Saodat Ismailova’s video The Haunted (2017) and Letters (2013-2018) photo series were acquired by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
July, 2021
Saodat Ismailova’s video The Haunted (2017) and Letters (2013-2018) photo series were acquired by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
The Haunted is a single channel video about an imaginary encounter with extinct Turkestan tiger, that fell as a victim, during colonization of Central Asia. Today the tiger keeps on living in the collective memory and dreams of local people, as a sacred archetype.
Letters is a series of black-and-white archival family portraits encrusted with handwritten inscriptions made by the portrayed person. Letters traces the history of Central Asia in the last century by researching into the fates of members of the artist's family and analyzing the written characters which change across the photos from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic.
Saodat Ismailova's "Her Five Lives" screening at Cinema Sorpus, Tallinn, as part of Contemporary Art Biennial Tallinn Photomonth main programme
1 September - 17 October, 2021
Contemporary Art Biennial Tallinn Photomonth main programme includes screening of Saodat Ismailova's Her Five Lives at Cinema Sorpus, Tallinn. Tallinn Photomonth is the city’s biennial of contemporary art and visual culture, one of the biggest art events in Estonia. Founded in 2011, it broadly examines the developments in art and society across all artistic practices. For its 6th edition, which takes place between September 1 and October 17, 2021, the biennial will investigate current notions of coping and adaptation, and the development of community during a challenging time of significant change.
Her Five Lives is Saodat Ismailova‘s look into the history of Uzbek cinema by analysing representation and transformation of Uzbek female heroines within almost a century (1925 – 2015).
The international group exhibition "Planted in the Body" continues the thematic direction of the explorative exhibition series "Other Knowledge"
29 June - 22 August, 2021
Saodat Ismailova's video Celestial Circles is exhibited at the "Planted in the Body", part of "Other Knowledge" exhibition series at the Meet Factory in Prague. This show looks into plants as sources and carriers of knowledge, and explores more precisely how the unique knowledge flora has been holding for centuries is transmitted. It highlights matrilineal and ancestral chains’ roles in preserving and passing down nature’s teachings. The latter are extremely diverse and touch on the realm of medicine, spirituality, survival skills, food practices, traumas and political memories.
Among the artists participating in the group show is Saodat Ismailova.
The 4th Mediterranean Biennale: LIVING TOGETHER — CROSSING BORDERS
April - June 2021
Entitled LIVING TOGETHER—CROSSING BORDERS the 4th Mediterranean Biennale offers an alternative platform, highlighting the local processes being created in the region and enhancing their cultural impact by means of art directed toward the community. Art that emerges from the museum walls and integrates with the city. The city becomes a place for artistic thinking and inspiration, a laboratory for ideas and creativity. Among the 60 artists and art collectives participating in the biennale is Almagul Menlibayeva.
Bishkek April Fool's Day competition
1 - 2 April 2021
On April 1 at 18:00 the opening of the exhibition "Bishkek April Fools' Competition 2021" will take place in the gallery of the Union of Artists in Bishkek. The Bishkek April Fools' Contemporary Art Competition is an annual international competition held in the capital of Kyrgyzstan since 2003. Most of the participants are artists from Central Asia, as well as from the CIS countries and Europe. The theme, curatorial team, jury and other aspects are determined anew every year.
This year, the competition will feature works by artists from Bishkek, Astana, Almaty, Tashkent and Kharkov. Among the participants are both young authors and well-known artists of different generations and schools. Bakhyt Bubikanova participated in the competition, and Elena and Viktor Vorobyevs prepared a special out-of-competition work for the event.
"Points of Resistance"
4 April - 25 April 2021
Points of Resistance invites contemporary artists and thinkers from a diversity of places and perspectives to address the many meanings of resistance in today’s complex world. The group show takes the form of an exhibition of over 50 exceptional international artists, jointly produced by Gallery Kleiner von Wiese and MOMENTUM. Among the artists participating in the exhibition are Almagul Menlibayeva and Gulnur Mukazhanova.
https://www.points-of-resistance.org/
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“After Hope: Videos of Resistance”
4 March - 24 July 2021
A new group show “After Hope: Videos of Resistance” has opened at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The exhibition focuses on video work of artists from around the world and explored the role of hope in contemporary art and activism. Among the fifty artists in the exhibition Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev with their video “Spring” and Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev with their video “Duckie”.
https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/after...
The Female Side of the Moon
23 January - 27 April 2021
A group show “The Female Side of the Moon” at Galerie Z22 in Berlin has re-opened and has been extended until 23 April 2021. The exhibition, featuring Gulnur Mukazhanova, unites 40 artists working with photography from 28 countries. The show presents the female gaze as a multitude of gazes and perspectives. In each photograph both the framer and the framed are women.
Performative installation-laboratory and the launch of the First Reactor of Visible Phenomena
20 January 2021 - 27 January 2021
On 20 January art-group ORTA will present its new project at Aspan Gallery in Almaty. The project consists of two parts: performative installation-laboratory and the launch of the First Reactor of Visible Phenomena. During 8 days Aspan Gallery’s space will become a performative laboratory for the preparation of the launch. It will be based on composer John Cage’s text “Communication”. The end result of the performance will be 4 music-drama spectacles with the participation of actress Alexandra Morozova, pianist Nurgul Nusipzhanova and self-organised charity choir “April”, stenography by Alexandra Bakanova, directed by Rustem Begenov.Music-drama spectacles will take place on 23, 24, 26 and 27 January at 8 pm. Duration: 1h 20 mins.
Artist Talk: art-group ORTA
20 January 2021
On January 20 art-group ORTA will present its new project at Aspan Gallery in Almaty, the series of performative installation-laboratory and the launch of the First Reactor of Visible Phenomena will start by the artist talk about John Cage, zen-colonization, society of under-consumption, and the intermediate results of the application of the growing popularity of the the First Reactor of Visible Phenomena in science and art, with the members of ORTA art-group and moderator Vlad Sludskiy.
Free entrance, by registration: https://www.orta.kz/installation