Kazakhstan

An alternative future: Kazakh curators look over the horizon at the Venice Biennale

After presenting its first pavilion at the biennale of 2022, the Republic of Kazakhstan returns in 2024 with an exhibition that uses the country's ancient history as artistic inspiration for dreaming of the future

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Organised ‘under gunfire’, Kazakhstan announces first national Venice pavilion—but will it actually go ahead this time?

This year’s commissioner hopes the absence of government funding might help them avoid the disaster of the nation's 2019 pavilion, which was cancelled amid “corruption” allegations

Kazakhstan protestors entered leading museum looking for ancient armour

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the capital sustained some damage, according to a government statement

Kazakhstan protestors topple statue of former leader as unrest sweeps the country

A sharp fuel price hike triggered widespread demonstrations in the former Soviet republic with artists calling for a stop to the violence

Kazakhstan's first international exhibition reveals a craving for culture in Nur-Sultan

In the wake of the country's cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion, the show aims to build a more global "artists' community" in the newly renamed capital city

Garage Museum helps new Kazakh venue to get started

Collaboration in Almaty is expected to be long-term, but no money is changing hands