Aigerim Kapar is a Kazakh interdependent curator, interdisciplinary researcher and decolonial activist. She founded Artcom Platform, a Central Asian community-based contemporary art and public engagement organisation in 2015. Grassroots-driven agenda in Central Asia matters to her curatorial practice. With her team at Artcom Platform, Kapar curates and organises collaborative knowledge production, public art and science education, art interventions and research-based exhibitions. In 2017, Kapar initiated Art Collider, a school where art meets science bringing communities together around practices of care and solidarity.
Currently, Kapar curates long-term projects of engagement and advocacy for lake ecosystems in Kazakhstan SOS Taldykol, Balqashqa Qamqor. In 2020, she united Central Asian artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers to initiate and co-create a hybrid reality project Steppe Space for contemporary art and culture of Central Asia.
Her previous key works include Re-membering: Dialogues of memories (2019), an international intergenerational project in memory of survivors and victims of 20th-century political repressions in Kazakhstan and Time & Astana: After Future (2017-18), an urban art research and engagement project.