Nazira Karimi
Photo: Daniyar Jussupov
Nazira Karimi is a multidisciplinary artist, born in 1996 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. She is involved in multiple female artist collectives and platforms. Currently based between Almaty, Kazakhstan and Vienna, Austria. Her main interest is the intersectional feminist theory, dec olonial theory and collectivity, all within female communities.
contact: nazira.karimova@gmail.com
instagram: @nazirakar
Related Projects
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DAVRA and Beyond: Videos of Central Asian Artists
March 21-30, 2024 | JOAN, Los Angeles
This program is part of the exhibition, Saodat Ismailova: Other Time and DAVRA research collective on view at JOAN through March 30. On the occasion of this exhibition, DAVRA invited Sorokina to curate a selection of films by young Central Asian artists working with moving image, which will be screened from March 21-30 within the installation space.
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Central Asian Moving Image
April 26 - May 5, 2023 | goEast Film Festival 23, Wiesbaden
For the 23rd goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany DAVRA’s short films screening from Central Asia was presented in Mumau cinema. Screening was followed by Q&A with artists Aïda Adilbek and Zumrad Mirzalieva and the discussion “Post-, neo- and de-colonial Central Asia: human rights activism and collective filmmaking”.
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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.