Almagul Menlibayeva #Photographe
Almagul Menlibayeva was born in 1969 in Almaty, Kazakhstan and currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. She graduated from the Art and Theatre University in Almaty in 1992. Menlibayeva has gained wide international recognition having exhibited work in various museums and festivals, including the 37th Edition Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2008; the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007; the Pompidou Centre of Modern Art in Paris, 2006; and the Sydney Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2006. Menlibayeva has most recently been commissioned to create her project Queens as part of the Tajarma/Translation exhibition at the Queens Museum, in partnership with ArteEast, in May 2009.
Actualité EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE #89 Exposition « Latitudes Est », une exposition articulée autour de la Chine, l'Inde, la Corée et l'Asie Centrale Exposition Almagul Menlibayeva - Kurban Modifier l'image
European Photography 89 features fresh work by contemporary artists as diverse as Viviane Sassen, André Giesemann, Daniel Schulz, Eric Tabuchi, Satomi Shirai, Anna Skladmann, Magda Biernat, Almagul Menlibayeva, Daniel Traub, Hans-Christian Schink, and Vincent Fournier.
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Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Kurban, Almagul Menlibayeva's second solo exhibition of video and photography at the gallery. The artist returns to the Steppes of her native Kazakhstan, where she conceives, stages and films mythological narratives, alluring her audience to partake in this visual journey.
Her video Kurban (sacrifice/victim) unfolds like a modern day Iliad. Within the ruins of the abandoned collective farms - once constructed by the deported people of the former Soviet Union, displaced by the government and forced to work in the gulags of Kazakhstan - a seemingly ancient world emerges. Women stand motionless and elongated on ladders, wrapped in shroud-like cloth resembling ancient statues. The architecture, reminiscent of the Greek Parthenon, provides the stage of a surreal world where ...