My work explores how histories persist in places, materials and everyday life. Working across sound, textiles, installation, image-making and archival research, I often begin with existing traces—a site, an object, a photograph, a document or a recorded voice—and examine the political and cultural narratives they carry.
Through processes of sampling, repetition and recomposition, I bring fragments from different times and perspectives into new relationships, tracing the tensions between official narratives and lived experience and the ways the past continues to shape the present.
Alongside my solo practice, I am a member of the Mu Collective, a group of artists from Kalmykia.
PROCESS
CV
born in 1985 in Kalmykia, Russia
currently residing in Berlin, Germany
Mail: sarangova@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2016 – 2020 University of the Arts Berlin, MA Art in Context (Prof. Jörg Heiser)
2011 – 2014 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, BA Hons in Performance Design & Practice
2010 – 2011 Camberwell College of Art and Design, Foundation Degree
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2026
Spitzen Rauschen | Solo exhibition, lecture performance | Die Pforte / Prater Galerie, Berlin
Sorry 108 | Mutual Orbits | CTM Vorspiel, Berlin
2025
Up Close - Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin: February 2026
Authenticity, Novelty, and Uniqueness: Lecture performance, Spore Initiative, Berlin: October 2025
2024
Dissolution: Performance | Ringtheater Berlin
Shuud Busaar | COROOTED Gallery Showcase |Paris, France
Let’s keep it, Let’s Skip it: Lecture - Performance | Ringtheater Berlin
Lenin Square. Elista | Artdocfest Online Selection
2023
Stim Toys Lab | Flutgraben, Berlin
Metamorph: Performance at In:visible Festival | Left Bank, Tbilisi, Georgia
SOUND/IMAGE 2023 | The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
Decoloniality and Sound | Live-Performance, Aktionshaus Berlin
Motherland II: OME | Group show at Bethanien/Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2022
Supermarket | Charity Art Exhibition Art With Ukraine | Erika-Fuchs-Haus, Bayern
2021
Motherland I | Feminist Translocalities | Typographia Centre, Krasnodar, Russia
2020
Lenin Square. Elista: Screening | Red Square Festival, Berlin
Safeguard: Performance | Work Hard! Play Hard! Platform | Minsk, Belarus
2019
Eurospin: Sound Walk | Work Hard! Play Hard! Side Affects Program | Minsk, Belarus
Archaeology of Progress |CMR Project Space, Redruth, UK; Broadcast on Radiophrenia Radio at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2018
Sinn | Fremd-Anamnesis Group show | Stillpoint Spaces Berlin
2017 -2014
Archaeology of Progress. Lviv | TETRAMATYKA Festival of Audiovisual Art, Lviv, Ukraine
Motherland I | 48 Stunden Neukölln | Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Motherland I: Screening | Whitechapel Gallery Open Screenings, London
COLLABORATIVE/CURATORIAL WORK
2024
Duo Premiere (Maximilian Schweizer und Victoria Sarangova) | Live Performance | Aktionhaus, Berlin
2023
MU Collective: Zine, Video (with Gerel Puteeva, Gerel Erendzhenova, Kristina Dobr ) | OME Group show at Bethanien/Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2022
Make Noise for Ukraine: participative performance (mit Maximilian Schweizer) | soundartradio, Cornwall, UK
Memory and War: Live-Sound design (with Jeanna Kolesova, Maximilian Schweizer) | Ballhaus Ost Theatre, Berlin
2021
MU Collective: Exhibition of contemporary art from Kalmykia, curated in collaboration with G. Puteeva, G. Erendzhenova and K. Dobr. | DDT, Elista
2018 - 2013
How To Feel Better? Investigative performance (with János Brückner, Xaver Hirsch, Astarte Posch) | Performing Arts Festival Berlin
Procession (with Anton Lapov)| Showcase of Ukrainian Media art | Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
RESIDENCIES
2023
In:visible Residency, Untitled Gallery | Tbilisi, Georgia
2022
CMR Residency | Redruth, Cornwall, UK
2021
Feminist Translocalities | Bashkortostan
2019
Work Hard! Play Hard! Side Affects | Minsk, Belarus
Back Lane West | Cornwall, UK
ARTIST TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2024
Re-synthesizing Identities | Artist talk and listening session | CTM Discourse Program, Berlin
2023
SOUNDEAST - Sonic Inquiries Into Cultures from Central and Eastern Europe & Central Asia
GRANTS/PRIZES/STIPENDS
2024
Artdocfest Online Program Selection
2017
STEP Travel Grant for Engaged Partnership
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My work explores how histories persist in places, materials and everyday life. Working across sound, textiles, installation, image-making and archival research, I often begin with existing traces—a site, an object, a photograph, a document or a recorded voice—and examine the political and cultural narratives they carry.
