2019
Channels Festival, International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne, Australia;
Water (Proof), Berlin Food Art Week 2019, Momentum World Wide, Kunstquatier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany;
Art Residency at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;
Border Agency Liquid Landscapes: what if the ground under your feet can't be trusted? Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, Netherlandes;
This Land is Your Land, curated by Maren Richter, Valletta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta;
Uly Dala Hikayalary, group show, exhibition complex Аtameken, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan;
Re-membering. Dialogues of Memories, exhibition in Memories of Victim of Political Repression, curated by Aigerim Kapar, House of V. Kubrin, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan;
Racing The Galaxy, curated by Jerome Sans and Dina Baitassova, Astana Art Show 2019, Palais of Independence, Pyramid, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan;
Eyes East Bound, Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt;
Culture Summit 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE;
ULY DALA HIKAYALARY, Group show at Museum of Fine Art, Shymkent, Kazakhstan;
CLIMBING THROUGH THE TIDE, B7L9, The Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF), Tunis, Tunisia. Curated by
Basak Senova;
SACRÉES FEMMES, the group show at Galerie BELEM/ Benamou-Lagié-Maxé, Paris, France;
COLLECTION, Permanent collection exhibition of the International and Belgium artists at M HKA, Antwerpen,
Belgium;
2018
10 Year 100 Artist 100 Films, Videoart at Midnight Festival, cinema Babylon, Berlin, Germany;
Making Worlds, screening, performances, and conversations curated by Isabel de Sena, diffract, center for the theoretical periphery, Berlin, Germany;
DOTLAND II / Spannung, group show, Peninsula, curator Emilio Rapana, Berlin, Germany;
Inverted World, Neues Museum, Nurnberg, Germany ;
CI, Curated by Nigora Ahkmedova Contemporary Istanbul, Natalia Andakulova Gallery (Dubai), Istanbul, Turkey;
Mystic, Group Show, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, Germany;
Focus Kazakhstan, Group exhibition Bread & Roses, Momentum Worldwide Berlin in collaboration with the program Rukhani Zhangyru, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Kazakhstan and The State Astana Museum, Berlin, Germany ;
Focus-Kazakhstan Art Residency, Momentum Worldwide Berlin, and Rukhani Zhangyru, supported by Ministry of the Culture Republic of Kazakhstan and State Astana Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
V.I.E (Video Image Evolution), Albert Benamou Gallery in collaboration with Galerie W, Paris, France
bitch MATER-ial, Group show at Studio 1, Kunstquaetiers Bethanien, Berlin, Germany;
March Meeting 2018, Active Forms, Collection of Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (Upcoming 16.03.2018-16.06,2018);
Prélude LIEBEN, Taxis Palas Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria;
2017
The Time in Astana After Future, Astana State Museum, Kazakhstan;
Archipelago KAGLAG, in conjunction with Nurlan Dulatbekov, Museum Modern Art, Karaganda, Kazakhstan;
When The Sea LOOKS BACK, A Serpent’s Tale/ TheMany Headed Hyndra# 2, Berlin, Germany;
Arbat Fest 2017, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
GARAGE SCREEN PROGRAM at Astana Art EXPO, Astana, Kazakhstan;
When the Sea Looks Back, A Serpent`s Tale/ theMany headed Hyndra#2, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania;
The Collection, Permanent Collection Exhibition of the International and Belgium artists at M HKA, Antwerpen, Belgium (27 April, 2017-5 April 2020);
2016
Urgent Conversation: Athens-Antwerp, EMST and M HKA, curated by Bart De Baere and Katerina Koskina, EMST, Athens, Greece;
A New Language, Root 1066 Contemporary Arts Festival, Observer Building Gallery, Hastings, TN34 1EL, UK;
Daegu Photo Biennale 2016, Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea;
KINO DER KUNST, Nurnberg museum, Nurnberg, Germany;
Astana FEST, Astana, Kazakhstan;
Shymkent Art Festival, Shymkent, Kazakhstan;
Archipelago KAGLAG, in conjunction with Nurlan Dulatbekov, Museum Modern Art, Astana, Kazakhstan;
Hero Mother, Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism,
Momentum, Berlin, Germany;
Do you know Kazakhstan, Wild Project Gallery, IADA (International Art Development), Luxemburg;
Collection of Huma Kabakcı, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey;
2015
German Cool, Salsali`s selected collection, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE;
Elective Affinities, curated by Viktor Misiano, National Centre for Contemporary Art ( NCCA), Moscow, Russia;
How to gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia, curated by Bart De Baere, Defne Ayas, Nicolaus Schafhausen, commissioner Joseph Backstein, 6th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia;
Union of the Fire and Water, curated by Suad Garaeva commissioned by Yarat Foundation, 56 th Venice Biennale, Italy; http://www.bakuvenice2015.com
Fairy Tales, Utopian Days, Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan;
LINE, curated by Basak Senova, Art Rooms, Cyprus, Turkey;
http://basaksenova.com/ex_35.html
2014
Life as a Legend, a group show of Contemporary Art Kazakhstan, curated by Dimitry Konstantinidis, Daria Evdokimova, Estelle Pietzyk, Museum of Contemporary Art Strasbourg, France;
Prologue Exhibitionof Honolulu Biennial, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and IsabellaEllaheh Hughes,
Hawaii, USA;
Color of Pomegranates, the 90th year anniversary of the birth of S.Paradjanov, curated by Darya Khan,
State gallery Solyanka, Moscow, Russia;
Threads, curated by Mirijam Westen, Museum of Contemporary Art Arnhem, Netherlands;
