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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 […]

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 […]

Medina Bazargali is a Kazak transdisciplinary contemporary artist, coder and researcher. Born in 2001 in independent Kazakstan, Bazargali works at the intersection of decolonisation, feminism and political activism, practically experimenting with AR, video, 3D graphics, installation, web development, visual programming, cyber-physical systems, computer vision and neural networks. In their artistic practice, Bazargali finds themselves in the process of researching ironic and exaggerated political realities where Internet, new algorithmic superstructures and (post)-totalitarian regimes that are swirling in a whirlpool of glocalisation; […]

Nazzy Beglari is an-award winning Iranian-American journalist and fashion designer. Growing up in Tehran in a multi-cultural family of Iranian, Azerbaijani and Georgian descent, Beglari was exposed to her grandmother’s collection of vintage ikat coats, suzani bed spreads and rare textiles. That has sparked a lifetime passion for hand loomed textiles. She left Iran in 1979 and moved to the US where she studied journalism and eventually became senior international correspondent covering the conflict zones. She later freelanced for CNN […]

Saule Bapanova was born in 1956 in Kzil-Orda region. In 1976 she finished the Art School of Almaty. In 1981 she was graduated from the Moscow Art and Industrial College. Since 1981 Alibay Bapanov and Saule Bapanova have been members of the Artists Union of Kazakhstan. They took part in republican, All-Union and international exhibitions. Bapanovs’ works are found in State Museums of Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, China, Turkey, Poland, Denmark. Selected works are now in private collections in Almaty, Kazakhstan, […]

Askhat Akhmedyarov is a Kazakh artist born in 1965 in the Ural region, and currently based in Almaty. He graduated from an art college in Shymkent, studying under the founders of Kyzyl Tractor art group Vitaly Simakov and Moldakul Narymbetov. He participated in several exhibitions of the Shymkent Trans Avant-garde group, but later steered away from the collective and moved to Astana to develop his solo practice. In his artistic practice he uses a variety of different techniques including painting, […]

Umida Akhmedova, a photographer and a filmmaker, was born in 1955 in Tashkent. Since 1980, she has worked as an assistant camera-person in a scientific and documentary films studio in Uzbekistan. In 1986, Akhmedova graduated from the Soviet State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. After graduation, she started her career as a camerawoman and a filmmaker, and produced dozens of documentary films. Simultaneously, she never parts with her photo camera and often participates in organising different photo exhibitions. Since 2001, […]

705 is an art collective established in Bishkek in 2005, working mainly with street performances. In 2014,705 formed an art platform where various artistic activities, such as experimental plays, lectures, exhibitions, animation courses and workshops, took place. 705 has also become part of Arts Collaboratory’s network starting from 2014. Since 2020, 705 has appeared as a platform for various collaborations between artists and theater makers in Bishkek.