Born 1984 in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, based in Berlin, Germany
Education
2009-2013 Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany
2006 graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
The artist Gulnur Mukazhanova was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, shortly before the end of the USSR. She done her studies at the Art Academy in Almaty and the Kunsthochschule in Berlin Weißensee. Still living in Berlin, she has been working for years mainly with textiles. Her work is influenced by Kazakh textile traditions, with felt as her most important material. She addresses identity problems and the transformations of traditional values of her culture in the age of globalisation. In her art, she processes her Kazakh origins and the actual state of society there with an international perspective.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Öliara”, Ainalaiyn Space in cooperation with Soma Art Berlin, Germany
2022 “Öliara- The Dark Moon” Ainalaiyn Space in cooperation with Mimosa Haus, London, UK
2021 “The Space of Silence” Asian Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan “Un-Conscious” Michale Janssen Gallery Berlin, Germany
2017 “Yellow Matters” SOMA Art Gallery Berlin, Germany
2016 “Postnomadic Reality” Artwin Gallery Moscow, Russia
2010 “Iron Women”, Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Wertlösigkeit der Tradition”, the German-Kazakh Society, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2023 “Manifestation” Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah, UAI
“EARTH – Tellurian Abstraction | Tellurische Abstraktion”, THEgallery, Mürsbach, germany
"Interweaving Travelers" The New Taipei City Art Museum(NTCAM), Taipei, Taiwan
“Le parcours Asia”, curatorial Project of Slavs and Tatars at Now Art Fair, Paris, France
“Bosaga”, Ainalaiyn Space in cooperation with Three Highgate Gallery, London, UK
"Women and Textile design", Centre de design de l'UQÀM, Montreal, CAN
“Let's Mix”, Michale Janssen Gallery Berlin, Germany
Expo Chicago, Michael Janssen Gallery, Chicago US
Clouds, Power & Ornament – Roving Central Asia, Center for Heritage Arts & Textiles, Hong Kong
2022 Open Performance, as a part of Davra Art Collective, created by uzbek Artsit Saodat Ismailova for Dokumenta XV, Kassel, Germany
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Foyou -Voluntary Art Liaison, Marienburg, Berlin, Germany
Art Brussels, Art Fair, Gallery Michael Janssen, Brussels , Belgium
Nada New York, Art Fair, Gallery Michael Janssen, New York, USA
Art Dubai, Art Fair, Aspan Gallery, Dubai UAE
2021 “Trecento Workshop” Galerie Italienne, Paris, France
“ART from ELSWHERE”, Kulturforum Ansbach, Ansbach, Germany
“Points of Resistance” Momentum Berlin, Germany
The female side of the moon” Galerie Z22 Berlin, Germany
2020 Art Dubai Art Fair Online Version Intersect Aspen Online Art Fair
2019 Asia Now Art Fair, Paris, France
Astana Art Show , TSE Art Destination Gallery, Astana, Kazakhstan
DA!MOSCOW Art Fair, Moscow,Russia
2018 “All the World´s Collage” Aspan Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Astana Art Show , TSE Art Destination Gallery, Astana, Kazakhstan
Focus Kazakhstan: Bread and Roses, Kunstquartier Bethanie / Momentum, Berlin
Focus Kazakhstan: Post-nomadic Mind, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Lodnon
Cosmoscow international contemporary art fair Moscow. Russia
“Strukturveränderungen” Kostbar Gallery, Berlin, Germany
”Interlocal” The exhibition is part of a larger event “Blue Container on the New Silk Road” Duisburg, Germany
2017 "Time&Astana: After Future" National Museum, Astana, Kazakhstan
"The story retells" Daegu Art Factory Daegu, South Korea
Expo 2017 “Future Energy” Astana.Kazakhstan
2016 “METAMORPHOSES“ Pörnbach Contermprorary, Pörnbach, Germany
“Did you know… ?” WILD PROJECT GALLERY Luxembourg. Luxembourg
2015 Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Russia
Cosmoscow international contemporary art fair Moscow. Russia
“The Nomads” Artwin Gallery Moscow, Russia
2014 “Dissimination” Sity Gallery Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy
“A TIME FOR DREAMS” the 4th moscow international biennale for young art, Moscow, Russia
2013 Viennafair Vienna, Austria
Felt Festival in Felletin , France (Journées Nationales de la Laine à Felletin)
"Recycling" HWK Leipzig, Germany
„hochZeiten“ Schloss Belvedere, Pfingstenberg,Potsdam, Germany
„A BIG SCHOW“ Freies Museum Berlin, Germany
2012 „…E BELLEZZA SIA ! „Turin, Italy
2011 „Refugium“ DIE ARBEIT, Berlin, Germany
2010 “IN DEFENCE. Artists from Africa, Asia, Europe, Russia, USA and Middle East”,Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
2009 “STILLS-Attraction” Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“East of Nowhere. Contemporary Art from Post-Soviet Central Asia” Fondazione 107 Turin, Italy
2007 52nd Venice Biennale, Central Asia Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Residency
Pact Zollverein in collaboration with Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform
CHAT – Centre for Haritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
La Metive , Moutier-d'A`hun, France
COLLECTIONS
PRIVAT COLLCTIONS
FONDATIONE 107, TURIN ITALY
MOMENTUM WORLDWIDE, BERLIN GERMANY
contact: gulnurkia@gmail.com
photographers from this website: Fabio Dondero, Gunter Lepkowski, Estefanía Landesmann, Thierry Bal, Natasha Polskaya