Artist Biography

Nazilya Nagimova (Kazan, The Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)  lives in Germany since 2004. She has been educated at the School of Arts in Kazan than the Academy of Münster, Germany. Drawing inspiration from the ancient nomadic past of the Tatars, Nazilya Nagimova uses felt as her primary medium to explore the subjects of memory and identity.

 

The artist has been fascinated by felting from a very young age, as she learned the traditional technique from her grandparents. Through installations, carpets, paintings, and video works, Nagimova weaves together family lore and images of the distant past in search of traces of ancestral wisdom.

 

Recent exhibitions include Documenta15 with the Davra collective, Kassel, Germany; Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Asia Now 2023 (curated group show by Slavs and Tatars) and others.