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Aisha Jandosova (CA Research Group)

Aisha Jandosova is a Kazakh-Kyrgyz diasporic artist, designer, learner and educator, currently based in Providence, United States. Jandosova’s work is centred around making room for and creating healing spaces with/for her people. She is co-founder of BABALAR PRESS, an experimental research, writing and publishing initiative for relearning, reclaiming and reimagining Kazakh ancestral knowledges. In parallel, Jandosova is engaged in a long-term, process-based re-existencia (Achinte 2009, Tlostanova 2017) research, whereby she (re)makes and learns from the everyday cultural practices of her […]

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Aida Issakhankyzy (CA Research Group)

Aida Issakhankyzy is an architect who is also engaged in artistic practices. She works in a variety of techniques, including traditional hand-drawn graphics and paintings, digital media, software and tools, photography and scenography. Her artistic practices can be described as research-based art or art-based research. She states all her practices as dedicated to the questions of space, time, light and architecture, while languages of art give her wider access to the forms of investigations and freedom to explore those questions. […]

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Dana Iskakova (CA Research Group)

Dana Iskakova is an artist born in 1997 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her practice mainly focuses on interactive, ‘imaginary’ art and explores human perception and imagination. She studied finance at the International IT University and Liberal Arts at St. Petersburg University. She is currently working on a project about contemporary art and culture of Central Asia called Steppe Space at Artcom Platform. She is a member of the MATA artist collective. Iskakova has participated in international projects such as QWAS – […]

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Guzel Zakir

Guzel Zakir is an Uyghur artist based in Kazakhstan who graduated from the Academy of Arts of Abai Kazakh Pedagogical University with a master’s degree in experimental arts and later studied Chinese Painting at the Xinjiang Arts Institute. She works with painting and ceramics on subjects such as identity and memory, and took part in exhibitions in Urumqi, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and the US. 

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Madina Zholdybekova

Madina Zholdybekova is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator born in Kazakhstan. She addresses questions of women’s bodily integrity, sexuality, multi-dimensional motherhood, kelinism, decolonisation and authoritarian regimes, in work that includes illustration, weaving, sculpture, video and installation. Previously, Zholdybekova has collaborated with openDemocracy, Front Line Defenders and OSCE x CAYN. Her work has been exhibited at Documenta 15, Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture and Garage Museum. 

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Aziza Shadenova

Aziza Shadenova is a Kazakh artist born in Uzbekistan. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2011. The majority of her work is based around humour and absurdism involved in perception of life, memories, womanhood and immigration, often focusing on untangling of her roots and thoughts as an immigrant, a woman, a wife, an artist and as a human being. For her, these are observations and engagements with the past and present, and an investigation […]

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Yelena Vorobyova

Yelena Vorobyeva is a Kazakh conceptual artist who works mainly with her partner Viktor Vorobyov as an artistic duo since the 1990s. Their usage of different genres and techniques results in multi-layered, often ironic, works focusing on post-Soviet realities of constant change, disorientation and their effects on everyday life. The artists have been compiling a precise record of the ephemeral and quotidian details of daily life. They do so in series, sorting images according to their typology. While seemingly insignificant, […]

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Nazilya Nagimova

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.

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Furqat Palvan-Zade

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 […]

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Gulnur Mukazhanova

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 […]

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