Tatjana-Aleksandra Aljautdinova

Tatjana-Aleksandra Aljautdinova is a visual artist and photographer based in Estonia. In her practice, she explores themes of memory, corporeality, and the human connection with the surrounding world. Each project grows from personal experience and evolves into a reflection on collective emotions — care, vulnerability, and belonging.
Alongside her artistic work, she raises three children, and this experience subtly informs her perspective and themes. For Tatjana-Aleksandra, art is a way to speak about what is difficult to express in words. Her works engage with bodily memory and emotion, creating space for an inner response in the viewer.
She works with photography and mixed media, combining images with embroidery and natural materials. Grain, double exposure, and natural light form a visual language in which the image becomes a space of memory and feeling. Tatjana-Aleksandra works only with natural materials — things that can be trusted, alive and real in their texture. The simplicity of form coexists with depth: behind every image lies another meaning, one that can only be felt.
Her works have been shown in London, Paris, Helsinki, and Tallinn, and have been recognised through international open calls and festivals. Several of he...

2024-2025 - Institute of Visual Art, Master of Photography Arts
2018-2019 - Professional Photography Course, Aleksandr Gorodenkov
2012-2015 - Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Business Information Technology (BA)
2008-2010 - Art Encounters I & II, Kumu Art School

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 (May) - Soul of Nature - Premio Valcellina 12ed “Wake Up!”, Valcellina, Italy
2025 (Dec) - Not from Somewhere Else - Guest Room: Ghislain Pascal & Sebastian Perinotti - Der Greif (online curated exhibition)
2025 (Dec) - As Tranquil as Can Be (Silent Corridor), Body Soul - Serendipity Arts Festival, Panaji, Goa, India
2025 (Nov) - Not from Somewhere Else - “Home”, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland, UK
2025 (Nov) - Under Others’ Expectations - IMAGENATION Paris, Joseph Gallery, Paris, France
2025 (Oct) - Not from Somewhere Else - The Places We Call Home, Women in Arts Network (Virtual Exhibition, International)
2025 (Sep) - Not from Somewhere Else, 2 works selected for Small Stories of Diasporic Experience online gallery (from over 600 submissions) - Autograph Gallery (London, UK)
2025 (Jun) - Art Through Touch (Ballet) - “Dreams Fly”, Kookos Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2025 (May) - Body Soul - IMAGENATION London, Amar Gallery, London, UK


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 (Jan) - Art Through Touch - Maardu Vaba Aja Keskus, Maardu, Estonia
2025 (Oct - Nov) - Not from Somewhere Else - International Union of National Cultural Associations Lyra, Tallinn, Estonia
2025 (Sep - Oct) - Art Through Touch -...