Nastya Kuzmina
multidisciplinary artistBiography
Nastya Kuzmina is a multidisciplinary artist from Russia, currently based in France. Working across video, performance, photography, installation, and textile, her practice moves between the poetic and the political, tracing how personal and collective memory shape identity within systems of consumption and migration.
Educated at the Rodchenko Art School in Moscow, she develops a visual language rooted in what she calls melancholic attention — a mode of looking that transforms everyday materials and gestures into reflections on temporality, loss, and transformation.
Since relocating to France in 2022, Kuzmina has exhibited in Paris and participated in several residency and research programs. Her work has been supported by institutions such as the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the French Embassy in France, and the PAUSE and NORA programs, through which she lived and worked in Normandy during 2024–2025.
Education
2025l'École Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ésadhar), France, La VAE (DNSEP)
2024International Summer Academy, ‘Stone as an actor, stone as a scene’ workshop by Neha Choksi, Untersberg quarry, Salzburg, Austria
2016The education program in contemporary dance and performance ‘SOTA’; GARAGE, Moscow, Russia
2011–14The Rodchenko Art School. ‘Photography, Sculpture, Video’. Workclass of Sergey Bratkov, Moscow, Russia
2008/09School of photojournalism at Izvestia Publishing House. Moscow, Russia
2006/11The Moscow State University of Design and Technology (MGTU), Moscow, Russia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025Carte blanche, Galerie 65, Le Havre, France
2023Guns and Noses. L-gallery, Paris, France
2021On the other side. Electrozavod gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019Double blind. Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018Twinarium. CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia.
Abyss. Part 2. ZIL Center, Moscow, Russia
Abyss. Part 2. ZIL Center, Moscow, Russia
2017Search engine Malik. Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Abyss. Performance. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
Abyss. Performance. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025ANAMNESIA, galerie l'Aletoire, Paris, France
2024Ascending Underground, Paris, France.
Pince-moi, Le Tzara, Paris, France.
Interrupted by fog, Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Bagneux, France
Pince-moi, Le Tzara, Paris, France.
Interrupted by fog, Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Bagneux, France
2023Rituels, festival visions d'exil. L'atelier des artistes en exil, Poush. Paris, France.
About-face. Comme un cil dans l'oeil. Atelier W, Paris, France.
Altérations : regards d'artistes en exil. Havas, Paris, France
About-face. Comme un cil dans l'oeil. Atelier W, Paris, France.
Altérations : regards d'artistes en exil. Havas, Paris, France
2022Stop Wars. Magasins généraux, Paris, France.
Disparitions. L'atelier des artistes en exil, Paris, France
Disparitions. L'atelier des artistes en exil, Paris, France
2021Reliving space. 30/7 gallery, Moscow
2020State of Emergency. Triumph gallery, Moscow
2019Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Studios. Moscow, Russia.
Innovation Award. Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Innovation Award. Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2018Paradoxical hybrids. Electromuseum, Moscow; Khlebozavod, Vladivostok, Russia
2016Experiences of the Imaginary. New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Rodchenko Art School. 10 Years. MAMM, Moscow, Russia.
Young Blood. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia.
The Sota@Garage Performance Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Rodchenko Art School. 10 Years. MAMM, Moscow, Russia.
Young Blood. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia.
The Sota@Garage Performance Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015Rodchenko school. Generation Next. MAMM, Moscow, Russia.
New Codes of Arts. Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
New Codes of Arts. Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
2014Great Expectations. The Moscow Manege, Russia.
Barocco. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Landscapes. Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, Russia
Barocco. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Landscapes. Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013Dali. CTI Factory, Moscow, Russia.
VDNHk 28/10. EESAB de Rennes, France.
Stability. Ghosts. Random gallery, Moscow.
Kandinsky Prize 2013. Udarnik Cinema, Moscow, Russia.
What is behind this curtain? Random gallery, Moscow, Russia
VDNHk 28/10. EESAB de Rennes, France.
Stability. Ghosts. Random gallery, Moscow.
Kandinsky Prize 2013. Udarnik Cinema, Moscow, Russia.
What is behind this curtain? Random gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012Closed for renovation. Student ArtProm 2012. ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia
Selected Festivals & Biennale
2020Spirit of Fire. XVIII International Festival of Cinematographic Debuts, Moscow, Russia
2019Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives, Moscow
2018Now&After. International Video Art Festival, ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia
2017International Kansk Video Festival. Kansk, Moscow, Russia.
All the World's a Display II. Veinti4/Siete Galería, Costa Rica.
A plant. Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany.
Moving Movie. New Space of the Theatre of Nations, Moscow, Russia
All the World's a Display II. Veinti4/Siete Galería, Costa Rica.
A plant. Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany.
Moving Movie. New Space of the Theatre of Nations, Moscow, Russia
2015Now&After. International Video Art Festival, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow.
The Mirror. VIII Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival. Ivanovo, Russia
The Mirror. VIII Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival. Ivanovo, Russia
2014Not Museum. Parallel events Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013VIII Moscow Photobiennale. MMOMA, Moscow
2012Inconclusive analysis. Strategic project of III Moscow International Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Selected Artist in Residences
2025Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Le programme de résidence NORA, France
2024/25L'École Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen, France
2023Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde. Bagneux, France
2022La Pratique. Vatan, France.
Performing Art Forum (PAF). St. Erme, France
Performing Art Forum (PAF). St. Erme, France
2021Black Cube / White Box Laboratory. Meyerhold Center, Moscow, Russia
2019Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Studios. Moscow, Russia
2017Stantsia Art Venue. Kostroma, Russia
2015KulturKontakt. Salzburg, Austria.
Alanica. The 9th International Simposium. Vladikavkaz, Russia
Alanica. The 9th International Simposium. Vladikavkaz, Russia
2013EESAB de Rennes. Rennes, France
2012Local/Universal. Nikola Lenivets, Kaluga, Russia
Awards
2024PAUSE programme for scientists and artists in exile, France
2023Institut Francais and Campus France, France
2020Grant from Museum of Contemporary Art GARAGE, Moscow, Russia
2019Innovation Award short list, Moscow, Russia
2016Prize for young artists, winner of the Credit Suisse art-fair Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia
2014Grant from Museum of Contemporary Art GARAGE, Moscow, Russia
Membership
2022Agency of Artist in Exile. Paris, France
2017/20Experimental feld. Moscow region, Russia
2018ShShSh Collective. Moscow, Russia.
TWIN Group. Moscow, Russia
TWIN Group. Moscow, Russia
2016The group entity performers and dancers Second edition. Moscow, Russia
Work Experience & Publications
2023Facilitator of The video storytelling Workshop for the artists. IN EX(ILE) LAB, Paris, France
2020/21Author and teacher of video art course at Educational center Sreda Obucheniya, Moscow, Russia
2020/21Teacher of video art course (with Sergey Bratkov) at Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia