Yuliya Sorokina is free lance curator of contemporary art, lecturer, tutor, author of texts, lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Born in 1965 in Shchuchinsk (Kazakhstan) In 1987 graduated from the Artistic-drawing faculty of the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute named after Abai (Almaty). In 1992 she also completed post-graduate course in cinematology at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (Moscow) and courses in art-management in 1998-1999 at European Summer Academy for Culture & Management (Salzburg) and at Institut fur Kulturwissenschaft (Vienna) Austria. Since 1999 she is chair-person of the Board of “Asia Art+” Public Foundation, which she co-founded in 1996. Major exhibitions & projects 2007 - “Muzykstan: Media generation of contemporary artists from Central Asia”. Central Asia Pavilion at the 52. INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Venice, Italy (Commissioner and curator) 2007 – Central Asian Project.
Exhibitions: SPACE/London, Cornerhouse/Manchester and Almaty/Bishkek/Tashkent (co-curator) 2002 – “Re-Orientation” The exhibition for Contemporary Art of Central Asia (co-curator), ACC gallery, Weimar, Germany (co-curator) 2002 – “Non-Silk Way – Asian Extreme” An International Moving Work-shop for Contemporary Art, South Kazakhstan (curator) 1999 - “The Line of Beauty” (curator), Exhibition in the swimming pool, Beis Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan Major publications “Current art of Almaty”, Basler Magazin, #4 2000, Basel, Switzerland “Past is over here”, catalog of the exhibition, 2000, Voyager Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan “New Teleshamanizm”, Artistic Life of Kazakhstan, 2001, SCCA-Almaty, Kazakhstan “Asia the 3d”, Springerin, Hefte fur Gegenwartskunst #1/ 2002, Vienna, Austria “Sea-Seeds in the Steppe”, Springerin, Hefte fur Gegenwartskunst #4/ 2002, Vienna, Austria “The Protocols of Actual Art-Myths of Kazakhstan and Central Asia” , “Re-Orientation”- catalog of the symposium and exhibition, 2002, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany Regular art-revue publications (each 2 weeks) in Almaty city-magazine “Afisha” 2002-2006 (around 100 editions) “To Be or not To Be the Curator, or the Confession of Serfing-woman”. An international Conference “Cultural Policy in Central Asia”, 2003, Almaty, Kazakhstan “Almagul Menlibaeva”, “Yelena and Victor Vorobuevs”, “Erbossyn Meldibekov”. “Islamishe Welten. Vom rotten Stern zur blauen Kuppel. Kunst und Architektur aus Zentralasien”. Catalog of the exhibition, 2004, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany “ The Millenium is a Bitter Time of Reality”, “Sergey Maslov”, “Rustam Khalpfin”, “Almagul Menlibaeva”, “Yelena and Victor Vorobuevs”, “Erbossyn Meldibekov”. “Art from Central Asia. A Contemporary Archive”. Catalog of the Exhibition of Central Asia Pavilion. 51 Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy, 2005 “Mourning”, “We Are From Texas”. “Istanbul”. Catalog of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial. 2005. Istanbul. Turkey “Alexander Ugay”. Brochure for “Plug In” the Exhibition of Museum Collection. Vanabbemuseum. 2006. Eindhoven. The Netherlands “Vyucheslav Akhunov”. “Nafas” Contemporary Art from the Islamic World. Catalog of the Exhibition. Ifa-Gallery Berlin. 2006 “Muzykstan: Media generation of contemporary artists from Central Asia”. Central Asia Pavilion at the 52. INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA (Editor) “All Rivers flow into the Ocean”. Crossing Divides. “International Gallerie” Magazine. Vol 10, #1, 2007