SAID ATABEKOV Born in 1965 Bes-Terek (UZ). Lives and works in Shymkent (KZ) Education: Shymkent Art College named after Kasteev (KZ) (1988-1992) Personal exhibition: 2015:“ Wolves of The Steppes”.Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2011: "The Dream of Gengis Khan" gallery IMPRONTEART, Milan, Italy 2009: "Son of the EAST" gallery IMPRONTEART , Milan, Italy 2007: "WAY TO ROME" SCCA Almaty, Kazakhstan Group exhibition: 2015: • ”Walk in Asia” ,Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan • “Life a Legend”Strasbourg Museum of modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg • “Too Early,Too Late”, Pinocateca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy 2014: • THE OTHER & ME" at SHARJAH ART MUSEUM, Sharjha, UAE • Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa - Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna • Art Dubai, UAE 2013: • No-mad-nes In No Man's Land - Eslite Gallery, Taipei • 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Bolshe Sveta / More Light - Manege Central Exhibition Hall , Moscow • Primera Bienal del Sur en Panamá Emplazando Mundos - Bienal del Sur en Panamá, Panama City • At the Crossroads: Contemporary Art from the Caucasus and Central Asia - Sotheby´s - London, New Bond Street, London, England • The Eye is a Lonely Hunter - Images of Humankind - Fotogalleriet, Oslo • ONE STEP/PE FORWARD Contemporary art exhibition of Kazakhstan's artists in Venice, Italy 2012: • Centro Videoinsight - Torino,Italy • Migrasophia - Maraya Art Centre - Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah • The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Human Kind - Grimmuseum, Berlin • Centro Videoinsight - Torino,I taly 2011: • Between Heaven and Earth - Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia - Calvert22 Foundation, London, England • 4 st Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg • THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER, Germany • Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice • Ostalgia - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY • Moving Image” Art Fair of Contemporary Video Art, New York, NY 2010: • “IN-DIFESA” Fondation 107 Turin, Italy. • “RITES WITHOUT RITES” gallery IMPRONTEART Milan, Italy 2009: • “CHANGING CLIMATE” Kunsthalle Vien, Austria. • PHOTOGUAI-2009, Paris Photographic Biennale, France. • "LONELY AT THE TOP", MUHKA museum Antverpen, Belgium. • " LILLE-3000" Lille FRANCE • “EAST OF NOWHERE” Contemporary Art from Post-Soviet Central Asia. Fondation 107. Turin, Italy. 2008 • “DESTINATION ASIA-FLYING OVER STEREOTYPES” gallery ELEMENTA,Dubai UAE • CHINA INTERNATIONAL GALLERY EXPOSITION. Beijing, China. • OLD/NEW ROUTES-A SELECTION of VIDEO ART from CENTRAL ASIA. BIZART. Shanghai, China. • Festival CREATIVA. Florence, Italy. • 2-st Bienale in Malindi. Keniya. • "LITTLE GAMES ALONG THE SILKROAD" FLorence, Italy • "I DREAM OF THE STANS" Museo de Arte de San-Marte. San Salvador, USA • "TRACING ROADS THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA" Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San- Francisco, USA 2007: • MARILENA ASTAPELLOV in ART Athina. Athines, Greece. • “DESTINATION ASIA-FLYING OVER STEREOTYPES” Mumbai,India • “CHECKPOINT” Museum of Art Zilina. Praha, Chech Republic. • " LIVE CINEMA" The Return of the Image" Philadelphia, USA • 53-st Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy • "TIME OF THE STORYTELLS" Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art. Helsinki, Finland. • La Biennale De Monthreal. Monthreal , Canada. • "THE PARADOX OF THE POLARITY". Art from Central