Aïda Adilbek is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Akzhar (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Her practice evolves around ideas of womanhood through cultural codes, communication, and intangible simplicity of domestic life. She mainly works with mediums like performance and video art.
Aïda graduated her BA in Art History at Kazakh National Art Academy in 2016 in Almaty and her MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2020 in London. After returning to Kazakhstan she and her colleagues co-founded Almaty-based artist collective MATA
in December of 2020, in 2021 she became a part of a research group initiated by Saodat Ismailova DAVRA for her project “Chilltan” at documenta fifteen.
Aïda graduated her BA in Art History at Kazakh National Art Academy in 2016 in Almaty and her MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2020 in London. After returning to Kazakhstan she and her colleagues co-founded Almaty-based artist collective MATA
in December of 2020, in 2021 she became a part of a research group initiated by Saodat Ismailova DAVRA for her project “Chilltan” at documenta fifteen.
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EDUCATION
2020
MFA in Fine Art
Goldsmiths, University of London
2016
BA in Art History
Kazakh National Academy of Art
SOLO SHOWS AND PROJECTS
March, 2024
Showcase of Résidence Sonore 2023
Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
2023
Talqan Tary Topyraq
Atelier Cauchemar, Almaty, Kazakhstan
EXHIBITIONS, OTHER NOTABLE ARTISTIC AND CURATED PROJECTS, EVENTS
July 2023
QARA documentary film festival
Participant
Almaty, Kazakhstan
June 2023
OFF-Biennale Budapest
Artist
Budapest, Hungary
April 2023
"Post-, Neo-, and De-colonial Central Asia" panel discussion at Symposium of 23rd goEast film festival
Participating panelist
Wiesbaden, Germany
April 2023
"Moving Image from Central Asia" screening at 23rd goEast film festival
Participating artist
Co-curated with DAVRA collective at Wiesbaden, Germany
January 2023
Dariya Temirkhan’s solo show “Tynys Bitti”
Curator
Dom 36, Almaty
December 2022 - February 2023
DAVRA collective’s Winter Chilla public programme in Central Asia
Participant and curator
Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Dushanbe (Tajikistan)
June 2022 - August 2022
DAVRA collective’s Summer public programme at documenta fifteen
Participant and artist
Curated by: Dilda Ramazan, Fridericiuanim basement, Kassel, Germany
September 2021
The Sixth Ural Industrial Biennale and the “Mezha” Poetry Festival
Speaker at art panel discussion “Does the decolonial art exist?”
Mezha - writing laboratory at the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
August 2021
Solo show of Assel Nussipkozhanova “Gazhap Dunie”
Curator
Co-curated with Yulo Khan, Villa boutiques, Almaty, Kazakhstan
December 2020
MATA collective group exhibition
Almaty, Kazakhstan
March 2019
“Shero” group show at the Feminist Festival “Femagora”,
Artist
Curated by Dilda Ramazan, Almaty, Kazakhstan
November, 2018
“Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum” group show of Kazakhstani Artists
Artist
Curated by Yuliya Sorokina, Suwon, South Korea
August 2018
“D’oner Kebab” project
Artist-run space selling ceramic doner kebabs with Dilda Ramazan, Dana Iskakova, Nazira Karimi, Karina Krylova, Leonid Khan, Almaty Kazakhstan
June, 2018
“Red Pill” group show
Artist
Curated by LAB CI, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
December 2017
QWAS - seminar exhibition
Artist
In collaboration with Lucien Wampfler, Almaty, Kazakhstan - Zurich, Switzerland
November, 2017
Performance Platform Lublin 2017 festival
Participant and artist
Marilyn Arsem’s workshop, Lublin, Poland
March 2017 - August 2017
"Contemporary art" department at the Festival of Contemporary Art, Architecture, Design and Theater "Astana Art Fest"
Curator
Astana, Kazakhstan
March, 2017
Performance Pavilion "Magnum"
Curator and artist
Co-curated with Dilda Ramazan, "April Fools Bishkek competition”, Almaty, Kazakhstan - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
December, 2016
"Новогодний набег" (New Year Nabeg *)
Curator and artist
Co-curated with Dilda Ramazan, self-organised artist-run event where artist were invited to a week-long interventions in the basement of State Museum of Arts, Almaty
* Nabeg - artistic intervention for contemporary artists in non-institutional space
* Nabeg - artistic intervention for contemporary artists in non-institutional space
