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Jazgul Madazimova

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.

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Kubra Khademi

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 […]

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Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev

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 […]

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Asel Kadyrkhanova

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 […]

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Dilyara Kaipova

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 […]

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Aziz Hazara

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 […]

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Saule Dyussenbina

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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Marat Dilman

Born in 1990, Marat Dilman is an artist whose work explores visual codes and patterns in relation to the nation-building processes he witnessed growing up in newly independent Kazakhstan. Dilman produces around 6 artworks per year, each with meticulous attention to detail and occasional digital image manipulation. His work is heavily concerned with how technology intervenes with the pre-modernistic archetypes such as ornaments, yurts, traditional clothing and elements of architecture. Vivid colours so common to Dilman’s visual language connect these […]

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Lidiya Blinova

Lidiya Blinova was a poet, a sculptor, and what is now referred to as a multimedia artist. She was also a jewellery and a graphic designer. In 1971, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute in Almaty. At the beginning of her career, she studied in the workshop of Isaac Itkind, a sculptor who was in exile in Kazakhstan. Together with her well-known husband and Kazakh artist Rustam Khalfin, Blinova had organised ‘apartment’ exhibitions of […]

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Bakhyt Bubikanova

Bakhyt Bubikanova is a Kazakh artist who works with various media and techniques. Her practice encompasses video, performance, photography, drawing, painting, collage and installation. In addition to her formal education, Bubikanova was a student of the late leader and founder of art collective ‘Kyzyl Traktor’ Moldakul Narymbetov. In her signature expressive manner, Bubikanova explores the paradoxical landscape of everyday in contemporary Kazakhstan, she deconstructs and reflects upon the formal traditions of suprematism. To assemble and to create through deconstruction is […]

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