Asia. Bose Pasia Gallery, New-York, USA 2006: • “ROSE OF PEASE”(Spiridonov House) Moscow, Russia • 10-th MEDIA ART BIENNALE “FREE WAVES”, Los Angeles, USA • HAGGERTY MUSEUM. Milwauke, USA • "ART FROM CENTRAL ASIA" Ujasdovskii castle. Warsaw, Poland • "CONTESTED SPACES OF POST-SOVIET ART". Sidney Miskin Gallery, New York, USA 2005: • "LA SYNDROME DI TAMERLANO". Orvieto, Italy • 52-st VENICE BIENNALE. Venice, Italy • "IN THE SHADOWS OF THE HEROES". Bishkek , Kyrgizstan 2004: • “VIDEOIDENTITY” SCCA-ALMATY. Almaty, Kazakhstan • "PUEBLOS Y SOMBRAS". Canaia Gallery, Mexico City • "VON ROTERN STERNZUR BLAUEN KUPPEL" IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2003: • 10-th PRAGUE_ QUADRIENNALE. Prague, CZECH Repuclic. • 2002: • "NO MAD'S LAND" Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany. • "RE - ORIENTATION" AAS Gallery Weimar, Germany 2000: • "TRANZEDENZ" Kunsthalle. Vienna , Austria Grants: 2007: VERMONTSTUDIOCENTER state Vermont,USA Awards: 2011: Laureate of the Prince Claus Award "SON OF THE EAST" 50x50cm.1995.photo.5+1AP “JOURNEY TO THE EAST”, (KYRYK SHYLTER, SOUTHERN KAZAKHSTAN)-1995.photo.5+1AP “PRAYER RUG” performance .70x50cm.photo. 1998.5+1AP “GREEN CORNER” performance. (H.A.Yassaui complex, Turkestan)photo 70x50cm.2000.5+1AP “SUPERSOLDIER”performance.photo 50x70cm.2000.5+1AP “SUPER SOLDIER-02”105x32x17cm.2001 “UNDERGROUND PARADISE” performance. (H.A.Yassaui complex, Turkestan) photo 50x70cm. 2002.5+1AP “MEMORY ERASING” (Baltic Sea) performance.35x50cm.2002.5+1AP “NEON PARADISE” duration 10min.2004.5+1AP “JOURNEY TO THE EAST-02”(SHYMKENT,SOUTHERN KAZAKHSTAN) performance 50x50cm.photo. 2004.5+1AP NOAH'S ARK”video (29.10) 2004.5+1AP “SNIPER” video(27.06) .2005.5+1AP “FOR THE US MARINE CORPS IN THE CENTRAL ASIA” (suits series) .silk ,fabric.2007 “WAY TO ROME” (series photo)50x65cm.2007-09.5+1AP “BATTLE FOR THE SQUARE” video installation 4 channel.2009.5+1AP “SNIPER-02”photo.70x105cm.2009.5+1AP “GENHIS KHAN’S SHROUD” 56 photographs steppe poppies ,each 50x50cm)-2010.5+1AP CONSTELLATION OF GENGHIS KHAN (photo installation , photo of traditional games kokpar, each photos 50x50cm)-2010 CONSTELLATION OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (photo installation , photo steppe poppies ,each photos 50x50cm)-2010 “STEPPE WOLVES” series photo.100x70cm.2009.5+1AP “STEPPE WOLVES” series photo.100x70cm.2009-16.5+1AP “FAREWELL OF SLAVIANKA” ,slideshow photographs.2011 “KORPESHE-FLAGS” series photo.67x100cm.2011.5+1AP BATTLE FOR SQUARE 07. series photo 120x180cm.2011.5+1AP ARMYSADDLE--27x35x50cm-2012-ceramics.3+1AP MY SOVET UNION (from the series FLAGS)-100X150cm-2013.5+1AP MY NORTH KOREA(from the series FLAGS)-100x150cm-2013-photo.5+1AP MY JAPAN (from the series FLAGS)-100x150cm-2013-photo.5+1A MY RED CROSS (from the series FLAGS)-100x150cm-2013-photo.5+1AP MY NETHERLANDS (from the series FLAGS)-100x150cm-photo.5+1AP “KIZ KUU”180x120cm.photo collage.2013.5+1AP “UN &FBI” 180x120cm.photo collage.2013.5+1AP “UN POLICE” (photo collage).180x120cm.2013.5+1AP BATTLE FOR THE SGUARE-020.photo.120x180cm.2014. 5+1AP BATTLE FOR THE SGUARE-020.photo.120x180cm.2014. 5+1AP “MOSCOWKOKPAR”-(photo- clay.. photo collage )120х180сm-2014.5+1AP “ALPAMYSKOKPAR”-(photo- clay.. photo collage )120х180сm-2014.5+1AP “DARBAZAKOKPAR-02”( photo collage )120х180сm-2014.5+1AP STEPPE WOLVES-07.photo 120x18cm .2012.5+1AP BATTLE FOR THE SQUARE-021.series photo.120x180cm.2014.5+1AP “DUEL” video (3 channel).2015.5+1AP “RED CUBE “ (photo steppe poppies ,each photos 47x47cm) 245x245x245x245cm.2015 “WAY TO ROME” series photo.70x105cm.2011-15. 5+1AP “CUSTOM STATION” photo 70x105cm. 2015.5+1AP.