Saadat Aitalieva

Saadat Aitalieva is a curator, producer, researcher, and practitioner of performance art focusing on women's rights, based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. My work is related to conceptual and visual development and activist gestures with fem-optics. I am currently the co-founder of the self-organized platform Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (BiSCA). My artistic practice aims at exploring my culture and traditions through the lens of memory: my experiences of living, growing up, and interacting with nature. The dynamism and form of my artistic explorations organically shape the healing process through the body's close interaction with the natural and social environment. I use photography, installations, and live performances as mediums. Food is also an integral part of my latest practice.

She has no academic art education as she practices art against the influence of institutions. She graduated with a degree in international relations.

Curatorial and artistic projects:

2019 Nature as a laboratory: potato print. Bishkek

2020 Open studious ASPIE. Bishkek

2022 Data art. Classic games. Cultural centre Kuduk. Bishkek

2022-2024 Currently working on international art residency for women The enclosed garden. Bishkek

Collaborative art works:

2020 Uyat emes. Bishkek

2022 collective performance of Bishkek School of Contemporary Art. Kassel. Germany

2022 To those who have no time to play. Red yurt. Amsterdam

2022 slow molding is a community practice of applied art. Feminnale. Bishkek

2022 Meat Women. Feminnale. Bishkek

2023 Missing member. Berlin

Date of residency: 10. 7. 2023–10. 9. 2023