GROUP EXHIBITION

A Home with a View Gazelli Art House 9 March–31 May 2026 Baku

Press Release

Her Art in Action 2026: A Home with a View brings together a multigenerational group of artists whose practices reflect on the shifting meanings of home, belonging, and visibility. Through painting, photography, installation, and interdisciplinary approaches, the exhibition foregrounds women’s voices while tracing connections across personal memory, collective history, and contemporary life. Positioned within a broader festival framework, the project fosters dialogue between local and international practitioners, creating space for exchange, mentorship, and shared authorship. By situating artistic production within both intimate and public contexts, the exhibition reimagines home as a site of agency, resilience, and cultural continuity.

VarYox and Gazelli Art House Baku presents the group exhibition Her Art in Action 2026: A Home with a View. Her Art in Action is a three-month women’s art festival taking place from March to May 2026 across multiple sites in Baku, Azerbaijan. Initiated by VarYox Art and Culture Platform, Her Art in Action is an annual initiative dedicated to advancing gender balance in the arts, expanding cultural access, and strengthening Azerbaijan’s international cultural presence through inclusive, high-quality programming.

Launched in 2024, Her Art in Action emerged in response to the structural invisibility of women artists, particularly those working outside capital cities and established institutions. The festival operates as an alternative cultural infrastructure, offering production support, mentorship, exhibition opportunities, and curatorial collaboration while prioritising intergenerational dialogue, care, and collective authorship.

Her Art in Action functions both as a contemporary art event and as a long-term cultural practice, building sustainable networks among women artists, curators, and cultural practitioners. The festival centers women’s voices, agency, and solidarity.

Now in its third edition, Her Art in Action has emerged as a rare festival in the region dedicated exclusively to women’s artistic production and transnational exchange. The project actively connects women from Azerbaijan and the wider region, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Georgia, Egypt, the Balkans, Spain and Lithuania. By fostering collaboration across these geographies, the festival counters cultural isolation and cultivates a shared space shaped by collective histories, mobility, and contemporary urgencies.

A Home with a View approaches home not as a fixed location, but as a shifting condition shaped by the feminine experience. Moving beyond domestic associations, the theme explores how women create, define, challenge, and reclaim space within the tension between public and private life, visibility and withdrawal, belonging and resistance.

Home is understood as a layered and contested concept, entangled with family, nostalgia, learning, longing, expectation, displacement, migration, ecological responsibility, and community care. Artists are invited to interpret home expansively: as a physical site, but also as ritual, relationship, memory, or body. The theme asks how home can emerge in unexpected places and alliances, transforming it into a site of self-definition, agency, and shared imagination.

The festival unfolds through a constellation of exhibitions and public programs.