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30.11.06
Dear Friends!
Telephone lines of the Soros Center for the Contemporary Art - Almaty are down (we hope, that it's temporary problem). So, you may contact us by the cellular phones:
Valeria Ibraeva, Director: +7 333 217 1991,
Aliya Sharipbaeva, Coordinator: +7 701 5 760 760,
Pyotr An, Office-Manager: +7 333 227 32 26.
29.11.06
03.11.06
"Freewaves" 10th Bienalle of films, video and experimental media will open at 3-4 November in Los Angeles.
Erbossyn Meldibekov and Said Atabekov take part in this event togeter with 150 participant who were chosen between 1800 applications.
03.11.06
Photogallery of the «We Are The Nation of The Kazakhstan» Exhibition >>>
26.09.06
Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty
cordially invite you
to visit the
«We Are The Nation of The Kazakhstan» Exhibition.
We are waiting for you at 3 of October, 2006, since 18:30.
Address: 171, Tulebaev str. (the corner Shevchenko str.),
Almaty, Kazakhstan
"Freewaves" 10th bienalle of films, video and experimental media will open
at 3-4 November in Los Angeles.
Erbosyn Meldibekov and Said Atabekov take part in this event togeter with
150 participant who were chosen between 1800 applications".
18.09.06
Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Almaty invites you to take part in the the "We Are The Nation of The Kazakhstan" exhibition.
There is 15 years of Kazakhstan Independence and now we have doubts on what kind of State we build. Who we are? Our artists will try to give the answer on this question, and reflect on our political, social, national and cultural problems. Government's experiments should be the object for art experiment.
The opening will take place on October 3, 2006 at 18.30.
You can send applications on address:
171 Tulebaev Str., Almaty, Kazakhstan (between Shevchenko and Kurmangazy streets).
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e-mail: aliya{at}scca.kz
18.09.06 (Update)
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
OF THE EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA-ART IN CENTRAL ASIA
The first international festival of experimental media art “REPLICA” will take place on the 7th of October 2006 in Da Freak night club in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and will last twelve hours non-stop. It will show the participants wide spectrum of actual trends of modern culture.
12-hours non-stop event will start at 20.00.
Details >>>
17.08.06
Intending to introduce the superior works of the Islamic World Painting, Iranian Academy of the Arts is about to hold The 4th International Biennial
of the Islamic World Contemporary Painting (deadline is September, 30, 2006) and The 2nd International
Biennial of Posters (deadline is December, 22, 2006) in the Islamic World at Saba Cultural and Artistic
Institute .
Hereby we invite you to deliver at most 5 works to be presented in this
exhibition to the secretariat of the Biennial. It should
be mentioned that the most appropriate of the submitted works will be
selected to be presented in the exhibition.
17.08.06 
Curatorial group of VIDEOLOGIA is calling for entries for the official selection program of the III International festival of audio-visual arts that will take place in Volgograd, Russia, in November of 2006. Artists and directors working with short films, video art, animation, documentary films, net art and various visual experiments are welcome to participate! All selected titles will be screened in the cinema halls and art galleries and evaluated by the independent jury and local audience. Details >>>
15.08.06
Aygerim Issabekova, young artist from Karaganda city (Kazakhstan), became one of selected artist to participate Istanbul Residency Programme at Platform Garanti CAC which will be realised under Open Society Institute grant. She is invited to Istanbul to join the residency programme for 2 months starting February 2007.
02.08.06
În July, 6, in Astana the Culture-Platform Festival took place. It was organized by the Technologies of Perception group, Soros Center for Contemporary Art-Almaty and Contemporary Art Museum - Astana, with a financial support of Astana government.
Festival participants was G. Tryakin-Bukharov, E. Meldibekov, S. Atabekov, S. Narymbetov, V. Simakov, G. Chagataeva, R. Arefiev, K. Timoshenko, K. Shvydko from Kazakhstan and street theathre of the of Young Talent's Support Fund from Kyrgyzstan.
There is an article about the event from the "Expert-Kazakhstan" magazine and photos (in Russian).
26.05.06
On the 19-20 May 2006 in the Soros Center for Contemporary Art- Almaty took place the seminar Growing an Environment for an Artistic Dialogue. It was organized by SCCA-Almaty and CEC ArtsLink (USA). Todd Bishop, Charlotte Cohen, Christian Haye, Gordon Knox, Trevor Smith gave lectures for 23 Central Asian artists, curators and art-managers.
11.05.06
Photos from the «Bar®el.kz» Exhibition (in Russian and English). The exhibition will be on air till the June 1, 2006. >>>
27.04.06
CEC ArtsLink has selected five visual artists from Central Asia to participate in the 2006 VisArt Central Asia Residencies at Vermont Studio Center. Our congratulations to:
1. AIGERIM ISSABEKOVA, KAZAKHSTAN
2. ERNES KURTVELIEV, UZBEKISTAN
3. TALANT OGOBAEV, KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
4. ADIS SEITALIEV, KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
5. OKSANA SHATALOVA, KAZAKHSTAN
27.04.06
Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty
cordially invite you to visit the
«Bar®el.kz» Exhibition
dedicated to platonic relations between the oil and nation.
We are waiting for you at 10 of May, 2006, since 18:30.
Address: 171, Tulebaev str.
(the corner of Shevchenko str.)
