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
Alexander Ugay Artist Talk: Obscuration - Image, Object, Site
27 November 2020
On the 27th, Art Sonje Center will hold an artist talk “Obscuration - Image, Object, Site” by Alexander Ugay, an artist participating in Dust and Earth Stone exhibition. In this talk, the artist will talk about the method and structure of recognizing and producing images, and how the intention of image production has been applied with the development of the medium.
Place: Art Sonje Center B1F Hall
http://artsonje.art/alexander-ugay-talk/
Artist Talk #2 Almagul Menlibayeva & Aigerim Kapar
2 November 2020
ARTIST TALKS is a PCAI online series of talks and interviews between PCAI Collection artists and other artists, art historians, curators, or art theorists. In Artist Talk 2, visual artist Almagul Menlibayeva discusses with curator Aigerim Kapar her projects throughout the years, her Lahore Biennale 02 participation and the environmental concerns in her video works.
Available for reading now at:
https://www.pcai.gr/news/2774/
Dust Clay Stone
30 October 2020 - 20 December 2020
Dust Clay Stone focuses on works that represent the complex issues of identity faced by individuals experiencing situations of migration, as well as the perceptions that are formed or lost in the course of such experiences. The four artists, Pia Arke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bouchra Khalili and Alexander Ugay, whose works appear in the exhibition either experienced migration due to personal reasons or historical circumstance or are still living in a situation of it. While each of them has diverse cultural background through the experience of having been born in different regions of the globe and migrated to different continents or countries, the artists reveal their interests in the complex identity, the individual and collective memories, post-colonialism and allyship in their works. The works are also inter-connected in their methods of creating works such as their deep exploration of the structure of languages, the representation of images, approaches to the archival references, etc.
http://www.artsonje.org/dust-clay-stone/
Online talk with Almagul Menlibayeva and co-curator of the exhibition “Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories” Suad Garayeva-Maleki.
1 October 2020 - 1 October 2020
A group show “Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories”, examining the relationship between humans and nature and including Almagul Menlibayeva is taking place at Migros Museum in Zurich until 11 October. On Thursday, 1 October at 5 pm Zurich-time there would be an online talk with Almagul Menlibayeva and co-curator of the exhibition Suad Garayeva-Maleki.
After the initial exhibition in Zurich, the show will travel to YARAT Contemporary Art Centre in Baku from 13 November until 20 February 2021.
https://migrosmuseum.ch/en/exhibitions/potential-worlds-1-planetary-memories