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Exhibition

Special Comission

Film

Performance

Concert

Lecture

Discussion

Workshop

Children and Teens

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Journaling: Creative Diary Keeping

Workshop

Creative Coding

Children and Teens

17.01.2026 / 24.01.2026

Children and Teens

04.01.2026 16:00

Film

It’s Not Me, Debut, Being John Smith

03.01.2026 19:00

Film

Rhythm of a Flower

03.01.2026 16:00

Film

Imprint of the Moment

28.12.2025 2:30 PM

Performance

The Fall of Otrar

28.12.2025 16:00

Film

New Year's open workshops “Masterpieces from nonsense”

27.12.2025, 28.12.2025

Workshop

My Night at Maud’s

27.12.2025 19:00

Film

27.12.2025 16:00

Film

Little Pigeon’s Light

Film, Performance

26.12.2025 19:00

Film

Performance

25.12.2025 19:00

Film

In Betweens: Chantal Akerman Retrospective

19.12–21.12.2025

Film

Lecture

Kontinental ’25

18.12.2025 19:00

Film

A series of master classes by Saule Suleimenova on cellophane painting

14.12.2025 - 18.12.2025

Workshop

14.12.2025 16:00

Film

Social Fabric: Roxana Nassenova

13.12.2025 - 04.01.2026

Exhibition

13.12.2025 16:00

Film

Histories of Tselinny

13.12.2025–04.01.2026

Film

BARSAKELMES Performance

06.12.2025 19:00

Performance

Art workshop for children “Documentation”

Children & Teens

06.12–27.12.2025

Children and Teens

Artist-talk: art duo ZITALB

Lecture, Discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Artist-talk: BARSAKELMES

Lecture, Discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Robotics with an Artist

Children and Teens

22.11–23.11.2025 / 10.01–11.01.2026

Children and Teens

Kazakh Cinema of the Soviet Era

20.11 — 13.12.2025

Lecture

Artist-talk: Aisultan Seitov

Lecture, discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Animation Creation

Children and Teens

14.11–28.12.2025

Children and Teens

Digital Storytelling

Children and Teens

13.11–25.12.2025

Целинный

Children and Teens

Artist Talk: Törteu

Lecture, discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Art workshop for children “From Sky to Earth”

Children & Teens

01.11–29.11.2025

Children and Teens

Sign language tour of Tselinny

Lecture

Rites of Eternal Wind: Prelude w/ Bilawa Respati, HMOT & Kokonja (feat. Alen Lee)

24.10.2025 19:00

Concert

Panel discussion “DRAMATICON: 1001 Ways to Tell a Story”

Lecture, discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Presentation of Edda Schlager's book “Architectural Guide Almaty”

Lecture, discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Reportage Illustration

Children and Teens

10.10–21.11.2025

Children and Teens

Art Walks and Sound Art Creation

Children and Teens

09.10–08.11.2025

Children and Teens

Mediation for children "Portals"

Children & Teens

04.10.2025-25.10.2025

Children and Teens

Tour

Tours of Tselinny in sign language

Lecture, Discussion

27.09-28.09.2025

Lecture

Discussion

Artist-talk: Dariya Temirkhan

Lecture, Discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Artist-talk: Erbossyn Meldibekov and Dastan Kozhakhmetov

Lecture, discussion

Lecture

Discussion

Atomspheres Collective Sound Performance

Performance

Artist-talk: Saadet Türköz

Discussion, lecture

Discussion

Lecture

Tselinny & Walking Almaty: Art and Culture in the City (KZ)

12–19.09.2025

Afisha Cafe, Kabanbay Batyr St. 83

Children and Teens

Tselinny & Walking Almaty: Art and Culture in the City (RU)

07–21.09.2025

Afisha Cafe, Kabanbay Batyr St. 83

Children and Teens

Tselinny & Walking Almaty: Art and Culture in the City (ENG)

06.09.2025 – 13.09.2025

Afisha Cafe, Kabanbay Batyr St. 83

Children and Teens

Mediation for children

Children & Teens

06, 13, 20, 27.09.2025

Children and Teens

Tour

Workshop: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay "Atomspheres"

Workshop, performance

Workshop

Performance

Opening program

Until 07.12.2025, 15:00–19:00

Tselinny, Thu–Sun

3 exhibitions, performances and wide discoursive program

Exhibition

Until 07.12.2025, 15:00–19:00

Tselinny, Thu–Sun

Exhibition

Special Comission

Bosağa – Transition. The Weave of Ancestral Memory

Until 07.12.2025, 15:00–19:00

Tselinny, Thu–Sun

Exhibition

Special Comission

Queer Theory Playground

Workshop, lecture

18.08 - 22.08.2025

Speaker: Saltanat Shoshanova

Workshop

Lecture

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

Lecture

Discussion

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.

