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| Born 1969 in Kazakhstan, lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 1987 – 1992 Art and Theatre University of Kazakhstan, Almaty |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008 | Kissing Totems,” Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2007 | On the Road, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Steppen Baroque, Alma-Ata Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2003 | Rudolff Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Arttra Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| 2002 | Arttra Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Visions, The Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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| 2001 | Color of Temptation, Tengry Umay Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008 | LOVE LOVE LOVE, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
The Distance to the Sun, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany
International Video Festival Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Madrid, Spain
New Media Art from Iran and Central Asia, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ
Oberhausen International 54th Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Time Code, Mambo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
I Dream of the Stans, curated by Liza Ahmadi, Asian Contemporary Art Week, Winkleman, NY
37th Edition Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2007 | Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Destination Asia, Galerie 88, Mumbay, India
Central Asian Project, in collaboration with Asia Art + Cornerhouse, curated by Yuliya Sorokina, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bishek , Kirgizstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Peristan, performance for the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavillion, curated by Uyliya Sorokina, Venice, Italy
Time of the Storytellers, curated by Viktor Misiano, Museum of Contemporary Art- Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Paradox of Polarity: Contemporary Art from Central Asia," curated by Leeza Ahmady, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY
Central Asian Project, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK |
| 2006 | Catodica, curated by Maria Campitelli, Trieste, Italy
Actual Archives: Central Asian Contemporary Art, Rosamira FestivaL, curated by Viktor Misiano, organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Moscow, Russia
Caravan Seray, Sydney Biennial, curated by Charles Merewether, Syndey, Australia
International Biennial of Photography-Brescia, curated by Sarenco, Brescia, Italy
Scanners: NY Video Fest, Film Society of Lincoln Center, premiere On The Road, New York, NY
Art and Conflict in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
On the Road, premiere at Paris-Berlin International Film Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Polyzentral, art festival of Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Art from Central Asia, curated by Viktor Miziano, Center of Contemporary Art, Zamok Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland
One in One and Jihad film and video installation, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia, Haggerty Museum, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Milwakee, WI
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| 2005 | Paris-Berlin 2005, international video festival, Paris, France
On the Road, 51st Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Lublyana, Slovenia
Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central Asia, Ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflict in Central Asia, Palazzo dei Sette, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Orvieto, Italy
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| 2004 | Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, video festival organized by The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Paris/Berlin 2004, international video festival, Paris, France
M and Others, 1st Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art-Bishkek, State Museum, Kirgizstan
Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia
International Visions-The Gallery, Washington DC
Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central Asia, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Pueblos y Sombras, Canaja Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Natural Women, Visible Voice, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| 2003 | Berlin-Paris 2003, video-festival, Podevil Arsenal, Brotfabrik, Berlin, Germany
Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirik, Russia
Almaty Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
20th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paris-Berlin International Video Festival, Paris, France
Caravan Café, Rocca di Umbertide - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy
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| 2002 | Catmania, Illuzeum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Nomad Land, Art and Culture from Central Asia, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
First Festival of Video Art, Kazakhstan
Re-orientation: Art on Central Asia, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany Fourth Biennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia
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| 2001-2003 | Inner Asia, traveling exhibition of graphics from Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Siberia,Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Bishkek, Kirgisztan; Novosibirsk, Russia
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| 2001 | The Days of the Culture of Kazakhstan in Moscow, Moscow Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Collection 2000, International Vision -The Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Communication and Experience of Interaction, Central Asia Festival of Contemporary Art in VDNH, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Handmade, Pushkinskaya 10, Saint Petersberg, Russia
Nomads Culture in the End of the Centuries, State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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| AWARDS |
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| 2003 | 3rd Prize, "Sacred Places of Kazakhstan," Center of Contemporary Art, Sorous, Kazakhstan |
| 2002 | 2nd Prize, “First Video Festival,” Center of Contemporary Art, Sorous, Kazakhstan
Tarlan, an independent prize of Kazakhstan
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| 1995 | Grand Prix of "Asia Art,” The Second Biennial of Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Darin, the state Grand Prix for artists, Khazakstan
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2008 | Gennochio, Benjamin. "Formal Concerns With a Dollop of Kitsch," The New York Times, November 7, 2008.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works," The New York Times, September 28, 2008.
Raza, Sara. “Museumstan: Central Asia’s Contemporary Art Revolution,” Art Asia Pacific,
March / April, 2008, 91-92.
Schuster, Robert. “Two New Shows from Over Seas: For Better or Perverse,” The Village Voice, March 18, 2008. |
| 2007 | Ahmady, Leeza. “On the Official and the Unofficial: The 51st Venice Biennale,” TheNewYorkArtWorld.com, February, 2007.
Vanhala, Jari-Pekka. “Steppen Baroque as a Spiritual Renaissance,” Universes-in-Universe.com, Online magazine, October, 2007.
Tarinankertojien Aika - Time of the Storytellers - Narrative and Distant Gaze in Post-Soviet Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, edited by Viktor Misiano and Jari-Pekka Vanhala, 2007.
Brask, J.P. “Almagul Menlibayeva On the Road,” Brask-Art-Blog, March 8, 2007.
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| 2006 | Thorton, Henry. “Zones of Contact,” HenryThorton.com, August 6, 2006.
Sorokina, Julia. Art From Central Asia, curated by Viktor Misiano, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2006.
Milano-Ginevra, Skira. The Syndrome of Tamerlan, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni, Sarenco Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 2006.
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| 2005 | McEvilley, Thomas. “Video Comes to the 'Stans...,” Art in America, December, 2005.
Januszcak, Waldemar. “Art: The Grooviest Show on Earth,” The Sunday Times, June 19, 2005.
Moulton, Aaron. “Tamerlane Syndrome: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia,” Flash Art, N245 November/December, 2005.
Sorokina, Julia. Vom Roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel (From the Red Star to the Blue Dome), curated by Barbara Barsch, Philipp Meuser, Berlin, Germany, 2005.
Milano-Ginevra, Skira. The Syndrome of Tamerlan, curated by Valeria Ibraeva and Enrico Mascelloni, Palazzo dei Sette Orvieto, Italy, 2005.
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