Daria Goncharova is a Russian-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of language, social structures and documents. She has been in exile since 2022 and currently lives in Belgrade, Serbia, where she is actively involved in the local art community. With a background in civil engineering from the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2011-2015), she also graduated from the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art (2022-2024).
Her works, rooted in research-based methodologies, focuse on themes of identity through the prism of bureaucratic processes, as well as processes of interaction with everyday life.
EDUCATION
2022 — 2024, “New Artistic Strategies”, Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art
2011 — 2015, Samara’s State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025, “Ritualising Uncertainty”, Zaratan — Arte Contemporânea gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2025, Duo exhibition “Any coincidences are accidental”, Kvaka22 gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2024, “Notes in the Margins”, Villa Ruffieux, Sierre, Switzerland
2024, “Pockets in the Closet “, SULUJ gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2024, “Pseudonyms”, Transformart gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2022, “Other”, Artcommunalka Museum, Kolomna, Russia
2022, “The Worlds i[i]”, Centre for Contemporary Culture The Zero Room, Samara, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, New Year’s group exhibition, Transformart gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2024, “Questions of Belonging” the Art Weekend Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
2024, Black Box during festival “Mikser Balkan”, Belgrade, Serbia
2024, Annual Festival of Alternative Art, NPAK, Yerevan, Armenia
2023, “ART WEEKEND 2.0”, DKC Pomorandza, Podgorica, Montenegro
2023, “Quantum critic” at metaverse space, Myymälä 2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2023, Final exhibition based on the results of the art residency at KC Grad, Belgrade, Serbia
2023, Instant exhibition “Frontier: Home”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2023, “On the Other Side of the River”, Silk Factory Museum-Laboratory, Kolomna, Russia
2022, “Single colour”, Reloft Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022, “Marathon of group exhibitions”, Arts Square Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022, “Evolutionary Symphony”, Electrozavod gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021, Final exhibition within the framework of the All-Russian art festival “Youth of Russia”, the museum New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021, Final Group Exhibition “Nature in the city. Inhuman heterotopies”, Kunsthalle nummer sieben gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021, “Pavilion Russе́”, галерея Haze, Berlin, Germany
2021, “Episode” organized by the Ozero gallery, Line gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021, “Own game " as part of the International Collage Festival “Cut and Glue Fest”, Na
Peschanoj gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021, Exhibition of Sensitive Art “Takt”, Lines gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021, “Data 6” at the Zverev Gallery of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2017, “Avangard. A New Interpretation” at Russian Architects Union, Samara, Russia
2016, Togliatti’s Fine Arts Museum Group Exhibition “Vyunosti” organized by the Department of Contemporary Art, Togliatti, Russia
2016, Group exhibition “The Year of Russian Cinema” in Samara’s Youth Regional Library, Samara, Russia
RESIDENCIES
2025, Residency Zaratan Air, Lisbon, Portugal
2024, Residency Villa Ruffieux with the support of the Château Mercier Foundation, Sierre, Switzerland
2023, Virtual Belgrade AIR Paris Program, Center 424, Serbia
2023, Group studios at KC Grad, Belgrade, Serbia
2022, Residency Artcomunalka Museum, Kolomna, Russia
2021, Residency from the Union of Artists, in the direction of “New Forms”, Senezh Lake, Russia
LABORATORIES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES
2025, PLATFORM, Program for artists working in
non-conventional venues, IN SITU, led by Lieux publics
2025, Season 2, Non-human Research Online Reading Group
“Non-Human Animals and Technology”, Garage Digital
2024, Non-human Research Online Reading Group “Non-Human Animals and Technology”, Garage Digital
2023, Workshop “Family archives, public space and collective hisyory” with Italian artist Laura Fiorio, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
2023, Workshop “Pivo, poems, politics — How to write in a foreign country” with Swiss writer and journalist Timo Krstin, KC Grad, Belgrade
2023, Writing Workshop with French writer Stéphanie Masson, KC Grad, Belgrade
2022, The member of the laboratory of the Theater residence “Act 1” in the library Cabinet. St. Petersburg
2021, The member of the director’s laboratory of the All-Russian festival of green theater “Ecotopia”
2021, The member of the laboratory of “Nature in the city. Non-human heterotopias” by the Cityscrepy
2021, The member of the laboratory of contemporary art “Episode” organized by the Ozero gallery
2021, The member of the participatory inclusive laboratory “Takt” organized by the ‘Thursday’foundation
2016-2017, Participated at the “Smart Art Cultural Project Accelerator"- educational project created by the management art school SMART ART
GRANTS, AWARDS
2024, Grant “Culture Moves Europe” program, from Goethe-Institut
2021, “Naro-Fominsk: the Naro-Fominsk Silk Factory Concept Design Contest”. Top three finalists
2021, Grant from ‘Thursday’ foundation during the participatory inclusive laboratory “Takt”
2018, Samara: “Samara of the Future” contest. The Winner in the category “Urban Project”
FAIRS
2023, “Tupik”, Museum ART 4