Taus Makhacheva

Grandfather: Rasul Gamzatov - avar poet, prose writer, publicist, Soviet and Russian public and political figure, translator, the Laureate Stalin and Lenin Prizes, People's Poet of Dagestan ASSR, Hero of Socialist Labor (1923-2003).

Grandmother: Patimat Gamzatova - Head of the Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts (1964-2000).

Mother: Patimat Gamzatova - art historian, Сorresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Culture Worker of Dagestan Republic.

Father: Osman Makhachev - Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation.

• 2011-2013 – MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London
• 2008-2009 – New Strategies in Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
• 2003-2007 – BA (Hons) Fine Art (Studio Practice & Contemporary Critical Studies), Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
• 2002-2003 – Foundation Diploma in Photography, London College of Communication, London
• 2000-2005 Russian State University for the Humanities, World Economy, Moscow

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
• Gazprombank, Moscow
• Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, San Francisco
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
• Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp
• Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
• National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• Pushkin Museum, Moscow
• P. S. Gamzatova Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts, Makhachkala[1]
• Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
• Tate Modern, London
• Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul
• Videoinsight Foundation, Turin
• YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku

• 2021 Kandinsky Prize, Media Art, shortlisted, Moscow[2]

• 2021 Art Here 2021 Richard Mille Art Prize. Memory, Time, Territory, Abu Dhabi Louvre, shortlisted, Abu Dhabi[3]

• 2019 Future Generation Art Prize, shortlisted, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv[4]

• 2018 Cosmoscow 2018, Artist of the Year, Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art, winner, Moscow[5]

• 2016 Kandinsky Prize, Young Artist, Project of the year, winner, Moscow (as Super Taus)[6]

• 2015 VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Prize, winner, Moscow[7]

• 2013 Future of Europe, winner, (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig[8]

• 2013 Innovation Prize, Regional Project, shortlisted, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow[9]

• 2012 Innovation Prize, New Generation, winner, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow[10]

• 2011 Kandinsky Prize, Media Art, shortlisted, Moscow[11]

2022

Space of Celebration, curated by Lucas Morin, Nora Razian, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai[12]

2021

It’s Possible to Raise the Ceiling a Bit, curated by Hanne Hagenaars, Fries Museum, Friesland[13]

2020

4`224,92 cm’2 of Degas, сurated by Nicole Schweizer, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne[14]

Hold Your Horses, curated by Helen Watson and Melissa Burntown, The Tetley, Leeds[15]

Sturdy Black Shoes, curated by Edit Molnar and Marcel Schwierin, Edit Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg [16]

2019

Superhero Sighting Society, conceived by Sabih Ahmed and Taus Makhacheva, KADIST Foundation, Paris[17]

Charivari, curated by Suad Garayeva-Maleki, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku[18]

D’une pierre, une montagne, curated by Nicolas Audureau, LE CAP - Centre d'arts plastiques de Saint-Fons, Saint-Fons[19]

The Strong Ones, curated by Lýdia Pribišová, Hit Gallery, Bratislava[20]

2018

Storeroom, curated by Christiane Berndes, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven[21]

BaidÀ, narrative projects, London[22]

Baida, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, the Gemma, Amsterdam

Tightrope, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala[23]

2017

Cloud Caught on a Mountain, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[24]

Second World, Third Attempt, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai[25]

2015

Vababai Vadadai!, narrative projects, London [26]

(In)sidenotes, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala[27]

2014

Dagestan. Not for sale, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, artSumer, Istanbul[28]

A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual, curated by Ilina Koralova, (GfZK) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig[29]

2013

What? Whose? Why?, curated by Daria Kirsanova, Raf Projects, Tehran[30]

Story Demands to be Continued, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Republic of Dagestan Union of Artists Exhibition Hall, Makhachkala[31]

On Historical Ideals of Labour in the Country that Conquered Space, curated by Carlos Noronha Feio, The Mews Project Space, London[32]

