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. I am not interested in describing a scene, but in building a structure out of pure, vibrating light. Working with tempera requires a certain fearlessness; its quick-drying nature forces me to be decisive, stacking one emotional brick on top of another until the surface begins to pulse.
In this piece, I wanted to explore the tension between deep, grounding shadows and the searing heat of the sun. The blacks and forest greens aren't just voids—they are the foundation upon which the reds and oranges dance. Every block of color is a choice to disrupt the space, to create a rhythm that feels both architectural and organic. There is no intended horizon line or secret subject to find; the 'truth' of the work is simply the energy of the pigment and the physical record of my hand moving across the surface. I want the viewer to stop looking for a 'thing' and start feeling the heat of the red against the cold of the blue. This is a map of a feeling, rendered in the language of light