Making tea as an exercise.

"From an early age, I remember how the women of the house were always making tea for the family and guests. Carrying pots of boiling water and reaching for certain cups arranged around the dastarkhan required dexterity and attention. I likened making tea to practicing yoga and exercise. Where the teapots become weights for the gym. And women do yoga exercises/postures, forming harmonious symmetrical patterns."

Tea Party, 2024.

Ink on card

А4

Signed by the artist

16 original drawings

IADA talked to Adil Kairden, a young composer from Pavlodar, for whom the «Korkut Sound» program was his debut performance. 

At the beginning of 2023, we are happy to share the list of our projects for the last year.

The exhibition at the Foundry Downtown includes an international board of artists from Kazakhstan, France, Sweden, and Iran will present a new perspective on the theme of flow and inspiration, addressing questions of metaphysics, and spirituality, this exhibition returns to fundamental questions about the Nature of life, the material world, and eidos, where the main metaphor is breath as a practice that embodies life. In an era of geopolitical turmoil in the world, this exhibition, in a way, serves as a space for healing, contemplating the beauty of coming together, sharing, and being united in grief.

Curator Indira Dyussebayeva talks with the artist Aigana Gali about her practice and new series of work.

Nurakhmet’s work demonstrates how the depiction of the body can convey both the complex inner world of the individual and the socio-political climate of a nation. In this way, his work oscillates between the personal and the collective. Nurakhmet’s figures are often depicted nude, with obscured features, or without skin or heads. This unnerving depiction of the human figure alludes to the violation of human rights in Kazakhstan and the experienced loss of identity, histories and cultures.

IADA spoke with the organizers of the center Malika Urazgalieva and Asel Akhmetzhanova, about the importance of decentralizing culture and knowledge, and the need to create art clusters in the regions.

In June 2021 The International Art Development Association together with The Embassy of France in Kazakhstan announced an open competition for a scholarship program for all undergraduates with Kazakhstani citizenship studying fine arts and applied arts in France. We are pleased to announce the winner of the competition, Laura Kuramysova, who shared her impressions of studying in France and talked about her projects.

The second-generation - peers of independence, a scene of young artists formed along with the processes of nation-building and the rapid development of the Internet and new technologies.

The traditional notions of art as ‘the use of skill or imagination to create aesthetic objects, settings or actions that can be shared with others’ associated with metaphysical concepts of beauty and perfection, and then with the ways of reflecting the external world or romantic self-expression have been subjected to criticism since the end of the 19th century.

Sergey Maslov is one of the pioneers of contemporary art in Kazakhstan. He was born in 1952 in Samara, lived and worked in Almaty.

«I believe that you have to sincerely live through your projects, you have to fully participate in them, and when this experience touches your deeply hidden feelings it leads to a more genuine expression».

Katya Kan was born in Almaty and grew up in London. Her works are a reflection of her search for a home, memories of her Soviet childhood, and a plunge into the surreal world of eternal celebration with a tinge of melancholy.

Bishkek-based curator Ulan Dzhaparov about the exhibition "...and the Others" and the art atmosphere in the late 90s and early 2000s

This translated essay, by artist Sergei Maslov - one of the pioneers of Kazakh contemporary art, reflects on Sergei Kalmykov, an avant-garde Soviet artist who worked in Almaty from 1935 to 1967.

Or why should anyone care? Acquisition of both historically and culturally revolutionary French institutions that have never had any foreign satellites cannot but bring public and professional attention to the signed deal.

«I believe that you have to sincerely live through your projects, you have to fully participate in them, and when this experience touches your deeply hidden feelings it leads to a more genuine expression».

«After trying different techniques, I chose to work with felt and textiles as lurex, silk, velour. The endless felting process gives me a strong feeling and connection to the nomadic roots of my ancestors».

Marat Dilman represents a new generation of artists who work with a medium of conceptual photography. In relation to his first solo exhibition “Code Q“, we talked with Marat about his sense of new Kazakh reality and personal artistic approaches.

Dialogue with fire is a video work featuring portraits taken in the wilderness of the Kazakh steppes, by burning the vegetation on the ground to outline the faces of important figures of tolerance in Kazakhstan and Nobel Peace Prize people.