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Aida Mahmudova's works has been exhibited internationally and uses a variety of techniques and media. Despite a varied practice, the artist’s main focus remains her exploration of material as a tool for experimenting with and navigating the world she inhabits.

Early on in her work, Mahmudova developed a curiosity towards material, which manifested itself through experimentation with light, color and matter in her landscapes and semi-abstract canvases. As her paintings became increasingly more layered the artist expanded her practice into the three dimensional, applying the same approach to sculpture and creating environments both emotive and intense. The artist continually mixes layer upon layer of widely diverse material, such as paper, clay, paint, cement, stone, and, more recently, epoxy resin and untreated marble. These materials take on an almost human quality for the artist as she explores the ways in which they connect, interact and affect one another. Deeply intuitive, the artist uses these experiments as tools for her own material growth and emotional healing.

For Mahmudova the process is everything and her textured works act as tokens of memory, each layer exposing a particular moment on the artist's personal time-space continuum.

Harmonious with the physical nature of her chosen materials and her preferred earthly palette, Mahmudova’s oeuvre continues to invoke the full spectrum of universal human sentiments of love, loss, memory and desire.

Aida Mahmudova is an Azerbaijani artist and founder of YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Baku). She holds a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design (London).

 

In 2011, Aida Mahmudova founded YARAT as a hub for supporting work of young artists both locally and internationally. After many years of successful operation and international programming, YARAT now boasts 3 exhibition spaces in Baku with dynamic, commission-based programming by leading international, regional, and Azerbaijani artists, as well as an Artist Residency programme and an array of Public and Educational Programs and Events.

Solo exhibitions

2022

Heaven Can Wait, Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia

 

Liminality, Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2019

Selected works, Contemporary Art Advisors, Parallel Vienna, Lassallestrasse, Vienna, Austria

2017

Landscaped, Slovenská filharmónia, Bratislava, Slovakia

Landscaped, Azerbaijan's Culture Center, Vienna, Austria

Can't Capture the Light, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

Desert As It Is, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, OAE

2015

Passing By..., Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA

Elysium, MoMA, Baku, Azerbaijan

2013

Internal Peace, Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Internal Peace, Kichik GalArt Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

2006

Solo exhibition, in collaboration with pianist Murad Adigezalzadeh, devoted to the 120th jubilee of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall, Baku, Azerbaijan

2002

First Solo Exhibition, Q Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

Group exhibitions

2022

Art Dubai, Gazelli Art House Booth, Madinat Jumeirah Conference & Events Centre, Dubai, UAE

2020

Fogs turned into epic story in my head, YARAT Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan

2019

Живопись, Baku Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Baku, Azerbaijan

2018-
2019

Starry Skies, Traveling exhibition, Azerbaijan regions

2018

Bodily Landscapes, YAY Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

Her shey qayidacaq, Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2017

Between the Sea and Mountains, YAY Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan

2016

300 Words on Resistance, YARAT Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan

Art Dubai, YAY Gallery Stand F8, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE

 

Art Paris Fair, YAY Gallery Booth G6, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2015

Meeting Point, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE

Making Histories, YARAT Permanent Collection Exhibition,

YARAT Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan

Vita Vitale, National Pavilion of Azerbaijan, at the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Candy Mountains and Oil Coasts, exhibition of Azerbaijan artists,

PERMM Museum of Modern Art, Perm, Russia

2014

Here Today, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK

Poetics of The Ordinary, Azerbaijan Pavillion, Vienna Fair the New Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Exploring Inward, exhibition in frame Buta Festival,

Louise Blouin Foundation, London, United Kingdom

Christie’s Off White contemporary art auction to benefit The Naked Heart Foundation,  Cosmoscow modern art fair, Moscow Manege, Moscow, Russia

Love Me Love Me Not, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours, Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

2013

Love Me Love Me Not, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours, Collateral Event for the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Home Sweet Home, Azerbaijan Cultural Center, Paris, France

Territory of the wind, open air sculpture museum, Garadagh, Baku, Azerbaijan

Home Sweet Home, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Baku, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan: The colors Of Wind and Fire, Imago Mundi Benetton Collection, book and exhibition, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy

2012-
2013

Fly to Baku. Contemporary art from Azerbaijan. Travel exhibition series. Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan; Kunsthistorisches museum – Neue Burg, Vienna, Austria; Spazio D – MAXXI building National Museum of XXI Century arts, Rome, Italy; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia; me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany; Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, France; Howick Place – Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK

2012

012 Baku Public Art Festival, organised by YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

Commonist, YARAT’s alternative art space, Baku, Azerbaijan

Merging Bridges, International Group Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan

2011

Foreword, YARAT’s alternative art space, Baku, Azerbaijan

 

The Land Of Fire, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan, Hotel d’ Evreux, Paris, France

Maiden Tower, 1st International Festival of Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan

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