The Process or Instance of Breaking Open, curated by Emmeli Person and Maria Kotlyachkova, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar[33]

2012

City States, Topography of Masculinity, curated by Irina Stark and Kelly Klifa, the 7th Liverpool Biennial, LJMU Copperas Hill Building, Liverpool[34]

Let Me Be Part of A Narrative, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Paperworks Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow[35]

2011

Affirmative Action (mimesis), curated by Marco Scotini, Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan[36]

2010

Affirmative Actions, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Panopticon Inutero, Moscow

2009

A Space of Celebration, Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala, Dagestan

2022

In the heart of another country, curated by Dr Omar Kholeif, Contemporary Art of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg[37]

I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, curated by Weng Xiaoyu, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Shandong[38]

The Circus We Are, curated by Joanna De Vos, Namur, Four locations in Namur - Le Delta, musée Félicien Rops, Musée des Arts Anciens, Belgian Gallery, Namur[39]

Hurting and healing. Let's imagine a different heritage, curated by Charles Esche, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm[40]

Migrations in Art – the Art of Migrations, curated by Danilo Vuksanović, Jelena Ognjanović and Luka Kulić, Novi Sad[41]

Moving Woman, curated by Maria Lind, Smena, Kazan[42]

2021

Biennial of Difficult Heritage, curated by Anton Valkovsky, Volgograd[43]

One Point Five, curated by Stefanie Böttcher, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz[44]

Hands, curated by Madhursee Dutta and Ala Younis, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln[45]

Metamorphosis and Time of Mourning, curated by Daniela, Linda Dostálková, PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava[46]

2020

Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, curated by Raqs Media Collective, Yokohama[47]

Lahore Biennale 02: Between the Sun and the Moon, curated by Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, Lahore[48]

2019

Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human, curated by Kathryn Weir with associate Cosmopolis curator Ilaria Conti in collaboration with associate curators Charléne Dinhut and Zhang Hanlu, Centre Pompidou, Paris[49]

New Archive of Limited Edition Art (NATI), Shaltai editions exhibition, сurated by Irina Gorlova and Antonio Geusa, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow[50]

Somewhere in Between, curated by Ulrika Flink, Boras Konstmuseum, Boras[51]

Art Encounters Biennial, curated by Maria Lind and Anca Rujoiu, Timișoara[52]

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, curated by Adélaïde Blanc, Daria de Beauvais, Yoann Gourmel, Mat-thieu Lelièvre, Vittoria Matarrese, Claire Moulène, Hugo Vitrani, 15th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Fagor Factory, macLYON, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon[53]

The Life of Things, curated by Maria Wills Londono in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson,16th MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Quebec[54]

Happiness is Born in the Guts, curated by Jagna Domżalska, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan[55]

The Art of Being Good, curated by Siim Preiman, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn[56]

After Leaving | Before Arriving, curated by Elisabeth Del Prete, Daniel Milnes, Lýdia Pribišová, Neringa Stoškutė and Alessandra Troncone, 12th Kaunas Biennial, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas[57]

Future Generation Art Prize, curated by Björn Geldhof and Tatiana Kochubinska, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, collateral event, Palazzo Ca’ Tron, Venice[58]

The Keeper; To Have And To Hold, curated by Emer McGarry, The Model, Sligo[59]

Future Generation Art Prize, curated by Björn Geldhof and Tatiana Kochubinska, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv[60]

2018

Punk Orientalism, curated by Sara Raza, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan[61]

Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing[62]

Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday, curated by Andrey Misiano, ERTY gallery, Tbilisi[63]

Alter Heroes Coalition, curated by Daria Khan, Mimosa House, London (as Super Taus)[64]

Supernature in Two Parts: Part I, curated by Daria Khan and Mimosa House, Lisson Gallery, London (as Super Taus)[65]

The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts, Ekaterinburg, Almaty and Tashkent[66]

Beautiful World, Where Are You?, curated by Kitty Scott and Sally Tallant, 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool[67]

