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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Central Asia is investing heavily in cultural infrastructure, from privately funded museums in Kazakhstan to state-led ...

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, ...

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'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 ...