CV | Gaisha Madanova

GAISHA MADANOVA

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Born in Alma-Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Based between Berlin (DEU) and Almaty (KAZ).

Notable group exhibitions include:

- DREI TAGE BIS ZUM ENDE DER KUNST. COE Ana Dević / WHW Curatorial Collective. Gallery Nova, Zagreb (HRV)
- WorkS.Hope online: With the Collection. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU). Rijeka (HRV)
- DIE GRENZE. Traveling exhibition by Goethe-Institut with support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. COE Dr. Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter. 11 countries, 2019-17

- Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum. COE Yuliya Sorokina, Eun Young Shin. Suwon IPark Museum of Art, Suwon (KOR), 2018

- BREAD&ROSES: Four Generations of Kazakh Women. COE David Elliot, Dr. Rachel Rits-Volloch, Almagul Menlibayeva. Kunstquartier Bethanien, MOMENTUM, Berlin (DEU), 2018

- Postnomadic Mind. COE Indira Dyussebayeva-Ziyabek and Aliya de Tiesenhausen. Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London (GBR), 2018

- SUNS AND NEONS ABOVE KAZAKHSTAN. COE Björn Geldhof. Yarat Contemporary Art Space. Baku (AZE), 2017

- BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places. COE David Elliott. Kühlhaus Berlin (DEU), 2015

- A TIME FOR DREAMS - 4th Moscow International Biennale For Young Art. COE David Elliott. Moscow Museum, Moscow (RUS), 2014

- ONE STEP/PE FORWARD. Independent Pavilion of Kazakhstan during the 55th Venice Biennale. IADA. Palazzo Bragadin, Venice (ITA), 2013

- FACE OF THE BRIDE. COE Nailya Allahverdiyeva. PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art. Perm (RUS), 2012

- ALUMINUM - IV International Baku Biennale of Contemporary Art. COE Leyla Akhundzadeh. Baku (AZE), 2009

- LAUGHTERLIFE. COE Maria Baibakova, Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt. Exhibition of the new art of Central Asia and Russia, RozaMira08. Diehl+Gallery One. Moscow (RUS), 2008

- TRANSFORMATION OF SPACE IN ALMATY. Artpologist collective. Silk Road House in Berkeley. Berkeley, California (USA). Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley (USA) SCCA, Almaty (KAZ), 2007

EDUCATION:

2019-20	WHW Akademija. Independent interdisciplinary seven-month study program for artists. Founded by curatorial collective What, How and for Whom / WHW, Zagreb (HRV)
2012-18	Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (AdBK). Munich (DEU) - Fine Arts, Sculpture. Prof. Hermann Pitz. Diploma. - Digital and Time-based Media. Prof. Julian Rosefeldt. - Project class of Guest Professor: Justin Lieberman, Mariechen Danz, Melanie Bonajo, Kim Noble, Saim Demircan.
2011-12	Kompetenzzentrum Kulturmanager (Competence center for cultural managers). Berlin (DEU) Training program by Goethe Institute for cultural managers in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.
2005-09	Almaty College of Construction and Management. Almaty (KAZ) Faculty of Architecture. Bachelor in Secondary Specialized Education.

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

2020	Member of professional association of visual artists Berlin BBK (DEU)
2016	Co-founder of art communication platform ARTCOM. Almaty (KAZ)
2015	Founder and editor-in-chief of ALUAN art magazine – the exhibition on paper (KAZ)
2014	Member of Roundabout collective. Munich (DEU)
2007	Co-founding member of Artpologist collective (KAZ, FRA, USA)

AWARDS, PRIZES, NOMINATIONS:

2018	STARTPOINT PRIZE 2018. Nominee for the winning prize selection of European Art Graduates. (CZE)
2017	Prize of the Academia Association for the Best Annual Exhibition 2017. UTOPIUM. Julian Rosefeldt project class. AdBK, Munich (DEU)
2016	Prize of the Academia Association for the Best Annual Exhibition 2016. THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Julian Rosefeldt project class. AdBK, Munich (DEU)
2009	Best Graduation Architectural Project 2009. II Degree Diplom for the project of Museum for Contemporary Art ORLEY in Almaty. Union of Architects of the Respublic Kazakhstan. Almaty (KAZ)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018	Graduation Show 2018. Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (DEU)
2015	Bird Catcher. Whitin the project NO EXIT, COE Anna Fech, Art Container, Zurich (CHE)
	What to do with what has been. Roundabout art space, Munich (DEU)
2012	Documentation of space. Hamburg University. Hamburg (DEU)
	Documentation of space. Alliance Française d’Almaty. Almaty (KAZ)
2009	The Instinct of the present. Goethe-Institut Kazakhstan. Almaty (KAZ)