Biography
Sayan Baigaliyev was born 1996 in the village of Betkuduk, Kazakhstan. He studied at a boarding school and college, specializing in easel
painting at KazNAA named after T. Zhurgenova, Almaty. He graduated from the workshop of contemporary art under the guidance of
Aidan Salakhova at the MSAAI named after V. Surikov. He had an intership at the museum in Paris, won The 2021 Jackson Painting Prize in
the category Scenes from Everyday Life, London. He held master classes in painting at the UNESCO Planet of Art International Festival in
2019, Kazakhstan. Exhibited at the VOLTA Basel International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. He is a participant of the art exhibition «New Time» in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, also took part in exhibitions in Switzerland, Paris, Israel, Qatar,Turkey and Kazakhstan.
2005-2008 studio Sergei Artemenko, Oskemen, Kazakstan
2008-2011 studied at the boarding school of the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.K. Zhurgenov, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2011-2015 college, by specialty easel painting at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.K. Zhurgenov in Almaty, Kazakhstan
2015-2016 Preparatory course in Surikov State Institute of Arts, Moscow, Russia
2016-2022 Workshop of Aidan Salakhova at the Institute of Arts. Surikova, Moscow, Russia
2023 Resident of the 9th season of the Open Studios of the Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Artist statement
Sayan’s artistic gesture represents a unity of Turkic locality and nomadic multiculturalism; the Kazakh author engages in spatial
transformation.
Sayan embeds the spectator into scenes captured from the everyday, reducing the aesthetic distance.
Recently, still lifes have become the artist’s daily subject — the piling of information in a context of external turbulence forces to engage
in meditative dialogue with self via color and composition. No prearrangement —only a sincere contemplation of chance observations
and intuition.
Immediate “capturing” of the space is manifested by oil objects, coming through the surface towards the viewer, making their presence
felt while recalling their origin — painting.
Sayan works with the third dimension and reverses it. He balances between profane and sacred spaces, breaking the laws of linear
perspective, proportions and the conventional structure of the External. The real is substituted by irreal, the functional —by afunctional.
The author takes the recipient back to the mythic consciousness of the age when humanity was capable of naive earnestness.
Solo exhibition
2023 "Rooms of Silence" Pygmalion Gallery, Astana, Kazakhstan
Group exhibitions
2023 Fresh Paint Art Fair, Wertheimer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2023 Haze, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow
2023 ART MOSCOW fair, AKI booth, Moscow
2023"I'm there. Yaratam, Bizon Gallery, Kazan
2023 "Kazy-karta and other stories" YEMAA art space, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
2023 "Daily lives" Wertheimer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2022 ASIANOW Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France.
2022 WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Fair Winery, Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow.
2022 "Is it possible to?" Contemporary Art Center Kreador, Moscow
2022 Rabbit Art Market, Qazart, Imagines Studio, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2022 "Distant echo" Sistema gallery, Moscow
2022 "My home" Exhibition spase of the Small Hallof the Moscow State Conservatiry P.I.Chaikosky. Moscow.
2022 "Art out of time" Cube Moscow, Moscow.
2022 "If you feel like a nail, everythingaround you seems like a hammer" Sistema gallery, Moscow
2022 Charity Fair of Contemporary Art, HSE Center of Cultures, Moscow.
2022 WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Fair Winery, Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow.
2022 QIAF Qatar International Festival, Doha, Qatar.
2022 V International Interactive Festival of Contemporary Art "ART LIFE", Manege, Moscow.
2022 "Simple things" gallery K35, Moscow
2022 International Art Prize of Arts, in the New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
2022 VOLTA Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2022 "Flowers of Evil" YEMAA art space, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
2022 "The Artist and the Hidden" Gogol Center, Moscow.
2022 ART RUSSIA Fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow.
2021 WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Fair Winery, Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow.
2021 XIV International Exhibition of Portrait Art «International Festival of Portrait Painting ART POTRAIT» Gostiny Dvor, Moscow.
2021 «Female Image» Exhibition Center of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg.
2020 All-Russian youth exhibition «New Names» in the New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
2020The paintings are from the Scenes from Everyday Life collection of the Singulart Gallery.
2020 Exhibition as part of the Almalain group at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts. G. Aitpaev, Bishkek.
2020 International Digital Exhibition «STAY HOME WITH ART» in collaboration with the Faculty of Education of the University of Trakia, Audrin.
2019 The paintings were included in the collections «Inspired by Degas» and «New This Week» by Saatchi Art.
2019 «Zamandastar» in the gallery of the Union of Artists, Almaty. Almaty.
2019 «Agym» in the Philharmonic named after Zhambyl, Almaty.
2018 Exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists, Central House of Artists. Moscow.
Awards
2021 Winner of Scenes of Everyday Life Jackson’s Painting Prize, London
2021 XIV International exhibition of portrait art «ART POTRAIT International Festival of portraiture», 3rd place in the category «Genre porter»; Gostiny Dvor, Moscow.
2021«Women’s Image» 3rd place in the category «Famile Image in a Picture Telling a Story»; Exhibition Center of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg. 2020 «Plainer paintings named after K.A. Korovin»1st place in the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named After. Surikova, Moscow
2020 «Study staging for painting» 2st place in the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named After. Surikova, Moscow