Yuliya Nazar

Yulia Nazar (Yuliya Nikolaevna Nazarova, 1967) is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist and curator originally from Moscow. Yulia Nazar has been engaged in artistic activities - painting, art objects, land art and performances - since 1993. Participant of more than 20 Russian and international exhibitions and biennales, including the festival of landscape objects “Archstoyanie” (Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region), the public art project “Sleeping area. Stop School" (Moscow), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, within which Nazar turned the Potemkin Stairs into a piano, and others. Yulia Nazar is a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, the Moscow Union of Artists. In addition, the artist is the creator and resident of the art community Glubina (Moscow), a nominee of the VII All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art INNOVATION (2012), ARCHIWOOD Prize (2012), twice nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (2008 and 2009) and the Kuryokhin Prize (2011 and 2018). In her work, Yulia Nazar explores the theme of the relationship between man and nature, trying to trace new possibilities for coexistence, sustainability and healing.

2024 – Performance “Where Flowers Grow From” MMOMA: K-fitness; 2024 - Laboratory of artificial plays, MMOMA 2024 - Experimental laboratory “Unidentified technical objects”, GES 2 2023 – Winner (1st place) in the international exhibition-competition of contemporary art “Assembly of Arts in India” with the Kora project 2023 – Festival “Attraction”, Velikiye Luki, project “Planet of People” 2022 – Exhibition at the Russian State Library of Arts, Moscow 2022 – Exhibition “Prosperity”, at the ecological and educational center “Floriculture” (VDNKh) 2022 – Exhibition “Myth Repository”, Gallery on Kashirka, OVZ Moscow 2022 – Art – residence Sortovala, Karelia 2022 – Participation in the festival of landscape objects “Archstoyanie, “Is there happiness?” 2021- “Guohua. Morning comes, but it’s still night”, Gallery 22, (solo exhibition), Moscow 2021 – Exhibition “World Art”, Tretyakov Gallery 2019 –International festival “Belgorod in Bloom”, Belgorod 2015 - participant of the IV Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011 - Special project “Sleeping area” within the framework of the IV Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2010 - participation in the festival of landscape objects “Archstoyanie 2010. Summer” with the installation “Ariadne’s Thread”

She graduated from the Faculty of Art History of the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Faculty of Art History at the Institute of Contemporary Art (workshop of Joseph Backstein), the Faculty of Contemporary Art at the Higher School "Learning Environment" (workshop of Arseny Zhilyaev).