Born in 1964 in South-Kazakhstan. Currently lives and works in Almaty.
“Kazakh artist Erbossyn Meldibekov was finishing his studies at the Almaty Theatre and Fine Arts School in Kazakhstan when in 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed bringing independence to Central Asia’s long time colonised territories. After a seventy-five year occupation, what ensued in Kazakhstan was economic, political and social chaos. Ironically, Meldibekov trained as a monumental sculptor under the Soviet regime and following the collapse of the old regime he would return to investigate the culture surrounding monumental architecture in a newly established free market society. His astutely critical approaches to the monumental culture in Family Album (2011), Gattamelata (2007) and Mutations (2001) document social change, question cultural representation and common nation building tactics.” (Catherine Ploskonka)
EDUCATION 1987-1992 Almaty Theater and Fine Arts Institute, Department of Monumental Sculpture SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2015 Attitudine alle Confluenze, Galleria Nina Due, Milan Balagan – KühlhausBerlin, Berlin Our Land/ Alien Territory, Special project of 6th Moscow biennale, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow DissemiNation, Stadtgalerie Brixen, Brixen Grammar Of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works From Arteast 2000+ Collection, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow 2014 La Vie Est Une Légende. E.cité, Almaty / Kazakhstan, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg Mapping Asia – Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna 2013 Lost to the Future: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, LASALLE SIA College of the Arts, Singapore Inaugural Opening, Yallay Space, Hong Kong Sex, Money and Power, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels 2012 7th Asia Pacific Triennial Of Contemporary Art (apt7), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2012, The Centre for Art Management and Information MMI, Riga Arsenale 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah 2011 About Peace, “Love and Understanding?”, Rossi & Rossi Ltd, London Between Heaven and Earth, Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia, Calvert22, London VII Shiryaevo Biennale Of Contemporary Art, Strangers: Between Europe And Asia, Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shiryaevo Peak Of Lenin, Nina Lumer Galleria, Milan Biennale di Venezia, 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Hallucination, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Moscow 2010 Boys and Girls Come out to Play, Rossi & Rossi Ltd, London XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Comune di Carrara, Carrara 2009 “Halluzination”, KnollGalerieWien, Wien “1989-2009: Bewegte Welt. Erzählte Zeit”, Akamedie der kunste, Berlin “Les frontieres invisibles”, Lille3000 Europe XXL, Lille, France “A est di niente. Arte contemporanea dall’Asia postsovietica”, Fondazione 107, Torino “Mutation”, Jozsa Gallery, Bruxelles 2008 “Intolerance” a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva, Festival di Ravello 2008 Dal 2005 collabora con Nurbossyn Oris (Schumkent, 1971), insieme hanno partecipato a: 2008 “The House of Tolerance”, Almaty, Kazakhstan “Halluzination” Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany “ShContemporary 08”, Shanghai “Boom-Boom” The IV Bishkek International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bishkek, Kirghizistan “The Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York”, New York 2007 “The Paradox of Polarity: Contemporary Art from Central Asia”, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York “Eroi come noi” PAN, Napoli “Progressive Nostalgia” a cura di Viktor Misiano, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy 2006 “Rebels”, with Alexey Kallima, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin “Modern and Contemporary Asian Art”, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA 2005 51 Venice Biennial, Central Asia Pavilion, a cura di V. Miziano, Venice, Italy 2004 “Pueblos y Sombras”, Canaia Gallery, Mexico City “No mad’s land”, House of World Cultures, Berlin 2001 “Le tribù dell’ Arte”, a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma Second Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art “Communications: Experience of Interaction”, “Atakent” Exhibition Complex, Almaty, Kazakhstan 1999 “Tlen – I do not know such a country”, Directorship of Art Exhibitions, Almaty, Kazakhstan 1998 Parade of Galleries. Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan 1997 “Art-Moscow”, Center House of Artist, Moscow “A Parade of Galleries”, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan 1995 “Kokserek Group” is inviting guests. “Kokserek” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan “A Parade of Galleries”, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan, French Embassy, Almaty “Zhiger”, Young Artists Exhibition. Exhibition Hall of Artist Union, Almaty, Kazakhstan SOLO SHOWS 2016 Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Seasons, Galleria Nina Due, Milan 2015 Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Eternal Return, A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty 2013 Yerbossyn Meldibekov, The Revolution in the Montains, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels 2012 “Now: traversing West Asia” QAG Gallery 4, Australia 2012 “Gwangju Biennale”, South Korea “Arsenale, Biennale Kiev, Ukrainian 2011 “54. Biennale di Venezia, Central Asian Pavilion, Venezia “Mutation”, Art HK, Hong Kong “Peak of Lenin”, Galleria Nina Lumer, Milano “Hallucination”, Marat Guelman Gallery – Moscow, Mosca “Between heaven and earth. Contemporary art from the centre of Asia”, Fondazione Calvert22, Londra 2010 “Family Album”, XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara 2009 “ The (dis) order of Things”, Rossi and Rossi Gallery, London “Videnie”, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm 2007 “Centauromachy”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art Almaty, Kasakhstan 2006 “Hyper Muslim (Pastan) “, Guelman Gallery, Moscow “Pastan”, Galleria Nina Lumer, Milano 2000 Personal exhibition, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 1997 “Kazakh-style kitsch”, personal exhibition, “Kokserek” exhibition, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2005 Vermont Studio Residency for visual artists, organized by CEC ArtsLink (USA).
“…ad astra”, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels
“Per aspera”, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels
“La sindrome di Tamerlano. Arte e conflitti in Asia Centrale” Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy
“Privatisierungen”, Zeitoenossische Kunst Avs Osteuropa Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Ideas in Motion” Alfieri Atelier Cinema, Firenze
2002
“Abseits der Seidenstrasse” Kunst und Kultur aus Zentralasien. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“Politik-um. New engagement”, Prazhski Grad, Prague, Czech Republic
“Re-orientation”, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
“Trans Forma”. Center for Modern Art, Geneve, Switzerland
Workshop for Contemporary Arts “Non-silk road”, Almaty – Tanbaly -Taraz – Zhanatas-Turkestan – Shimkent, Kazakhstan
“Province: Between Europe and Asia”, Shyryaevo Village, Samara Oblast, Russia
“Art Moscow”, Guelman Gallery, Moscow
“Chamber Exhibition”, Umai Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Invasia”, Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Moldova
2000
“Asia yesterday-today-tomorrow”, Benteng Vredeburg museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
First Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary art “Self-identification: Futurological prognosis”, “Moscow” Shopping Center, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“IV International”, Central State Museum of History, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Art Forum”, Berlin
“25 Salon Mladin”, Zagreb, Croatia
“Chimeras”, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“A Parade of Galleries”, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Art-Disckurs-97″, Observatory in the foothills of Zailiiski Alatau Mountains, Kazakhstan
“Asia Art”, Central Exhibition Hall, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Human Rights: Terra incognita. Kazakh Business Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Human Rights: A second Breath. Kazakh Business Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1995
“Asia Art”, Central Exhibition Hall, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
“Kazakh Art – Old and New”, Karenina Gallery, Vienna
“Exhibition in the Abai House”, London
1994
1993
“Menjajushij mir” National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
