DARJA SHATALOVA
DARJA SHATALOVA
*1988 in Ufa (RU), grew up in Tashkent (UZ) & Cologne (DE), based in Vienna (AT)
EDUCATION
2014 - 2019
Transmedia Arts (Brigitte Kowanz), University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT) (
2018
Timebased Media (Michaela Melián), University of fine Arts Hamburg (DE)
2012
Visual Communication (Christian Upmeier), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
2009 - 2014
Art & Mathematics Magisterium (Torsten Meyer et al.), University of Cologne (DE)
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
SOLO & DUO
2025
Data flows like rivers, with Agnes Ársælsdóttir, Reykjavík (IS),
Qullqi 792, Ard Art Institution, Cairo (EG)
Polytropos, with Regina Hügli, Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna (AT)
2024
Permutation, Artist Statement Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)
Congruence, Sotheby's Artist Quarterly, Palais Wilczek, Vienna (AT)
Isometry (P2), Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca de Juárez (MX)so
2023
Isometry (P1), Ruina, San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca (MX)
Waking up (after 1030 Days), OK.kunZT, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (AT)
Weiterleitung, Juxtapose Art Fair, Rå Hal Godsbanen, Aarhus (DK)
Kurvendiskussion, with Freundinnenderkunst, Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz (AT)
Zu Gast, Bildraum 07, Vienna (AT)
2022
1030 Days, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City (MX)
Pearlescent clouds, with Jan Pancocha, Sussudio, Vienna (AT)
28 Tage Sommerfrische, annexe of the Lehártheater, Bad Ischl (AT)
Rearranging formulae, Galerie3, Velden am Wörthersee (AT)
Return to refresh, with Marta Beauchamp, Sehsaal, Vienna (AT)
2021
Plan D, Periscope, Salzburg (AT)
Pars pro toto, Project Statement Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)
Atopía, with Max Winter, Gepäckausgabe, Glarus (CH)
Auf der Leitung stehen, Das T/abor, Vienna (AT)
2020
Zeitraumnetz, RC Showroom Altes Landgut, Vienna (AT)
Inzwischen, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (DE)
2019
One Word Per Day, Sihlhalle, Zurich (CH)
Liquidity, with Ellen Pritzkau, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg (DE)
I Hope He Doesn't Mind, Kaeshmaesh, Vienna (AT)
Netz & Werk, with Julian Palacz, 12-14 Contemporary, Vienna (AT)
2018
Vorübergehend, HFBK B-Galerie, Hamburg (DE)
Die Verzeichnung der Zeit, Whitedwarf Projects, Vienna (AT)
GROUP (selection)
2024
95x55x55, Kunstraum Super, Vienna (AT)
Treasure Hunt, Galerie3, Vienna (AT)
37x21x21", Picture Theory, New York City (NY)
2023
House of inciting passion, Vienna Art Week, Vienna (AT)
Rock Paper Scissors, Aa Collections, Vienna (AT)
On abstraction, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (ES)
On the road again, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
2022
Horror vacui, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna (AT)
On abstraction, Poush, Aubervilliers (FR)
Brigitte Kowanz ETC, Special Show Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)
Lowland #7, Lowland Art Studio, Stuttgart (DE)
37th Austrian Graphic Art Competition, Waltherhaus, Bolzano (IT)
2021
The Portal, VBKÖ, Vienna (AT)
Retrospective Austrian Graphic Art Competition, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (AT)
Nothing's gonna change my world?, Gr_und, Berlin (DE)
Listening to carrots grow - Hochsommer Art 2021, KS Room, Kornberg bei Riegersburg (AT)
Resonanz & Resilienz, Sehsaal, Vienna (AT)
Jamais vu II, LLLLLL, Vienna (AT)
Projecto Tomate, Galeria K11 Paiol Azul, Porto (PT)
2020
Lowland #6, Humbase, Stuttgart (DE)
Argus' Eyes, with Maria Belova, Kara Agora - Net Works (AT, online)
Akt V - Ich werde nicht dulden, dass Ihr mich alleine lasst, Notgalerie, Vienna (AT)
20 Dada, Aa Collections / Hollerei, Vienna (AT)
Sodastream, with Erika Farina & Valentino Skarwan, XX Art Flânerie, Vienna (AT)
EO Algorithms, XXVII Pushkin Theatre Festival, Pskov (RU, online)
Disjunkte Mengen, with Maria Belova & Jennifer Posny, Innere Stadt, Vienna (AT)
2019
Aus X folgt Y folgt Z folgt X', with Felix H. Wagner, Masc Foundation, Vienna (AT)
Is this intimacy?, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT)
Ya I Ona, with Maria Belova, Improper Walls, Vienna (AT)
Kunstraum Super at Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)
Galerie Malte Frank at Contemporary Basel, Basel (CH)
Kunstland Nord - Haben und Brauchen in Wien, Künstlerhaus 1050, Vienna (AT)
Nichts als Integration, Dynamo Projektraum 13, Zurich (CH)
Vom vom zum zum, with Lukas Hochrieder & Anne-Clara Stahl, Pferd, Vienna (AT)
2018
Tomorrow is Cancelled, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT)
Isola Alicudi, Westwerk, Hamburg (DE)
Position - Last Transi, Dynamo Projektraum 13, Zurich (CH)
Die Träger der Zeit, with Nikita Kotliar & Julia Romas, HafenCity, Hamburg (DE)
Tautology, HFBK Galerie, Hamburg (DE)
Beuteschema, Pferd, Vienna (AT)
2017
The Essence, 17th Annual Exhibition of the University of Applied Arts, Alte Post, Vienna (AT)
Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (AT)
SOUND PERFORMANCES (selection)
2023
Q-Klänge 3.0, with Florian Fusco & Ida Westh-Hansen, Parallel Vienna, Otto Wagner Areal, Vienna (AT) Q-Klän
2022
Klangkontinuum, with Johannes Krumböck, Sussudio, Vienna (AT)
Q-Klänge, with Florian Fusco, Sehsaal, Vienna (AT)
2021
Klangzeitfiguren 3.0, with Manuel Cyrill Bachinger & Alexander Martinz:
