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

exhibitions as artists

passing the fugitive on
the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
For the 13th edition of the Berlin Biennale the artist collective Artcom presents the video installation Balqaş Jyry as part of their initiative Care for Balkhash. The work reflects on nomadic knowledge, colonial legacies, and contemporary ecological, social, and climate challenges. Drawing on the heritage of qazaqliq, the lake is given voice and presence, speaking of ecological loss and asserting its right to exist. The video is accompanied by an installation of shym shy (steppe reed), evoking collective artistic practices and deep interdependence with fragile ecosystems.

Curator: Zasha Colah
Assistant curator: Valentina Viviani
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Jatim Biennale XI
"The Spectre of the Sea"
Gresik, East Java, Indonesia
Biennale Jawa Timur XI: “Hantu Laut” situates the coastal landscape as a critical site of negotiation between dominant imaginaries, industrial forces, and marginalized forms of local knowledge. The “Hantu Laut” is a metaphor for the unseen forces that haunt and shape coastal life: ecological degradation, economic centralization, and the erasure of cultural agency under development regimes. By invoking this spectral figure, the Biennale offers a lens through which to examine how myth, collective memory, and everyday tactics become strategies of resilience and dissent. Here, aesthetics is not confined to the visual; it becomes a tool of negotiation an embodied response to structural invisibility and spatial domination.
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curated exhibitions

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.

Curator: Aigerim Kapar

Palace of Culture, Balkhash, 2024
Aspan Gallery, Almaty, 2024
Exposed Art Projects, London, 2025
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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
Video
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
ART INTERVENTIONS
We make interventions to inhabit and domesticate urban and public spaces as well as to connect steppe and the city.
  • Steppe Art Intervention
    16.03.2020
  • Time&Astana vol.4
    The National Library
    19.08.2018
  • Time&Astana vol.1
    05.11.2017
Steppe Art Intervention
2020
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