Aspan Gallery

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.

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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.

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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.

Yelena and Viktor Vorobyevs’ mid-career retrospective has opened at the A. Kasteev Museum of Arts in Almaty

27 August – 27 September, 2015

Aspan Gallery has presented Yelena and Viktor Vorobyevs’ ‘The Artist is Asleep’ exhibition, second show from its series of monographic exhibitions of leading contemporary artists from Central Asia. Apart from The Artist is Asleep installation the show features 25 large-scale installations, including highly critically acclaimed Bazaar (1990s-2006), Photo for Memory… (2002) and Kazakhstan. The Blue Period (2002-2005), as well as new projects presented to public for the first time, such as the Ornamentaliser (2010) and Smiley(2015). The exhibition was curated bi Viktor Misiano and generously sponsored by Kazakhstan investment company ‘BATT Holding’.

Almagul Menlibayeva in a group show at Ludwig Forum in Aachen

16 November 2014 – 22 February 2015

Almagul Menlibayeva's work will be shown alongside Ilya Kabakov, Vadim Zakharov, Dan Perjovschi and Irwin Group at Eastwards: Freedom, Borders, Projections curated by Dr. Brigitte Franzen and Josephine Mangedoht.

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Yelena Vorobyeva and Viktor Vorobyev's installation to be included in a group show at MACBA in Barcelona

Spring 2015

Yelena Vorobyeva and Viktor Vorobyev will be presenting their installation Neo-Totalitarianism as part of a group show The Beast and the Sovereign at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, exploring how contemporary artistic practices question and deconstruct the Western and metaphysical definition of political sovereignty. The exhibition is curated by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Paul B. Preciado and Valentín Roma and is co-organised by the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, where it would travel from 16 October 2015 to 15 January 2016.

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Yerbossyn Meldibekov's monographic exhibition opened at the A. Kasteev Museum of Arts

12 February - 29 March, 2015

Yerbossyn Meldibekov's first solo museum show "Eternal Return" has been called the most important cultural event in Almaty for many years. The exhibition was co-organised by Aspan Gallery and ForteBank and curated by Viktor Misiano, the curator of the first Central Asia Pavilion at Venice Biennale in 2005. The show is installed in the museum's permanent collection and includes Meldibekov's early projects and new works created specifically for the exhibition.

Yerbossyn Meldibekov's video "Pastan" is featured in the group show at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow

6 February - 19 April, 2015

Meldibekov's video project Pastan will be exhibited at the Grammar of Freedom/5 Lessons. Works from ARTEAST 2000+ Collection show at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, which will feature more than 60 artists and art collectives, with works ranging from the 1960s to the present. The collection was assembled by the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is the first museum initiative to focus on the work of postwar avant-garde Eastern European artists in a broader international context. Among other exhibited artists Marina Abramović, Ion Grigorescu, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Dan Perjovschi and Mladen Stilinović.

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Almagul Menlibayeva, Said Atabekov, Yelena Vorobyeva and Viktor Vorobyev and Yerbossyn Meldibekov in a museum show in Strasbourg

6 December 2014 - 8 March 2015

The works by artists from Kazakhstan Almagul Menlibayeva, Said Atabekov, Yelena Vorobyeva and Viktor Vorobyev and Yerbossyn Meldibekov will be shown in a group show La vie est une légende e.cité - Almaty/Kazakhstan at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, organised in collaboration with Association Apollonia. Curated by Dimitri Konstantinidis, Daria Evdokimova and Estelle Pietrzyk.