Almagul Menlibayeva

Born in Kazakhstan

Lives and works in Germany and Kazakhstan,
collaborates with the sound artist and composer OMFO (German Popov, Amsterdam)

Education

1987 – 1992 – Academy of Art and Theatre, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 – 2013 –

2012 – 2011 –

2010 –

2009 –

2008 – 2007 –

Transformation, Grand Palais, Paris, FranceTransoxiana Dreams, Videozone, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

Empire of the Memory, Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, PollandAn Odd tor the Wastelands and Gulags, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

Daughters of Turan, Casal Solleric, La Palma De Mallorca, Spain

Exodus, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany Les rêves perdus d'Aral, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, FranceTransoxiana Dreams, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA My Silk Road to you, Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Lonely at the Top, Europe at large #6 (Refrains from the Wasteland), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (M HKA), Antwerp, BelgiumDaughters of Turan, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

Exodus,Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan Kurban, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

Kissing Totems, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA On the Road, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 – Urgent Conversation: Athens-Antwerp, EMST and M HKA, EMST, Athens, Greece KINO DER KUNST, Nurnberg Museum, Nurnberg, Germany

Archipelag KAGLAG, Museum Modern Art, Astana, Kazakhstan Collection of Huma Kabakcı, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2015 – German Cool, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAEUnion of the Fire and Water, 56th Venice BiennaleFairy Tales, Utopian Days, Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan

2014 – Life as a Legend, Museum of Contemporary Art Strasbourg, FranceThreads, Museum of Contemporay Art Arnhem, NetherlandsChanging Worlds: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, Singapore Art Stage 2014, Singapore

2013 – Lost to the Future: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, Lassale College of Arts, Singapore Film Program Media Art Lab, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manege, Russia

2012 – The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) & Queensland Art Gallery (QAG)
Contemporary Art from Kazakhstan, Center of Contemporary Art in Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia Nomadic Art Camp, Center of Contemporary Art Bishkek, Bishkek State Museum, Kyrgyzstan The Bride's Face, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia

Colors of the Oasis, Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) Seattle, USA Ecologies of Image, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

2011 – The 6th Tashkent Biennial, Uzbekistan
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RussiaBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia, Calvert22, London, UK Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RussiaOff the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Global Health Odyssey Museum, Atlanta

2010 – 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Australia Mother, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, AustriaTarjama/Translation, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2009 – Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Unconditional Love, 53rd Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo 89, Venice, Italy Tarjarma/Translation, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY,USA

2008 – Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, USAThe Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA Time Code, Mambo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy

2007 – Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Time of the Storytellers, Museum of Contemporary Art - Kiasma, Helsinki, FinlandThermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006 – 16th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, AustraliaArt and Conflict in Central Asia, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

2005 – On the Road, 51st Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion, Venice, Italy 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Lublyana, Slovenia

2004 – Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, KazakhstanVom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central Asia, Ifa Gallery, Natural Women, Visible Voice, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003 – Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirik, Russia and Almaty Art, Almaty, KazakhstanCaravan Café, Rocca di Umbertide - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy

2002 – State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan Fourth Biennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia

2001 – The Days of the Culture of Kazakhstan in Moscow, Moscow Central House of Artists, Russia

2000 – International Vision, The Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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