Lyazzat Khanim: Recycling an image
IADA continues its publication series about the next-generation art scene of Central Asia. Lyazzat Khanim is a young artist working in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Experience. The curatorial program in Belgrade (EN)
Aigerim Kapar - a curator from Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), explains her participation experience in the curatorial program WCSCD and speaks about working as a tutor.
Опыт: кураторская резиденция в Белграде (RU)
Айгерим Капар куратор из Нур-Cултан (Казахстан), рассказывает о своем опыте участия в кураторской резиденции WCSCD и начале работы в качестве тьютора.
Elysium - ADA YU
«I believe an artist is a technician of a spirit. And therefore art is the specific language capable of transmitting the spirit. I believe an artist is like a prism that intakes the white light and releases a spectrum of colors».
Curatorial Statement: Deep currents
The works by the artists in residence criticise the fundamental causes of all visible and invisible environmental and ecological destruction, sending us back to the question of what the concept of Nature is in the minds of modern people.
Artist talk: Meruert Kunakova
«My work is reminiscent of a patchwork quilt, which is associated with the Soviet projects to redirect water channels for irrigation purposes, and the redrawing of identity»
Artist talk: Alua
Inspired by the Arte Povera movement which challenged the concepts of value and industrialization, “abstract value” analyzes the commodification of nature and its resources from the real abstraction theory perspective.
Artist talk: Nurbol Nurakhmet
«Exploring the theme of the Anthropocene, in my work I consider man’s invasion of Nature. A man leaves his mark on Nature, and this trace signifies absence»
Jewellery of Central Asia
On the 22nd of September 2015 Sotheby’s Auction house hosted reception and book launch of Jewellery of Central Asia with an exhibition of traditional silver ornaments and textiles from Central Asia dating from the 19th to early 20th centuries from the private collection.
The Owners
The Owners, dir. Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2014 (Kazakhstan) (Part of the Cannes Special Screenings, the Contemporary World Cinema section at the Toronto International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival)
All Too Human
Interview with the curator Elena Crippa
Horsehead Nebyla by Matthieu Litt
Matthieu Litt is a young photographer from Belgium. After his art residency in Kazakhstan he brought very poetic images of the region and its people. He recently published his brand new book with these photographs "Horsehead Nebula". Kazakhstan through the eyes of a a Belgium artist. Amazing.
You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred
Interview with Paul Luckraft, Curator: Exhibitions, Zabludowicz Collection
CENTRAL ASIA IN ART From Soviet Orientalism to New Republics
The launch of a new book by ALIYA ABYKAYEVA-TIESENHAUSEN, who is an art historian specializing in twentieth- century and contemporary Central Asian art. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Accidental Project - Aziza Shadenova
“To me an accident is something that has to happen in a very short time and leave no trace behind…unless it’s something ground breaking”- Aza Shadenova
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Interview with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Assistant Curator Tate Modern, London, UK
Windows - Liberated Canvas
Florian Gaité on Sholpan Sharbakova's Windows series
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