Tanya V. Abelson

Tanya V. Abelson is an Argentinian artist based in Berlin. Through sculpture, she explores the elasticity of the body by musical instrumental sculptures, video, sound, performance, and fashion.

Tanya studied in Buenos Aires at the Artist Program, University Torcuato Di Tella; later at Universität der Künste, Berlin; and graduated from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, in 2018. In recent years, she has collaborated with musicians, composers, and fashion designers on her "soft sculptures" made by upcycled truck tyres.

Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, Argentina, and Brazil. In 2020, she was awarded the Art Contemporary prize by the Zonta Club Frankfurt II Rhein-Main. In 2023, she participated in the London Atelier scholarship from the Hessische Kultur Stiftung. In the same year, she took part in the Art Prize at Piccadilly Lights. In 2024, Abelson received the Wöhr + Reinheimer Scholarship and the Research Grant for Fine Arts, Senate Department for Culture, Berlin. In 2026, she received the International Cooperation Scholarship from the Senate Department for Culture, Berlin.