Changing Worlds: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, Singapore Art Stage 2014,
curated by Charles Merewether, Singapore;
2013
Lost to the Future: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, curated by Charles Merewether, Lassale College of Arts, Singapore, Singapore;
Film Program Media Art Lab, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manege, Russia;
A Sense of Place, Wellin Museum, Hamilton, New York;
Screening of “Transoxiana Dreams” at MoMA PS1 as part of EXPO 1: New York;
Projects Art and Science focusing on the concept of IDENTITY lecture and exhibition with participation Vito Acconci, Ori Gersht, Almagul Menlibayeva, scientists Vittorio Gallese (neuroscientist specialist in mirror neurons and social brain) Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet (psychiatrist specialist in adolescence) and Luc Montagnier (Nobel Prize Winner for the HIV Virus and on the run for a second Nobel Prize for teletransportation of DNA), Madre Museum of Contemporary Art, Napoli, Italy;
KINO DER KUNST, International film festival, Munich, Germany;
Female Power. Matriarchy, Spirituality & Utopia, Museum of Modern Kunst, Arnhem, Holland;
Talk and screening with the conversation with Susanne M. Winterling at the Conference Winter-Central Asian
Pavilion 55th Venice Biennale, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway;
The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
2012
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) & Queensland Art Gallery (QAG);
One-Sixth of the Earth, Ecologies of Image, ZKM- Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany;
Contemporary Art from Kazakhstan, a project of Marat Guelman, curator Nailya Allachverdieva, gallery
Cultural Allianz, Center of Contemporary Art in Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia;
II International Biennale of Contemporary Art „Moya Yurga“, Khanty Mansiysk Biennale, Russia;
Contemporary Video Art, Videonale-Donetsk, Donetsk, Ukraine;
Nomadic Art Camp, Center of ContemporaryArt Bishkek, Bishkek State Museum, Kyrgyzstan;
18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;
Lightness & Gravity: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
Grant Collection: Queensland ArtGallery, Brisbane, Australia;
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, Redline, Denver, Colorado, USA;
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Arsenal 2012, Kiev Biennial, Ukraine;
The Bride's Face, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia;
Double Vision, Motorenhalle, Center for Contemporary Art Dresden, German;
Colors of the Oasis, Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) Seattle, USA;
Ultra Memory, curated by Jerome Nivet-Carzon, Palace of the Independency, Astana, Kazakhstan;
Aftermath, curated by Basak Senova, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey;
Ecologies of Image, curated by Marc Nash, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain;
Paganism, curated by Martin Schibli, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden;
East is West: Three Women Artist, LASALLE College of Arts – ICA Singapore, Singapore;
2011
The 6th Tashkent Biennial, Tashkent, Uzbekistan;
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts;
Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University; and Prospect.2 Biennial, New Orleans, USA;
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia;
Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia, Calvert22, London, UK;
Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia;
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Global Health Odyssey Museum, Atlanta, GA;
Video Re: View Festival as part of Videonale 13, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland;
COLLECTION XXVII: East from 4° 24’, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MHKA), Antwerp, Belgium;
Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, UAE;
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Chicago Cultural Center, IL, USA;
2010
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery,Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Mother, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria;
Tarjama/Translation, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, El Cubo-Tijuana Cultural Center,Tijuana, Mexico; the Museo
Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico;
2009
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art and Violence, the Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; University of California, San Diego, CA;
Re-imagining, Calvert 22, London, UK;
Unconditional Love, 53rd Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo 89, Venice, Italy;
East from Nowhere, Arsenale II, Turin, Italy;
Tarjarma/Translation, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY,USA;
2008
World on Video – International Video Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina,
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy;
Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY;
The Peekskill Project,Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY;
The Distance to the Sun, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany;
Asia, College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ;
Time Code, Mambo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy;
I Dream of the Stans, curated by Leeza Ahmadi, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY;
2007
Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia, curated by Viktor Misiano, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA;
Destination Asia, Galerie 88, curated Valeria Ibraeva, Mumbai, India;
Central Asian Project, in collaboration with Asia Art + Cornerhouse, curated by Yuliya Sorokina, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan;
Peristan, performance and screening for the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavillion, curated by Uyliya Sorokina, Venice, Italy;
