Sorokina Julia
Drawer, author of objects, videoartist, curator
Born in 1965 in Shuchinsk, North-Kazakhstan Oblast. Currently lives in Almaty.
1982-1987 Kazakh State Pedagogic Institute, Department of Art
1992 Courses on Cinematographic Pedagogy, State Institute of Cinematography
1999 Institute of Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna, Austria
Major Exhibitions:
1987 Zhiger. Republican Young Artist Exhibition, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1989 “Crossing”, Directorship of Art Exhibitions, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1993-1993 Exhibitions of the “Art” group, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1995 “People and Settlements”, Directorship for Art Exhibitions, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996 “Any Size”, “Tengri-Umai” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1997 “Human Rights: Terra Incognita”, KazakhBusiness
Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Skin of an artist”, “A Parade of Galleries”, Kasteev
State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Human Rights: A Second Breath”, KazakhBusiness Club, Almaty,
Kazakhstan
“Art-Discourse-97”, Observatory in the foothills of Zailiiski
Alatau Mountains, Kazakhstan
1998 First Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary
Art “Self-identification: Futurological prognosis”, “Moscow”
Shopping Center, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Towards understanding boundaries”, “A Parade of Galleries”,
“Alia Art” Gallery, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1999 “Plus-Minus”, State Museum of Arts, Bishkek,
Kyrgystan
“A Line of Beauty”, “Base-Club”, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Eurasian Zone”, “Manezh” exhibition hall, Moscow,
Russia
“Tribune for Heroes”, “Tribuna” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Aina-Line Party”, “World of Fantasy – Aiya”, park,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
2000 “The Past is Somewhere Nearby”, The “Voyager”Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2001 “4000 km or Do You really Need It?”, Langelois,
Austria
“Kazakhstan Dream”, Taler, France
2002 “Re-orientation”, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Curatorial projects
1999 Co-curator of the “Tribune for Heroes” exhibition, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2000 Member of the curatorial group for the Second Annual Exhibition of SCCA “Communications:Experience of Interaction”, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2002 Curator of “Non-Silky Way – Asian extreme”, project
co-curator of the “Re-orientation” exhibition, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Publications
1999 “Modern Art. Could get as much as you wish.
”, Novoe Pokolenie, June, Almaty
“Marginal identification of a fresh curator in multicultural environment”,
materials of the conference “Contemporary art in the context of the
XX century”, Kiev
2001 “New Tele-shamanism”, in “Art Life in Kazakhstan”, Almaty
2002 “Re-orientation” , exhibition catalog
Awards
1998 Second Prize of the International Jury on the First Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art “Self-identification: Futurological prognosis”, Almaty, Kazakhstan