Visual Artist & Photographer
Tatjana-Aleksandra Aljautdinova
Artist Statement
Tatjana-Aleksandra Aljautdinova is a visual artist and photographer from Estonia.
Her work explores memory, corporeality, and human connection. Each project grows from a personal experience that becomes a way to speak about collective emotions. Her practice engages with feelings, memory, and the search for connection as a path of returning — to oneself and to others.
She aims to evoke emotion in the viewer — a moment of recognition, empathy, or quiet tension.
Working with photography and mixed media, she combines images with embroidery and natural materials. Grain, double exposure, and natural light shape a visual language where 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 in her works coexists with inner depth: behind each image lies another layer of meaning, one that can only be felt.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2025 - UNESCO MONDIACULT Digital Library – Inclusion of Soul of Nature: What Remains
2025 - UNESCO MONDIACULT Digital Library – Inclusion of Not from Somewhere Else
2025 - FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS – Nominee in Fine Art - Body Soul (Series, Professional) id FAPA/74734
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Nov) - Not from somewhere else - “Home” The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland, UK
2025 (Nov) - Under Others’ Expectations - IMAGENATION Paris Joseph Gallery, Paris
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” Helsinki Kookos Gallery, Finland
2025 (May) - Body Soul - IMAGENATION London Amar Gallery, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Sep - Nov) - Not from somewhere else - International Union of National Cultural Associations Lyra, Tallinn, Estonia
2025 (Sep - Oct) - Art through touch - Viimsi Cultural and Activity Centre, Viimsi, Estonia
2025 (Aug) - 2026 (Mar) – Soul of Nature - Energy Discovery Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2025 (Aug) - Web of Memory - PUNKT Creative Space Tallinn, Estonia
PUBLIC DISPLAYS & SCREENINGS
2025 (Sep) – Small Stories of Diasporic Experience, digital billboard display, Old Street Roundabout (City Outdoor Media), London, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Jun 2025 - Body Soul, 2 works - F-Stop Magazine
Mar 2025 - Body Beauty series - Artells Magazine
Feb 2025 - Body Soul - LeDesir Magazine
Jan 2025 - Art Through Touch - Artells Magazine
Education
Additional training
2024-2025
Institut of Visual Art
Master of Visual Arts.
2018-2019
Aleksandr Gorodenkov Courses
2012-2015
TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology
45+ Women's Photography (45 lessons)
Katya.Story.School | 2023
Photoposing Workshops (30 lessons)
Ruslan Makushkin School | 2023
Photography Course “Everyday life as art”
Olesya Smirnova Photography | Jan - Feb 2021
Sincerity is back in fashion. Denis Persenen's course
Denis Persenen | Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Transformative Portrait Course (50 lessons)
Olga Dragunova Photography | 2019
Masterclass on live street portraiture (10 lessons)
Niko Nicolas Photography | Aug 2019
Julia Pleskachevskaya's copyright course “Living Portrait” (20 lessons)
Julia Pleskachevskaya Photographer | 2019
Lyudmila Milaya Masterclass (8 lessons)
Lyuda Milaya Photographer | 2019
"Meetings at the Kumu Art Museum I and II" (within the REMARK Integration Project) (90 hours):
Kumu Art School | Sep 2008 - May 2010
Memberships
2025 – Member, Nordic Textile Art (NTA)