nova Art, online, Saint Petersburg • 2021 The Tetley, online, Leeds • 2020 British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow • 2020 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds • 2019 LOOP Talks 2019, Barcelona • 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool • 2017 In - conversation with Andrey Kovalev, Garage Education Center, Moscow • 2017 Talk for the members of the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group, Garage, Moscow • 2016 Goldsmiths, London • 2016 Open Studios, MMOMA, Moscow • 2015 In - conversation with curator Kasia Redzisz, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London • 2013 Yarat Contemporary Art Space, The International Mugham Center, Baku • 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

• 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

• 2022 Space of celebration, Super Taus workshop for children, Jameel Arts Centre • 2021 Territory Festival, Moscow • 2018 Soon Enough, art in action, Super Taus workshop for children, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm • 2017 The Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Atrium, Moscow (Super Taus) • 2012 South London Gallery, London

• 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

• 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

• 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

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• 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

• 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

• 2019 The Superhero Summit, produced by KADIST in collaboration with ‘Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human’, Paris • 2017 Field Meeting Take 5: Thinking Projects - "Microbeads", curator Leeza Ahmady, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Asia Society Museum & SVA Theatre, New York • 2015 3rd Garage international conference: "Where is the line between us?: Cautionary tales from now", Garage, Moscow (Super Taus)