What's On

Queer Theory Playground

Workshop, lecture

18.08 - 22.08.2025

Speaker: Saltanat Shoshanova

History, art, field: how to explore Central Asia today?

Lecture, Discussion

18.05.2025 13:00

Yale University Day in Almaty with the participation of KIMEP University and the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture

Re-Practice: Sound

Lecture, Workshop

05.05.2025 29.06.2025

Online / Tselinny

Re-Practice Laboratory is an annual interdisciplinary program focused on exploring the latest artistic practices with a particular emphasis on new media.

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.

Artist Talk with Yerbossyn Meldibekov

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

Civic Courage: The Medical Expedition of Bakhia Atchabarov

By Togzhan Kassenova

Nuclear Legacy and Civic Courage

By Togzhan Kassenova

Re-Practice 2024

Workshop, Lecture

10.06.2024 – 30.07.2024

Blue Humanities in Central Asia

Lecture / Discussion

Jambyl Library (43 Nazarbayev Ave)

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Entangling Climate, Waters, and Communities”

Tselinny x Artcom x Balqashqa Qamqor

Korkem Experience Store

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.

Re-Practice Laboratory Public Program

Discussion, Workshop, Performance

21.10-05.11.2023

Tselinny Temporary

The Hero_ine in the Contemporary World

Tselinny Temporary

talk x Tselinny

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 Being, Knowledge and Perception

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 – 10.06.2023

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

A series of workshops with Madina Tlostanova

Nothing important

02.06 – 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 Samizdat

Lecture / Workshop

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

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

Hevea: Research Presentation

Tselinny Temporary

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

Inclusive acting workshop by ADAMDART

06.05.2023 14:00

Tselinny Temporary

Creative workshop Art Mind Universe

Tselinny Temporary

Dance workshop for children by Jolda

06.05.2023 16:00

Tselinny Temporary

DJing workshop for children with Anna Kin

06.05.2023 15:00

Tselinny Temporary

LitKrug Reading for Children with Alen Lee

06.05.2023 15:00

Tselinny Temporary

Acting practice with teacher and psychologist Galina Tabala

06.05.2023 14:00

Tselinny Temporary

Artist Talk with Aiganym Mukhamejan

Discussion, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Course by Rashid Nugmanov

Artist Talk with Almagul Menlibayeva

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary

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.

Speed Dating: A Talk on Safe Spaces

Workshop, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

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

Artist Talk with Saodat Ismailova

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary

07.12.2022-31.12.2022

Tselinny Temporary

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

Horizon educational program seminars

Tselinny Temporary

Tselinny Temporary

A lecture series by Vladislav Sludskiy

Inclusive Laboratory of Non-Visual Anthropology

Tselinny Temporary

Artist Talk with Hongshuo Fan

20.10.2022 18:00

Tselinny Temporary

As a part of Korkut Public Program

Public Sociology Lab “Home Is Better” (Doma Luchshe)

Tselinny Temporary

In collaboration with the AlmaU Urban Studies Center and the Rural Sustainable Development Foundation

Studio Structure and Process Management

Curator Studios

Kazakh New Wave

Prepared by Gulnara Abikeeva

Public Program of the “Kazakh New Wave” Film Festival

Lecture, Workshop

Kazakh New Wave Festival

12.11.2021 – 21.11.2021

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

Decolonial Optics in Visual Art and Poetry

Tselinny Temporary

By Yegana Jabbarova

Performance, Workshop

01.11.2021 – 05.11.2021

Curator: Alexander Ugai

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

Emancipatory Practices in Literature and Art

Tselinny Temporary

By Altyn Kapalova

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Tselinny Temporary

By Alla Mitrofanova

Artist Talk with Taus Makhacheva

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

Podcast Series as Part of Garage Screen Film Festival

The hand and the eye

25.12.2020 – 28.02.2021

Tselinny Temporary

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

Cinematic Biographies

Tselinny Temporary

By Amir Karakulov

Decolonial Discourse in Central Asian Art

04.12.2020 19:30

Tselinny Temporary

The Future of Others: A Decolonial Perspective on the Future

Tselinny Temporary

By Anvar Musrepov

Lecture Series: New First-Rank Geniuses

26.11–10.12.2020

Tselinny Temporary

With Rustem Begenov

A Character in Cinema

Masterclass with Amir Karakulov

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

Live Performance with Nazira Karimi

Garage x Tselinny teens

12.07-01.08.2020

Performance in Online Games

By Margarita Skomorokh

How to Create a Monster Out of Rubbish and Few Words about the Art

Tselinny Temporary

Memes as Street Art

by Vladislav Sludsky

Paper Walks Around Almaty

A Series of Workshops with Madina Zholdybek

Experimentation in Traditional Culture through the Work of Writer and Küishi Talasbek Asemkulov

Quarantine Reading: Boccaccio and Manzoni

Discussion, Workshop

Online Platforms as Hybrid Exhibition Formats

Sites of Memory in Kazakhstan

28.04-04.06.2020

Diary of a Journey to Issyk-Kul

By A. Bissenova

Ethnography of the Kazakh Steppe During the Colonial Period

By Alima Bissenova

Decoloniality of Being, Knowledge, and Perception

A collection of articles by Madina Tlostanova

The Tselinny Pop Up Bookshop Public Program

Participants: Nastya Goncharova (non/fiction), Ilya Odegov (fiction)

Public Program of the Garage Screen Film Festival

Discussion, Film

National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan

A Special Reading for Children at the Tselinniy Pop-Up Bookshop

28.12.2018 15:00

Talk by Asif Khan

04.11.2018 17:00

Preserving Architectural Heritage: Global Context and Almaty

03.11.2018 15:00

Panel Discussion as part of the “Beginning” project

Architecture and Art Masterclasses for Children

31.10 – 04.11.2018

Postcolonial Theories

With A. Bissenova, S. Sitar, and M. Tlostanova

Mapping the Architectural Landscape Through Mixed Media

Tutors: Anel Moldakhmetova, Adil Azhiyev.

by ArchCode Almaty

Almaty and Lessons from Japan

Archiving the Architectural Landscape

Workshop tutors: Anel Moldakhmetova (Kazakhstan), Ilya Malkov (Russia)

by ArchCode Almaty

Lecture by Manuel Herz

Mental Maps as a Tool for Place-Based Research

by ArchCode Almaty

Tutors: Anel Moldakhmetova, Malika Darisheva.‍

by ArchCode Almaty

Open Lecture by Composer Dmitriy Kurlandskiy