Taus Makhacheva

♀ *1983 / Russia

Works

Solo exhibitions

Seeing, Touching, Imbibing

Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino (IT)
25 Oct 2025 – 10 Jan 2026
Цlумихъ (Tsumikh – Avar for “At the Eagle’s”)

Canal Projects, New York (US)
22 Sep 2023 – 16 Dec 2023
Hold Your Horses

Yorkshire Contemporary , Leeds (GB)
7 Feb 2020 – 29 Nov 2020
Taus Makhacheva

Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts , Lausanne (CH)
13 Mar 2020 – 17 May 2020
Tightrope

AGO Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto (CA)
20 Oct 2018 – 3 Feb 2019
STOREROOM

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
22 Sep 2018 – 27 Jan 2019
Tightrope

Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala (SE)
15 Feb 2018 – 6 Jan 2019
BaidÀ

narrative projects, London (GB)
19 Sep 2018 – 3 Nov 2018
Cloud Caught on a Mountain

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RU)
19 Dec 2017 – 4 Feb 2018
Vababai Vadadai!*

narrative projects, London (GB)
14 Apr 2015 – 30 May 2015
(In)sidenotes

Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala (SE)
31 Jan 2015 – 8 Mar 2015
A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual

Kunstpreis „Europas Zukunft“ 2014

GfZK, Leipzig (DE)
11 Apr 2014 – 29 Jun 2014
Affirmative Action (mimesis)

Laura Bulian Gallery, Milano (IT)
31 Mar 2011 – 7 May 2011

Group

Museum in Motion

MUHKA Museum, Antwerp (BE)
16 Sep 2022 – 22 Jan 2023

with Marcel Broodthaers, Lili Dujourie, Andrea Fraser, YANG Fudong, Shilpa Gupta, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Nikita Kadan, Gordon Matta-Clark, Laure Prouvost, Allan Sekula, Haegue Yang
COSMOPOLIS #2

Repenser l'humain

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
23 Oct 2019 – 23 Dec 2019

with Julieta Aranda, Adriana Bustos, Carolina Caycedo, Emo de Medeiros, Clarisse Hahn, Sky Hopinka, Hao Jingban, Lisa Reihana, Tabita Rezaire, Munem Wasif, QIU Zhijie
12th edition of Kaunas Biennial

Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (LT)
7 Jun 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Bas Jan Ader, Jasmina Cibic, Johanna Diehl, Ieva Epnere, Aslan Goisum, Christian Jankowski, Adrian Melis, Arturas Morozovas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Robertas Narkus, Amalia Pica, Ghenadie Popescu …
Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis

Red Brick Art Museum , Beijing (CN)
3 Nov 2018 – 7 Apr 2019

with Park Chan-kyong, Jawhing Arthur Liou, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), HO Tzu Nyen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Life from my window

Laura Bulian Gallery, Milano (IT)
19 Oct 2017 – 2 Mar 2018

with Aslan Goisum, Koka Ramishvili
The 57th International Art Exhibition - VIVA ARTE VIVA

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
13 May 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Bas Jan Ader, Nevin Aladag, Leonor Antunes, Jelili Atiku, Charles Atlas, Kader Attia, Irma Blank, Michel Blazy, Dirk Braeckman, Julian Charriere, Attila Csoergoe, Pauline Curnier Jardin …
How To Live Together

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
25 May 2017 – 15 Oct 2017

with Bas Jan Ader, Kader Attia, Sven Augustijnen, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Ieva Epnere, Gelitin, Liam Gillick, Aslan Goisum, Paul Graham, Johan Grimonprez, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij …
Baroque

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
30 Jan 2016 – 12 Mar 2016

with Kareem Lotfy
Close and Far

Russian Photography Now.

Calvert 22 Foundation, London (GB)
18 Jun 2014 – 17 Aug 2014

with Alexander Gronsky, Olya Ivanova, Sergei Michailowitsch Prokudin-Gorski, Max Sher, Dimitri Venkov
Love me, Love me not

Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours

Tesa 100, Venezia (IT)
1 Jun 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Kutluğ Ataman, Shoja Azari, Orkhan Huseynov, Sitara Ibrahimova, Iliko Zautashvili
Dreams for those Who Are Wake

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RU)
1 Mar 2013 – 3 Nov 2013

with AES+F, Sergey Bratkov, Francisco Infante Arana, Ilya Kabakov, Alexey Kallima, Elena Kovylina, Raoef Mamedov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Irina Nakhova, Dimitri Prigov, George Pusenkoff, Alexander Rodchenko
Sharjah Biennial 11

<em>Re:emerge</em> - Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
13 Mar 2013 – 13 May 2013

with Ravi Agarwal, Francis Alys, Jananne Al-Ani, Nevin Aladag, Carlos Amorales, Burak Arikan, Ismail Bahri, Matthew Barney, Tony Chakar, Tiffany Chung, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand …
I am who I am