Time of the Storytellers, curated by Viktor Misiano, Museum of Contemporary Art - Kiasma, curated by Viktor Misiano, Helsinki, Finland;
Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, curated by Wonil Rhee, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany;
The Paradox of Polarity: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY; Central Asian Project, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK;
2006
CATODICA, curated by Maria Campitelli, Trieste, Italy;
Actual Archives: Central Asian Contemporary Art, Rosamira Festival, curated by Viktor Misiano,
organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Moscow, Russia;
16th Sydney Biennale, performance Caravan Seray, Zones of Contact, curated by Dr. Charles Merewether,
at Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia;
International Biennial of Photography-Brescia, curated by Sarenco, Brescia, Italy;
Art and Conflict in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI;
Polyzentral, art festival of Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany;
Art from Central Asia, curated by Viktor Miziano, Center of Contemporary Art, Zamok Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland;
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia, Haggerty Museum, curated by Valeria Ibraeva,
Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Milwaukee, WI;
2005
On the Road, 51st Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion, Venice, Italy;
26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Lublyana, Slovenia;
Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central Asia, Ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany;
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflict in Central Asia, Palazzo dei Sette, curated by Valeria Ibraeva,
Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Orvieto, Italy;
2004
Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, video festival organized by The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan; M and Others, 1st Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art-Bishkek, State Museum, Kyrgyzstan; Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia; International Visions, The Gallery, Washington, D.C. USA;
Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central Asia, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Pueblos y Sombras, Canaja Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico;
Natural Women, Visible Voice, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
2003
Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirik, Russia and Almaty Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Caravan Café, Rocca di Umbertide - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy;
2002
Catmania, Illuzeum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
Nomad Land, Art and Culture from Central Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; First Festival of Video Art, Soros Foundation, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Re-orientation: Art on Central Asia, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany;
Fourth Biennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia;
2001
Inner Asia, traveling exhibition of Graphics of Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Siberia, Tashkent,Uzbekistan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Novosibirsk, Russia (2001 – 2003);
The Days of the Culture of Kazakhstan in Moscow, Moscow Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia;
2000
International Vision, The Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Communication and Experience of Interaction, Central Asia Festival of Contemporary Art in VDNH, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Handmade, Pushkinskaya 10, Saint Petersberg, Russia; Nomads Culture in the End of the Centuries, State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
Selected Film Festivals
2013
KINO DER KUNST International film festival, Munich, Germany;
2012
Kinoshock International Film Festival, Anapa, Russia;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; 48th Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, Italy;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, the Spanish Cinematheque and the Cineteca - Matadero Madrid, Spain;
2011
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;
15th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland;
22nd Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany;
Jardin d’été, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France;
Les Rencontres InternationalesParis/Berlin/Madrid, Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid, Spain; VIDEOAKT International Videoart Biennial, Barcelona, Spain;
((.mOv)) Videoarte en mOvimiento, Lima, Peru;
Expecting the Images, Carte Blanche to the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon;
40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
2010
que faire? art/film/politique, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Labos d’Aubervilliers, Espace, Paris, France;
Khiasma, Maison Pop, Cinema le Melies, Paris, France;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Chatelet Theatre, Paris, France;
INVIDEO 2010 International Film festival, Milan, Italy;
Kunstfilmtag 2010, UN..SHARPNESS OF THE DOCUMENTARY, Dusseldorf, Germany; Shoot the Shooter, SANFIC, Santiago International Film Festival, Santiago, Chili;
21st Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Oberhausen International 56th Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Jeu de Paume National Museum and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Reina Sofia National Museum and the Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid, Spain;
Fractured Geographies: A New World Border, Maison Pop' de Montreuil, Montreuil, France;
