DAVRA CURATING

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.