Shalala Salamzadeh (b. 1995, Baku, Azerbaijan) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work spans video art, generative processes, and post-internet aesthetics. Her practice explores the psychological states of the individual in the digital era, confronting the ways in which collective memory, identity, and cultural archetypes are shaped and distorted by algorithms, cyber aesthetics, and technological mediation.
Blending digital mythologies with narrative structures rooted in poetry and speculative theory, Salamzadeh constructs layered visual languages through data transformation. She draws from mythology, fairytales, and digital debris to interrogate how inherited symbols adapt to contemporary anxieties and desires, often using irony and poetic misalignment as tools of resistance and inquiry.
Her evolving practice has been featured in exhibitions, festivals, and biennales, including The Wrong Biennale, the Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, Pejman Foundation in Tehran, Gazelli Art House, and Sapar Contemporary in New York. Her video installations and experimental works have also been shown at exhibitions across Germany, Korea, and Scotland.
In recent years, Salamzadeh’s projects have centered on corrupted memory, the aesthetics of disappearance, and hybrid identities — explored through immersive digital environments and time-based media. By examining how memory is preserved, lost, or reimagined through technology, her works navigate the thin boundary between the constructed self and the fractured archive.
She currently lives and works in Baku.
Representation & Platforms
Residencies
2024 3rd National Gurama Art Festival. Baku, Azerbaijan
2024 The node to nowhere. biennale.NO ⨉
2024 X Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Tashkent. Uzbekistan ⨉
2024 Geometry of creation. E1 Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran ⨉ ⨉ ⨉ ⨉
2024 Unobservable dreams. Yarat! Contemporary Art Space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2024 One-Off Moving Image Fest/60Secs Festival. Fotografisk Center. Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 2nd National Gurama Art Festival. Baku Photography House, Azerbaijan ⨉
2023 Culture and Creative Industries Expo. Heydar Aliyev Center. Baku, Azerbaijan
2023 One-Off Moving Image Festival/60Secs Festival. The Wrong Biennale ⨉
2023 Chromatic Reveries. Gazelli Art House. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉ ⨉
2022 Selected artists. Gazelli Art House. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2022 Make yourself at home. Ta(r)dino 6 Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2022 objekt klein a. KulturAktiv/Ta(r)dino 6 Gallery. Dresden, Germany ⨉
2022 One-Off Moving Image Festival/60Secs Festival. Seoul, Korea ⨉
2021 One-Off Moving Image Festival/60Secs Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark ⨉
2021 CyberHouri pavilion. The Wrong Biennale ⨉
2021 Art on the Wall. Novembre Numérique Festival. Ta(r)dino 6 Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
2021 La Musée: Discourse on Happiness. Novembre Numérique Festival. Ta(r)dino 6 ⨉ ⨉
2021 GLITCH: PIXEL AESTHETIC. Pejman Foundation: Kandovan. Tehran, Iran ⨉ ⨉
2021 The City of the Sun. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2021 GLITCH: PIXEL LANGUAGE. Bavan Gallery. Tehran, Iran ⨉ ⨉
2020 The warrior myth: Agents for peace. “Maiden Tower. To be a Woman” Festival of CA ⨉
2020 The node to nowhere. biennale.NO ⨉
2020 Emerging Voices: Stories from Isolation. Sapar Contemporary. New York, USA ⨉ ⨉ ⨉
2020 Contemporary & Digital Art Fair. Curated by Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform for .ART. ⨉
2019 Experiential time. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2019 Underneath the web, there’s a beach! NEoN Festival. Dundee, Scotland ⨉
2019 This is not a map. The Wrong Biennale ⨉
2019 Perfect users. The Wrong Biennale ⨉
2019 Child of Magohalmi and echos of creation. Yarat! Contemporary art space ⨉
2019 Experience. Thoughts. Conclusion. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan. ⨉
2018 Appearances. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2018 Nasimi Festival. Kichik QalArt Gallery. Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 Mapping the Intangible. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2018 Neuroimaging. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2018 ARTIM Rooms. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2018 Think that everything that exists, does not exist. YAY gallery. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉ ⨉
2017 Rebirth.exe. ARTIM project space. Baku, Azerbaijan ⨉
2017 Conexus. Yarat studios. Baku, Azerbaijan