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 see this piece as a dialogue between structure and spontaneity. My hands move across the paper with a desire to build something stable, yet the colors themselves are restless, pushing against the boundaries of the grid. By working with tempera, I am able to stack one thought directly on top of another without them bleeding together, preserving the individual 'voice' of every ochre, teal, and crimson.
The lines I've carved into the surface are my way of digging back through time—searching for the light that I buried under the first few layers. I didn't want a flat image; I wanted a rhythmic field of vision where the eye can never quite settle. To me, this painting isn't just a collection of squares; it’s an emotional map. It’s about the tension of trying to hold onto a moment while it’s busy fragmenting into a thousand different hues. I hope you feel the pulse of the paint as much as I felt it while the brush was in my hand