AZIZA KADYRI
Multidisciplinary Artist
2024-2025
Two-part immersive installation that explores industry, ecology, handcraft, and diaspora through embroidery, sculpture, and interactive tech, commissioned for the inaugural Bukhara Biennial.
2025
A moving image exploration of my father’s unrealised dreams and my own experience as an Uzbek migrant navigating uprooted identity and fractured belonging.
2025
Interactive multimedia installation with AI-driven elements, commissioned by the Zeppelin Museum.
2024
The Uzbekistan National Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale of Art, commissioned by the Uzbekistan Arts and Culture Development Foundation and curated by the Centre for Contemporary Art Tashkent.
2024
Solo exhibition at eastcontemporary gallery in Milan.
2024
Solo exhibition at Pushkin House in London.
2024 - Present
A multimedia series exploring the body as a mnemonic device, intertwining personal and collective histories through textile installations and machine learning technology
AI Suzani series, 2023-
An ongoing series exploring the relationship between a Central Asian artist, their struggle with identity, and biases in publicly available AI networks.
2023
A project reflecting upon the untold herstories of women in Central Asia—stories that unveil struggles with colonialism, ideology and patriarchal ways in what is now Uzbekistan.
Work in Progress, 2023-
A digital series consisting of symbolic representations of imagined memories, dreamt up through conversations with AI and transformed into 3D objects ‘taken out of’ the world of 9 Moons.
2023
A collaboration with the Kim Bode on a transforming art installation for the video festival D’EST#Cycle 2: Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires.
2021-
A long-term research project which includes a series of performance-based art workshops for Central Asian women that have experienced migration.
2020
A lockdown video work that explores the stereotypes young Central Asians encounter on daily basis by emphasising the complexity of my personal relationships with Moscow and Tashkent