MUNISA KHOLKHUJAEVA

Biography

CV

2013 – 2016

Republic Collage of Art and Design, History of Theatrical Costumes, Tashkent/Uzbekistan

2016 – 2020

National Institute of Art and Design, Monumental Painting, Tashkent/Uzbekistan

Exhibitions (selected)

2022

– documenta fifteen, as part of Central Asian “DAVRA” research group, Kassel/Germany

– Group exhibition, Orto Botanica di Roma, Rome/Italy

2021

– Architecture Venice Biennale, Uzbek Pavilion, Venice/Italy

– Group exhibition, WeCosmos, Tashkent/Uzbekistan

2020

– Group exhibition, Solar Sign (Science & Art) – Art Residence, Kyrgyzstan/Bishkek

Description

Munisa Kholkhujaeva multidisciplinary visual artist was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1997. In her practice mostly likes using simple graphics on paper, colored pens, and embroidery on traditional textiles in her interpretation and patchwork. She inspires by her native region where she was born, exploring her identity, nature, essential connections with the environment, and the subtlespiritual connections of living beings.

She presented her textile-based amulet-creating performance “TUMOR” in dOCUMENTA 15 as a part of the “DAVRA” collective initiated and involved by Saodat Ismailova.

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