Date and place of birthday:
EDUCATION:
1987 – 1992 Academy of Art and Theatre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Transformation, Grand Palais, Paris, France
My silk road to you, Lexing Art, Miami, USA
2014 Transoxiana Dreams, Videozone, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2013 Empire of the Memory, Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, Polland
An Odd for the Wastelands and Gulags, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2012 Daughter of Turan, Casal Solleric, La Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2011 Exodus, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Les rêves perdus d'Aral, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France
Transoxiana Dreams, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
My Silk Road to You, Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2010 Lonely at the Top, Europe at large #6 (Refrains from the Wasteland), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Daughters of Turan, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2009 Exodus, Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kurban, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2008 Kissing Totems, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2007 On the Road, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp, collections EMST-M HKA, Athens, Greece
A New Language, Root 1066 Contemporary Arts Festival, Observer Building Gallery Hastings, TN34 1EL,
Daegu Photo Biennale 2016, Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea
KINO DER KUNST, Nurnberg museum, Nurnberg, Germany
Astana FEST, Astana, Kazakhstan
Heroine Mother, Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism, Momentum, Berlin, Germany
Do you know Kazakhstan, Wild Project Gallery, IADA (International Art Development), Luxemburg
2015 German Cool, Salsali Privat Museum, Dubai, UAE
Balagan!!! Contemporary art from Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, curated by David Elliot, Momntum, Branderburger Tor, Max Lieberamnn Haus Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany
Union of the Fire and Water, curator Suad Garaeva, commissioned by Yarat Art Foundation, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
EURASIA, a group show of contemporary Art from Kazakhstan, Erarta and Eurasian Cultural Alliance Almaty, St. Peterburg, Russia
The Nomads, Artwin gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 Prologue Exhibition of Honolulu Biennial, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Isabella Ellah Hughes Hawaii, USA
Update/ Post memory, curated by Susanne Altman at Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Color of Pomergranates, 90th year anniversary of the birth of S.Paradjanov, curated by Darya Khan, State gallery Solyanka, Moscow, Russia
Changing Worlds: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, Singapore Art Stage 2014, curated by Charles Merewether, Singapore
2013 Lost to the Future: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, curated by Charles Merewether, Lassale College of Arts, Singapore, Singapore
Female Power. Matriarchy, Spirituality & Utopia, Museum of Modern Kunst, Arnhem, Holland
Talk and screening with conversation with Susanne M. Winterling at the Conference Winter- Central Asian Pavilion 55th Venice Biennale, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2012 The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Queensland Art Gallery (QAG)
Contemporary Art from Kazakhstan, project of Marat Guelman, curator Nailya Allachverdieva, gallery Cultural Allianz, Center of Contemporary Art in Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
III International Biennale of Contemporary Art „Moya Yurga“, Khanty Mansiysk Biennale,Russia
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, Redline, Denver, Colorado, USA
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Arsenal 2012, Kiev Biennial, Ukraine
Ecologies of Image, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Paganism, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
2011 The 6th Tashkent Biennial, Tashkent, Uzbekistan;
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia;
Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia, Calvert22, London, UK
Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia;
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Global Health Odyssey Museum, Atlanta, GA
2010 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2009 Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway;
Unconditional Love, 53rd Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo 89, Venice, Italy ;
East from Nowhere, Arsenale II, Turin, Italy;
Tarjarma/Translation, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY;
2008 World on Video – International Video Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy;
Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Time Code, Mambo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
I Dream of the Stans, curated by Leeza Ahmadi, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007 Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia,
Peristan, performance and screening 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
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, Zones of Contact, 16th Sydney Biennale, curated by Dr. Charles Merewether, Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia
Art from Central Asia, curated by Viktor Miziano, Center of Contemporary Art
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia, Haggerty Museum, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2005 On the Road, 51st Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion, Venice, Italy;
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
2004 Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, video festival organized by The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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, The Netherlands
2003 Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirik, Russia
Almaty Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Caravan Café, Rocca di Umbertide - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy
2002 Catmania, Illuzeum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Nomad Land, Art and Culture from Central Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Fourth Biennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia
2001 Inner Asia, traveling exhibition of graphics from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Siberia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Novosibirsk, Russia (2001 – 2003)
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. USA
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
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2013 Main Award, KINO DER KUNST in the International Film Competition, Munich, Germany
2011 KfW Audience Award, Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Open Society Institute Budapest, Art and Culture Network Program Grant
2010 Prize de la Nuit (Night) Award for Exodus at the 8th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
2009 Gold Tambourine Prize: Video Art, 1st Prize, Golden Drum International Video Festival, Hanti-Mansiisk, Russia
2003 Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, 3rd Prize, Center of Contemporary Art, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan
2002 First Video Festival, 2nd Prize, Center of Contemporary Art, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan
Tarlan, an independent prize of Kazakhstan
1995 Asia Art, Grand Prix, Second Biennial of Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan;
Darin, the state Grand Prix for artists, Kazakhstan;