Asel Kadyrkhanova
ARSB
artist
2025
Asel Kadyrkhanova is a visual artist, researcher, and currently a postdoctoral fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She received her PhD from the University of Leeds for a practice-led project that looked at art as a medium of memory, with a focus on post-Soviet postcolonial Central Asia.
Asel’s research interests include haptic visuality, embodiment, affect and trauma. Her research addresses postcolonial hauntings: the burdens of silenced pasts and unmourned personal losses. Her works have been exhibited and screened at various venues, including the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Centre for Heritage, Art and Textile (Hong Kong), documenta 15 (Kassel), Calvert Journal Foundation, QAGGOMA (Brisbane), Tselinny Centre for Contemporary Culture (Almaty), Kazakh National Museum of Arts, YARAT (Baku), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow).
Her publications include chapters in Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory and Representation (Lexington Books, 2021) and Suture: Reimagining Ornament (MillCHAT, 2023), among others.
Asel’s research interests include haptic visuality, embodiment, affect and trauma. Her research addresses postcolonial hauntings: the burdens of silenced pasts and unmourned personal losses. Her works have been exhibited and screened at various venues, including the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Centre for Heritage, Art and Textile (Hong Kong), documenta 15 (Kassel), Calvert Journal Foundation, QAGGOMA (Brisbane), Tselinny Centre for Contemporary Culture (Almaty), Kazakh National Museum of Arts, YARAT (Baku), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow).
Her publications include chapters in Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory and Representation (Lexington Books, 2021) and Suture: Reimagining Ornament (MillCHAT, 2023), among others.
