Tanya Karpova
Tanya Karpova is a Moscow-based ceramic sculptor who actively participates in the art scene both in Russia and internationally. In their artistic practice, Tanya explores the expressive possibilities of various ceramic materials, including porcelain.
Education
2023 CLAY RESIDENCY get art fit
2021 Ceramic Workshop, Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
2020 "Contemporary Ceramics", British Higher School of Art and Design
2006 Faculty of Graphic Arts, Moscow State University of Printing Arts

Selected Exhibitions
2024
— Cosmoscow 2024 International Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow
— "Traces of Life", solo exhibition, Saint Petersburg
— "Open in 100 Years", Moscow
— ART&CLAY, Manner-matter & British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow
2023
— 1000 VASES, GALERIE JOSEPH, Paris
2022
— Win-win, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
— "Contemporary Ceramics", Artplay, Moscow

I create ceramic objects that are born at the border of sleep and wakefulness, in the twilight of consciousness—places where logic no longer operates and images emerge on their own: abandoned labyrinthine castles where there is nowhere to hide, semi-ruined houses with colonnades that recede and become narrower and narrower, self-contained forms, stone plants, clusters of nocturnal energy and thoughts. These states are elusive, but in clay I try to give them weight, density, and almost corporeal presence.
Fear, loneliness, uncertainty, weightlessness, uncontrolled growth, being stuck—these images do not come in words; they appear as forms, volumes, inner voids. What interests me is not just fantasy but the very moment of transition, when consciousness softens and something primal surfaces: fear, memory, tension in the body. I sculpt by hand, rarely using tools, so that the form retains its inner tremor and vibration, imperfection, a sense of dampness and fog. In dreams, there is no need for words—everything exists through sensations.
My objects are frozen fragments of a nocturnal dialogue. The conversation is unfinished: meaning hovers in the air, the answer is elusive—but that is not the point. What matters is the process itself. I try to hear myself through another voice. In ceramics, I do not create a meaning—I create a field in which meaning may emerge.
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