The project "Focus Kazakhstan" was meant to elevate the country's art, but mismanagement has resulted in allegedly damaged work and lack of payment. Performance view from the opening of "Bread & Roses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 first international art exhibition in its recently renamed capital, Nur-Sultan, reflects a desire for culture in a rapidly changing city. Racing the Galaxy, curated by the French curator ...

THE beauty of Kazakhstan arts and culture will be on display for the first time in Malaysia. Held at the Starhill Gallery Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with Kazakhstan’s 20th year of independence, the ...

At an in-person press conference today at the A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty—tentatively greenlit in the wake of massive nationwide protests—it was announced that the ...

For Vancouver-based, Kazakhstan-born artist Ilya Viryachev, it's a luxury to be able to live a life as an artist — and he knows it. He says that, with himself and his brothers in mind, his parents ...