I have been (co-)curating since 2016, with the privilege of organizing solo and group exhibitions as well as screenings in my native Qazaqstan, in neighboring Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan, and beyond. As you will notice, a substantial part of my curatorial activity taking place in Europe focuses on Central Asia, with the aim of giving it greater visibility through contemporary art. Below is a selection of my most recent curatorial projects.

In 2025, I curated a group exhibition featuring four emerging painters from Qaraqalpaqstan: Temur Shardemet, Salamat Babajanov, Bakhtiyar Serekeev, and Nawriz Aitmuratov. Commissioned by Regeneration Art Gallery, the exhibition was held at Tashkent’s Central Exhibition Hall.

Photo of well-lit bright exhibition hall with tiled floor, with paintings hung up on walls
Photo credit: Sergey Pogossyan

In the same year, I curated the video program Unyielding Beauty at Warsaw’s Galleria Zachęta, highlighting queer voices from Central Asia.

In 2024, I co-curated the group exhibition YOU ARE HERE. Central Asia, held at Fondazione Elpis in Milan and bringing together 27 multidisciplinary artists from the region.

Earlier that year, at the invitation of League of Tenders, I co-curated the video program Her Gaze: Moving Image from Central Asia, which featured several women filmmakers and was screened in various contexts across Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

In 2023, as part of Saodat Ismailova’s exhibition at Le Fresnoy, I presented the screening Vidéos d’Asie centrale at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

In 2022, I curated a solo exhibition by Simon Zara, a French artist and researcher, exploring the dimensions of the (in)visible in our contemporary cultural register. Titled La peur de l’invisible, the project took place in two parts: at Confort Mental in Paris in May and at Cryogénie in Strasbourg in September. It was co-produced with Simon Zara and Sophie Rusniok.

In 2021, at Dom36 in Almaty, I had the pleasure of curating Mixed Feelings, the Qazaq artist Madina Joldybek’s first solo exhibition, dedicated to processing the artist’s experience of motherhood and raising awareness around it within Qazaqstani society.