Gulnur Mukazhanova 1984 was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, shortly before the end of the USSR. She studied at the Art Academy in Almaty and the Kunsthochschule in Berlin Weißensee. Still living in Berlin, she has been working for years mainly with textiles. Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by Kazakh textile traditions, with felt serving as one of the central materials in her work. Drawing on traditional craft techniques and contemporary conceptual approaches, Mukazhanova explores themes of memory, identity, and the transformation of cultural values within the post-Soviet and globalized world.

Through repetitive hand processes and multilayered material structures, her works examine how traumatic collective memory, transmitted unconsciously from one generation to another, continues to shape perception, behavior, and the inner structures of contemporary society. By engaging with tactile materials and labor-intensive processes, she creates works that embody both fragility and endurance, reflecting the tensions between preservation and transformation.

Her practice investigates the relationship between personal and collective memory, bodily experience, and cultural heritage, while using artistic processes as a way to observe, uncover, and understand the psychological mechanisms underlying these conditions. Through abstraction, repetition, and materiality, Mukazhanova approaches art as a space for reflection on inherited histories, unresolved trauma, and the subtle ways the past continues to inhabit the present.