Participating Artists Press Agency
Tuesday 23rd of April 2024 – page 3
PAPA-Lab Bishkek Kyrgystan took place from 3rd till 17 th of April 2011. The hosting organisation is ArtEast. PAPA-Lab Bishkek worked with a group of their art students. Participating artists are Nellya Dzhamanbaeva, Angelina Mokh,Sapargul Turdubekova, Elena Chigibaeva, Nargiz Chynalieva,Raisat Musaeva, Tatyana Zelenskaja, Samat Mambetshaev, Anastasia Slastnikova, Tatyana Mihnevich, Meka Muratova. This project has been made possible with the kind support of Artscollaboratory.
Sunday 3rd of April 2011
Bishkek -
This is restroom in our office. It could be used both by men and women.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
Manhole is the door to the sewerage.
The sewerage in Kyrgyzstan was constructed only during the Soviet times. There is no another sewerage in here and there is…
Samat Mambetshaev –
Bishkek Lab
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The boy and girl are in the standing fountain. They are taking pleasure by each other, even don’t paying attention on walking people.…
Tatyana Mihnevich –
Bishkek Lab
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The outside wall is made from old and used bottles. That’s a new way to re-use the old plastic and broken glass bottles. The “bricks†are available everywhere…
Samat Mambetshaev –
Bishkek Lab
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Every spring everybody cleans up the territory around their houses and paint trees. This is a custom from the Soviet times and people call it ‘Subbotnik’ because they usually do…
Tatyana Mihnevich –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
Winter has just disappeared and the grass has started to grow. On his way to the supermarket (to buy booze?) this man takes a nap on the side of…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
People in Bishkek loves simplicity and practicality, for example the useless stone turns to a new decorative element in the garden.…
Samat Mambetshaev –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
In past sculptures on the streets were a heritage. But today nobody cares, people have their own (private) problems. The same situation with government that doesn’t pay attention. Life reduced…
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva –
Bishkek Lab
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This man earns money by selling a candy floss. People here may look very severely, but most of them are very sweet.…
Meka Muratova –
Bishkek Lab
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This is a poster of one of the political parties (Republic in Russian) in Kyrgyzstan. Behind it is a building that has been under construction already for a few years…
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
Life is all about hierarchy - in animal life and in human life, somebody stronger and have more power and somebody stays on the lower part of the ladder.…
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
On this picture you can see a Kyrgyz young woman. In her pose, the way she carries her baby and in her shy smile you can see Asian wisdom.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
The vine stems lean on the fence, supporting each other: the vine stems help to keep the fence stable, and the edges of the fence help the vine stems…
Samat Mambetshaev –
Bishkek Lab
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These girls looking like little women just returned from school. One of them has rollerskates and now they all want to try. Education is in Kyrgyz nowadays and not any…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
In Kyrgyzstan men prefer sport outfit 24/7 even if they are going to work.…
Meka Muratova –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
On the left side is a shoe repair and on the other side is vegetables and fruit shop. Both types are widly represents in Bishkek. Man in the shoe repair…
Meka Muratova –
Bishkek Lab
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The frames from the hospital beds used as a fence. The loveliness doesn’t have to be expensive. This is an example of the cheapest way of “recyclingâ€, the…
Samat Mambetshaev –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
Specially men squat like this everywhere in public space. Mostly in larger groups and mostly Kirgiz (these men are Russian). Although I do not speak Russian, I could understand the…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
Door is the manhole to the private life.
Some people live like in a sewerage, their life is dark and deep. Most of old people, retired in USSR, can’t or…
Samat Mambetshaev –
Bishkek Lab
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His friends admire the plastic pistol the little boy has. His future job is clear. In the quarter where I live and work there are small houses where people live…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
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One of the many football pitches now being built in Bishkek. And this is often the case when girls are playing boys are staring at them. …
Tatyana Zelenskaja –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
A beggar that gains money for the life from collecting glass bottles on the street and bringing them to the place that collect bottles.…
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
On the picture you can see a Kyrgyz girl, Meka. She looks like a foreigner because her pose is free. That is not common for Asian women. Her body language…
Tatyana Zelenskaja –
Bishkek Lab
Bishkek -
Although the men did not want to be pictured they did want to show us their pigeons. I wonder how these people survive the severe winters and the hot summers…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab