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 – The Migrating Dialogue , Zurich, Switzerland — Almaty, Kazakhstan (2017, 2018), Art Prospect Festival: Memory Threads: Museum and Neighbourhood , Tbilisi, Georgia (2018), Focus Kazakhstan – Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum , Suwon, South Korea (2018), Piksel, Bergen, Norway (2020), Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2020). As part of the project initiated by Saodat Ismailova, she took part in the public program and contributed to the publication of the DAVRA collective at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany (2022).