Transformatio. Contemporary Art of Dagestan, curated by Maria Filatova, Mardjani Foundation, Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg[68]

One Place After Another, curated by Viktor Misiano and Anna Zhurba, session IV of Viktor Misiano's "The Human Condition", Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow[69]

The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence, curated by Bregje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Mirjam Varadinis, Manifesta 12, Palermo[70]

Starting From the Desert, curated by Marco Scotini, 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan[71]

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, curated by Katerina Gregos,1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga[72]

Soon Enough, Art in Action, curated by Maria Lind, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm[73]

2017

Life from My Window, curated by Andrey Misiano, Laura Bulian gallery, Milan[74]

New Literacy, curated by Joao Ribas, 4 Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg[75]

The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn[76]

The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute at Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), Tbilisi[77]

How To Live Together, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna[78]

Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice[79]

Space Force Construction, curated by Matthew Witkovsky, Richard and Ellen Sandor (Art Institute Chicago), Katerina Chuchalina with Anna Ilchenko (V-A-C Foundation), Peter Taub, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice[80]

1st Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, curated by Kate Fowle, Katya Inozemtseva, Snejana Krasteva, Andrey Misiano, Ilmira Bolotyan, Sasha Obukhova, Tatiana Volkova, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow[81]

The Border, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter, Goethe Institute, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kiev, Minsk, Dortmund[82]

2016

The Withdrawal of the Red Army, curated by Ivan Galuzin and Lise Dahl, Northern Norway Art Museum, Blaker Old Dairy, Oslo[83]

Why Won’t We Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories, curated by Raqs Media Collective, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai[84]

Social Calligraphies, curated by Magda Kardasz, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw[85]

Millennials, curated by Mirjam Westen, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem[86]

Performing the Landscape, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary[87]

VII Permanent Collection Display Interaction: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection, curated by Elena Yaichnikova, MMOMA, Moscow[88]

The Travellers, curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw[89]

Museum ON/OFF, curated by Alicia Knock, Centre Pompidou, Paris[90]

But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face, curated by Nat Muller, Lawrie Shabibi gallery, Dubai[91]

Lost in the Archive, curated by Inga Lace and Andra Silapetere, Exhibition hall Riga Art Space, Riga[92]

Baroque, Galerie Fons Welter, Amsterdam[93]

minus20degree Art & Architecture Winter Biennale, curated by Theo Deutinger and Heinz Riegler, minus20degree art and architecture biennale, Flachau, Austria.[94]

2015

Otwock, Season 5: Silvohortiaromatherapy, curated by Kasia Redzis and Magda Materna, Otwock, held by Open Art Projects and Polish artist Mirosław Bałka, Muzeum Ziemi Otwockiej (Museum of the Otwock Land), Otwock[95]

How to Gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the island of Eurasia, curated by Bart De Baere, Defne Ayas and Nicolaus Schafhausen, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNH, Moscow[96]

The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schollhammer, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv[97]

Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity, curated by Marco Scotini, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna[98]

2014

Russian Performance: a Cartography of its History, curated by Yulia Aksenova and Sasha Obukhova, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow[99]

Untitled... (Native Foreigners), curated by Andrey Misiano, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow[100]

An Opera of Labour and Revolution, curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Susanne Jaschko, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul[101]

Close and Far: Russian Photography Now, curated by Kate Bush, Calvert 22, London[102]

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai[103]

Sergey Parajanov. The Color of Pomegranate, сurated by Zaven Sargsyan, Vyacheslav Shmyrov, Katya Bochavar and Daria Khan, GROUND Solyanka Gallery, Моscow[104]

2013

Spaces of Exception, curated by Elena Sorokina and Jelle Bouwhuis, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow[105]

Nostalgia Nervosa, curated by Iliana Fokianaki, State of Concept, Athens[106]

Sensible Action, curated by Beral Madra, Alanika 2013, National Museum of Republic Northern Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz[107]

