Artist: Meruert Kunakova

Friday, November 6 at 15:00 Almaty time (RU)

“Traditional painting has ceased to respond to the challenges of modern culture” - Rashid Nurikeyev - one of the main representatives of the older generation of Kazakhstan's contemporary art.

Chronicle of virtual events in the art community of Central Asia.

Главные виртуальные события в арт-сообществе Центральной Азии

An interview with artist

Live on IADA facebook

IADA announces a contest for writing articles, essays, research, critical and theoretical texts related to the theme of contemporary art in Central Asia.

The winning proposals will be realized during the event in October/November 2020 digitally and physically in selected locations in Tbilisi and around the world.

A short documentary film the biography of the artist Lidia Blinova, created by Saule and Suinbike Suleimenova, was shown on the Bread and Roses exhibition in Berlin, as well as in the Northern Barbarians screening program in Amsterdam.

The catalog of young artist exhibition in the program of Astana Art Show 2019

«Once she’s thrown into the routine of high school life she faces a Kant’s example of a binary power structure in the representation of Regina George, “plastics” as guardians and minors embodiment in students they target». Alua Sugralimova

Alpystogyz, создает мемы, отсылая к теме постколониальности, критикуя авторитарную политику и продвигая идеи феминизма. Мы поговорили с автором одной из самых популярных казахстанских страниц о феномене мемов и психологии людей в интернете.

Especially for IADA the artist Aziza Shadenova shared her experience about working during quarantine and spoke regarding her new video work «Out of the Comfort Zone»

In an interview, Yerbossyn talks about the choice to become an artist as an ironic combination of circumstances. Through a period of studying at an art college, communication with Shaimardan Sariyev, before the exhibition “Eternal Return”, the artist talks about what influenced his formation.

Film-portrait of the artist Askhat Akhmedyarov, directed by Evgeny Lumpov

Full Moon is a series of screenings of video art at Amsterdam-based cinema. The last event Full Moon #8: Northern Barbarians was focused on Central Asian art across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Specifically for IADA curator Robbie Schweiger answered some questions and explains different conditions of seeing art at a cinema and his research into Central Asian art. 

Especially for IADA, the artist Askhat Akhmedyarov spoke about his painting “Accelerating Block”, shared his thoughts about the future and his opinion on the Cybernomadism exhibition.

The "Turkestan Album" is one of the main photo documents that recorded the life of Central Asian people of the 19th century. Published by the order of Governor General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman, the album presents a colonial ethnographic survey of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Aigerim Kapar - a curator from Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), explains her participation experience in the curatorial program WCSCD and speaks about working as a tutor.