For more than three decades, collecting art in Kazakhstan has meant one thing: big business. In the thirty-three years since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union, the contemporary art ...

Kazakhstan is taking a second try at launching a pavilion during the Venice Biennale in April. The plans were announced at an in-person press conference on Tuesday at the A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts in ...

According to the artists, for publicly undisclosed reasons, it never officially opened in January 2025 in Almaty. It may have been due to their public pro-Uyghur stance. As the artists write in their ...

As the Venice Biennale opens to the public this week, at least one pavilion will remain incomplete. Kazakhstan, participating in the world’s biggest art event for the first time in its 31-year history ...

The long-awaited opening of the Almaty Museum of Arts marks a milestone in the region’s cultural life. Founded by businessman and philanthropist Nurlan Smagulov, it showcases more than 700 works from ...