Sattar Stas Shärifulla is a Basel-based artist, composer and researcher studying how listening shapes identity and memory.

Born and raised in Eastern Siberia, with Yılan Bashqort ancestry (the “Bashkirs” of the Elan tribe), he explores the auditory nature of North and Central Asian autochthonous cultures, where listening and sounding have historically been more important than writing. Drawing on his own dis–re–connection to this heritage, Stas is primarily focused on how settler colonialism subjugates and distorts Indigenous knowledge, reducing its sociopolitical purpose to the production of exotic museum artifacts — and how to undo these dynamics.
Working with both traditional instruments and computer music tools, Sattar practices in a wide range of media, including freeform composition, live listening sessions, public talks and interventions, installations, and more. These works have been featured at numerous international venues and events, including the Manifesta 10, Jan Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), Fondation Beyeler (Basel), CTM Festival and Transmediale (Berlin), Kaserne Basel, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Arts (Middelburg), Rytmisk Music Conservatory (Copenhagen), Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture (Almaty), Volksbühne Theater (Berlin), Rote Fabrik (Zürich), MaerzMusik Festival, Biennale for Sound and Listening (Struer), NEXT Festival (Bratislava), Copernicus Science Centre (Warsaw), Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall (Yerevan), The Potter Museum of Art (Naarm), and many others.
Stas is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel and a guest docent and mentor at the Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK FHNW. Since 2025, he has co-curated the thematic strand and artistic research project Resynthesising the Traditional at the CTM Festival, as well as the II Korkut Sonic Arts Triennale at the Tselinny Center (Almaty).