CHAT with Artist: Dilyara Kaipova and Yuliya Sorokina

Wang Weiwei is currently the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at CHAT. From 2010 to 2017, Wang was the curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai). In 2017, Wang participated at the Curator-in-Residence Programme at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, and the International Researcher Programme at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Wang was then appointed as the co-curator at the 12th Shanghai Biennale and awarded an Individual Fellowship by Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong in 2018. She has conducted on a series of researches on East Asian Contemporary Arts since 2017.

Dilyara Kaipova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1967. In 1990, she graduated from the Department of Decorative Arts  of the Pavel Benkov Republican College of Art. During 1998-2012 Kaipova worked as stage designer at the Mukimi Uzbek State Music Theatre. In 2012-15 she worked in the position of Art Director and Puppet Master at the educational theatre of Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture. Kaipova is also active in the field of graphic art. In recent years she has extended her creative work to the textile projects which are focused on application of traditional Uzbek patterns and their combination with contemporary motifs.

Kaipova’s works are now in collections of State Silk Museum in Tbilisi, National Gallery of Uzbekistan, MARKK museum in Hamburg, Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam, Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, RISD Museum in Rhode Island, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Mardjani Foundation in Russia.

Yuliya Sorokina is an Almaty-based contemporary art curator, writer and lecturer at the T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Born in 1965 in Shchuchinsk, she graduated from the Artistic-drawing faculty of the Abai Kazakh Pedagogical Institute. In 1992, she also completed post-graduate course in Cinematography at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and courses in art-management in 1998-1999 at European Summer Academy for Culture & Management in Salzburg and at Institut fur Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna. 

Since 1999 she is the chairperson of the Board of Asia Art+ Public Foundation, which she co-founded in 1996. Among the curator’s extensive curatorial experiences, she curates the Muzykstan: Media Generation of Contemporary Artists from Central Asia as a commissioner and curator at the second Central Asian Pavilion at the 52 Venice biennale in 2007.