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.
www.ludwigforum.de
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.
www.macba.cat
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.
www.garageccc.com
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.
www.musees.strasbourg.eu
Yerbossyn Meldibekov's solo show “Eis von Melchíades” [“Ice of Melchiades”] in Hagen
30 September 2014
Meldibekov's personal exhibition in Hagen will accompany 3rd Cultural Conference of Ruhr Culture and Climate Change. Curated by Dastan Kozhakhmetov.
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) has opened in Australia
The organisers wanted to emphasize the role of performance in recent art, with live actions, video, kinetic art, figurative painting and sculpture exploring the use of the human form to express cultural, social and political ideas, and the central role of artists in articulating experiences specific to their localities. APT8 includes more than 80 artists and groups, an ongoing program of artist performances and projects; a conference as part of the opening program; extensive cinema programs; publications; and activities for kids and families. Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev have presented their Necessary Additions. Home Archive series in the triennial's main project, and have also realised a new interactive installation for the APT 8 Kids section. The triennial is taking place at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane until 10 April 2016.
Almagul Menlibayeva will present a new project in Venice
09.05.15 - 22.11.15
Almagul Menlibayeva will be presenting her new site-specific ten-channel video installation Fire Talks to Me commissioned by Baku-based non-profit contemporary art organisation Yarat for The Union of Fire and Water, a parallel project for 56th Venice Biennale. The exhibition will take place at the Palazzo Barbaro, a former residence of Giosafat Barbaro, a Venetian ambassador who travelled to and wrote extensively on Central Asian cities and the court of Shah Uzun Hassan in the 15th century. Curated by Suad Garayeva.
www.bakuvenice2015.com
Almagul Menlibayeva at the group show 'German Cool' in Dubai
16 November, 2015 – 1 February, 2016
The exhibition presents work by the artists, currently living and working in Germany, including Kazakhstani Almagul Menlibayeva who lives between Almaty, Amsterdam and Berlin. The chosen artists are constantly questioning and challenging themselves and their audiences, reflecting on the events of a century of turmoil – defeat, guilt, division, repression and reunification. The exhibition is held at Salsali Private Museum, the first private contemporary art museum in the Middle East, which opened in 2011.