Workshop: A Curatorial Residency About Heritage and Horizons

CONCEPT
Artists, curators and cultural managers from Kyrgyzstan, France and Germany are convening
at an art residency in the mountainous city of Naryn (Kyrgyzstan).

This innovative art laboratory intends to explore the intersection of curatorship, art management,
cultural heritage and creation. During the one-week art residency, participants will engage in
workshops incorporating practice and reflection and confront points of view and ideas in order
to question the future of curatorship and residency in Kyrgyzstan. During these sessions,
participants will work with traditional techniques while infusing these techniques with contemporary
meanings and forms. This “thinking while doing” process will enable attendees to bridge the gap
between theoretical knowledge and practical application, fostering a deeper understanding of how
art can play a role in cultural preservation and innovation. Merging experiences and innovations
from Europe and Kyrgyzstan intends to bring new ideas for future residencies and the experience
in Naryn will be a laboratory for these reflections.

This Art Lab is an artistic residency and a theoretical workshop at the same time. At the end
of the residency, the outputs of the week’s creation and reflection will be presented in Bishkek,
the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, at an exhibition and conference intending to forecast the future of
residencies in the country.
This experimental project intends to be a vibrant exchange of ideas and practices, a pioneering
event setting new perspectives, and an intense multicultural adventure

CONTACTS
Altyn Kapalova (KG)
University of Central Asia, Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit
Research Fellow and Acting Director of CHHU
altyn.kapalova@ucentralasia.org  
+996 770 822 620  

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