10.04.06
We are happy to congratulate Alexander Ugai (Kazakhstan) and Roman Maskalev (Kyrgyzstan) - their "The Mourning" video was selected for the
upcoming International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. The list of selected works >>>
Arystan Shalbaev (Kazakhstan) has won Jury Prize for the Best Video on International Byshkek 1-st April's contest "Avtoportret v nature" (Self portrait).
Vyacheslav Akhunov (Uzbekistan), Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Dzhumaliev (Kyrgyzstan) will take part in the coming Singapur Biennial.
07.04.06
Photos from the United Colors of Revolution Exhibition (in Russian) >>>
07.04.06
On March 23, in Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA, "Ñontested Space in Post-Soviet Art" exhibition was opened.
Photos by Said Atabekov >>>
16.03.06
SCCA-Almaty has started New Media Laboratory project. After the application's contest, we have choose 13 students, who will, during next 2,5 monthes, learn contemporary art, new ideas in directing. Also they will learn about media-art and how to work with the montage equipment. Then they will produce their own projects for the final exhibition.
The list of participants >>>
16.03.06
Dear friends,
Only few our artists you can find in Kazakhstan at the second period of March, because most of them take part in international art vevnts like festivals and 
exhibitions in: Russia, USA, Germany and in Australia.
1. On 15th of March, Erbossyn Meldibekov has left to Moscow, Russia. He is going to prepare his personal exhibition Hyper-Myslim in Guelman's Gallery. It will be opened on March, 20, at 18.00
2. On 17th of March, Said Atabekov and Valeria Ibraeva (Kazakhstan), Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Dzhumaliev (Kyrgyzstan) are fly to New York (USA), on Russian Redux#2 Exhibition. Press-release of this exhibition you can read here. Moreover, Erbossyn Meldibekov will participate in this exhibition too. By the way, among SCCA-Almaty 's friends Erbossyn has got a nickname “Virus”.
3. On 23th of March, Moldakul Narymbetov and Arystan Shalbaev are fly to Hamburg (Germany) where they will take part in Perfomance Festival. Almagul Menlibaeva will perform on this Festival too.
4. We also happy to inform you that Almagul Menlibaeva, Yelena and Victor Vorobyov's are choosen for official list of artists for coming Sydney Biennial.
Conglutinations and best wishes to all artist!
16.03.06
In January, 2006, the group of British journalists from ZCZ Studio visited Kazakhstan. Their purpose was to create a film about Kazakhstan artists.
16.03.06
We have received an edition of “Art in America” Magazine with an article of Thomas MacEvilley, who was the member of Jury during the video-art festival “Videoidentity: The Sacred Places of Central Asia”(2004, organized by SCCA-Almaty and The Christensen Fund, USA). Famous American art-critic analyzes new for himself Central-Asian Contemporary Art. That is interesting! >>>
Another one article was published in "Flash Art" Magazine. It's dedicated to Syndrome of Tamerlan Exhibition. You can read it here >>>
15.12.05
Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Almaty cordially invite you to visit the
Exhibition dedicated to 8-th anniversary of SCCA-Almaty.
We are waiting for you at 22 of December since 18:30 .
Address: 171, Tulebaev str. (the corner Shevchenko str.)
19.10.05
CEC ArtsLink and Vermont Studio Center invite visual artists from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to take part in a programm of residency in a Vermont Studio Center.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 2006 >>>
CEC ArtsLink and Bang on a Can invite musicians (performers and composers) from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to take part in a Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute at Mass MoCA
APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2005 >>>
14.10.2005
Hello!
Sorry for long delay in site work. As you see we have moved. So, our news for the period from July:
"Tamerlan Syndrome" (Contemporary Art of Central Asia) Exhibition is on air in the Italian Orvieto City, as it was announced before.
The catalogue of the exhibition was published by Skira Editore.
There are some copies of catalogue in the library of Soros Centre for Contemporary Art-Almaty.
You can order an issue in Skira (www.skira.net), price - 25 euros.
Museum in the Changing World seminar took place on August 18-21, 2005, in the Soros Center for Contemporary Art-Almaty. Lectors from the Laboratory or Museum Projecting (Moscow, Russia) worked with 14 students from 4 Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Organizers are SCCA-Almaty and UNESCO.
ANTIPARTY GANG group with a support of British Council and SCCA-Almaty has presented SOUNDVISION project. Project dedicated to contemporary electromusic and Vj'ing from British musicians and visual artists.
24.06.05
Antyparty Gang and Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Almaty invite you on ANTYPARTY which will take place on June 25, 2005 at 20.00 in Soros Center for Contemporary Art- Almaty office.
24.06.05
Italian "Portale Oriente" presents "Tamerlan Syndrome" (Contemporary Art of Central Asia) Exhibition which will be opened on July 8, in Centro Espositivo Palazzo dei Sette of Orvieto City, Italia.
Participants : Georgiy Tryakin-Bukharov, Saken Narynov, Gennadiy Ratushenko, Erbossyn Meldibekov, Said Atabekov, Smail Bayaliev, Gulnara Kasmalieva&Muratbek Dzhumaliev, Alexander Ugai&Roman Maskalev, Rustam Khalfin, Alimzhan Jorobaev, Almagul Menlibaeva
Curators : Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco
Catalogue: Skira Editore Organizzazione e Ufficio Stampa: Acas Services
Related links :
ARTE.GO (La Sindrome di Tamerlano) ,
Umbria e Arte (Sindrome di Tamerlano - Arte e Conflitti in Asia Centrale),
Antrocom (La sindrome di Tamerlano: arte e conflitti in Asia Centrale)PS. The news of 2004 are in Archive 2004
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