Furqat Palvan-Zade is an independent curator, researcher, and filmmaker from Uzbekistan. Since 2014 he has been leading the syg.ma project – a community-run platform and an expanding archive of texts on society and art. This platform serves as an engine and a tool for launching various collaborative projects mapping an international community of writers, activists, artists and designers. As a filmmaker and a researcher, he is working on a series of experimental projects investigating the transient geographies and overlapping cultures […]
Jazgul Madazimova is an artist based in Bishkek and born in Kyrgyzstan. She is primarily interested in public and social practice art. She uses tools of art to work with the issues of women, migration and borders. Madazimova practices a collaborative and socially engaged approach integrating artists, communities and spaces. She studied International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia and contemporary art practices at ArtEast in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev are artistic duo based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. They graduated respectively in art academies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the late 1980s. Artists participated in numerous international exhibitions and biennials, including Aichi Triennale (2016), Sharjah Biennale (2007), Singapore Biennale (2006) and Venice Biennale (2005). Their solo shows were held at the Cube Project Space, Taipei (2013), Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan (2010), Winkleman gallery, New York (2006 -2009) and the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). Kasmalieva […]
Aziz Hazara is an artist who lives and works between Berlin and Kabul. The visual exploration of his works takes shape across variety of artistic media, from participatory installations to soundscapes, from video to photography, from text to programmed languages. His interest in the issues of memory, archive, surveillance of the panopticon and the politics of representation, is deeply entrenched in the geopolitics and the never-ending conflict that afflicts his native Afghanistan. The relevance of such issues however overcomes geographical […]
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 […]
Alibay Bapanov was born in 1953 in Kzil-Orda region. In 1973 he finished the Art School of Almaty. In 1979 he was graduated from Moscow State Art Institute. Since 1981 Alibay Bapanov and Saule Bapanova have been members of the Artists Union of Kazakhstan. They took part in republican, All-Union and international exhibitions. Bapanovs’ works are found in state museums of Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, China, Turkey, Poland, Denmark. Selected works are now in private collections in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Moscow, Russia, […]
Nuno is the internationally renowned textile design firm located in Tokyo. Led by creative director Sudō Reiko, Nuno has been experimenting with various materials from silk to metal, and concerned with the recycling and upcycling of textiles and the effect of textile production on the environment.
Benny Seki is the founder of TAKE5, the two-decade old Japanese American retro style (Amekaji) denim specialty shop, and has been in the Amekaji clothing industry since 2000. He is known as the first ‘Preacher of Amekaji’ who promoted the Japanese American retro jeans culture overseas.
Sasha Lind is an illustrator and a print/pattern designer based in Copenhagen. After migrating to Denmark from Guangzhou with her mother, she took art classes at The Copenhagen Children’s School for Art for 10 years studying croquis, painting, sculpture and comics. Her recent medium of digital painting creates a distinct style. Through her carefree strokes, warm colours and abstract art style, she wishes to remind others of the tiny aesthetics in our daily lives.