The photographer Gaisha Madanova is on the streets of our beloved city of Almaty this winter taking photos that are poetic and meditative. Her photos capture stillness and motion in beautiful seconds of light.
Malik Abyshev is using a Soviet made Zenit 35mm film SLR camera (Olympic Edition) to take these wonderful photos of the city of Almaty this winter. His current series is the city of Almaty and nostalgia of the recent past. His work resembles a faded memory.
Galim Madanov & Zauresh Madanova are an intellectual duo and creative team that are working together on new art project for the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Almaty.
The new Soros Center moved last summer to its new “posh” location in the Luxor gated housing complex on Lenina Street in Almaty. This […]
Recently, you may have noticed a new addition to the weblogs called Artpologist.net. This blog documents the life of an art project that I’ve started working on with several artists and an anthropologist from Kazakhstan.
The project focuses on the studios and personal spaces of artists amidst the dramatic building boom influencing the daily […]
Recently I went to visit the Soros Center for Contemporary Art and witnessed the beginning of the destruction of this art community center on Tulebaev Street. They were already putting up the synonymous metal walls to hide the destruction.
The Soros Center for Contemporary Art has been housed in this humble constructivist building for almost […]
Attending the opening of the personal exhibit of Saule Suleimenova is a chance to see the evolution of an artist who is capturing the daily life of the streets of Almaty. Saule captures the moments that are the “new” Almaty. She uses her personal aesthetic and media (wax and pigment on paper) […]
A positive and progressive step was taken towards implementing a sustainable approach to urban planning in Kazakhstan recently.
The administration of Shymkent has reached out to the community of artists and intellectuals to integrate their ideas into the process of building a new city. They organized a round table discussion involving twenty […]
A trip to the Kasteev Art Museum is perhaps one of those experiences that most people in Almaty often miss. Maybe it’s because of the fact that the building doesn’t really stand out against all the glitz and glamour of the new high-rise architecture being built around it. Or because it hasn’t changed much over […]
Aminatou Echard is an experimental video and film maker and installation artist who lives in Paris. She is currently working on a movie about her trip to Kyrgyzstan and on a new project in Kazakhstan. I met Aminatou last fall at the end of her three-month trip through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. I was […]
Rustam Khalfin - “Intim - In Time”, Soros Center For Contemporary Arts
A string of new exhibits at the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (www.scca.kz) here in Almaty has brought in a breath of fresh air to the art scene. The new curator Dastan Kojakhmetov presents a minimalist conceptual aproach to curating at the Soros […]
