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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Artwork from the series “Red-blue”, created during Artists at Risk (AR) art residency.
The sky, once embodying tranquility and infinity of thoughts for me, has transformed into a source of threat with the unfolding of russia's full-scale war.
The red sky on the canvas serves as a symbol of a dangerous external world, while the clouds simultaneously embody an anxious internal state.
The painting not only reproduces internal emotions but also draws the viewer's attention to the ongoing genocide, as the russian army mercilessly attacks and oppresses the Ukrainian people.
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.
