Zitabl (Zitta Sultanbaeva and
Ablikim Akmullaev)

Painters, drawers, performance and video artists

Zitta Sultanbaeva was born in Almaty in 1964. Ablikim Akmullaev was born in Almaty in 1965. Both live in Almaty.

Zitta Sultanbaeva

1980-1984 Almaty Art College, Department of Monument Engraving

1984-1989 Almaty State Theater and Art Institute, Department of Industrial Drawing

 

Major exhibitions:

1989-1993 exhibitions of Ablikim Akmullaev as a part of “The Green Triangle” group (Geology Museum, Book Museum), Almaty, Kazakhstan

1993-1995 personal exhibitions by Zitta Sultanbaeva

 

Joint exhibitions:

1993 Republic Youth Exhibition, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan

1998 “Invasion into the Red Hall. The Group of Four”, “Arman” Cinema, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Unwrapping”, action by “The Group of Four”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan

1999 “The Group of Four”, “A Parade of Galleries”, presentation by the “Ark” Gallery, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan

2000 “Master-class-Kazakhstan”, “Tengri-Umai” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Be-Boping Artists and their dissonant paintings”, Student Palace, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Autonomous Zone”, “Ular” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Second Annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art “Communications: Experience of Interaction” “Atakent” Exhibition Complex , Almaty, Kazakhstan
“As night and day”, “Ular” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan

2001 Ninth International Art Festival “Master-Class”, Saint Petersburg, Russia
“Chamber exhibition”, “Umai” museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Hand craft”, Museum of Non-conformist Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
“Spirit’s Feast”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Media-aitys”, presentation of a video-project in “Art” caf, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“New acquisitions from Central Asia”, Zimmerly Museum, New Jersey, USA

2002 “No mad’s land”, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
“Politik-um. New engagement”, Prazhski Grad, Prague, Czech Republic
”Trans Forma”, Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
“Videoartfestival of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art “Inventory”, Deutsch Theater, Almaty, Kazakhstan

 

Awards:

2000 First Award of the International Jury of the Second Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art-Almaty “Communications: Experience of Interaction”. Almaty, Kazakhstan

2001 Diplomas of the Ninth International Festival “Master class”, St. Petersburg, Russia

 

 

Publications by Zitta Sultanbaeva:

1999 “There is no Death while you are playing kobyz”, Express-K, vol. 175, Almaty

2000 “I am a King”, Express-K, April, Almaty
“Mantra of a hungry calf”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 9, Almaty
“A nightingale’s song”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 12, Almaty
“Big Watermelon for a great Flutist”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 18, Almaty
“One Hundred Days after Childhood”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 21, Almaty
“Rain man”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 23, Almaty
“Mechanical Lust”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 24, Almaty
“To recall everything”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 12 Almaty
“While Drawing a Shaman”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 23, Almaty
“Mysteries of the Kazakh Ornament”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 34, Almaty
“He was in a hurry to live”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 34, Almaty
“She is leaving but promising to return”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 34, Almaty
“Where parallel words meet”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 38-39, Almaty

2001 “Fertilization”, from digest ”Art Life in Kazakhstan”, Almaty
“I killed Jimmy Hendrix”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 16-17, Almaty
“Not blood – milk”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 37, Almaty
“Three elements of Gabo”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 37, Almaty
“And the King Swims On”, Novoe Pokolenie, vol. 27, Almaty
“Good Bye Unwashed Russia, or another bubble that burst”, www.samal.kz/~scca

2002 “Asian Breakthrough”, Novoe Pokolenie, March, Almaty
“In Search of Heroes of Our Times”, Novoe Pokolenie, August, Almaty
“Dreams of a Macedonian Guest”, www.samal.kz/~scca
“DJ and Web-designer – two in one”, Knigolyub, October, Almaty
“Made in Central Asia”, “Novoe pokolenie”, November, Almaty