Tamara Safarova is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Working across drawing, comics, painting, digital art, and performance, she explores identity, trauma, transformation, personal and collective memory. Her practice examines the relationships between body, memory, and landscape through a postcolonial lens, while exploring more-than-human perspectives.
Her first solo exhibition took place at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, in 2022. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), Riga City Council (Riga, Latvia), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art and Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in institutional and public collections across Europe.
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Tamara Safarova
Artist from Ukraine
Tamara Safarova is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Working across drawing, comics, painting, digital art, and performance, she explores identity, trauma, transformation, personal and collective memory. Her practice examines the relationships between body, memory, and landscape through a postcolonial lens, while exploring more-than-human perspectives.
Her first solo exhibition took place at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, in 2022. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), Riga City Council (Riga, Latvia), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art and Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in institutional and public collections across Europe.
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A series of intuitive graphic works that emerged as reflections on corporeality, sexuality, menstruation, motherhood, and cultural perceptions of women's and queer experience.
The images grew out of inner feelings, bodily memory, intimate reflections, and cultural triggers. These works are visual diary entries rather than finished works. They are imperfect, vulnerable, and open, just like sexuality, which does not fit into any framework.
The works invite you to a space where the female and feminine exists outside the norm; where eroticism is not about an object but about presence, not about temptation but about the power of being vulnerable; where desire, shame, tenderness and pain are intertwined in a palette of experience.
Tamara Safarova is a Ukrainian artist of Azerbaijani origin based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Working across drawing, comics, painting, digital art, and performance, she explores identity, trauma, transformation, personal and collective memory. Her practice examines the relationships between body, memory, and landscape through a postcolonial lens, while exploring more-than-human perspectives.
Her first solo exhibition took place at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, in 2022. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Santa Maria delle Grazie (Venice, Italy), Kühlhaus (Berlin, Germany), Riga City Council (Riga, Latvia), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art and Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Poltava Art Museum (Poltava, Ukraine).
Her works are held in institutional and public collections across Europe.
