Aiganym
Mukhamejan

Awardee

Country

Kazakhstan

Aiganym Mukhamejan promotes gender equality through her artistic practice.

Themes
Gender equality
Environment / Climate emergency
Disciplines
Visual Art
Performance
Media / Journalism
Awards
SEED Award 2024

Profile

Aiganym Mukhamejan is an independent artist based in Kazakhstan. Aiganym's multimedia work spans journalism, cinema, and the digital arts. Her investigative approach, honed at Suleyman Demirel University, informs projects like "Black Cube" (2023), exhibited at the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture. Aiganym's film "Alas" (2022) garnered international acclaim at Documenta 15.

Through her Instagram channel "Qoyanqazaqstan", she critiques Kazakh state and society with incisive satirical content. Active in festivals and symposiums like FemAgora Central Asia, she voices issues on feminism, ecology, and women's rights, significantly enriching cultural discourse. Utilizing self-portraiture and personal narrative, Aiganym employs irony to comment on social, economic, and cultural transformations.