Profile
Sonata Raiymkulova is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kyrgyzstan. Sonata’s practice spans black-and-white graphics, sculpture, animation, and photography. In her work, she explores personal themes as well as larger societal problems in Central Asia. Sonata often refers to existential issues about the meaning of existence and humanity while also working on gender issues, such as the position of women in society, and the political aspects of life in Kyrgyzstan.
Sonata’s work has been shown at the “Postcolonial Art from Central Asia” exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the FemAgora festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia, among other places.
