artist & educator
madikendraws@gmail.com
- Forbidden Playground
- TURANDOT
- MOTHER
- Ebb and Flow
- Mixed Feelings
- Manty, Mantu, Manta
- Clouds, Power
- Collective Parenthood
- Azbuka Strikes Back
- Burn Zhalmauyz Kempir
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Her practice revolves around themes of bodily integrity, sexuality, multi-dimensional motherhood, food politics, identity, and authoritarian regimes. Madina employs various mediums such as textile, illustration, painting, collage, sculpture, video, and installation in her work. She is a recipient of the Prince Claus SEED Award 2025 and the inaugural B. Bubikanova Art Prizee, and a member of the DAVRA, a research collective that fosters dynamic exchanges of experiences and knowledge to strengthen the Central Asian art scene. Her work is part of the public collection at the Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Museum of Art in Łódź, as well as private collections.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026
TURANDOT: To the Daughters of the East, Parasol Unit - Collateral Event of the 61st Venice Biennale, ACP–Palazzo Franchetti
For Our Time Is The Time of Water, as part of DAVRA, TAVROS Space, Athens, Greece
2025
Design Culture, London Design Festival, Kachette, London, UK
Mother, Goodyear Arts, North Carolina, USA
Interweaving, Exposed Arts Projects, London, UK
Ancient Futures: Exploring Ancestry, Crafts and Ecology, MOC Hub, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ancient Futures, Egin Space, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Between the Two Rivers, Art Station, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (as part of DAVRA)
Memory Space Progress, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Central Asian Cinema, QAGOMA, Australian Cinémathèque, Queensland, Australia
2024
Bubikanova Art Prize Shortlist exhibition, Aspan Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
New Beginnings, Tbilisi Art Fair, Expogeorgia
Her Gaze: Moving Image from CA, Vleeshal Center, Middelburg, Netherlands
as part of DAVRA:
Lahore Biennale: Of Mountains and Seas, Alhamra Art Center, Pakistan
Tomorrows - A Land of Water x Davra, Fondazione Cariverona, Verona, Italy
Biennale Matter of Art, National Gallery Prague, Czechia
DAVRA and Beyond: Videos of CA Artists program, JOAN, LA
2023
Parcours, Asia NOW, Monnaie de Paris, France
Annual Art Exhibition, W3 Gallery, London, UK
Clouds, Power, Ornament, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong
Food for All, Kingshill House, Dursley, UK
2022
Chilltan x Saodat Ismailova, documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany (as part of DAVRA)
Food for All, Kingshill House, Dursley, UK
Ol Qyz (“She is a girl”), Platforma projectroom, Astana, Kazakhstan
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Dandelion Milk, Studio106LA
2021 Mixed Feelings, DOM36, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Public Programs:
2026
Forbidden Playground Family Festival in collaboration with Leap Then Look, Almaty Museum of Arts, Kazakhstan
2025
London Textile Month x Selvedge, Open Studios
What Do the Flowers Say?, interactive garden sound workshop, Chiswick House and Gardens
Waters We Carry, Linocut & Zine Making Workshop, Exposed Arts Projects, London, UK (Part of the Interweaving Climate, Water(s) and Communities Programme x Artcom Platform x Care for Balkhash x Ainalaiyn Space)
Bloom & Stitch, Punch Needle Embroidery Workshop, Teplo Pop-Up, London, UK
2023
Cyphering Vibrating Emanating, Delfina Foundation, London, UK — participated as co-performer in I Sing Your Tale by Jazgul Madazimova
What is La Makan, Zine Making Workshop, Three Highgate Gallery w/ Ainalaiyn Space, London, UK
Rethinking Dolls, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kazakh Wedding Songs (Toy Änderi), Zine Making Workshop, Babalar Press (online)
Collective Parenthood Manifesto, Tufting & Punch Needle Workshop, Hong Kong
ZINE COOP Party, art book fair, London, UK
2022
Azbuka Strikes Back, Slavs and Tatars' Pickle Bar, Berlin, Germany
2020
Almaty City Paper Walks, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Awards & Recognition
2025
Prince Claus The SEED Award
2024
Acts of Creation Competition
by Hettie Judah, UK (Winner)
B. Bubikanova Art Prize
2023
a-n Artists Award London
Press / Features
Frieze
DAZED
Manshuq
Ruyò Journal
Batyr Jamal
Art of Her
documenta fifteen
Eye Filmmuseum Mag
Financial Times
Metropolis M
Art Paper
Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar
New Lines Magazine
Elle Kazakhstan
Culture Plus Asia
Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Adamdar/CA
Garage Museum x Tselinny
Femagora Central Asia 2021
Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
Ariadna Media
Vlast.kz
U.S. Consulate General Munich
Air Astana in-flight magazine, TENGRI, pages 92-95
Manshuq Podcast
Residencies
2026
Delfina Foundation - Making and Materiality
2023
Tranzit.cz x MeetFactory x DAVRA
2017
Prague Civil Society Centre