Bakhyt Bubikanova is a Kazakh artist who works with various media and techniques. Her practice encompasses video, performance, photography, drawing, painting, collage and installation. In addition to her formal education, Bubikanova was a student of the late leader and founder of art collective ‘Kyzyl Traktor’ Moldakul Narymbetov. In her signature expressive manner, Bubikanova explores the paradoxical landscape of everyday in contemporary Kazakhstan, she deconstructs and reflects upon the formal traditions of suprematism. To assemble and to create through deconstruction is an important method for the artist, whose practice encompasses irony and humor, the vital elements of any serious reflections.
Bubikanova has been actively exhibiting her work since 2005. Her selected recent exhibitions include: Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum at the Suwon I’Park Museum of Art in Suwon (2018), Postcolonial Art of Asiaat GEDOK Karlsruhe, Germany (2018), Suns and Neons above Kazakhstan at Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku (2017), and others. In 2014, she was given the First President’s Award for merits in the field of Kazakh contemporary art.