Almagul Menlibayeva
Screenings
Gathered in Moscow

Almagul Menlibayeva (born 1969 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is an award-winning contemporary artist who works mostly in multi-channel video, photography and mixed media installation. She lives and works in Germany and Kazakhstan. Her work has been featured internationally at the Sydney Biennale, Australia; the Venice Biennale; the Moscow Biennale, Russia; Her recent solo exhibitions include Transformation, Grand Palais, Paris, France (2016-2017); Union of the Fire and Water, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (2015); Transoxiana Dreams, Videozone, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (2014); Video at Midninght #98, Berlin (2018).
Her works exhibited at venues such as Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Queens Museum, NY, USA; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY, USA; ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; Center of Contemporary Art, Zamok Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art  Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; EXPO 1 Exploration of ecological challenges, MoMA PS1, NewYork, USA:

Menlibayeva’s work addresses issues such as critical explorations of Soviet modernity; and political transformations in Central Asia; social, economic; and decolonial reimaginings of gender, environmental degradation, and Eurasian nomadic and indigenous cosmologies and mythologies. A winner of the Main Prize of Munich’s Kino der Kunst International Film Festival (2013), awarded the French Ministry of Culture’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2017.