Atabekov Abilsaid (Said)
Painter, artist of performance, objects, video-art
Born in 1965 in Bes Terek village, Tashkent Oblast, Uzbekistan. Currently lives in Shymkent.
1988-1992 Kasteev Shymkent Art College, specialty – artist-decorator
Major Exhibitions:
1990 “The Red King”, Oblast Exhibition Hall. Shymkent, Kazakhstan
1991 “Shymkent-Transavant-garde”, “Cathedral” Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1993 “SaA”, Central Artist House, Moscow, Russia
“Me is not Us”, personal exhibition in the “Fonkor” Gallery, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
1994 Personal Exhibition-Action “Tanir”, Oblast
Exhibition Hall, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Environment “Observatory of Have-nots”, South-Kazakhstan Historical and Ethnographic
Reserve “Ordabasy”, Kazakhstan
1995 Personal Exhibition-Action “Vird” in “Bal
Bal” Gallery, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Exhibition-Action “Teslim-Tash”, Khodzha Akhmed Yasavi Mausoleum, Turkestan,
Kazakhstan
Exhibition-Action “Journey to a country of Orient”, Kazgurt Mountain, Kyryk
Shilten Aul, South-Kazakhstani Oblast, Kazakhstan
Artists from Shymkent. “Kyzyl Tractor” Group, Kasteev State Museum of Arts,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Teslim-Tash-2”, “Ulasu Art” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996 “Blue Pepper”, “Tengri-Umai” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1997 “Southern Mountains”, Office of “Infokast”
company, Shymkent, Kazakhstan Regional Exhibition of Traditional Art and Craftsmanship
of Kazakhstan under the aegis of UNESCO. Historical Museum, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
International Exhibition “Asia-Art”. Central Exhibition Hall, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
1998 Action “Art Zone”, . Kasteev State Museum
of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“IV International”, Central State Museum of History, Almaty, Kazakhstan
First Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art “Self-identification:
Futurological prognosis”, “Moscow” Shopping Center, Almaty,
Kazakhstan
1999 “Letter to Tengri”, Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnus, Lithuania
2000 “Tranzedenz”, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Second Annual Exhibition SCCA “Communications:Experience of Interaction” “Atakent”
Exhibition Complex, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Third Eurasian Tele-forum, Moscow, Russia
“Master-Class-Kazakhstan” Festival, “Tengri-Umai” Gallery Almaty, Kazakhstan
2001 “Kyzyl Tractor” is Ten Years Old”.
International Business Academy, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“For 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, Vienna, Austria
“Spirit’s Feast”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2002 “No mad’s land”, House of World
Cultures, Berlin, Germany
“The Heart of PQ” Performance Festival, Brellin, Germany
Videoart Festival SCCA “Inventory”, German Theater, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Re-orientation”, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
“Trans Forma” Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Music Festival. Derborence, Switzerland
“Souvenir from Kazakhstan”, “Tribuna” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Awards:
1998 First Prize of International Jury of the First Annual Exhibition SCCA “Self-identification: Futurological prognosis, Almaty, Kazakhstan”
2002 Third Prize of International Jury and Public Sympathy Prize of“Souvenir from Kazakhstan” exhibition, Almaty, Kazakhstan