elizaveta zalieva

Contemporary artist and researcher based in Margate, UK and Venice, Italy. In her practice, Elizaveta explores how the ordinary transforms into the mythic. Her work delves into memory, daily life, and the collective unconscious, tracing the hidden symbols of modern culture and the ways magic speaks through everyday objects.

Contacts:

Currently: in residence at the Tracey Emin Artist Residency, Margate, UK
(April 2025-July 2026)

Special experience

2023 – Towards a Food Atlas NO-CITY Summer School
2021 — Workshops "Solutions", Curatorial Forum, St. Petersburg
2021 — Workshop laboratory led by Mathilde Ter Heijne, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2016 — Curator of street performance-parade (Cardboard Figures Parade)
2014 — Volunteer at the European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 10
2013 — Member of the archaeological expedition of the State Hermitage

The works are in the collections of The Manege museum, Garage museum, Yale library Haas Arts Special Collections and in private collections.

Selected press

2026 — HOT TAKES: The Blue of Distance at Setareh
2021 — Pure Forms at BURO 24/7
2021 — Twice two: Lost and Found | ART Uzel
2023 — IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, Afisha
2024 — Traces, Antenna Daily

Group shows

2026 — “The Blue of Distance”, Setareh Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2026 — “This is Love”, TKE STUDIOS, Margate, UK
2025 — “TEAR 26”, TKE STUDIOS: Online Exhibition, Margate, UK
2024 — “Traces”, Pushkinskaya 10 Museum, Moscow
2024 — “Reflections”, ART4 Museum, Moscow
2024 — Ca’Foscari Short film festival, Venice
2023 — IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, Munk x Artishok center, Moscow
2022 — «Feminist resistance – New artistic language evolving in Russia», LOCUS, Old Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
2022 — “Rooms”, by LADIES DRAWING CLÜB
2022 — «Bicycles and dogs», Virage cooperative, St. Petersburg
2022 — "DOM", Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg
2022 — "It didn't happen", Moscow Conservatory, Moscow
2022 — «Andromeda's nebula», InArt Gallery Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2021 — "Pure Forms by Finlandia", Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow
2021 — "Distant Garden", Voronezh
2021 — "Twice two", Kunsthalle nummer sieben, St. Petersburg
2021 — “Do not run! This is only a mirage you see...”, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku
2021 — "Visibility", Sevkabel, St. Petersburg
2021 — Exhibition of land-art objects "Palimpsest", Free Workshops of MMOMA, Lipetsk
2021, 2018 — Museum of Urban Sculpture “New Ideas for the City”, St. Petersburg
2021 — "Dreams of Freedom. P.S", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2021 — "To embrace and to cry", Sinara Art, The 6th Ural Industrial Biennal of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg
2021 — "Workshop. 20'21. Adaptation", Moscow Museum of Modern Art MMOMA, Moscow
2021 — SPLIT OPEN Exhibition, KULTURSCHOEPFER, Berlin
2020, 2018 — Festival "Waterberry", Moscow
2020 — Art Fair Third Place Art Fair, St. Petersburg
2020 — Gallery "HERE on Taganka", exhibition "Kryukrinoksy", Moscow
2020 — Antonov Gallery, pre-auction exhibition, St. Petersburg
2020 — gallery "Molbert", group exhibition, St. Petersburg
2020 — "INSIDE", group exhibition, St. Petersburg
2019 — "Lost in space", group exhibition, Moscow
2018 — gallery "Center of books and graphic art", group exhibition, St. Petersburg
2018, 2017 — Festival "Live Streets", St. Petersburg

Solo/duo shows

2026 — “ROOMS”, duo show with Olya Avstreyh, London Tavern, Offseason, Margate, UK
2024 — solo exhibition, “Isola”, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg
2022 — solo exhibition, "Everything, I know about the invisible", MOST, St. Petersburg

Education

2022-2026 – MA Environmental Humanities, Ca'Foscari, Venice
2020-2021 — Free workshops: School of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2012-2018 — Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, High School of Print and Mediatechnologies, faculty of Graphics