Adnan Madani

Adnan Madani’s work reflects his engagement with art theory as well as practice. His work explores the spaces and power dynamics between dominant models of Art History and art-making in the third world, between law and individual transgressive actions, and between ideologies and practices.

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Born in 1969; Alamagul graduated from the Almaty Theater and Art Institute and now lives in Berlin. The notion of female identity plays a fundamental part in Menlibayeva's work. Through the confrontation between Kazakhstan's ancient culture and Western culture's recent influences, female identity triumphs in the artist's imaginary realm. The rituals of life are thus entrusted to a female identity and women become the bearers of new values.

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Bani Abidi

She studied at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and later acquired an MFA from Chicago Institute of Art, USA. Bani Abidi's work is imbued with her country's long-term and paradoxical short-term history and reminds the viewer that any reconstruction and revival of the past is full of pitfalls. It is too easy to romanticise the past and gaze back through rose-tinted spectacles or to put a spin on past episodes only to serve current political ends.

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Erbosyn Meldibekov

He was born in 1964 and graduated from the Almaty Theater and Art Institute. His work “The Monument to a Hero” is the reply on new “epidemic” creation of monuments to historical persons on horses which take place throughout the Central Asian republics. “Chengize Khan Map” also connects history with present day by ways of ancient warriors and modern “peaks of aggression”, considered probably the most dangerous geopolitical situation in the world.

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Hamra Abbas

She studied at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan before going to Berlin, where she further pursued her artistic career and worked as an independent artist. In her body of works, she has used traditional miniature paintings and recreated the people in war and their postures by photographing actual individuals from the streets of London, commenting upon the continuity of all kinds of war, including the historic battles for territories and the present day war on terror.

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Justin Ponmany

He was born in 1974 in Kerala, India. He lives and works in Mumbai, India. He draws his influences from this city whose landscape is constantly under construction. The domain he deals with ranges from the material "plastic" to a state of mind that is unfortunately plastic; what he would like to term as "Plastic Memory".

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Nadia Shaukat

She studied at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and then acquired an MA in art from the Chelsea School of Art, London, UK. She has shown in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and in UK.

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Oksana Shatalova

She was born in 1972 and graduated from Rudny Industrial College. Through photography and video, Shatlova reflects the memories, hopes and fears of developing nations, placing particular emphasis on communication between East and West.

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