Mila Nishatova

Mila Nishatova is an artist based in Moscow, Russia.

Her works mostly reflect on a people's relationships with themselves, refracted structure of a human memory in a subtle attempt to expose time and probe the reality for any objectivity.

Born in Moscow in 1981, she graduated in Electronics Engineering in 2004 and in Photography 2007. Engaged in photography since 2008, fondly bound to street and film photography, which led to the development of her personal visual language.

When in 2010 she started working with analog photography, that influenced her perception of the creative process: when one witnesses objects softly appear on a blank sheet of paper in a dark room, there is an inevitably feeling that comes to be observed, that we all are nothing more than a conductor between the surrounding world and others, like a transmitter or a mere media.

Mila came to abstract painting in 2015, while travelling and volunteering on rural farms in Portugal and Scotland, when the camera was left behind yet the urge of the interaction with the world, to become another media was overwhelming.

In 2016, she fully embraced abstract painting, observing a relationship with colours and researching a sense of uncertainty.

In 2021-2022 her focus s...

2023 Laboratories of SoundArt. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia
Laboratories of unidentified technical objects «Empty cavities». GES-2. Moscow, Russia

2007-2009 Street Photography, Analog photography course. Photoplay Academy. Moscow, Russia

1999-2005 National University of Science and Technology "MISIS". Semiconductor Engineering. Moscow, Russia

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2023, September - "I am vulnerability". Roman Well in Belgrade Fortress. Belgrade, Serbia.

2023, July-October - "Reliance Coordinates". Artichoke Cultural Centre. Moscow, Russia

2023, May - "Nature and Humanity". BERIOZKA Gallery. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2023, March-April - "Entropy". Virtual Edition. The Holy Art. London, UK

2022, December - "Ok, I’ll think of it. Unanswered letters". START Gallelry, Winzavod. Moscow, Russia

2022, December - "My neighbours are.." Library and Art Media Centre №67. Moscow, Russia

2022, November - "Shadow. Salon de Refuses III". Insight Gallery. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2022, September - "Annihilation". Creative Space Loft. Lo-fest Art Festival 2022. Pskov, Russia

2022, August - "Why are we together? Home". In collaboration with Sync Sisters. Rovesnik Space. Moscow, Russia