Afterland |Oct 25 -Nov 22, 2025
Afterland
In Afterland, Tatyana Kazakova envisions a quiet realm where life dissolves back into the land — only to rise again, changed.
Her black-and-white drawings of gardens and distant landscapes reach beyond their frames, suggesting roots that seek new soil, memories that refuse to vanish. Her blue-and-white paintings, like porcelain relics, hold the delicate traces of what was and what might be. And then, suddenly, there is a bright yellow — striking, alive — breaking through the stillness. In its light, reflections ripple across water, signifying that life is moving on.
Here, death is not an ending but a soft return — a slow folding into earth and air, where the past becomes fertile ground for unseen blooms. Kazakova’s work offers a contemplation on cycles of memory, loss, and renewal — a tender map of the way we scatter, settle, and begin again.
Where ink and white remember loss,
a garden grows through broken gloss.
Death folds softly into land—
not an end, but a place to stand.
Here, memory seeds the silent ground,
and what is gone is still around, and around...”
-Ivy Huang (Curator)
artist
Tatyana Kazakova is a multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from Moscow Printing Academy with an MFA in Visual Arts and continued her education in Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Germany under Professor Klaus Detjen. After graduation she became a regular participant in many art shows in Russia and Germany, receiving awards for her book and graphic design. As a member of the Russian Professional Artist Union and Bundesverband Bildender Künstler in Germany, she took part in several artist residencies in Russia (Art Houses Cheluskinskaja and Seneg) and Germany (Salzau). During these years she actively worked with various materials: oil and acrylic painting, drawing with ink and watercolors, etching, woodcut, collages, and videos.
Artist Statement
The subject matter of my work has remained the same throughout my life despite the changing perspective. I have always been fascinated by the journey of a living being from embryo to death, undergoing development and aging, struggle, and tragedy. I observe and capture, never tiring of marveling at the ultimate genius of nature and creation.
My works reflect biblical themes, with earth preserving the layers of time and the human body acting as a reflection of the soul. Home like a body is a place to take shelter but can be destroyed at any moment.
I do not approach time as linear, trying not to get stuck in the transience of it. We often give ourselves over to the endless movement and bustle, engrossed in our worries, losing the ability to notice. The ability to stop and see is the most important for me; it allows me to capture the imprint of the eternal and unchanging, which has repeated throughout history into the present, which is familiar and close. I am captivated by the interconnectedness of each moment of life, merging and flowing through one another.