Aneliya Avtandilova is a cross-media artist working with text, sound, and moving image. A Bard College graduate, former British Council and Goethe-Institut music fellow, she began her practice as the leader of the doom-pop band Chkbns, featured on KEXP, SXSW, The Great Escape, Lot Radio and The Clash, before shifting her focus toward writing and hybrid narrative forms.

Her solo music project ada ardor has been featured on BBC Radio and included in the Rolling Stone magazine's 20 Artists to Watch.

Across music, film and performance, Aneliya explores language as a sensorial and cultural medium that’s attentive to emotional states and insular moments that resist direct articulation. Her work engages humour, musicality, and narrative as tools for creating shared affect, often drawing on real speech, dialects, and found text. Living as an immigrant over the past five years has shaped her interest in text and image as sites of belonging, where incompatible temporalities and logics can coexist without resolution.

Aneliya's artistic development has been supported by the British Council, Goethe-Institut, Swedish Institute, and Help Musicians UK.