The Beast and the Sovereign group show has been awarded 'Exhibition of the Year 2015' by the German section of AICA
The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Germany has named The Beast and the Sovereign, featuring Yelena and Viktor Vorobyevs’ installation Neo-Totalitarianism, as the best group show in 2015. The exhibition was originally shown at the MACBA in Barcelona, where the museum director asked the curators to remove one of the exhibits, which resulted in the curators’ resignation. After a widespread criticism of the director’s actions he was forced to resign from his post and the show opened in its original form. The exhibition can now be viewed at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart until 17 January 2016.
Almagul Menlibayeva in Viktor Misiano’s new project THE HUMAN CONDITION
27 November, 2015 - 31 January, 2016
Elective Affinities group show has opened at the National Centre of Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow as part of the multidisciplinary project THE HUMAN CONDITION, dedicated to a comprehensive study of the role and the place of human in the beginning of the third millennium. Exhibition will feature new felt objects by Almagul Menlibayeva. The project is jointly held by the NCCA, MMOMA and the Jewish Museum.
www.ncca.ru
Nordwind Festival presents BALAGAN!!! group show
14 November – 23 December, 2015
BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, curated by David Elliott will open on 14 November as part of the Nordwind Festival in Berlin. The exhibition will take place over three different locations, featuring 75 artists from 14 countries of the former "East". These artists are resisting new conservative global alliances and are trying to develop an alternative model of society. Yerbossyn Meldibekov will show his performance Asian Captive as part of the exhibition. BALAGAN!!! will also feature works by Almagul Menlibayeva, Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev and Vyacheslav Akhunov.
TOPOGRAFICA group show has opened in Bishkek
November 2 - December 5, 2015
The group show, curated by artist-architect Ulan Djaparov at the American University in Central Asia is a study of socio-cultural landscape of the Central Asian region. The exhibition features works of over 25 artists from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the United States, including Said Atabekov, Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, and Yelena and Victor Vorobyev.
Yelena and Victor Vorobyev at the 11th Museum Bienniale of Krasnoyarsk
September 30 - November 30, 2015
11th Krasnoyarsk Biennale The practices of Contact, curated by Sergey Kovalevsky, is based on the concept of touch in the historical, physical and ‘communicative' aspects. Among the works of 26 international artists in the Biennale’s main project - Yelena and Viktor Vorobyevs’ video Smiley.
Almagul Menlibayeva presented her new work at the 6th Moscow Biennale
September 22 - November 1, 2015
Almagul Menlibayeva’s new video Green, Yellow, Red and Green Again was presented in the central pavilion of the 6th Moscow Biennale entitled How to Gather? View from the City Center in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia. The video is about the Eurasian project, manifested through the universal language of traffic lights in different cities across Europe and Asia. The title of the video is a variation on the film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring by a Korean film director Kim Ki Duk.
6th.moscowbiennale.ru
Said Atabekov’s new works in a group show in the Netherlands
September 19 - November 22, 2015
A group exhibition Arcadia at the Kunstvereniging Diepenheim in the Netherlands draws paralles between urban and rural lives. The concept is based on a book by one of the exhibition curators Hanne Hagenaars Arcadia, folklore, natuur en de buren. The show features works of more than 20 international artists, including Korpeshe Flag and the Way to Rome series by Said Atabekov.
www.kunstvereniging.nl
Yerbossyn Meldibekov in the parallel program of the 6th Moscow Biennale
September 16 - October 4, 2015
Meldibekov has presented a new video installation as part of the special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale Our Land/Alien Territory group show, investigating the relationship of place and politics in their practice. The exhibition explores the phenomenon of the disputed territories and borders, which are constantly shifting. Exhibition was curated by Yulia Aksenova.
moscowmanege.ru
Aspan Gallery presented Yerbossyn Meldibekov’s works at the Art International Istanbul art fair
5 - 6 September, 2015
Aspan Gallery has participated in Art International Istanbul's third edition, which took place 5-6 September in Istanbul. Specially for the fair Yerbossyn Meldibekov has conceived a project Game, in which he presents the politics of Central Asia as a toy for children. One of Meldibekov's installations has also been chosen for the fair's section for public sculptures By the Waterside. Art International Istanbul featured more than 80 contemporary art galleries from 23 countries.
www.artinternational-istanbul.com
Aspan Gallery has published Yelena and Viktor Vorobyevs’ first monograph ‘The Artist is Asleep'
29 September, 2015
To coincide with the artists’ mid-career retrospective at the A. Kasteev Museum of Arts in Almaty Aspan Gallery has published the artists' first monograph edited by Viktor Misiano. On29 August Aspan Gallery has presented the book and hosted a panel discussion on Vorobyevs' art with the authors of catalogue essays – an art-critic Andrei Fomenko (St Petersburg), culturologist Alexey Ulko (Samarkand), and curator at M HKA Anders Kreuger (Antwerp). The publication will also be published in English.