What's On

Little Pigeon’s Light

New Year performance by Violetta Bogdanova.

Performers: Violetta Bogdanova, Gali, Maxim Isakov, Zainap Balagutdinova, Katya Nikonorova, Dasha Mukhina, SAVAGE QYZ, Dasha Prokopets, Alika Kopisheva and Sasha Cherezova.

Virgin Lands in the Anthropocene

Workshop, Lecture, Film

Workshop and film screenings conducted in English from SAVA and Tselinny.

Participants: Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Alen Askar, Aigerim Kapar, Oleksiy Radynski

Re-Practice 2024

Workshop, Lecture

10.06.2024 – 30.07.2024

The project is supported by Chevron as part of the Caravan of Knowledge programmes.

Tutors: Togzhan Kasenova, Askhat Akhmedyarov, Aziza Kadyri, Vladislav Sludskiy, Nasiba Baimatova, Elena Nikonole, Andra Pop-Jurj, Jumanah Bawazir, MAOTIK, Asel Baimukanova, Ivan Radelyuk, the2vvo, Lo-Def Film Factory, Russell Hlongwane, Alexander Vileikis, Dauren Kaliaskar, Lena Pozdnyakova, and Ildar Yakubov.

Blue Humanities in Central Asia

Lecture / Discussion

Jambyl Library (43 Nazarbayev Ave)

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Essay Films: Between the Personal and the Political

22.02.2024 – 16.03.2024

Goethe Institut, Spring CA

Curator: Arseniy Aksenov

Lecturers: Alexey Artamonov, Malika Mukhamedjan, Altana Ayushieva, Arseniy Aksenov

Buran – Baikonur, Between the Silk Road and the Milky Way

01.02.2024 – 01.03.2024

House of Officers

Curator: Dastan Kozhakhmetov

Artist: Yerbossyn Meldibekov

Azbuka strikes back

Slavs and Tatars & Leah Feldman

Three Essays on Eurasia

The Edges of Cinema

02/12/2023 – 10/12/2023

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

Lecturers: Alem Dauletkulov, Andrey Kachalyan, Amir Mussayev, Eva Murashko, and Malika Mukhamejan.

07.09.2023 - 30.09.2023

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

A personal exhibition of Alina Bobrova within the Ümit Playground Project.

Central Asian History Workshop

Workshop / Discussion

21.07.2023 – 23.07.2023

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Reading seminars with Nari Shelekpayev

Beyond the Post-Soviet: Where do we go from here?

Workshop, Discussion

07.07.2023 — 14.07.2023

Tselinny Temporary

Series of discussions, lectures and workshops

Participants: Diana T. Kudaibergen, Bart de Baere, Nikolay Karabinovych, Yevheniia Moliar, Nikita Kadan and others.

Public program "Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan, قازاقستان: Labyrinths of contemporary postcolonial discourse"

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Speakers: Alima Bissenova, Dmitry Melnikov, Kulshat Medeuova, Merey Otan, and Aliya Kadyrova.

Presentation of the translation of the book Decoloniality of Knowledge, Being and Sensing Sensation

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Speakers: Madina Tlostanova, Safina Aktay, Tlek Yrysbek, and Kamila Zakhidova

«Reimagining the Future» and «Post-Soviet and Postcolonial: The Central Asian Crossroads»

Discussion / Workshop

08.06.2023 – 10.06.2023

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

A series of workshops with Madina Tlostanova

Nothing important

02.06.2023 – 30.06.2023

Tselinny Temporary

Personal exhibition by Violetta Bogdanova as a part of Ümit Playground project

Rethinking Dolls (and Agniya Barto)

Lecture / Workshop

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Workshop by Madina Joldybek as part of the Azbuka Strikes Back public programme

Transliterative Tease

Lecture / Performance

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars as part of the Azbuka Strikes Back public programme

Arabic Script Master Class and Lecture on Self-Publication / Samizdat

Lecture / Workshop

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Presentation of the trcman group as part of the Azbuka Strikes Back public programme

In Dialogue with Fire

13.05.2023 — 03.09.2023

M HKA (Antwerp)

Exhibition by Askhat Akhmediyarov

Azbuka: Anticolonial pedagogies primary texts

Discussion / Workshop

11.05.2023 – 12.05.2023

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Leah Feldman's Reading Group as part of the Azbuka Strikes Back public programme

Re-Practice 2023

Workshop / Lecture

28.03.2023 – 15.07.2023

Lecturers: Almagul Menlibayeva, Aigerim Tumenbay, Dmitriy Morozov (a.k.a ::vtol::), Anastasia Tolchneva (a.k.a Lovozero), Maria Peskova, Ildar Yakubov, Konstantin Petruk, and Anvar Musrepov

The project supported by Visa

17.03.2023-14.04.2023

Tselinny Temporary

Personal exhibition by Aiganym Mukhamejan as a part of Ümit Playground project.

A Domestic Iron

08.02.2023 - 05.04.2023

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

08.02.2023-05.04.2023

Tselinny Temporary

Personal exhibition by Damir Mukhametov as a part of Ümit Playground project

Yevgeny Brusilovsky. Memories with comments and illustrations

By Nari Shelekpayev

Qazaqstan, Казахстан, قازاقستان: The Labyrinths of Contemporary Postcolonial Discourse

Edited by Alima Bissenova

07.12.2022-31.12.2022

Tselinny Temporary

Personal exhibition by Ambujerba as a part of Ümit Playground project.

Kazakh New Wave

Prepared by Gulnara Abikeeva

Kazakh New Wave Festival

12.11.2021 – 21.11.2021

Special guests Rashid Nugmanov, Abay Karpykov, Ardak Amirkulov, Darezhan Omirbayev, and Serik Aprymov

Performance, Workshop

01.11.2021 – 05.11.2021

Curator: Alexander Ugai

A message to the future with everyone who wanted to join us

I look out the window and see the sea

26.03.2021 - 29.04.2021

Abilkhan Kasteev State Art Museum

A personal exhibition of Veronica Trishina within the Ümit Playground Project.

Here, there, nowhere

13.03.2021 – 15.05.2021

Tselinny Temporary

Curator: Kamila Narysheva

Artists: Sergey Maslov, Almagul Menlibayeva, Lyazzat Khanim, Saule Suleymenova, Dilyara Kaipova, Marat Dilman, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Saule Dyusenbina, Alexei Shindin, Aziza Shadenova, Ada Yu, Leonid Khan, Roman Zakharov, Ambujerba, and Sabina Kuangaliyeva

The hand and the eye

25.12.2020 – 28.02.2021

Tselinny Temporary

Artists: Rustam Khalfin, Lida Blinova, Saule Suleimenova, Suinbike

What does it mean to be Kazakh?

30.10.2020 – 10.12.2020

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

The Artists: Saule Suleymenova and Medina Bazargali

Decoloniality of Being, Knowledge, and Perception

A collection of articles by Madina Tlostanova

On the Corner: the City, Place, and People

15.09.2018 – 04.11.2018

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

The Beginnings Project, Part II

The Open Archive — Almaty

15.09.2018 – 04.11.2018

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

The Beginnings Project, Part I

Alma-Ata: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991

Anna Bronovitskaya, Nikolay Malinin, Yuri Palmin