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Said Atabekov is a Kazakhstani artist in the fields of installation,
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and video art, and photography.


Life

Atabekov was born in 1965 in
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in the Tashkent Province of Uzbekistan. After his studies at the Shymkent Art College, he continued with the education of upcoming artists and the organization of exhibits of their work.Ahmady Arts (2004
biography and photo impression
/ref> He began his career when the introduction of ''
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'' in the Soviet Union which enabled him to make use of the enlarged possibilities of artistic freedom. In this time he founded the collective ''Kyzyl Traktor'' (''Red Tractor'') and experimented with international modernism.Prince Claus Fund (2011
biography
In course of history, his region had been under influence of four strong and often conflicting ideologies: nomadic pantheism,
islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...
, Russian influences and western capitalism. The deeper paradoxes of them can repeatedly be seen in his work, such as from the time of
Genghis Khan ''Chinggis Khaan'' ͡ʃʰiŋɡɪs xaːŋbr />Mongol script: ''Chinggis Qa(gh)an/ Chinggis Khagan'' , birth_name = Temüjin , successor = Tolui (as regent)Ögedei Khan , spouse = , issue = , house = Borjigin , ...
, during communism and in the time following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
. In 2011 Atabekov was honored with a
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.


Work (selection)

*2004: Ifa gallery, Berlin, ''Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel'' *2005: Ifa galerie,
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, ''Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel'' *2005: 51st Venice Biennale, ''The Experience of Art'' *2007: Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, ''Time of the Storytellers'' *2007: Biennale de Montréal *2008: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, ''Tracing Roads Through Central Asia'' *2008: Winkleman Gallery,
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''I Dream of the Stans: New Central Asian Video'' *2008: ArteEast,
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, ''Boom Boom - 4th Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art'' *2009: Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, ''Changing Climate'' *2009: Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, ''Photoquai'' *2011: Museum of Modern Art,
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, ''Collection XXVII - East from 4°24' MuHKA'' *2011: 54th Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion *2011:
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,
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, ''Ostalgia'' *2011: 42nd Photo Festival Mannheim-
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- Heidelberg ''The eye is a lonely hunter: images of humankind'' *2011: Calvert22, London, ''Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia'' *2011:Between Heaven and Earth - Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia - Calvert22 Foundation, London, England *2011:4 st Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen_HeidelbergTHE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER, Germany *2011:Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice *2011:Ostalgia - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY *2011:Moving Image" An Art Fair of Contemporary Video Art New York, NY *2012:Migrasophia - Maraya Art Centre - Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah *2012:The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Human Kind - Grimmuseum, Berlin *2012: Centro Videoinsight - Torino,Italy *2013:No-mad-nes In No Man's Land - Eslite Gallery, Taipei *2103:5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Bolshe Sveta / More Light - Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow *2013:Primera Bienal del Sur en Panamá *2013: Emplazando Mundos - Bienal del Sur en Panamá, Panama City *2013:At the Crossroads: Contemporary Art from the Caucasus and Central Asia - Sotheby´s - London, New Bond Street, London, England *2013:The Eye is a Lonely Hunter - Images of Humankind - Fotogalleriet, Oslo *2013:ONE STEP/PE FORWARD Contemporary art exhibition of Kazakhstan's artists in Venice,Italy *2014:Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa - Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna *2014:ArtDubai,UAE


References

*Art Report
reference card with expositions
*Kunstaspecte
expositions
{{DEFAULTSORT:Atabekov, Said Uzbekistani photographers 1965 births Living people 20th-century Uzbekistani artists 21st-century Uzbekistani artists