Zumrad Mirzalieva
Photo: Nicola Pianalto, Fabrica Research Center
Zumrad is a photographer and filmmaker from Uzbekistan. She is a member of the Davra research group and a recent resident at Fabrica Research Centre. Holding a master's degree in Social Innovation from the London School of Economics and Political Science, she has focused on exploring the transformative potential of art in driving positive social change. Zumrad's artistic practice revolves around the exploration of interconnected themes, including decolonization, exploitation, ecology, agency and rethinking historical narratives through intersectional feminist perspective.
contact: zumrad.mir@gmail.com
instagram: @zuma.mir
Related Projects
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Whose Voice Is This – Archival Findings from Central Asia
March 28-29, 2025 | Goethe-Institut Tashkent, Arsenal on Location
Arsenal's film archive holds around 50 films from Central Asia dating back to the second half of the 20th century and offering a vivid portrayal of the region’s evolving political, cultural, and artistic landscapes. While Soviet-era cinema adhered to dominant ideological narratives, a closer look reveals an undercurrent of loss, resilience, and subtle resistance.
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Taming Waters and Women in Soviet Central Asia
June 14, 2024 - September 29, 2024 | Biennale Matter of Art, Prague
The project explores the historical connections between inadequate water exploitation and female labor in Soviet-era Central Asia. Centered around The Great Fergana Canal and the cotton production, the project examines the intentional manipulation of both water resources and women for industrial ends.
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Her Gaze: Moving Image from Central Asia
May 24, 2024 | Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art
Her Gaze: Moving Image from Central Asia is part of the International Nomadic Program 2024-2025 Repetition is a Form of Changing organized by League of Tenders. This is the first event of the First Season of this program, Her Right, devoted to decolonial approaches to feminism and questioning it from non-Western perspectives.
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Friendship of Peoples: Tashkent, Film, Exchange
September, 2023 | Survival Kit, Riga
"Friendship of Peoples: Tashkent, Film, Exchange" is a project exploring the legacy of the Tashkent International Film Festival of Asia, Africa, and Latin America through "Tashkent 58-88," a curated short film comprising archival footage, essay and research vitrine.
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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.