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
50 Shades of Blue
17 September 2020 - 21 October 2020
50 Shades of Blue - an exhibition dedicated to the topic of human rights in Kazakhstan. Among the artists participating in the exhibition are: Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev and Said Atabekov.
Curated by Valeriya Ibrayeva.
Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories in Zürich
7 March 2020 - 11 October 2020
Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories is the first in a series of two exhibitions that will explore the relationship between humans and nature. The art gathered in both shows scrutinizes the interactions between man and nature from a variety of angles and limns potential future scenarios of life on earth. The works on view in the first chapter draw attention to the ways in which the environment has been appropriated in the pursuit of power and resources, shedding light on the repercussions for both nature and social fabrics. They also interrogate conceptions of knowledge in the natural sciences that have been developed in the course of man’s power-driven appropriation of the natural world.
Curated by Heike Munder (director Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) and Suad Garayeva-Maleki (director YARAT Contemporary Art Space). Among artists participating in the group show is Almagul Manlibayeva.
Yerbossyn Meldibekov's "Transformer" in Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
1 May 2020 - 29 November 2020
Transformer, the project which Kazakh artist Yerbossyn Meldibekov has created as the Garage Square Commission, is the result of his research into the history of the monuments in one of Tashkent’s squares, which have changed nine times in the past 100 years.
Over the past 100 years the garden has had six different names and nine different monuments at its center. The first monument was to Konstantin von Kaufmann, a Russian military leader who played a key role in the conquest of Central Asia. It was erected under the Russian Empire. After the Revolution it was replaced by a Red Flag monument, followed by Hammer and Sickle, The Beacon of Revolution, statues of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, a stele with the Program of the Communist Party, and finally, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a statue of Amir Timur.
Sekretiki: Digging Up Soviet Underground Culture, 1966–1985
12 December 2019 - 24 May 2020
Sekretiki (“little secrets”) was a popular pastime for Soviet kids. Showing your friends your collection of pretty objects buried in the ground under a piece of glass was an early experience of forming a friendship group, and looting such collections was an invasion of personal space.
Employing this game as a metaphor, Sekretiki: Digging Up Soviet Underground Culture, 1966–1985 presents Soviet underground art as a form of secret knowledge shared by a circle of friends and collaborators and requiring protection from the outside forces of ideological control and censorship. During the Soviet period, such secret activities were not limited to art but also included spiritual practices, from yoga to esotericism and alternative medicine. Among artists participating in the exhibition Vyacheslav Akhunov.
Second Lahore Biennale Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
26 January 2020 - 29 February 2020
LB02 will critically explore dissonances between humans and our increasingly strained relationship with the environment. With a focus on the Global South, where ongoing social disaffection is being aggravated by the emerging effects of climate change, LB02 will bring together artists from across the world to engage with these pressing issues using sites throughout Lahore. “Questions of identity, recognition, and difference are among the most urgent and globally resonant of our time,” said Hoor Al Qasimi, Curator of LB02. “In the Global South, colonial legacies and the rise of modern identities have hardened differences across ethnic, religious, linguistic, and national lines,” she added, pointing out that LB02 seeks to address this growing polarization by recuperating histories of coexistence, interaction, and solidarity in regions such as Asia. “The objective,” said Al Qasimi, “is to offer an expansive and generous vision of the future characterized by multiplicity and openness, rather than by homogeneity and closure.” Among the artists whose work will be shown in LB02 is Almagul Menlibayeva.
http://www.lahorebiennale.org
"Living memory" exhibition in Almaty Museum
28 November 2019 - 22 December 2019
Living memory is a project dedicated to the history, memory and overcoming of Stalinism in Kazakhstan. Collective monograph “Living memory. Stalinism in Kazakhstan: the Past, Memory, Overcoming ”edited by Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin, Mikhail Akulov and Alexandra Tsai explores the history of the Stalinist repressions in Kazakhstan in the 1930s and 1940s, the memory of it and its understanding of modern Kazakhstani society. Among the artists participating in the exhibition are Said Atabekov, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Alexander Ugay.