group exhibitions:

auctions:

art residencies/markets:

— ‘weight’, petrov yam, cherepovets
— ‘horizon corridor’, rodchenko exhibition hall, moscow
— ‘little man’, vyalov mansion, pier, nizhny novgorod
— ‘there is no place for me here’, izzi room atc, saint petersburg
— ‘rhythms’, rodchenko school exhibition hall, moscow
— ‘paranoia’, lachesis club gallery on chistye prudy, moscow
— ‘contacts’, rodchenko school exhibition hall, moscow

— ‘space without a place’, si19 gallery, moscow
— ‘cloud of superstitions’, lachesis club on chistye prudy, moscow
— ‘thirty-nine’, rodchenko school exhibition hall, moscow
— “nps”, krivokolenny café-gallery, 9 str3, moscow
— “israel artist”, exhibition space sviva space, projection of works on the    walls of streets in the cities of tel aviv and ashdod, israel; tbilisi, georgia.

— “intersection”, artist run space vdnh, pavilion 2, moscow
— “april theses”, gallery a53, moscow
— “two capitals”, mayakovka library, saint petersburg
— ‘fragile’, secret gallery, moscow
— ‘immediacy’, vision clinic, saint petersburg

— ‘moscow seasons’, krasny oktyabr, moscow

— ‘night at the museum’, sampilov art centre, ulan-ude
— apartment exhibition on sakhyanova, ulan-ude

— night at the museum, sampilov art centre, ulan-ude

— ‘upside down’, siberia art centre, ulan-ude
— ‘night at the museum’, sampilov art centre, ulan-ude

— ‘two cultural capitals’, with the participation of moscow
   and st. petersburg auction houses

— charity auction at the zrenie clinic,
   st. petersburg auction house
— ‘autumn auction’, st. petersburg auction house

— ‘win-win’, winery, moscow
— production art residence “project thinking”
as part of the “students in the vaults” programme, moscow
— art laboratory “ves’”, cherepovets

— ‘night at the museum’, sampilov art centre, ulan-ude

viola shabat (1992, ulan-ude, buryatia) is a multidisciplinary artist. she studied at the buryat academy of culture and arts. works with painting, textiles, and wood.

in her artistic practice, viola explores a wide range of issues related to personal and collective memory. the artist focuses on the complex interaction of different layers of lived experience: genetic code and cultural heritage, contexts and the interpenetration of worldview models, personal sensory-analytical attitudes, and historical collective memory. studies contemporary art at the rodchenko school. lives and works in moscow.

2024-2026 — rodchenko art school, elena anosova, victor alimpiev workshop, moscow

2007-2011 — east siberian academy of culture and arts, department of fine arts, ulan-ude, buryatia

2025 — ‘the inner man’, black cooperative, moscow

2023 — ‘man without a number’, a53 gallery, moscow

2021 — ‘a year with viola shabat’, wip gallery, moscow

2018 — ‘exhalation’, revolution gallery, irkutsk

solo exhibitions:

‘artist statement’

step by step, i uncover a time filled with dense layers of information, between which there is little room to understand what happened once and for all. but if you hold your breath and penetrate the changing structure of memory, you can transform from an observer into a participant who has the power to blur the boundaries between the past and the future, restoring the interrupted dialogue of history, in which there is so much that should not be forgotten.
i was born and raised in buryatia. a point on the map allows one to feel one's materiality in space — to fix one's position, determine one's direction, and begin a journey in search of identity. i was born
and raised in buryatia, but jewish blood flows through my veins. the cultural memory of my people turns my gaze back:
i turn my face to the completed events of history and see the unreal images of eyewitnesses. in me,
as in a ‘witness’ to the present, the ephemeral past acquires material reality.
i create characters — in portraits that look straight into your eyes from the canvas, in cute and helpless dolls,
in pensive sculptures. they are emphatically decorative, they flicker between the truth and fiction of history, theatre
and life, between a parodic and serious view of the world. snatched from the flow of time, they hang
in timelessness, in an eternal transitional state, where their encounter with the viewer takes place. bright and open, they belong to no one: are they free or lost? in their eyes, turned
towards the viewer, lies all the tension of the moment, the one in which the only possibility of understanding is hidden,
the encounter we so eagerly await when we look to the past in search of ourselves.