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.
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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.
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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.
www.ludwigforum.de