Artcom Platform

A COMMUNITY-BASED CONTEMPORARY ART
AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM

Our Mission

We engage in contemporary art practices and unite communities through shared care for collective memory, culture, and environment in a pursuit of Central Asian sustainable futures.

Our Mission

We engage in contemporary art practices and unite communities through shared care for collective memory, culture, and environment in pursuit of Central Asian sustainable futures.

OUR TOOLS

We unlock the potential of art and knowledge production for social,
cultural transformation and environmental justice.

OUR TARGET AUDIENCE

We value diverse forms, practices, opportunities, experiences of unity and creation in our society and see art as part of everyday life, where initiative and interaction between people from different communities and spheres are valued.

OUR TARGET AUDIENCE

We value diverse forms, practices, opportunities, experiences of unity and creation in our society and see art as part of everyday life, where initiative and interaction between people from different communities and spheres are valued.

OUR GUIDING CONCEPTS

Central Asia
intersectional feminism
Kazakhstan
collective memory
decolonization
intergenerational integrity
rural equity
environmental justice
sustainable development
nomadic knowledge
future generations

OUR PLATFORM

COMMUNITY

PARTNERS

MENTORS

SCHOOL

Art Collider
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lectures
workshops
readings
contributors

PROJECTS

Steppe Space
SOS Taldykol
Balqashqa Qamqor
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exhibitions
interventions
collaborations

INITIATIVES

Beine
Korshiler
Nash Balqash
Uya
Jaqyn Sozdik
Дневник дочери
Upcycling Fashion Lab

CURRENT PROJECTS

STEPPE SPACE

Steppe Space is a place of Central Asian contemporary art and culture.
It unites five spaces: Dala, Art Collider, Sözen, Keskın, and Murağat.

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ART COLLIDER

Art Collider is an open school where art meets science and technology bringing communities together.

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CARE FOR BALKHASH

Initiative to care for Lake Balkhash, study the cultural landscape and mobilize communities.

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SOS TALDYKOL

Initiative to preserve Taldykol lakes system in Astana from drainage and development together with citizens, activists, ecologists and researchers.

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EXHIBITIONS

Collective memory, nomadic heritage, environmental justice and city and decolonial perspective are cross-cutting in all our activities

"Interweaving Climate, Water(s) and Communities"

The internationall exhibition begins in the Steppes of Saryarka on the shores of Lake Balkhash, set within the nomadic cultural landscape.
By embracing diverse perspectives, knowledge systems, and historical contexts that shape the cultural landscape, the exhibition invites a rethinking of socio-natural interactions, a deeper understanding of aquatic spaces, and the evolving dynamics of hydro-social relationships. It calls for a revaluation of strategies through decolonial imagination, offering new paths forward for sustainable futures.

Palace of Culture, Balkhash, 2024
Aspan Gallery, Almaty, 2024

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"Re-membering. Dialogues of memories"

Exhibition in Memory of Victims of Political Repressions

Curator: Aigerim Kapar
Tutors: Almagul Menlibayeva, Askhat Ahmediyarov

Astana Art Show, House of Merchant Kubrin / TSE art Destination, Astana, 2019

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"Osyndamyz.
We are here"

The exhibition «Osyndamyz» is an attempt to reclaim space of the city and make it anintimate place - the home. Artists of Astana signify their presence beyond museums and galleries to find new ways of communication and engaging the audience, to overcome distance and alienation of society and art, the artist and the city life.

Art&Food Pavilion, Astana
29.05-29.02-2018

"The Next Reality"

“The Next Reality” exhibition is the result of collaboration of 14 artists and curator Aigerim Kapar with georgian artist Wato Tsereteli. It is a shift from individual creative practice to social one.

EXPO 2017 Energy hall, Astana
11-17.06.18

"Time&Astana:
After The Future"

The research-based interdisciplinary exhibition "Time and Astana: After the Future" is an attempt to comprehend the time, public space, and people's everyday life in the context of the new capital.

Curator: Aigerim Kapar
Tutors: Almagul Menlibayeva, Askhat Ahmediyarov

The National museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana
22.12.2017-18.03.2018

ART INTERVENTIONS

We make interventions to inhabit and domesticate urban and public spaces as well as to connect steppe and the city.