Through processes of sampling, repetition and recomposition, I bring fragments from different times and perspectives into new relationships, tracing the tensions between official narratives and lived experience and the ways the past continues to shape the present.
Alongside my solo practice, I am a member of the Mu Collective, a group of artists from Kalmykia.
Process
Curriculum Vitae (CV):
born in 1985 in Kalmykia, Russia
currently residing in Berlin, Germany
Mail: sarangova@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2016 – 2020 University of the Arts Berlin, MA Art in Context (Prof. Jörg Heiser)
2011 – 2014 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, BA Hons in Performance Design & Practice
2010-2011 Camberwell College of Art and Design, Foundation Degree
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2026
Spitzen Rauschen | Solo exhibition, lecture performance | Die Pforte / Prater Galerie, Berlin
Sorry 108 | Mutual Orbits | CTM Vorspiel, Berlin
2025
Up Close - Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin: 18 October 2025 – 25 February 2026
Authenticity, Novelty, and Uniqueness: Lecture performance, Spore Initiative, Berlin: 18 October 2025
2024
Dissolution: Performance | Ringtheater Berlin
Shuud Busaar | COROOTED Gallery Showcase |Paris, France
Let’s keep it, Let’s Skip it: Lecture - Performance | Ringtheater Berlin
Lenin Square. Elista | Artdocfest Online Selection
2023
Stim Toys Lab | Flutgraben, Berlin
Metamorph: Performance at In:visible Festival | Left Bank, Tbilisi, Georgia
SOUND/IMAGE 2023 | The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
Decoloniality and Sound | Live-Performance, Aktionshaus Berlin
Motherland II: OME | Group show at Bethanien/Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2022
Supermarket | Charity Art Exhibition Art With Ukraine | Erika-Fuchs-Haus, Bayern
2021
Motherland I | Feminist Translocalities | Typographia Centre, Krasnodar, Russia
2020
Lenin Square. Elista: Screening | Red Square Festival, Berlin
Safeguard: Performance | Work Hard! Play Hard! Platform | Minsk, Belarus
2019
Eurospin: Sound Walk | Work Hard! Play Hard! Side Affects Program | Minsk, Belarus
Archaeology of Progress |CMR Project Space, Redruth, UK; Broadcast on Radiophrenia Radio at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2018
Sinn | Fremd-Anamnesis Group show | Stillpoint Spaces Berlin
2017 -2014
Archaeology of Progress. Lviv | TETRAMATYKA Festival of Audiovisual Art, Lviv, Ukraine
Motherland I | 48 Stunden Neukölln | Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Motherland I: Screening | Whitechapel Gallery Open Screenings, London
COLLABORATIVE/CURATORIAL WORK
2024
Duo Premiere (Maximilian Schweizer und Victoria Sarangova) | Live Performance | Aktionhaus, Berlin
2023
MU Collective: Zine, Video (with Gerel Puteeva, Gerel Erendzhenova, Kristina Dobr ) | OME Group show at Bethanien/Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2022
Make Noise for Ukraine: participative performance (mit Maximilian Schweizer) | soundartradio, Cornwall, UK
Memory and War: Live-Sound design (with Jeanna Kolesova, Maximilian Schweizer) | Ballhaus Ost Theatre, Berlin
2021
MU Collective: Exhibition of contemporary art from Kalmykia, curated in collaboration with G. Puteeva, G. Erendzhenova and K. Dobr. | DDT, Elista
2018 - 2013
How To Feel Better?: Investigative performance (with János Brückner, Xaver Hirsch, Astarte Posch) | Performing Arts Festival Berlin
Procession (with Anton Lapov)| Showcase of Ukrainian Media art | Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
RESIDENCIES
2023
In:visible Residency, Untitled Gallery | Tbilisi, Georgia
2022
CMR Residency | Redruth, Cornwall, UK
2021
Feminist Translocalities | Bashkortostan
2019
Work Hard! Play Hard! Side Affects | Minsk, Belarus
Back Lane West | Cornwall, UK
ARTIST TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2024
Re-synthesizing Identities | Artist talk and listening session | CTM Discourse Program, Berlin
2023
SOUNDEAST - Sonic Inquiries Into Cultures from Central and Eastern Europe & Central Asia
GRANTS/PRIZES/STIPENDS
2025
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt, Berlin
2024
Artdocfest Online Program Selection
2017
STEP Travel Grant for Engaged Partnership
DOWNLOADS
NEWSLETTER