Festival with public art installation
/ Plein air:
ID: E17.3


Title:

Art Prosрect




Date:
September 22 — 24, 2017

Place:
Gareyev Botanical Garden, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Curators:
Muratbek Djumaliev, Gulnara Kasmalieva

Artists:
Meder Akhmetov, Kendal Henry, Billy Dufala, Zulaika Esentaeva, Zhanna Kadyrova, Nurlan Kalchinov, Veronika Kapishnikova, Zhazgul Madazimova, MoveGreen youth ecological movement, Aitegin Muratbek and Zhanar Ubukeev, Chinara Niyazova, Gennady Popesku, Diana Rakhmanova, Atai Samyibek and Adilet Nazyranbekov, Sergey Shabohin, Katharina Stadler and Tornike Asabashvili, Zhanna Tabyshalieva and Bakyt Sargazakov, Emil Tilekov, Dara Turmagambetova, Maria Uvarova and Dima Fatum, Naili Vakkhaniya and Tamar Botchorishvili, Kamilla Yusupova and Luka Adrekhal
Work:
Site-specific public art installation ST()RE #8. Reconstruction of the Orangery (Greenhouse of Glasnost)



Sergey Shabohin:
tpublic art installation
ST()RE #8.
Reconstruction of the Orangery
(Greenhouse of Glasnost)
,
2017


Explication:
The main venue choosen for the Art Prospect is the Gareev Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. The theme of the festival is Breathing New Life into Green Zones.

Created back before the Second World War, the garden is a unique research facility (the Botanical Garden occupies first place in Central Asia for the range of species growing there) and a precious public space. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, it suffered the fate of many state institutions: lack of finance, the pressures of the new free-market economy and, as a consequence, an attempt at “re-profiling”. The festival organizers and artists invited people to rethink areas in the Botanical Garden, using the devices of art, design and architecture, helping to create a setting for informal gatherings of Bishkekians of any age or grouping. The objects and installations are intended to become ideas–motifs that serve as the kernel for reflective consideration of “green zones” as a necessary part of public spaces – places not just for relaxation, but also for the discussion of burning issues and for the education of the city’s people.

Individual artists and teams from Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the USA participated in the festival. 


Organizers:
ОО ArtEast with the support of CEC ArtsLink as part of the Platform Art Prospect project
Partners:
Gareev Botanical Garden,
scientific research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic,
OF Initsiativa “Archa”, 
OF Yrgystan Laboratoria ci,
Bishkek Mayor's Office,
The Trust for Mutual Understanding.