No Water Tomorrow, curated by Alexey Maslyaev, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[108]

Love me, Love me not, curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi, 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, collateral event, Venice[109]

The Enchanted Wanderer, curated by Andrey Misiano, Chukotka Heritage Museum Center, Anadyr[110]

Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, 11th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah[111]

Looks Like Torture, curated by Nicholas Cohn and Amy Kisch, HERE Art Center, New York[112]

Take a Look at Yourself, Who Do You Think You Are?, curated by Andrey Parshikov, Victoria Gallery, Samara[113]

2012

I am who I am, curated by Olga Sviblova, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany[114]

Quarantania, curated by David Thorp, Enclave, London[115]

Animal Style, curated by Ilya Shipilovskikh, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg[116]

Happiness is a Warm Gun, curated by Ekaterina Shadkovska, Rizzordi Art Foundation, Loft Raf, Saint Petersburg[117]

Quarantania, curated by David Thorp, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton[118]

Joyful Archipelago, curated by Olga Grotova, Guest Projects, London[119]

Now&Then, Victoria Gallery, Samara[120]

Migrasophia, curated by Sara Raza, Maraya Contemporary Art Centre, Sharjah[121]

Génération P, Town Hall, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre[122]

2011

Rewriting Worlds, curated by Peter Weibel, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow[123]

Expanded Cinema, curated by Olga Shishko, XII Media Forum of 33rd Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[124]

Get Up and Run Away With It – About Love and the Impossible, curated by Nadine Wietlisbach, Palais Bleu Le-Lie, Trogen[125]

Greater Caucasus, curated by Irina Yashkova, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia[126]

North Caucasian Biennale, curated by Djamilia Dagirova, Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala[127]

Practice for Everyday Life, curated by David Thorp, Calvert 22, London[128]

2010

History of Russian Video Art, Volume 3, curated by Antonio Geusa, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[129]

Zones of Alienation, curated by Marina Fomenko, LOT gallery, Lexington[130]

Intimate Capital, curated by Andrey Parshikov and Alena Lapina, 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow[131]

2009

Aluminium, curated by Leyla Akhundzadeh, 4th International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Baku[132]

Let Me Think!, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Red October, Moscow[133]

Really?, curated by Aleksandr Sokolov, the Parallel Program of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artplay, Moscow[134]

Topography of Happiness: Russian Wedding from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, curated by Olga Sosnina, Tsaritsyno State Museum, Moscow[135]

We Will Take the Lead From Now On, curated by Arseniy Zhilyaev and Maria Chekhonadskih, Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, Voronezh[136]

2008

Migration, curated by Daria Kamyshnikova, 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[137]

I Am Nature, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Stop! Who goes there?”, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow[138]

Documenting Possibilities, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg

2006

Caucasica, curated by Giancarlo Vianello, Scuola Grande di S.Giovanni Evangelista, Venice

XII INTERBIFER International Biennale of Portrait, Drawings and Graphics 06, Tuzla

• 2019 Kadist Foundation, Paris[139]
• 2018 SAM Art Project, Paris[140]
• 2018 Aki Aora, Tulum[141]
• 2016 Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide[142]
• 2015-2016 Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht[143]
• 2015 Delfina Foundation, London[144]
• 2013 Alanica, Art Symposium, Vladikavkaz[145]

• Raza, Sara. Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion. Dog Press, 2022
• Dekker, Elsbeth; Schweige, Robbie. Beginning in the Middle. Jap Sam Books, 2022
• Phaidon Editors. Prime - Art’s Next Generation, Phaidon Press, 2022
• Tlostanova, Madina. Decoloniality of being, knowledge and feeling, Tselinnii, 2020
• Schweizer, Nicole; Z. Rizvi Uzma, van Velsen, Vincent ed, Taus Makhacheva. 4`224,92 cm’2 of Degas, Fondation du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 2020
• Burrows, Dani, Cezar Aaron ed. Politics of Food, co-published by Delfina Foundation and Sternberg Press, 2019
• Kholeif, Omar. The Artists Who Will Change the World, Thames and Hudson, 2018
• Makhacheva, Taus. Tightrope, V-A-C Press, Mousse Publishing, 2017
• Makhacheva, Taus. Types du Caucase. Onestar Press, 2014
• Makhacheva, Taus; Maslyaev, Alexey ed. Story Demands to Be Continued. Self-published, 2013
• Amirsadeghi, Hossein; Vickery, Joanna ed. Frozen Dreams: Contemporary Art from Russia, Thames and Hudson, 2011