2009
Golden Drum International Video Festival, Hanti-Mansiisk, Russia;
38th International Film Festival Rotterdam with the film "Native Dancer" by film director Gulshat Omarova, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Jeu de Paume National Museu and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,Germany; Reina Sofia National Museum and the Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid, Spain;
2008
Oberhausen International 54th Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Jeu de Paume National Museum and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Reina Sofia National Museum and the Spanish Cinematheque,Madrid, Spain; 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
2007
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany;
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain;
2006
Scanners: NY Video Fest, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY;
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin, Germany;
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain;
35th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
2005
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Jeu de Paume National Museum and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Reina Sofia National Museum and the Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid, Spain;
2004
Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, video festival organized by The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany;
2003
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France ;
Podevil Arsenal, Brotfabrik, Berlin, Germany;
20th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Film Projects
2008
Producton Design for “Native Dancer” dir. Gulshat Omarova, screened at the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Transoxiana Dreams, De. Groen Fine Art Collection,Arnhem, Netherlands;
GENIUS LOCI of Central Asia, Solo Show, Andakulova Gallery, Dubai, UAE ;
2018 #98 Almagul Menlibayeva, Videoart at Midnight, Cinema Babylon, Berlin, Germany;
Green, Yellow, Red, and Green again, TSE Art Destination, Astana, Kazakhstan;
2016 Transformation, Grand Palais, Paris, France;
2015 Transoxiana Dreams, Videozone, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany;
2013 Empire of the Memory, Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, Polland;
An Ode to the Wastelands and Gulags, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria;
2012 Daughters of Turan, Casal Solleric, La Palma De Mallorca, Spain;
2011 Exodus, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany;
Les reves perdus d'Aral, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France;
Transoxiana Dreams, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY;
My Silk Road to you, Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
2010 Lonely at the Top, Europe at large #6 (Refrains from the Wasteland), Museum van
Hedendaagse Kunst (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium [http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/europe-at-large];
Daughters of Turan, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY;
2009 Exodus, Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
Kurban, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY;
2008 Kissing Totems, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY;
2007 On the Road, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany;
Born in Kazakhstan and currently oscillating between creative ventures in Germany and Kazakhstan.
Multimedia artist specializing in site-specific multi-channel video installations, immersive digital media, photography, and contemporary textile art integrations innovatively overlays tapestry onto cutting-edge video installations drawing inspiration from enduring mythologies of geopolitics to craft a storytelling medium that resonates across time. Expanding artistic horizons with AI technology. Menlibayeva’s oeuvre critically examines Soviet modernity, and post-socialist Central Asian transformations, and offers decolonial perspectives on gender, environmental issues, and Eurasian mythologies.
Education
1987–92 Academy of Art and Theatre, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
1986-87 Student of Painting Studio run by Sergei Maslov at Pioneer`s Palace, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
1985-86 Student of Kazakh painter Gani Bayanov, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
Honors & Awards:
2017 - Awarded the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture.
2013 - Main Award at KINO DER KUNST in the International Film Competition, Munich, Germany.
2011 - KfW Audience Award at Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
2010 - Winner of the Prize de la Nuit for the film "Exodus" at the 8th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris.
2009 - Gold Tambourine Prize: Video Art, 1st Prize at the Golden Drum International Video Festival, Khanty-Mansiysk,
Russia.
2003 - Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, 3rd Prize, Center of Contemporary Art, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan.
2002 - First Video Festival, 2nd Prize, Center of Contemporary Art, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan.
2002 - TARLAN, Patrons' Club of Kazakhstan: An Independent Prize of Kazakhstan.
1995 - ASIA ART Grand Prix at the Second Biennial of Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
1995 - DARIN, State Grand Prix for Artists, Kazakhstan.
Commissions and Grants
2022 - Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation for Sharjah Biennale 2023.
2022 - Commissioned Tcelinny Center of Contemporary Culture
2020 - IFA Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany.
2020 - PCAI, LAHORE BIENNALE 2020; Supporter: ALMAGUL MENLIBAYEVA.
2019 - Trust for Mutual Understanding.
