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Almagul Menlibayeva is a multimedia contemporary artist (site-specific multi-channel video installation, photography, digital media) and curator.

Born in Kazakhstan, she lives and works between Germany and Kazakhstan; Since 2003, she has been collaborating with the sound artist and composer OMFO (German Popov, Amsterdam); 1988-1995 was a part of the Almaty young underground artist’s group movement Green Triangle; 1988-1995 Collaboration with the Kazakh artist Sergei Maslov.

For this occasion, Huma has a conversation with Almagul, which was then transcribed.

You live between Kazakhstan and Germany. Did the pandemic affect where you were based?

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How did you navigate through it all?

I started to hear about the pandemic when I was in Lahore; the Biennale had just finished. So, I left Lahore, and it was then that we really started to realize how careful we had to be with traveling.

It wasn’t easy to think about where to settle a