• Artist of the Week: Taus Makhacheva, as a part of HANDS exhibition, Akademie der Kuenste der Welt, 2021
• Interview with Taus Makhacheva, Part 5, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, 2021
• Interview by Masha Komarova,Glavstroy, 2021
• Taus Makhacheva: My doubts became part of my method, Russian Art Focus, 2021
• Taus Makhacheva: Hold Your Horses at The Tetley, The Tetly, 2020
• Superhero Sighting Society, Kadist, Paris, 2019
• Beauty School: a conversation with Taus Makhacheva, Art in America, 2018
• The Art Newspaper Russia, 2018.08
• The Art Newspaper Russia, Taus Makhacheva: art as a balancing act, 2018.07
• Artists talk: Taus Makhacheva and Evgeny Antufiev, Harper’s Bazaar, 2016
• Art Guide, 2015

• Wynants, Jean-Marie. The Circus we are à Namur. Les acrobaties de l'art, Le Soir, August 2022
• Bidshahri, Yalda. Taus Makhacheva`s “A Space of Celebration”. ArtAsiaPacific, June 2022
• Duplat, Guy. Bienvenue dans le grand cirque de la vie, La libre Belgique. May 2022
• The artists. Taus Makhacheva. Daily Canvas. The Richard Mille Special Issue.
• Sinha, Vamika. Art from the Fault Lines. Canvas, May-June, 2022
• Dekker, Elsbeth; Schweiger, Robbie. Beginning in the middle. Mister Motley, April 2022
• Beredian, Razmig. Russian artist Taus Makhacheva entwines the real with reveries in solo Dubai show. The National, March 2022
• Ex, Nicole. Taus Makhacheva. See All This Art Magazine, No. 20, 2020/2021
• Schellenberg, Samuel. Taus Makhacheva. Remodelage. Le courrier, March 2020
• House, Arthur. Bread and Soviet circuses – a letter from Baku. Taus Makhacheva, Charivari’ installation, October 2019
• Serafinowicz, Sylwia. Taus Makhacheva. narrative projects. ArtForum, December 2018
• Verhagen, Marcus. Taus Makhacheva. BaidÀ. narrative projects. Art Monthly, November 2018
• Jeffreys, Tom. In Search of the Ridiculous: Taus Makhacheva’s Performative Follies. Frieze, 7 October 2018
• Sutton, Kate. Taus Makhacheva. Openings. ArtForum, February 2016
• Ahmady, Leeza. From Central Asia to the Caucasus. In conversation with Taus Makhacheva. Ibraaz, March 2015
• Pertenava, Lali. Taus Makhacheva. ArtForum, February 2014
• Bailey, Stephanie. Her Dagestan. ArtAsiaPacific No.87, 2014
• Laia, Joao. Taus Makhacheva. Frieze magazine No.160, 2014
• Tolstova, Anna. Continuation of heart and hand. Taus Makhacheva in Makhachkala. Kommersant No.187(5218), 2013
• Avdeev, Maxim. One day with Taus Makhacheva, Art Chronika No. 4, 2012
• Scotini, Marco. Strategies of Camouflage. Taus Makhacheva’s actions. ArteCritica No.67, 2011
• Chekhonadskikh, Maria. Shots into the Sand by Taus Makhacheva. Moscow Art Magazine No.81, 2010
• Gamzatova, Patimat. Karakul by Taus Makhacheva. ANTENNAE No.4, 2007

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