Saodat Ismailova
(Paris & Tashkent, 1981)SOLO SHOWS
2026Amanat. Col·laboració amb Swiss Institute, Kunsthalle Bern i LUMA Foundation (Luma Arles)
Paths of Light, GALERIE DE L’UQAM. Université du Québec à Montréal
As We Fade, Baltic; Centre for Contemporary Art, Regne Unit
2025
Kunsthalle Lisbon, As We Fade
Stuk, Leuven, Her Journeys, Her Lives, Verschooren
Baltic, Manchester, Swan Lake
ángels barcelona, I Compete with Time
Loop Barcelona
2024
A Seed Under Our Tongue, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
2023
18,000 Worlds, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Double Horizon, Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
2022
Solo show, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (cancelled)
2021
Menim esmim kim edi?, Aspan Gallery, Almaty
2019
Q’orgo’n Chiroq, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tashkent
2018
Syncretic Verses, Ilkhom Theatre, Goethe Institute, Tashkent
2017
The Haunted, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromso
2014
CELESTIAL CIRCLES, Kunstsammlungen und Museen | Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg
GROUP SHOWS
2025Where Wings Grow, Aspan Gallery
liquid grounds, Villa Arson, Nice
Sorry Sun, Fondation Pernod Ricard
Seven times the color of the sun, North Norwegian Art Centre
Opening of Once Within a Time, SITE Santa Fe
Collection, M HKA, Antwerp
Para Site Hong, Muted Hums
2023
Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah
2022
documenta fifteen, Kassel
Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice
Revisiting the Jungle Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Korkut, Biennial of Sound Art and Contemporary Music, Kasteev Museum of Arts, Almaty
2021
Planted in the Body, Meet Factory, Prague
Zukhra. Restospective of Saodat Ismailova’s Films, Tsentr Voznesenskogo, Moscow
2020
FemAgora Festival Central Asia, online
2019
Central Russian Zen, Momentum, Berlin
An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai Screening, Baltic Explores Climate Emergency, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2018
Phantom Stories: Leitmotifs of Post-Soviet Asia, Lunds konsthall, Lunds
Qyrq Qyz, Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Chillpiq, Le musee du Quai Branly, Paris
Russian Zen, Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shiryaevo
Duo exhibition: Carlos Casas / Saodat Ismailova, Spazio Punch, Venice
Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, MOCA, Yinchuan
2017
Neon Paradise. Shamanism from Central Asia, Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan
2015
Faces of Disappearance, Kunstsammlungen und Museen | Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg
2014
6th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tashkent Encounter on the Silk Road, Xinjiang Biennale of Arts, China Art Industry Expo, Xinjiang
2013
Winter, Central Asia Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
Lost to the Future: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, LASALLE College of Arts – ICA Singapore, Singapore
2005
Fabrica Goes East, Tashkent, Almaty, Bishkek
AWARDS
2025Han Nefkens Foundation
Art Basel Awards: Emerging Artist Medalist
2022
Eye Art & Film Prize, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2018
Special Jury Prize, DOCUMENTAMADRID, Fugas Short Film Competition, Madrid
2016
Prize Les Amis du Fresnoy, Best Installation, Panorama 18, Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
2014
Special Prize, 6th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tashkent
Golden Alhambra, Cines del Sur Festival de Cine, Granada
Jury Prize, International Film Festival of Women, Salé
Best Camera, Beginning International Film Festival of Debut Films, St Petersburg
2004
Best Documentary, Turin Film Festival, Turin