Almagul Menlibayeva
Born 1969 in Almaty, Kazakh SSR.
Lives and works in Almaty and Berlin.
Video artist and photographer Almagul Menlibayeva holds an MFA from the Art and Theatre University of Almaty. She works primarily in multi-channel video, photography and mixed media installation and her work addresses such critical issues of post-Soviet modernity as social, economic, and political transformations in Central Asia, de-colonial re-imaginings of gender, environmental degradation, and Eurasian nomadic and indigenous cosmologies and mythologies.
In conjunction with her solo exhibition ‘Transformation’ at the Grand Palais in Paris (France, 2016 – 2017), she was awarded the prestigious Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 2017. Other awards include the ‘Daryn’ State Prize of Kazakhstan (1996), and the ‘Tarlan’ National Award of the Club of Maecenas of Kazakhstan (2003).
She was also the Winner of the Grand Prix Asia Art at the II Biennial of Central Asia, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1995) and the Winner of the Main Prize of the International Film Festival Kino Der Kunst (2013) in Munich, Germany.
Walking Head #2, Almagul Menlibayeva
The Portraits for Passports, Almagul Menlibayeva
Red Island, Almagul Menlibayeva
Afternoon rituals, Almagul Menlibayeva
Collector of the Stars, Almagul Menlibayeva
Shaman O2/#2, Almagul Menlibayeva
Cookies Police on The Silk Road, Almagul Menlibayeva
Daididau, Almagul Menlibayeva
Posthuman Shamanism Feminism, Almagul Menlibayeva
Red Butterfly, Almagul Menlibayeva
One Figure, Almagul Menlibayeva
My silk road to you IV, Almagul Menlibayeva
Four Butterflies, Almagul Menlibayeva
Feminism is inevitable, Almagul Menlibayeva
Camouflage Centaur, Almagul Menlibayeva
Maiden and Wrack, Almagul Menlibayeva
Madonna of the Great Steppes, Almagul Menlibayeva
Malevich`s Tank, Almagul Menlibayeva