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 ...

Decades after archaeologists became aware of Semiyarka, on the Kazakh Steppe, an international team has initiated excavations ...

In a highly anticipated moment for the Kazakhstan cultural scene, the Almaty Museum of Arts (ALMA) opened its doors to the public on September 12 anchoring the country's vibrant artistic legacy. As ...

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 ...

Imperious khans and assorted dignitaries gaze into the distance. Meanwhile, fierce battles are raging all around. These are scenes from artworks at a recently opened exhibition in Kazakhstan, ...

Kazakhstan's newly opened Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture offers a guide to decolonization, and it goes something like this: Remember, rethink, advance, dance. These steps were put into ...

The city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, has a new resident: a massive squirrel. The art installation is 40 feet tall and just one of the pieces featured in the Art Energy Almaty festival, the BBC reports. The ...

A stencil of old photos of the former president, rendered into a mural, raised questions among the authorities in Kazakhstan. When the writing on the wall became politically sensitive, however, they ...