Contemporary Art Center "Kulanshi" has been working in Astana since 2006 and is situated on the sixth floor of the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation.
For seven years of its operation, "Kulanshi" has been implementing an active and saturated work on many directions in the art and on its promotion. The leader and the main initiator of the centreis a Kazakhstani artist, Leila Makhat.
The expositional and exhibition works of the centre implies the organization of exhibitions for Kazakhstani and foreign artists held at least once in a month. It is worth mentioning, that the International Advisory Council "Kulanshi" considers potential projects of the centre without any terrestrial restrictions. Art experts and advisers of exhibitions from Kazakhstan, Germany, Italy, Spain and Israel scrutinizes each works of an artist or art group before organizing an exhibition under the "Kulanshi" expositions based only on an artists’ professional level and according to the concepts of the centre on the popularisation of painting art.
In exhibition rooms with the total area of 1000 square km, in recent years, the Center organized exhibitions of the artists from every region of Kazakhstan and artists from the USA, Brazil, Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic, India, China, Russia, France, Turkey, Georgia, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Germany and Spain.
One of the main achievements of the Centre is the permanent exposition of "Kulanshi" operates the halls of print graphics with the original lithographies of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Mark Shagal. Moreover, for the visitors of the Centre’s exhibition halls have access to the graphical works of Rembrandt van Rein and
Albrecht Durer restored by German restorers.
All exhibitions held at the Centre are accompanied by serious research work. Regarding the educational part of the gallery’s work, it should be mentioned, that every project of the Centre includes holding of series of mandatory theoretical and practical master classes. Young Kazakhstani artists have an excellent opportunity to learn about different techniques of the art and graphical performances, taking the useful skills from famous masters from different countries.
Regular projects of "Kulanshi" are focused on popularisation of Kazakhstan’s art overseas and foreign art in Kazakhstan. The annual festival of international art named ART FORUM KULANSHI stands apart among such projects. Artists from foreign countries bring their works and skills into the Kazakhstan’s capital; and take away with themselves new art ideas and friendly attitude of the capital’s public to their art objects.
Kazakhstan youth’s art fills the exhibition areas of "Kulanshi" Modern Art Centre every year. The project called “Here and Now” matches the spirit of the project – the spirit of the young modern art of Kazakhstan.
“Wormwood scent” is the name of mobile modern art exhibition of the artists from Astana, Almaty and other regions of Kazakhstan. This exhibition has already visited major cities of the world such as New York, Beijing and Berlin. The amount of the invitations and proposals on cooperation with the museums and galleries from other countries gives a basis to suppose that the project has excellent perspectives for the future development.
All the works of "Kulanshi" Modern Art Centre target to upgrade culture and art in Kazakhstan.
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