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artists & participants
Said Atabekov,
Bakhyt Bubicanova,
Ruthie Jenrbekova,
Asel Kadyrkhanova,
Rustam Khalfin,
Galim Madanov,
Gaisha Madanova,
Erbossyn Meldibekov,
Almagul Menlibayeva,
Nurakhmet Nurbol,
Suinbike Suleimanova,
Zauresh Terekbay,
Alexander Ugay,
Maria Vilkovisky,
Viktor Vorobyev,
Yelena Vorobyeva
curators
press release
Suns and Neons above Kazakhstan brings together seminal works of the 1990s and the early 2000s, from the artists Erbossyn Meldibekov, Bakhyt Bubicanova, Galim Madanov and Zauresh Terekbay, Almagul Menlibayeva, Yelena Vorobyeva and Viktor Vorobyev, Rustam Khalfin, Said Atabekov, Alexander Ugay, Maria Vilkovisky and Ruthie Jenrbekova (Creolex centr) as well as new commissions by emerging artists: Asel Kadyrkhanova, Nurakhmet Nurbol, Suinbike Suleimanova, Gaisha Madanova.
The exhibition aims to deconstruct a romanticized image of Kazakhstan as a vast and largely unpopulated geography that for decades played upon the collective imagination. It addresses various narratives of national history, from a post-colonial to a critical perspective, while discovering, mapping and voicing changing attitudes and concerns across generations. The exhibition explores the shifts and breaks within the construct of Kazakh national and cultural identity during a short timespan of its independence. It is an exhibition of Suns and Neons, of landscape and cityscape. Of artists dealing with history and nation building and an emerging generation concerned with private life and the emancipation of the individual within the isolated reality of city life.
This exhibition is curated by Björn Geldhof.
Assistant curator: Anna Fech
Research: Anna Fech, Suad Garayeva, Björn Geldhof