ARTIST TALK: YERBOSSYN MELDIBEKOV

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.

Artist Yerbossyn Meldibekov born in 1964 at the small railway station called Tulkubas in Kazakhstan. 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.

The video was recorded during the exhibition “Eternal return” in 2015 and hasn’t published before.

Yerbossyn Meldibekov based in Almaty. He has had a solo at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Soros, Almaty, 2007), Kunstverein Rosenheim (Germany, 2008), House of Artists (Pärnu, Estonia, 2012), State Museum of Arts named after A. Kasteev of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Almaty, 2015), etc. Selected group exhibitions: "Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum” at the Suwon I'Park Museum of Art in Suwon (2018), Signature Art Prize at the National Museum of Singapore (2018), Suns and Neons above Kazakhstan at the Yarat in Baku (2017), BALAGAN!!! in Berlin (2015), the special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale "Your land/foreign territory". (2015), "Grammar of Freedom" at the Garage in Moscow (2015), 1st Kyiv Biennale (2012), 9th Gwandju Biennale (2012), Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011, 2005), Time of the Storytellers at KIASMA, Helsinki (2007), Progressive Nostalgia at Luigi Pecci Centre, Prato (2007).