Discover our curated exhibitions featuring contemporary artists from around the world
The art of Tabigat Kozhanbayev emerges from a space where the ancient breath of the steppe meets the industrial traces of the present. His works are not merely objects made of leather, metal, wood, and rubber. They are testimonies to an invisible dialogue - between archaic memory and contemporary time, between stillness and movement, between the human and the material. In the composition “Silence of Centuries”, leather and metal are enclosed within a circle of an automobile tire - a symbol of the road, of movement, of time. From within the circle emerges a human face, like an artifact, a mask, a memory of those who came before us. Its silence is not the absence of speech but the concentrated experience of generations. The industrial material surrounding the sacred image creates tension between past and present, organic and mechanical, motion and stillness.
“Once there was, and Once there wasn’t” is an exhibition project that brings together a collection of folktales told by migrant women from countries along the ancient Silk Road and illustrated with photographs by contemporary female photographers.
We are concluding 2025 with a very important project that brings together 50 paintings by the outstanding classic of Kazakh painting, Abdrashit Sydykhanov (1937-2011). Like some other artists of the 1960s, he stood at the origins of the formation of the national art school, developing it to a fundamentally new level. As part of the project, it was important for the curators to show the most unusual stage of the artist’s creative work for the viewer—his late period. This period of “sign painting” (tanba — “sign”) is full of colors, textures, and complex philosophical and aesthetic intertwining.
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