Yaniya Mikhalina
(She/her)
Address: With Joen Vedel, Hausmania, Hausmanns gate 34, 0182 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: 1205 A
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Yaniya Mikhalina is a Volga Tatar research-based artist and educator based in Oslo, navigating postcolonial realities, its difficult pasts, and possible scenarios for reparative futures. She works across disciplines, mainly with (moving) image, sound, archive, and non-exemplary material heritage. She is particularly interested in how the gaze is produced, represented, and historicized within documentary contexts. Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Trondheim Kunstmuseum (2023), a duo show at Vermillion Sands (2024); group exhibitions at Tallinn Art Hall (2024), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2023) and documenta 15 Lumbung Cinema Program (2022). Mikhalina is about to finish her PhD in Artistic Research at the Trondheim Art Academy, NTNU, titled “Colonial Mədness: Feminist-Indigenous Cosmologies”.
film, text, sound, installation
The Voice of Söembikä, riso print, A3, 2024, The Real Realities for Real, installation detail, photo by Kevin Malcolm
Munajats of Mähirä, Yaniya Mikhalina, 2-channel video installation, 2024, Difficult Pasts - Connected Worlds, Tallinn Art Hall, installation photo, photo Paul Kuimet
Sisterless, Yaniya Mikhalina, film still, 2022
Qaen, Yaniya Mikhalina, 2024, 100x50cm, mixed media
In my studio
I will present an artist book “Colonial Mədness: Feminist-Indigenous Cosmologies” and invite you to experience my sound installation “Appeal to All Western Countries”. Snacks and herbal tea will be served.
Planned projects and exhibitions
2026
UKS, Oslo, Norway, duo exhibition (with Joen Vedel)
2025
Passing motherhood, Hannah Ryggen Triennial, Trondheim, Norway, co-curator
Colonial madness: feminist-indigenous cosmologies, Torpedo press, artist book
Appeal to All Western Countries, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middleburg, Netherlands, exhibition
Appeal to All Western Countries, Pachinko gallery, Oslo, Norway, listening session
CV
EDUCATION
2020-2025
PhD Candidate in Artistic Research, Trondheim Art Academy, NTNU
2017-2018
Postgraduate studies in Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, The East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis
2014-2016
MA (hons) in Critical and Curatorial Studies, Saint Petersburg State University/Bard College
PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2025
Colonial madness: feminist-indigenous cosmologies, Loft Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, artist presentation
2024
Difficult pasts. Connected Worlds. Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia, group exhibition
Real realities for real. Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark, duo exhibition
2023
Technopoetic Becomings, Santa Maria Art Museum, Santa Maria, Brazil, group exhibition
As Though We Hid the Sun in the Sea of Stories, Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
Germany, group exhibition
Sisterless, Method Art Documentary FestAimaty, Kazakhstan, screening
Sisterless, 139 Documentary Center, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, screening and artist talk Beyond the Reality Principle, Society for Artistic Research, conference, lecture-performance
Sisterless, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway, solo exhibition
Sisterless, Kosmorama Film Festival, Norway, screening
2022
Feminist Resistance: New Artistic Language Evolving in Russia, Old Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway, screening program by Feminist Futures Collective
Whispers, Zaman Museum, Ufa, Bashqortostan, group exhibition
documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, Lumbung cinema program
Moving Women, Smena Gallery, Qazan, Tatarstan, group exhibition
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Appeal to All Western Countries, NERO editions
https://www.neroeditions.com/appeal-to-all-western-countries/
We Are Nature. Conversation with Hilde Skancke-Pedersen
https://vessel-magazine.no/issues/8/craft-in-public-space/we-are-nature
2023
She Who Documents, Exhibition booklet, Trondheim Kunstmuseum
https://dms-cf-09.dimu.org/file/019EBwjy1rasS
Syuyumbika’s Cry, in “As Though We Hid the Sun in the Sea of Stories Reader”, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt/Archive Books.
2022
The Struggle Starts with a Struggle of the Tongue. An Affective Dictionary of Tatar. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (in Tatar and English, with Joen Vedel
The Voice of Syuyumbike. Artist book. Smena gallery and Swedish embassy in Russia. (In Tatar and Russian)
RESIDENCIES (selected)
2024
Atelier Kunsnterforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2023
Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
NIDA Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania
2021
Ole Haslunds Kunsterfond, Raveskiftet, Denmark
2020
Pikene Pâ Broen, Kirkenes, Norway
2019
ORES residency, Finland
2018
Tensta Konsthall, Sweden
AWARDS AND GRANTS (selected)
2024
OCA Norway travel support and production grant
2023
OCA NORWAY travel support grant
2018
Courageous Citizen, European Cultural Foundation