SHAARBEK AMANKUL
b. 1959
EDUCATION
1980 graduated Kyrgyz State College of Arts, Bishkek
1989 graduated Kyrgyz National University, Bishkek
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Anthropocene Collection, MUSE Science Museum of Trento, Italy
2023 OFF Biennale Cairo, Egypt
2023 Packs of Land, Contemporary Lab Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
2023 Wald Wolf Wildnis, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Warendorf, Germany
2022 Shamanism, Gallery 46, London
2022 Nomadic Tales from Central Asia, THE gallery Mürsbach, Germany
2022 We Are The Flood, MUSE Science Museum of Trento, Italy
2022 Waldwolfwildnis, Kunststation-kleinsassen, Germany
2021 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
2021 Art from Elsewhere, Kunsthaus R3, Ansbach, Germany
2021 Open Air Museum Stoa 169, Polling, Germany
2020 The Haptic Eye Part1, gallery Diehl, Berlin
2020 Drinking the Wind, Einstein Kultur, Munich
2020 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, South Korea
2020 Waldwolfwildnis, New Gallery Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany
2020 Covidecameron Momentum Worldwide, Berlin, Germany
2020 Waldwolfwildnis, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
2019 WATER (Proof), Federation Square Melbourne, Australia
2019 Planet Art of Nature, Kuehlhaus-Berlin, Berlin
2019 Water (Proof), MOMENTUM, Kunstquatier Bethanien, Berlin
2019 From the Collection, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2018 Posttotal 17, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2018 Posttotal 18, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2017 Flight of a Blind Eagle, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2015 Pas De Deux, Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2015 Balagan!, Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Others Mythical Places, Berlin
2014 Call and Response. A Dialogue with George Steinmann, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2013 Introspection, Yay Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
2013 Crossroad: Contemporary Art from Central Asia & Caucasus, Sotheby’s London, England
2011 Between Heaven and Earth: Art from the Centre of Asia, Gallery Calvert 22, London, England
2011 Urban Visions Bishkek, DomagkAteliers Halle 50, Munich, Germany
2010 Video Art Versus Realities, Visual Container TV Milan, Italy
2010 Distance 4635. The life of the others, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany
2009 New Media and Video Art from Central Asia, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Vienna, Austria
2009 The View From Elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
2009 Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
2009 Biennale Cuvee, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
2009 Zindan/Vatan/Duba, Kunsthalle Lothringe, Spiegel, Munich, Germany
2008 2nd Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2006 Kyrgyz_Stein, Kunsthaus Gazometer, Liechtenstein
2005 Central Asian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale /video archive, Venice, Italy
2005 Epokha, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2004 Trophy Cup, Zagreb, Croatia
2003 43rd Premio Suzzara, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Suzzara, Italy
2002 Transforma, Contemporary Artists of Central Asia, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 No Mads Land, Contemporary Art from Central Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1998 World Contemporary Art’98, Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
1991 All-Union Sculpture Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
FESTIVALS
2021 Amber Network, Berlin, Germany
2013 Video from Elsewhere, Edinburg, UK
2013 50 years of Video Art, Tokyo
2010 12e Festival des Cinémas Differents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Paris, France
2011 Video and Performance Art, Ramallah, Palestine
2010 LOOP Guest Artist, Barcelona, Spain
2009 22nd Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France
2009 Art in Action, Oxford, UK
2008 Amber Network, Istanbul
2005 Wind Art, Jeju, South Korea
1997 Art of Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan
CONFERENCES
2019 Asia Art Space Network Forum, Gwangju, South Korea
2019 Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2017 Culture Summit, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2014 General Assembly of International Academy of Ceramic, Dublin, Ireland
2010 CIMAM Annual: Common Ground for Museums in a Global Society, Shanghai, China
2007 CIMAM Annual: Contemporary Institutions as Producers in Late Capitalism, Vienna, Austria
2007 10th Istanbul Biennale Conference International Discourse vs. Local Vibrancy, Istanbul, Türkiye
SYMPOSIUM
2010 Terracotta Art, Eskişehir, Türkiye
2009 Sculpture and Land Art, Bad Tolz, Germany
2009 Art Hub/New Silk Road, Bangkok, Tailand
2007 Intersection: Contemporary Art, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
1997 UNESCO Ceramic in Arhitecture, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
1996 Ceramic Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2021 Amber Network Lab, Berlin, Germany
2021 Domagkateliers, Munich, Germany
2020 Momentum Artist-in-Residence, Berlin, Germany
2011 Artist-in-Residence Villa Waldberta, Germany
2009 ArtsLink Global Art Lab, New York, NY + San Francisco, CA, USA
2008 Domagkateliers, Munich, Germany
2005 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2004 Print Graphic Academy, Austria
2003 Artist in Residence Krems, Austria
1998 Berkshire Artist’s Settlement, New York, USA
1989-1991 House of Art Foundation USSR, Dzintary, Latvia