Kopbosinova Rauza
Born in 1942 in Ganyushkino, Atyrau Region. Currently lives in Almaty.
1963-1967 Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Department of Theory and History of Art
Professional Experience
1967-1972 Head of the department for Kazakhstani paintings, Shevchenko Kazakh State Art Gallery
1972-1976 Section “Arts”, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR
1976-1990 Head of the department of fine arts in Kazakhstan, Kasteev State Museum of Arts
1990-1992 Executive Secretary, Artists’ Union of Kazakhstan
1992-1995 Head of the department of fine arts in Kazakhstan, Kasteev State Museum of Arts
1995-2000 Deputy Director of Scientific Studies, Kasteev State Museum of Arts
since 2000 Head of the department of Kazakhstan art, Kasteev State Museum of Arts
Curatorial Project
1994 “Glimpses of Silence”. Paintings, watercolours by Galym Madanov, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996 “Double Vision” (Galym Madanov, Askar Esenbaev), Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1998 “Art in Kazakhstan on the threshold of the third millennium”, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2001 “Art in Independent Kazakhstan”, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Took part in organization of the “Parade of Galleries” (1995-1998) and all museum expositions under “Art in Kazakhstan” since 1967.
Publications
Catalogues
1975 “S. Romanov” in “Soviet Artist”, Moscow
1995 “A. Sydyhanov”, Almaty
1999 “Zhanatai Shardenov” in catalogue “Dream Encyclopedia. Contemporary Art in Kazakhstan from collection of R. Spooner”, Almaty
2000 “Bahtiyar Tabiev”, Almaty
“Catalog-databank. The Artists’ Union of Kazakhstan”, preface,
Almaty
“Soul’s Amalgam” (in catalogue “While painting, playing,
photographing” by S. Kurmanbekova), Almaty
Digests
2000 “Art in Space without Criteria” in “The Latest on the Contemporary”, Almaty
Magazines
1990 “Kazakhstan’s Art in 1980s”, Iskusstvo, vol.9, Moscow