PCAI Collection artist Almagul Menlibayeva will be participating in the exhibition We Are All Made of Stars, at MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts that will be on view from December 12, 2024 until February 23, 2025. Menlibayeva’s work Ulugh Beg. New Silk Road in Space (2020) was created in partnership with artists Inna Artemova and German Popov in the context of the second Lahore Biennial and constitutes part of the PCAI Art Collection.The PCAI commission unravels Menlibayeva’s research upon the life of important astronomer and ruler of Samarkand Sultan Mirzo Ulugh Beg, a further reflection on space debris and the industrial contamination of modernity, as well as on ancestral, patriarchal norms related to ruling and prevailing. The artwork was recenty presented in PCAI’s I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess (2024) video art programme in The Ellinikon Experience Centre, one of most technologically advanced visitor centres in the world.
MOMus’ We Are All Made of Stars exhibition is curated by Domna Gounari and focuses on new media, digital art and new technologies in contemporary visual practice and develops its thematic axis on the finding that humanity is an integral part, comes from the same material that is made of the unknown and vast space that surrounds it, as well as that all living beings are equal to each other, sharing the same rights within the limits of earthly world.The main objective of the exhibition is to present the work of visual artists, young and established, who are inspired by the latest developments in science and technology related to space travel and exploration, the discovery of new worlds and future human habitation. At the same time, it aspires to provoke reflection on crucial and complex social, political and economic issues that are timeless in human culture as well as to communicate any form of contemporary art that involves technology in its completion to a wider audience.We Are All Made of Stars features works of more than 30 Greek and international artists and is primarily the result of MOMus’ collaboration with media and digital art festivals, cultural organisations, art schools and artistic platforms.
Almagul Menlibayeva is a Kazakhstani award-winning contemporary artist who works mostly in multi-channel video, photography and mixed media installation. Menlibayeva’s work addresses issues such as critical explorations of Soviet modernity; social, economic; and political transformations in post-Soviet Central Asia; and decolonial reimaginings of gender, environmental degradation, and Eurasian nomadic and indigenous cosmologies and mythologies.
Exhibition dates: 12.12.2024 – 23.02.2024
Venue: MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port Area)
More information here.
Image credit:
Almagul Menlibayeva, Ulugh Beg. New Silk Road in Space, 2020
HD video, 30’26”. Courtesy of the artist and PCAI.
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