Lecture

Workshop

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.

Performance

Artist Talk with Yerbossyn Meldibekov

Lecture

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

Workshop

Lecture

Film

Civic Courage: The Medical Expedition of Bakhia Atchabarov

By Togzhan Kassenova

Lecture

Nuclear Legacy and Civic Courage

By Togzhan Kassenova

Lecture

Re-Practice 2024

Workshop, Lecture

10.06.2024 – 30.07.2024

Workshop

Lecture

Blue Humanities in Central Asia

Lecture / Discussion

Jambyl Library (43 Nazarbayev Ave)

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Public Opinion Laboratory with Madina Tlostanova

Lecture

Discussion

Entangling Climate, Waters, and Communities”

Tselinny x Artcom x Balqashqa Qamqor

Discussion

Korkem Experience Store

Lecture

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

Film

Lecture

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

Exhibition

Azbuka strikes back

Slavs and Tatars & Leah Feldman

No items found.

Three Essays on Eurasia

No items found.

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.

Lecture

Film

Re-Practice Laboratory Public Program

Discussion, Workshop, Performance

21.10-05.11.2023

Tselinny Temporary

Discussion

Workshop

Performance

The Hero_ine in the Contemporary World

Tselinny Temporary

talk x Tselinny

Lecture

07.09.2023 - 30.09.2023

Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

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

Exhibition

Central Asian History Workshop

Workshop / Discussion

21.07.2023 – 23.07.2023

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

Reading seminars with Nari Shelekpayev

Workshop

Discussion

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.

Workshop

Discussion

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.

Lecture

Discussion

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

Discussion

"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

Discussion

Workshop

Nothing important

02.06 – 30.06.2023

Tselinny Temporary

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

Exhibition

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

Lecture

Workshop

Transliterative Tease

Lecture / Performance

Tselinny Temporary (137 Zheltoksan Street)

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

Lecture

Performance

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

Lecture

Workshop

Hevea: Research Presentation

Tselinny Temporary

Discussion

In Dialogue with Fire

13.05.2023 — 03.09.2023

M HKA (Antwerp)

Exhibition by Askhat Akhmediyarov

Exhibition

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

Discussion

Workshop

Inclusive acting workshop by ADAMDART

06.05.2023 14:00

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop

Creative workshop Art Mind Universe

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop

Dance workshop for children by Jolda

06.05.2023 16:00

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop

DJing workshop for children with Anna Kin

06.05.2023 15:00

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop

LitKrug Reading for Children with Alen Lee

06.05.2023 15:00

Tselinny Temporary

Discussion

Acting practice with teacher and psychologist Galina Tabala

06.05.2023 14:00

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop

Artist Talk with Aiganym Mukhamejan

Discussion, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Discussion

Lecture

Workshop, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Course by Rashid Nugmanov

Workshop

Lecture

Artist Talk with Almagul Menlibayeva

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary

Lecture

Discussion

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

Workshop

Lecture

17.03.2023-14.04.2023

Tselinny Temporary

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

Exhibition

Speed Dating: A Talk on Safe Spaces

Workshop, Lecture

Tselinny Temporary

Workshop

Lecture

08.02.2023-05.04.2023

Tselinny Temporary

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

Exhibition

Yevgeny Brusilovsky. Memories with comments and illustrations

By Nari Shelekpayev

No items found.

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

Edited by Alima Bissenova

No items found.

Artist Talk with Saodat Ismailova

Lecture, Discussion

Tselinny Temporary

Lecture

Discussion

07.12.2022-31.12.2022

Tselinny Temporary

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

Exhibition

Horizon educational program seminars

Tselinny Temporary

Lecture

Partnership and Support