Junge russische Künstler und führende Vertreter russischer Gegenwartskunst

KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (DE)
15 Sep 2012 – 18 Nov 2012

with Ilya Batrakov, Apollinaria Brochet, Alexander Brodsky, Alex Buldakov, Oleg Dou, Alexander Gronsky, Polina Kanis, Yulia Lebedeva, Olga Matveeva, Ivan Mikhailov, Igor Moukhin, Margo Ovcharenko …
Quarantania

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (GB)
24 Apr 2012 – 9 Jun 2012

with Neha Choksi, Eva Kotatkova
Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Rewriting Worlds

Moscow Biennale, Moscow (RU)
23 Sep 2011 – 30 Oct 2011

with Ahmet Oeguet, Victor Alimpiev, Kader Attia, Katerina Belkina, Bernadette Corporation, Michael Bielicky, Beni Bischof, Sergey Bratkov, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Marina Chernikova, Olga Chernysheva …
Expanded Cinema. Part 1

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RU)
14 Jun 2011 – 3 Jul 2011

with Doug Aitken, Victor Alimpiev, Johanna Billing, Boris Eldagsen, Harun Farocki, Almagul Menlibaeva, Anri Sala, Fiona Tan

Events

viennacontemporary 2023

viennacontemporary, Wien (AT)
7 Sep 2023 – 10 Sep 2023

with Iris Andraschek, Per Barclay, Clegg & Guttmann , Grey Crawford, Judita Csáderová, Petra Feriancova, Andreas Fogarasi, Peter Friedl, Birgit Graschopf, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu, Jakob Lena Knebl …
14th Gwangju Biennale

Soft and weak like water

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
7 Apr 2023 – 9 Jul 2023

with Emilija Škarnulyte, Larry Achiampong, Abbas Akhavan, Farah Al Qasimi, Melanie Bonajo, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Latifa Echakhch, Taloi Havini, Sky Hopinka, Yee I-Lann, Arthur Jafa, Yuki Kihara …
Bangkok Art Biennale 2020

Bangkok ArtBiennale, Bangkok (TH)
29 Oct 2020 – 31 Jan 2021

with Marina Abramovic, John Akomfrah, Martha Atienza, Massimo Bartolini, Elina Brotherus, Carlos Casas, Maisie Cousins, Nezaket Ekici, Leandro Erlich, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Christian Jankowski, Choy Ka Fei …
15th Biennale de Lyon

Floating worlds

Biennale de Lyon , Lyon (FR)
18 Sep 2019 – 5 Jan 2020

with Karim Kal, Shana Moulton, Josèfa Ntjam, Pamela Rosenkranz, Nico Vascellari, Trevor YEUNG
LOOP Fair 2019

LOOP, Barcelona (ES)
19 Nov 2019 – 21 Nov 2019

with Gabriel Abrantes, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Olga Chernysheva, Peter Forgacs, Hamza Halloubi, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Aapo Huhta, Tao Hui, Polina Kanis, Vendula Knopova, Romain Kronenberg, Basim Magdy …
Liverpool Biennial 2018

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (GB)
14 Jul 2018 – 28 Oct 2018

with Madiha Aijaz, Francis Alys, Morehshin Allahyari, Mohamed Bourouissa, Banu Cennetoglu, Shannon Ebner, Inci Eviner, Ryan Gander, Aslan Goisum, Joseph Grigely, Lamia Joreige, Richard Linklater …
Second Yinchuan Biennale

Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge

MoCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan (CN)
9 Jun 2018 – 19 Sep 2018

with Ravi Agarwal, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Navjot Altaf, Can Altay, Said Atabekov, Sammy Baloji, Massimo Bartolini, Felice Beato, Erick Beltran, ZHENG Bo, Filipa Cesar, Sheba Chhachhi …
The 57th International Art Exhibition - VIVA ARTE VIVA 2

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
13 May 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Bas Jan Ader, Nevin Aladag, Jelili Atiku, Charles Atlas, Kader Attia, Attila Csoergoe, George Drivas, Raymond Hains, Gabriel Orozco, Philippe Parreno, Agnieszka Polska, Liliana Porter …
ARCOlisboa 2017

ARCO Lisboa, Lisboa (PT)
18 May 2017 – 21 May 2017

with Ignasi Aballi, Marina Abramovic, Lara Almarcegui, Helena Almeida, Claudia Andujar, Vasco Araujo, Gueler Ates, Jessica Backhaus, John Baldessari, Artur Barrio, Eric Baudelaire, Isidro Blasco …
Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art

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Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (RU)
10 Mar 2017 – 14 May 2017

with Victor Alimpiev, Bluesoup group, Anastasia Bogomolova, Chto Delat International, Aslan Goisum, Evgeny Granilshchikov, Evgeny Ivanov, Anna Kabisova, Andrey Monastyrsky, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Anna Parkina, Sasha Pirogova …
The 11th Shanghai Biennale

Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories

Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
12 Nov 2016 – 12 Mar 2017

with Sener Oezmen, Navjot Altaf, Takashi Arai, Sammy Baloji, Khaled Barakeh, Patty Chang, John Gerrard, Hao Jingban, LEE Mingwei, Fabrice Monteiro, Peter Piller, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen)