Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev in the 57th Venice Biennale
13 May – 26 November 2017
Aspan Gallery congratulates Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev on being the first artists from Central Asia to participate in the Venice Biennale. This year's project curated by Christine Macel is titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and, according to Macel, is "an exclamation, an expression of the passion for art and for the state of the artist". Vorobyevs will present their installation The Artist Is Asleep (1996) in the biennale's main exhibition space in the Giardini. Last time the installation was shown in Vorobyevs' eponymous retrospective exhibition at the Kasteev Museum of Arts in Almaty in 2015, organised by Aspan Gallery and curated by Viktor Misiano
Sergey Maslov's solo show 'Astral Nomad'
27 January - 31 March 2017
Sergey Maslov's solo show Astral Nomad has opened at the National Museum in Astana. The exhibition features rarely seen works from the collection of Nevzorovs Eastern Kazakhstan Regional Museum.
'Limited Liability Pavilion 2.0' group show has opened in Kyiv
21 December 2016 – 8 February 2017
A group show of Kazakhstani contemporary artists Limited Liability Pavilion 2.0 has opened in Kyiv art centre ‘Closer’. The exhibition continues Limited Liability Pavilion’s first edition which took place during the 2015 Venice Biennale and unofficially replaced Kazakhstan’s missing national pavilion. The show which unites different generations of Kazakhstani artists, including Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev, Rustam Khalfin, Sergey Maslov, Yerbossyn Meldibekov and Said Atabekov will be on view through 8 February 2017.
Almagul Menlibayeva and Rustam Khalfin in a group show 'Urgent Conversations: Athens - Antwerp'
31 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
The impulse behind the show, co-produced by Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art and the M HKA Museum Antwerp,is the necessity of cultural dialogue on a global scale and within multifaceted Europe. The exhibition is structured around 22 notions with each time work of three different artists from the museums' collections in a dialogue around it, the total consisting of more than 70 works from 66 artists, including Almagul Menlibayeva and Rustam Khalfin. Urgent Conversations: Athens - Antwerp is running until 29 January 2017 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and will later travel to Antwerp.
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Said Atabekov in a group show from the collection of UniCredit Bank in Milan
20 December 2016 – 19 January 2017
The exhibition Look at Me! Da Nadar a Gursky: i ritratti nella Collezione d'arte UniCredit will showcase the most representative works from the collection of UniCredit Bank. The show, conceived as a review of photography from the end of XIX century to the present day, will feature 170 works from various artists, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky and Said Atabekov.
Vyacheslav Akhunov’s works on show in Venice
4 June – 10 October, 2016
Palazzo Fortuny in Venice is holding a series of exhibitions of private collections entitled Quand fondra la neige où ira le blanc [When the Snow Melts, Where Does the White Go?]. The exhibition’s aim is to examine the question: how has the role of the art collector evolved from the time of the great Renaissance collections to the present day? The first show from the series is dedicated to Enea Righi's private collection, which includes works by artists like Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Weiner, Walid Raad, Thomas Hirschhorn, Philippe Parreno and Vyacheslav Akhunov.
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Vorobyevs' "Petrifactions (Keyboard)"
Specially for the Smart Park in Naryn (Kyrgyzstan), built with the support of the Aga Khan Foundation as part of the University of Central Asia campus, Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev created a new monumental site-specific work, continuing their Petrifactions series. The Keyboard consists of a dozen granite blocks engraved with computer keyboard symbols.
Said Atabekov at TEDxAstanaWomen
29 October 2016
On 29 October Astana hosted a conference dedicated to women TEDxAstana Women It’s about Time. Said Atabekov exhibited his photographs from his series Way to Rome and Korpeshe Flags as part of the conference art program. The exhibition included works from the series in which the artist explored the difficult role of women in the modern society.
Almagul Menlibayeva’s solo show Transformation at Grand Palais
17 December 2016 – 2 January 2017
In December 2016 Almagul Menlibayeva will present her new project Transformation conceived specially for Grand Palais’ Salle d’honneur. Exploring the elements of history, architecture and science, the video artist will propose a work addressing issues relevant not only for Kazakhstan, but to the globalised world, as well.
Almagul Menlibayeva in the 6th Daegu Photo Biennale
29 September – 3 November 2016
The 2016 Daegu Biennale is based on the theme “We Are from Somewhere, but Where Are We Going?”. The exhibition is inspired by creativity, experimental spirit, history, space and the environment of Asia. This year’s Daegu Photo Biennale focuses on the current global phenomena (such as transcending national boundaries and the massive flow of information) and their impact on Asian countries.