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Tamara Safarova
Artist from Ukraine
Tamara Safarova (b. 1992) is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. She started her artistic career in 2022 in response to russia full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Working across painting, graphics, comics, photography, digital media, and performance, Safarova explores themes of identity, memory, cultural heritage, gender, trauma and transformation.
Her work seeks to expose the invisible: making internalised experiences and collective silences visible, felt, and shared. Mythology, personal history, and symbolic archetypes form the core of her artistic vocabulary.
Safarova’s visual language often bridges the deeply personal with the mythic and the political, grounded in both the natural world and the layered cultural context of post-soviet and postcolonial experiences.
Her first solo exhibition took place in 2022 at the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, Germany. Since then, her work has been shown internationally, including at Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv, Ukraine), Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in public collections in Italy, Belgium, and Ukraine.
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Vasylkiv
Prints by Tamara Safarova
22.9 x 15.2 cm • Ink, Art paper
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
During March 2022, as a reaction to russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, I created a series of 24 illustrations ''Postcards from Ukraine''.
Each illustration depicts Ukrainian cities affected by russian aggression as they appeared "before." The basis for the illustrations was information from the list of destroyed cultural heritage sites in Ukraine and news reports.
Using bright colours and positive imagery, I aimed to convey the beauty and vibrancy of places now devastated by russian bombings. This is my way of highlighting the contrast that the war has brought to our previously peaceful and colourful cities.
The purpose of the series is to preserve the memory of places that no longer exist in their former state and to draw attention to the scale of destruction caused by the war.
This series also became my personal way of coping with the pain and sorrow during the first month of the full-scale invasion.
Large postcards size (15.2 x 22.9 cm / 6 х 9 inches)
Archival pigment print on 305 GSM Epson Fine Art Paper Cold Press Bright.
Limited edition of each image — 10.
Signed, numbered and stamped by the artist.
Comes with COA, shipping worldwide.
EXHIBITION HISTORY — SOLO SHOWS:
2023 — POSTCARDS FROM UKRAINE, Tower of KPI. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — POSTCARDS FROM UKRAINE, Match Bistro. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — POSTCARDS FROM UKRAINE, Malevich Bar. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — POSTCARDS FROM UKRAINE, Café Ukraine. Berlin, Germany.
2022 — POSTCARDS FROM UKRAINE, Kunstmuseum. Stuttgart, Germany.
EXHIBITION HISTORY – GROUP SHOWS:
2024 — APOLIDIA, Santa Maria delle Grazie. Venice, Italy.
2023 — UKRAINE. RESIDENCE OF FREEDOM, Rīgas dome. Riga, Latvia.
2023 — C UKRAINE, The Wrigley Building. Chicago, USA.
2023 — ROZGOSTITSA, MOTANKA FESTIVAL, Kühlhaus. Berlin, Germany.
2023 — UKRAINE ABLAZE, Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal. Online.
2023 — CONTEMPORARY ART, Modi Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 — WHO OWNS THE LAND, Pinna Gallery. Online.
2023 — PLACES WE LIVE, Gallery Omata. Online.
2022 — A WALK HOME. RECONSTRUCTION, Artspace 31. Lviv, Ukraine.
2022 — STIAG, K Point. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — PARADE OF GENRES, KVSK. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — DISTRICT #1 BLOCK PARTY FESTIVAL, Arsenal XXII. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — NA CHASI ART FESTIVAL, art center Closer. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — POLUNYTSIA PALIANYTSIA, Blockbuster Mall. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — ART IS INVINCIBLE, Regional organizational and methodical center of culture and art. Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2022 — IN LOVE WITH KHARKIV, Regional organizational and methodical center of culture and art. Kharkiv, Ukraine.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
2024 — Fondazione Carpinetum. Venice, Italy.
AWARDS:
2022 — Award "Visual Art Frontline", a program supported by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
About the artist
Tamara Safarova
Artist from Ukraine
Tamara Safarova (b. 1992) is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. She started her artistic career in 2022 in response to russia full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Working across painting, graphics, comics, photography, digital media, and performance, Safarova explores themes of identity, memory, cultural heritage, gender, trauma and transformation.
Her work seeks to expose the invisible: making internalised experiences and collective silences visible, felt, and shared. Mythology, personal history, and symbolic archetypes form the core of her artistic vocabulary.
Safarova’s visual language often bridges the deeply personal with the mythic and the political, grounded in both the natural world and the layered cultural context of post-soviet and postcolonial experiences.
Her first solo exhibition took place in 2022 at the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, Germany. Since then, her work has been shown internationally, including at Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv, Ukraine), Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in public collections in Italy, Belgium, and Ukraine.
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