Gulnur Mukazhanova
Residency Period
May-Jun 2022
Gulnur Mukazhanova currently lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2006 and completed her MA in Textile and Surface Design at the Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin in Germany in 2013.
Her art is not only a confrontation of two different cultures but also a dialogue between them. Greatly influenced by her Central Asian roots, Mukazhanova utilises traditional materials that are not only used for their aesthetics but have a symbolic and historic significance. While living in Germany, she has been confronted by questions about feminism, globalisation and ethnology which have been examined in her work.
Image courtesy: Gulnur Mukazhanova
Photo: Patricia Schichl
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2022
Öliara: The Dark Moon, Mimosa House, London, UK
2021
The Space of Silence, Aspan Gallery, Almaty, Kazahkstan
2016
Post-nomadic Realities, Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Trecento Workshop, Galerie Italienne, Paris, France
Points of Resistance, Momentum, Berlin, Germany
2019
Racing the Galaxy, Astana Art Show, TSE Art Destination Gallery, Astana, Kazakhstan
2018
Focus Kazakhstan: Bread and Roses, Momentum / Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Focus Kazakhstan: Post-nomadic Mind, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London
2015
Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2014
A Time for Dreams, The 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2010
IN DEFENCE. Artists from Africa, Asia, Europe, Russia, USA and Middle East, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
2007
52nd Venice Biennale, Central Asia Pavilion, Venice, Italy