2019- IADA International Art Development Association
2013 - Open Society Institute Budapest, Art and Culture Network Program Grant.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023: The Open World;(upcoming 09.12.2023 -30.04.2024)
Dietmar Seitz: Das Kasachstan-Projekt / Almagul Menlibayeva: Transoxiana Dreams, Freiburg University Library Freiburg, Germany; (upcoming 12.01-12.02.2024)
Altar of the East: Nuclear Testimony,by Zwetajewa Center at the University of Freiburg, Kommunales Kino, Freiburg, Germany; (upcoming 17.11-09.12.2023)
Kuzeu Displaced Identity,curated by Olga Veselova, Delphy Space, Freiburg, Germany; (upcoming 28.10- 12.11.2023)
Montevideo Biennale 2023,curated by Alfons Hug; (upcoming 25 October, 2023)
As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories. Fragment for a Geopoetics of North of Eurasia, HKW, Berlin, Germany; (upcoming 21.10.2023 -14.01.2024)
Curated exhibition Slavs and Tatars, Asia Now 9th Edition, Paris Asian Art Fair, Monnaire de Paris, France;
Soloshow Angry Tulips, collaboration Performance with George Davitashvili curated by George Davitashvili, IArt Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia;
International Documentary Film Festival (DMZ Docs),Essay section, South Korea;
One Belt. Many Roads.Group project curated by Maren Richter and Kalus Schafler, WUK, Vienna, Austria;
Costume and Collapse. A panel discussion organized by Pickle Bar, Slavs and Tatars, Berlin, Germany;
New Visions Triennale for Photography and New Media, Henie Onstad, Kunstsenter, Norway;
International competition of the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany;
Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond, LACMA Museum, USA;
Collection MOMENTUM, NEW MEXICO;
The Fog of War, curated by Alfons Hug, travel exhibition Almaty/Kazakhstan, Tbilisi/Georgia, Baku/Azerbaijan;
Video Club, Stedelijk Museum’s Collection of time-based media, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
Sharjah Biennial 15; Thinking Historically in the Presents, conceived by the late Okwui Enwensor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE;
The 7th Guangzhou Triennial The Symphony of All the Changes, Guangdong Museum of Art, China;
2022
19th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2022,National Art Gallery, Bangladesh Shilpkak Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh;
The Thing is, curated by Caspar Straske, part 2/panke.gallery, part 3 /rosa, Berlin, Germany;
Jaou 2022,Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis;
Fog of War,curated by Alfons Hug, Goethe-Zentrum Baku, Azerbaijan;
The Other Kabul remains of the Garden, curated by Susann Wintsch, Verein Treibsand, Kunstmuseum
Thun Switzerland;
13th Edition of Survival Kit, The Little Bird must be caught, curated by iLiana Fokianaki, LCCA
Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia;
Mardin Biennale 5, curated by Adwait Singh, Mardin, Turkey;
One Belt. Many Roads, Event by Fleeting Territories, Grammar of Urgencies (Maren Richter, Klaus Schafler with Niels Plotard)/AUSTRIA;
Totems of Central Asia, curated by Nigora Akhmedova, Andakulova Gallery, Foundry Downtown, Dubai,UAE;
LIFE IN-BETWEENS: Mongolia and Central Asia, A Contemporary Art Perspective. A satellite exhibition of the 2021 Asian Arts Biennial. co-curated by Takamori Nobuo, Gantuya Badamgarav, and Chen Hsiang Wen. Almagul Menlibayeva's work was commissioned by PCAI for Lahore Biennale 2020.
Mongolian and Tibetan Gallery of the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan;
2021
TAKING FLIGHT - Birds & Bicycles Berlin! Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà, With David Elliott, Curatorial Advisor & Symposium organiser, MOMENTUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin;
ART from ELSEWHERE - Seoul Selection. Video Art from the MOMENTUM Collection, 21st Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf), curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapana;
The Parallel Worlds,ПАРАЛЛЕЛЬНЫЕ МИРЫ, curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Normurod Negmatov, madrasa Nodir Devan Begi, Ruchsor, Samarkand Uzbekistan;
Blocks I Stories of the dialogues beyond the limits, curated by Daniela Brignone (Art Historian) and Daniela Brignone ( Historian), Albergo Delle Povere, Palermo, Italy;
2020
Interlocutors APT10 (The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art)Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia;
Once upon a time and Now! curated by Diletta D' Antoni, Ines Mourato, and Junwej Chen, School of Arts, University of Kent, UK;
2020 The Sovereign Asian Art Prize Shortlist, Hong Kong;
Potential Words 1: Planetary Memories, curated by Heike Munder and Suad Garayeva-Maleki, Migros Museum für Genenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland and Yarat Art Foundation, Baku, Azerbaijan;
Lahore Biennial 02, between sun and moon, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi.
Almagul Menlibayeva in collaboration with Inna Artemova and German Popov, PIA Planetarium, Lahore, Pakistan;
contact: almagul2@gmail.com