An Azerbaijani visual artist working across installation, painting, and stage design. She graduated from the Azerbaijan State Art Academy with a bachelor’s degree in 2015 and a master’s degree in 2021. Since 2018, she has been researching the “Visual Language of Carpets,” reinterpreting traditional patterns within a contemporary artistic framework.
Her work has been shown internationally in Lithuania, Germany, and Ireland, as well as in numerous exhibitions across Azerbaijan. She is a member of the Azerbaijan State Union of Artists and has received multiple awards, including the 1st Prize from the Union (2018) and the Luxmundi Gallery Prize dedicated to M. Mushviq (2024). In 2024, her kinetic installation Nature was exhibited at the National Qurama Festival in Baku. She has also participated in Erasmus+ artistic projects in Ireland and Germany.
Currently, Guliyeva works with Ritual Theatre, a local independent theatre dedicated to documentary performances. Within this framework, she has created several documentary installations, merging visual art and theatre to explore cultural memory, identity, and space. Her recent public-art installation “Architecture of İnvisibility” (2026) is currently being held at Yarat Contemporary Art Space.
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I treat this paper as a site of construction, building a landscape out of pure light and friction. For me, tempera is the perfect medium for this dialogue; it dries with a speed that demands honesty and prevents me from over-thinking the mark. Each block of color is a physical choice—a brick laid in an emotional structure that doesn't require a horizon line to feel grounded.
In this work, I wanted to capture the feeling of a 'contained sun.' The central mosaic of bright blues, oranges, and pinks acts as a core of energy, held in place by the heavier, earthier tones of the border. I move the brush across the surface to find a rhythm, layering cool teals against searing yellows to create a visual pulse. There is no hidden subject to find here; the 'story' is simply the movement of the pigment and the joy of the application. I hope that when you look at this, you stop trying to see an object and instead start feeling the heat of the red against the cold of the blue. It is a record of a moment where color became my only language