Askhat Akhmadiyarov

Askhat Akhmadiyarov (b1965 in Uralsk region; lives and works in Astana,Kazakhstan ) received an art degree from Shymkent art school. Askhat’s exhibition history includes exhibitions at The Soros Centre for Contemporary Art (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Art Dubai 2014 Marker section and solo-show Singular Plural, in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2016) where the artist included the works of last 4 years: performances, photography, installations, videos and paintings. He has participated in international biennials in Singapore (2013) and 56th Venice Biennale in a group exhibition ‘Protagonists. The invisible Pavilion of Kazakhstan’.

Selected exhibitions and actions:

1999-Shymkent, “Transdialog with Van Gogh” dedicated to the centenary of the death of the artist.

Reporting Exhibition of the Center of Contemporary Art Soros, Kazakhstan (Almaty)

2002- Berlin, “Nomad’s land” exhibition

2012-“Nomad” black and white series and “Autumn Cleaning” Performances “The Great Lyer”, Toray-proton.

2013- Singapore Biennale “If the World changed”

2014 - Marker Art Dubai, Focus on Central Asia

2015- Naphthalene, Has Sanat gallery

2015 - 56th Venice Biennale « Protagonists. The Invisible Pavilion of Kazakhstan

2015 - Art residence in Paris. Absurd Laboratory » project in a former Piere and Marie Curie laboratory

2016 – Singular Plural Solo Show, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

2016 – Malus Sieversii Solo Show, Andakulova Gallery, Dubai, UAE