Nazilya Nagimova is a visual artist born in 1982 in Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan. Since 2004, she lives in Germany. She has been educated at the School of Arts in Kazan then the Academy of Münster, Germany. Nagimova works mainly with textile as a means to approach subjects of memory and identity. Recent exhibitions include Documenta 15 with the Davra collective.
Furqat Palvan-Zade is an independent curator, researcher, and filmmaker from Uzbekistan. Since 2014 he has been leading the syg.ma project – a community-run platform and an expanding archive of texts on society and art. This platform serves as an engine and a tool for launching various collaborative projects mapping an international community of writers, activists, artists and designers. As a filmmaker and a researcher, he is working on a series of experimental projects investigating the transient geographies and overlapping cultures […]
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 […]
Jazgul Madazimova is an artist based in Bishkek and born in Kyrgyzstan. She is primarily interested in public and social practice art. She uses tools of art to work with the issues of women, migration and borders. Madazimova practices a collaborative and socially engaged approach integrating artists, communities and spaces. She studied International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia and contemporary art practices at ArtEast in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Kubra Khademi is an Afghan multidisciplinary artist and a feminist. Through her practice, Kubra explores her life as a refugee and a woman. She studied fine arts at Kabul University, Afghanistan, before attending Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. In Lahore, she began to create public performance, a practice she continued upon her return to Kabul, where her work actively responded to a male dominated society by extreme patriarchal politics. After performing her piece known as Armor in 2015, Khademi […]
Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev are artistic duo based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. They graduated respectively in art academies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the late 1980s. Artists participated in numerous international exhibitions and biennials, including Aichi Triennale (2016), Sharjah Biennale (2007), Singapore Biennale (2006) and Venice Biennale (2005). Their solo shows were held at the Cube Project Space, Taipei (2013), Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan (2010), Winkleman gallery, New York (2006 -2009) and the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). Kasmalieva […]
Asel Kadyrkhanova is a visual artist and researcher. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds and an MFA from Newcastle University. Her artistic research looks at art as a medium of memory with a specific focus on memory and trauma in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Kadyrkhanova works across drawing, moving image and installation art. As a postgeneration artist, she explores traumatic ‘inheritance’, seeking to touch upon traces and symptoms of trauma and confront narratives that persist in postcolonial and post-totalitarian […]
Dilyara Kaipova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1967. In 1990, she graduated from the Department of Decorative Arts of the Pavel Benkov Republican College of Art. During 1998-2012 Kaipova worked as stage designer at the Mukimi Uzbek State Music Theatre. In 2012-15 she worked in the position of Art Director and Puppet Master at the educational theatre of Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture. Kaipova is also active in the field of graphic art. In recent years she […]
Aziz Hazara is an artist who lives and works between Berlin and Kabul. The visual exploration of his works takes shape across variety of artistic media, from participatory installations to soundscapes, from video to photography, from text to programmed languages. His interest in the issues of memory, archive, surveillance of the panopticon and the politics of representation, is deeply entrenched in the geopolitics and the never-ending conflict that afflicts his native Afghanistan. The relevance of such issues however overcomes geographical […]
Saule Dyussenbina is a Kazakh artist. The artist operates with various mediums – painting, graphics, animation, video, and studies the objective world around her home, body, history and memory. She produces a study that leads her to the formation of an archetype and its implementation in the structure of the convergent culture of our time. In her latest works, she often uses the field of applied design – interior design, production of household items. Her works seem to be playing […]
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