Due to open in September, the Tselinny Center and the Almaty Museum of the Arts are both financed by Kazakh entrepreneurs

The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture was designed by British architect Asif Khan

Almaty Museum of Arts will house more than 700 works by Kazakh and Central Asian artists, while also presenting an substantial collection of international art

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

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

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

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

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

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