Dilda Ramazan
Dilda Ramazan is a Kazakhstan-born art worker specializing in Central Asian contemporary art. She curates exhibitions and publications, writes on art and is currently pursuing her PhD at Sorbonne Université. In 2020, together with her colleagues, she co-founded MATA, an all-female art collective based in Kazakhstan. Ramazan is also part of Beyond the post-soviet, a collective which produces and dissiminates knowledge on regions previously referred to as ‘post-socialist’ countries.
contact: dildaramazan@gmail.com
instagram: @arty.ninja
Related Projects
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Proxy Conference: In Forest
December 2023 - April 2024 | Green snake women-centered ecologies
Proxy Conference is a process driven project by AFSAR that facilitates modes of collective gathering. For the second edition, the conference is joined by DAVRA, who has been practicing as circles, collectivizing ties of belongingness between practitioners in Central Asia.
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DAVRA Suhbat
13 August 2023 | Almaty, Dom 36
DAVRA Suhbat’s goal is to set up a transgenerational and multidisciplinary bridge amongst experts in culture and arts of Central Asia. Through dialogue and conversation we would like to empower the bonds between our countries, art scene and practitioners of different disciplines.
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Davra presents three generations of Central Asian video artists
February, April, June 2023 | Eye Film Museum
DAVRA is happy to present three screenings of film and video of three generations of Central Asian artists at the Eye Museum online player as part of Saodat Ismailova’s exhibition “18,000 worlds” at Eye.
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DAVRA texts
February, April, June 2023 | Eye Museum Magazine
Within the framework of Saodat Ismailova’s solo show ‘18,000 worlds’ at Eye Filmmuseum, DAVRA has prepared a series of texts specifically for the institution’s website.
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Chilltan | Winter Chilla
December 25, 2022 - February 5, 2023
On the 19th of December, 2022, we started our Winter Chilla mirroring public programme with a group show in Tashkent.
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Fridzine
2022 | documenta fifteen
fridzine - derived from Fridericianum zine - is a small publication that attempts to find answers to a simple and yet important question: what can we do in a museum?
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Chilltan | Summer Chilla
June 25 - August 5, 2022 | documenta fifteen, Kassel
During the 100 days of documenta fifteen the forty chilltans were introduced to the public via DAVRA collective‘s ongoing research.
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Chilltan: Shapeshifting Eternal Spirits from Central Asia
2022 | documenta fifteen
Chilltans are shape-shifters, fluid sacred spirits that have essentially been present in spiritual traditions in Central Asia. In this publication by DAVRA Collective, research on Chilltans is presented through academic texts, prose, poetry, photographs, illustrations and collages.