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Jewelry of Central Asia: Past and Present of the Art Tradition

  • January 24, 2022
While working in the archives of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, I came across an interesting document. It was a list of the…
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  • 16 min
  • Contemporary art

The Comfort Zone of the Artist Alexander Barkovsky

  • July 1, 2021
In this essay, artist Alexander Barkovsky writes about his comfort zone, his attempts to escape it, and the reasons why he ultimately had to return to it.An artist must deceive…
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  • 8 min
  • Contemporary art
  • Culture

The Return to Romanticism: Interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu

  • March 11, 2021
Mamut Churlu is an artist who worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art practices as well as creating his own art. As part of the mass…
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  • 8 min
  • Contemporary art

The Not-Naive Naivety Arts of Tajikistan

  • February 10, 2021
The history of modern Tajik art history rarely mentions the existence of a naive trend in the country’s fine arts. However, in her introduction to the publication Essays on the…
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  • 7 min
  • Contemporary art

Genghis Khan, Kok-Par and Other Stories of the Great Steppe by Said Atabekov

  • November 3, 2020
“I wish to see kok-par players – “Steppe Wolves” from Central Asia on the world’s best catwalks. They are not the refined Europeans, just ordinary guys from a remote aul…
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  • Political Vagabonds of the Steppe and Their Influence on Modern Eurasia. A Conversation About Qazaqlïq With Joo-Yup Lee
    • 12.01.22
    • 15 min
  • Jewelry of Central Asia: Past and Present of the Art Tradition
    • 24.01.22
    • 11 min
  • The Treasures of Pazyryk Kurgans in the Hermitage Museum
    • 11.02.22
    • 14 min
  • The Turkic Roots of Monomakh’s Cap: An Interview with Guzel Valeeva-Suleymanova
    • 07.03.22
    • 11 min
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  • 7 min
  • Contemporary art

Central Asian Non-Conformist Art in Norton Dodge Collection

  • October 20, 2020
Norton Townshend Dodge (June 15, 1927 – November 5, 2011) was an American economist who amassed one of the largest Soviet-era art collections outside of the Soviet Union. Dodge, who…
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  • 7 min
  • Contemporary art

Uzbekistan Without Graffiti: Censorship Against Street Art

  • July 21, 2020
Despite the rich artistic traditions of the past, contemporary Uzbekistan can not particularly boast about its popular street art. Even in cosmopolitan Tashkent, public spaces sparkle with pristine purity. On…
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  • 7 min
  • Contemporary art

Through the Eyes of an Artist: Art Quarantine by Vyacheslav (Yura) Useinov, Bobur Ismoilov and Anna Ivanova

  • July 17, 2020
In the midst of quarantine, I saw Stagnation (Стагнация) by Bobur Ismailov. The painting shows a lonely girl in a confined room with a book on her knees and the…
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  • 13 min
  • Contemporary art
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Feminism and Central Asia – What Went Wrong?

  • June 25, 2020
Feminism is not adequately perceived in Central Asian societies. Some consider it as a threat to the existing traditions of the patriarchal foundation, when a woman (responsible for too many…
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  • 12 min
  • Contemporary art

Art Bazar! A New Initiative for Central Asian Artists to Create An Online Marketplace for Contemporary Art

  • May 11, 2020
Author Diana T. Kudaibergenova Diana T. Kudaibergenova is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the UKRI GCRF “COMPASS” project at the University of Cambridge. She studies different intersections of power relations…
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  • Political Vagabonds of the Steppe and Their Influence on Modern Eurasia. A Conversation About Qazaqlïq With Joo-Yup Lee
    • 12.01.22
    • 15 min
  • Jewelry of Central Asia: Past and Present of the Art Tradition
    • 24.01.22
    • 11 min
  • The Treasures of Pazyryk Kurgans in the Hermitage Museum
    • 11.02.22
    • 14 min
  • The Turkic Roots of Monomakh’s Cap: An Interview with Guzel Valeeva-Suleymanova
    • 07.03.22
    • 11 min
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  • 8 min
  • Contemporary art

Contemporary Art in Central Asia: An Interview with a Curator

  • January 24, 2020
Interview withThibaut de Ruyter is a French architect, curator, and critic. His latest projects include a traveling exhibition for the Goethe Institute in Eastern Europe and Central Asia entitled “die…
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  • 9 min
  • Contemporary art

Central Asian and Azerbaijani Contemporary Art Discussion at Asia House, UK

  • August 21, 2019
“Azerbaijani and Central Asian art have a lot to offer the world in terms of discovery,” – says Rose Issa, a renowned curator and writer who has helped to introduce Iranian…
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  • 8 min
  • Contemporary art

Civil Protests, Art, and Politics in Kazakhstan

  • May 14, 2019
As Kazakhstan heads for its first presidential election without long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, a group of creative youth activists has shattered the appearance of stability in the country with several…
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    • 29.04.22
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