Almagul Menlibayeva's work portrays the impact on the inhabitants of a formerly thriving area with tourism, beaches and fishing fleets, now living upon a constantly growing salt desert in a desolate landscape. On his way through the desert a fisherman meets bizarre creatures: half horse, half human - a tribute to the nomadic past of his people. Through the eyes of the fisherman’s daughter in a dreamlike mélange of documentary and fantasy, Menlibayeva depicts their struggle to survive in the 21st Century.
In April 2013, 'Transoxiana Dreams' won the main award at the Berlin 'Kino Der Kunst', the first event of its kind worldwide to present films by visual artists who take cinema beyond its traditional boundaries and explore new narrative forms.
Almagul Menlibayeva (b.1969, Kazakhstan)
Transoxiana Dreams, 2010
Videozone: Almagul Menlibayeva
Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
November 2014 - February 2015
LOST TO THE FUTURE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CENTRAL ASIA
ICA Gallery, Singapore
October 2013 - December 2013
"Kino Der Kunst" Festival
Munich, Germany
April 2013
East is West: Three Women Artists
Lasalle College of Arts (ICA Singapore), Singapore
January 2012 - February 2012
One Sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of Image
MUSAC, Leon, Spain
January 2012 - March 2012
Les rêves perdus d'Aral
Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France
October 2011 - November 2011
Between Heaven and Earth
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
September 2011 - October 2011
Between Heaven and Earth
Calvert 22, London, UK
September 2011 - November 2011
Transoxiana Dreams
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, USA
March 2011 - May 2011
Marina Abramovic
—Rhythm 0
1974Sergey Bratkov
—The Best
2010Olga Chernysheva
—Russian Museum
2005Olga Chernysheva
—March
2005Semyon Faibisovich
—Window of the Studio on Chaplygina Street (Triptych)
1993Almagul Menlibayeva
—Milk for Lambs
2010Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
—Meeting of Russian Cosmism through trans-avantgarde
2011Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
—Elvises
2011Pavel Pepperstein
—Untitled
2011Maria Serebriakova
—Rowan Berry
2007
Sookoon Ang
—Exorcise Me
2013Edgardo Aragon
—Efectos de Familia
2007-2009Kader Attia
—The Repair
2012Hansen Briele
—Untitled, Australia
2007Olga Chernysheva
—Russian Museum
2005Olga Chernysheva
—March
2005Nicola Costantino
—Vanity
2011Yu Honglei
—Everything is Extremely Important, There is Nothing That Will Not Come Back Again
2013Ranbir Kaleka
—Cul-de-Sac in Taxila
2010Ranbir Kaleka
—Man with Cockerel II
2004Ranbir Kaleka
—18 Allegories of the Self
2011Sigalit Landau
—Phoenician Sand Dance
2005Sigalit Landau
—Azkelon
2011Almagul Menlibayeva
—Milk for Lambs
2010Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
—Doors, Ponte City (film)
2010Uri Nir
—Accelerator
2011Cheng Ran
—1971-2000
2012Wael Shawky
—Dictums: Manqia I
2014