Yaniya Mikhalina (she/her) is a Volga Tatar research-based artist based in Oslo, navigating postcolonial realities, its difficult pasts and possible scenarios for reparative futures. She works across disciplines, mainly with (moving) image, sound, archive and non-exemplary material heritage, often sourced from family archives and contemporary political conditions. Mikhalina is about to finish her PhD in Artistic Research project at the Trondheim Art Academy, NTNU, titled “The Colonial Mәdness: Feminist-Indigenous Cosmologies”