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Born 1969 in Kazakhstan Lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam |
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| EDUCATION |
| 1987-92 | Academy of Art and Theatre, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 | Exodus, Tengri Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan Kurban, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Kissing Totems, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2007 | On the Road, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Steppen Baroque, Alma-Ata Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2003 | Rudolff Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Arttra Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| 2002 | Arttra Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands International Visions, The Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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| 2001 | Color of Temptation, Tengry Umay Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2010 | Tajarma/Translation, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (forthcoming) Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art, and Violence, El Cubo-Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico; and Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (forthcoming) |
| 2009 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Jeu de Paume National museum and Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Reina Sofia National museum and the Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid. Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art, and Violence, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; University Art Gallery, the University of California, San Diego, CA Golden Drum International Video Festival, Hanti-Mansiisk, Russia Re-imagining October, curated by Isaac Julien and Mark Nash, Calvert 22, London, UK La Nit de l'Art, Project Space I, La Caja Blanca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Unconditional Love, 53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Alexandrina Markvo, Alinda Sbragia and Christina Steinbrecher, Arsenale Novissimo 89, Venice, Italy East from Nowhere, curated by Enrico Marceloni and Valeria Ibraeva, Arsenale II, Turin, Italy Tajarma/Translation, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Queens Museum, Queens, NY Native Dancer, dir. Guka Omorova, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2008 | Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY The Distance to the Sun, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany International Video Festival, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Madrid, Spain New Media Art from Iran and Central Asia, College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ Oberhausen International 54th Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany Time Code, Mambo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy I Dream of the Stans, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2007 | Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Destination Asia, Galerie 88, Mumbai, India Central Asian Project, curated by Yuliya Sorokina, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bishek, Kirgizstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan Peristan, performance and screening for the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale, curated by Uyliya Sorokina, Central Asian Pavillion, Venice, Italy Time of the Storytellers, curated by Viktor Misiano, Museum of Contemporary Art - Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany The Paradox of Polarity: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY Central Asian Project, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK |
| 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, 2006 Sydney Biennale, curated by Dr. Charles Merewether, Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia. International Biennial of Photography-Brescia, curated by Sarenco, Brescia, Italy Scanners: NY Video Fest, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY Art and Conflict in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI On the Road, premiere at Paris-Berlin International Film Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Polyzentral, art festival of Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany Art from Central Asia, curated by Viktor Miziano, Center of Contemporary Art, Zamok Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland One in One and Jihad, film and video installation, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2005 | Paris-Berlin 2005, international video festival, Paris, France On the Road, 51st Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion, Venice, Italy 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Lublyana, Slovenia 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, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy |
| 2004 | Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, video festival organized by The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan Paris/Berlin 2004, international video festival, Paris, France M and Others, 1st Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art-Bishkek, State Museum, Kirgizstan Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia International Visions, The Gallery, Washington, D.C. 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, Netherlands |
| 2003 | Berlin-Paris 2003, video-festival, Podevil Arsenal, Brotfabrik, Berlin, Germany Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirik, Russia Almaty Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan 20th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands Paris-Berlin International Video Festival, Paris, France Caravan Café, Rocca di Umbertide - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy |
| 2002 | Catmania, Illuzeum, Amsterdam, Netherlands State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan Nomad Land, Art and Culture from Central Asia, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany First Festival of Video Art, Kazakhstan Re-orientation: Art on Central Asia, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany Fourth Biennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia |
| 2001 | Inner Asia, traveling exhibition of graphics from Kirgizstan, 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. 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 |
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| FILM PROJECTS |
| 2008 | Art Design for “Native Dancer” dir. Guka Omorova, screened at the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| AWARDS |
| 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, Khazakstan |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| 2009 | Mendelsohn, Meredith. “Art+Auction East London Looks East,” Modern Painters, October, 2009, 29. Gormley, Antony. “Almagul Menlibayeva,” Interview, Unconditional Love Exhibition Catalog. 2009. Ahmady, Leeza. “Translation as Significance,” Tarjama/Translation Exhibition Catalog. 2009. Dahl, Miriam Stackpole. “Broderi mot vold [Embroderie Against Violence].” NY TID, June 19, 2009. Heilmann, Hakon Rysst. “Vil apne oynene for kvinnevold [Will Open the Eyes of Kvinnevold],” Dagbladet.no, June 18, 2009. Lamberto, S. “Turin: Inagurazione of the East Extension of Nothing.” Agenfax, April 16, 2009. “The Center of Art Two of May welcomes from Saturday a “Weekend of artistic events” with projections and factories,” Europa Press Madrid, April 16, 2009. Rubriken stern.de. “Exhibition: Symbolism in the Steppe.” Stern.de. http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/fotografie/:Ausstellung-Symbolismus-Steppe-/659958.html?cp=1 (accessed April 6, 2009). Davydova, Katherina. “Asian Sur.” Max Magazine, April 2009. |
| 2008 | Artyk, Narira. “Civil Society: Central Asian Art Entering the Mainstream Market.” Eurasianet.org, December 12, 2008. Merewether, Charles. "Unquiet Histories of the Present: An Anxious Freedom." Given Difference, Exhibition Catalog, November, 2008, 6-9. Gennochio, Benjamin. "Formal Concerns with a Dollop of Kitsch," New York Times, November 7, 2008. Genocchio, Benjamin. "In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works," New York Times, September 28, 2008. Fanti, Laura. “Almagul Menlibayeva.” Espoarte, September 2008. Raza, Sara. “Museumstan: Central Asia’s Contemporary Art Revolution.” Art Asia Pacific, March/April, 2008, 91–92. Genocchio, Benjamin. "Surprising Sophistication," New York Times, March 23, 2008. Schuster, Robert. “Two New Shows from Over Seas: For Better or Perverse,” The Village Voice, March 18, 2008. |
| 2007 | Ahmady, Leeza. “On the Official and the Unofficial: The 52nd Venice Biennale.” M Magazine, February 2007. http://www.thenewyorkartworld.com. Brask, J.P. “Almagul Menlibayeva; On the Road.” Brask Art Blog, March 8, 2007. http://brask-art-blog.blogspot.com/. Rush, Michael. Video Art, London: Thames and Hudson, 2007, 213-215. Vanhala, Jari-Pekka. “Steppen Baroque as a Spiritual Renaissance,” Universes in Universe, October 2007. http://universes-in-universe.de/. Misiano, Viktor and Jari-Pekka Vanhala, eds. “Tarinankertojien Aika - Time of the Storytellers - Narrative and Distant Gaze in Post-Soviet Art.” Helsinki: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 2007. |
| 2006 | Thornton, Henry. "Zones of Contact." Henry Thornton Blog, August 6, 2006. http://www.henrythornton.com. Sorokina, Julia. “Art from Central Asia.” Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw: Ujazdowski Castle, 2006. Milano-Ginevra, Skira. ”The Syndrome of Tamerlan.” Milwaukee: Sarenco Haggerty Museum, 2006. |
| 2005 | McEvilley, Thomas. “Video Comes to the Stans...” Art in America, December 2005. Januszcak, Waldemar. “Art: The Grooviest Show on Earth,” The Sunday Times, June 19, 2005. Moulton, Aaron. “Tamerlane Syndrome: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia.” Flash Art, no. 245, November/December 2005. Sorokina, Julia. From the Red Star to the Blue Dome. Berlin, 2005. Milano-Ginevra, Skira. "The Syndrome of Tamerlan." Mascellani Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Orvieto, 2005. |
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