Listening to carrots grow - Hochsommer Art 2021, KS Room, Kornberg bei Riegersburg (AT)
2020
Klangzeitfiguren 2.0, with Alexander Martinz &
Klangzeitfiguren, with Manuel Cyrill Bachinger:
Akt V, Notgalerie, Vienna (AT)
2019
Klangzeitfiguren, with Manuel Cyrill Bachinger:
Musao 2019, Masc Foundation, Vienna (AT)
Konfrontationen 2019 - Soundart 19, Nickelsdorf (AT)
Vom vom zum zum, Pferd, Vienna (AT)
2018
Vienna Improvisers Orchestra: Aelita, Reakor, Vienna
Aka, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)
Verführte Führung, Klangmanifeste, Vienna (AT)
2017
Monotron, with Alexander Martinz, Alex Kasses et al.:
0-Watt, Fluc, Vienna (AT)
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (AT)
BOOK PRESENTATIONS
2025
Mapping Ideas: The Fascinating World of Artist Books, Austrian Cultural Forum, Cairo (EG)
2024
Analogue data treasures, More reasons to relate, Galerie3, Vienna (AT)a
2023
Tsundoku Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, Dublin (IE)
26th International Book Fair for Small Publishers & Artists' books, Rheingoldhalle, Mainz (DE)
2022
Parallel Vienna Editions, with Aa Collections, Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
Kunst I Buch I Donnerstag, Mumok Library, Vienna (AT)
2021
Super Books, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
Papier marché, Steirischer Herbst '21, Palais Attems, Graz (AT)
Artist Talk with Dr. Simone Moser, LLLLLL, Vienna (AT)
2020
Mumok Art Book Day #3, Mumok Insider Blog (AT, online)
1. Editionale Wien, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)
2019
Vienna Art Book Fait #1, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)
Super Books, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2024
Natalie Adame: Isometría, Idílica Magazine, Oaxaca de Juárez (MX)
2023
Slanted Magazine #42–Books, Slanted Publishers, Karlsruhe (DE)
Slanted Magazine #40–Experimental Type 2.0, Slanted Publishers, Karlsruhe (DE)
Laura Horne: 1030 Days Tussle Magazine, New York (NY)
Michal Stolárik: Zu Gast, Munchis Art Club Magazine, Vienna (AT)
2022
Slanted Magazine #40–Experimental Type, Slanted Publishers, Karlsruhe (DE)
Lenka Stepankova: Pearlescent Clouds, Artmirror Magazine, Budapest (HU)
Hanna Schoenhof: Plan D & Interview with Yannis Kostarias, Art Verge Magazine, Athens (GR)
2021
1 + 1 = 3, exhibition catalogue, Gepäckausgabe, Glarus (CH)
Slanted Magazine #38–Colours, Slanted Publishers, Karlsruhe (DE)
37th Austrian Graphic Art Competition, exhibition catalogue, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (AT)
Noting's gonna change my world?, Raum www, Berlin (DE)
Daniel Lichterwaldt: Interview mit Darja Shatalova, Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, Vienna (AT)
Kaeshmaesh 2016-2019, exhibition catalogue, Vienna (AT)
Liudmila Kirsanova: Auf der Leitung stehen, Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, Vienna (AT)
Julia Hartmann: To track or not to track - that's not really the question, Jules & Art Blog, Vienna (AT)
2020
Jahrbuch / Yearbook 2020: Angst fear anxiety, Werkraum Bild und Sinn, Berlin (DE)
Lowland Magazine #6, Lowland Art Studio, Stuttgart (DE)
Structuring Chaos, 100for10, Melville Brand Design, Munich (DE)
2019
Is this intimacy?, exhibition catalogue, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT)
Vienna Art Book Fair #1, fair catalogue, Vienna (AT)
Fukt#18, The System Issue, Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Berlin (DE)
2018
Tomorrow is Cancelled, exhibition catalogue, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (AT)
2017
Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness, exhibition catalogue, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (AT)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
LLLLLL, with Christoph Srb & Reinhold Zisser, Verein für Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna (AT)
2018
Other Site, with Anne Pflug & Hanna Schoenhof, HFBK B-Galerie, Hamburg (DE)
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES (selection)
2025
Promotion Award for Visual Arts of the City of Vienna, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
Free Away Artist-in-Residence Cairo, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
2022
On the road again Mexico-City, Austrian Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs
Auf! auf! Grant, Artist Residency Lehártheater, Bad Ischl
2021
Living:Space:Grant, Periscope & Artist in Residence programme of the City of Salzburg
Prize awarded by the Raiffeisenbank Tirol AG, 37th Austrian Graphic Art Competition, State of Tyrol
2020
Working Grant, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
Working Stipend, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
2019
Start Grant for Visual Arts, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
ImPulzTanz Grant, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2018
Incentive Grant of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Ö1 Talent Grant for Visual Arts, Ö1 - ORF (shortlisted)
COLLECTIONS
Land Tirol, Collection of the State of Tyrol
Artothek des Bundes, Collection of the Republic of Austria
Sammlung Wien Museum, Collection of the City of Vienna
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Library MAK Museum Vienna
Library University of Applied Arts Vienna
Austrian National Library Vienna
The Photoireland Collection Dublin
Biblioteca Vasconcelos Mexico City
Library Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Bavarian State Library Munich
Library Mumok Vienna
