Nana Biakova is interdisciplinary artist, performer, born in Mykolaiv. Her canvas is her own bodily form, which she uses as a neutral material to delve into patterns of memory, boundaries and transitions, identity and the relationship between the human body and the non-human. Nana often works in interaction with environments, lost or forgotten, temporarily unused by their essences.
She has an education in Ship Interior Design, obtained at the Mykolaiv University of Shipbuilding of Admiral Makarov. Since 2016, Nana has devoted herself to the practice of Ankoku Butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance that emerged after World War II and is often referred to as the “dance of death.” She researched the history of Butoh through the Tatsumi Hijikata archive at the Keio University Art Center and danced as part of the Butoh collective “Muteki-sha” under the guidance of Natsu Nakajima in Tokyo. After 3 years of emigration and a year of full-scale war, Nana returned to Ukraine. Currently based between Kyiv and Mykolaiv.
