A visual artist, she holds a baccalaureate degree in Arts from Goldsmiths College in London, United Kingdom, 2007, and a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, in the same city, 2013. Makhacheva develops a performance-based practice, working with video, photography and installation. A Russian descendent of Republic of Dagestan’s Avar ethnic group, she questions the traditional forms of history constitution, as well as culture and gender norms, through reflection on the role of traditional heritage in contemporaneity. Her work combines the Caucasus’ landscape and history into a meditation on the natural and the cultural, identity and otherness. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany (2014); 55th Venice Biennale, Italy (2013); 7th Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom (2012); 11th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2013); 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia (2011); Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia (2010). Taus Makhacheva lives and works between Makhachkala and Moscow.