Press

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​Selected Press

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​​2025   

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Vlast: The Magician and the Sorceress Against the Atomic Bomb, Elena Kovalskaya, November 2025

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​2024   

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e-flux Journal: Without claims to purity. The Great Atomic Bombreflector and Its Designers, Anna Gorskaya,

November 2024

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2022

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e-flux CriticismI: ORTA’s LAI-PI-CHU-PLEE-LAPA Centre for the New Genius, Inga Lāce, June 2022

Elephant: Something from Nothing: How Did Kazakhstan Rescue Their Venice Show?, Ravi Ghosh, May 2022

ArtReview: The ORTA Collective on Representing Kazakhstan at the 59th Venice Biennale, April 2022

 

 

Selected Press Archive​

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2025

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​​Artouch: 螢光地毯、黑色隧道 與銀色光芒的儀式 — The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale “Séance: Technology of the Spirit”, Yeh Chia-Jung, November 2025

AAD (Arts Acts Days): Interview with ORTA (Alexandra Morozova and Rustem Begenov) September 2025

e-flux Journal: Summoning the Beings of Metamorphosis, Namsee Kim, Issue #156, September 2025

All About Art: 서울시립미술관 서울미디어시티비엔날레 ‘강령: 영혼의 기술’…, Ahn Yong-ho, September 2025

Mediahub Seoul: 늦더위 물리치는 오싹한 전시? ‘서울미디어시티비엔날레’서 만나요!, Lee Jung-min, August 2025

e-flux: The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale — Séance: Technology of the Spirit, August 2025

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​​Vlast: The Great Atomic Bombreflector, Rustem Begenov, September 2024

CULTUREBOT: Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector, Maura Nguyen Donohue,

(excerpts), July 2024

e-flux: New York Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector, (excerpts), June 2024  

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​2022

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Cosmic Bulletin: Arseny Zhilyaev and Rustem Begenov — "How do you transfer an entire country to the Fourth Dimension?", October 2022 

​​​Vlast: Posthumanism and ORTA at the Venice Biennale, Dmitry Mazorenko, June 2022

House & Garden: Why the Venice Biennale matters, Fiona McKenzie Johnston (excerpts), April 2022 

The Art Newspaper: Venice Biennale 2022: the must-see collateral exhibitions (excerpts), April 2022 

Artnet News: The Art Collective Behind the Improvised Kazakhstan Pavilion, Sarah Cascone, April 2022

The Telegraph: The Van Gogh of Kazakhstan Who Feigned Insanity to Escape the Soviets, Lucy Davies, April 2022

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​​2021

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​Angime: Fragile Orchestra – Musical practice in the projects of art group ORTA, Rustem Begenov, September 2021​

Vlast: ORTA — What We’re Doing Now Is Fun. We Curate Ourselves. (adapted excerpts,

translated), January 2021

Manshuq: Rustem Begenov — We Love to Play Like Children and Are Not Afraid to Be Funny. (adapted excerpts, translated), January 2021

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2020​​​​

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​Vlast.kz: New Geniuses of the First Rank, Rustem Begenov, April 2020 

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​2019

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Manshuq: "The First Volume in the Novel of a Thousand Volumes": A Book of Sergey Kalmykov’s Texts Published,

Asya Akimzhanova, November 2019

Vlast.kz: Alexandra Morozova, Compiler of Kalmykov's Book: "His Texts Helped Me Find a Point of Support", Dmitry Mazorenko, November 2019

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2018​

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Vlast.kz: The Apotheosis of Sergey Kalmykov: How a Technological Performance About One of the Last Soviet Avant-Gardists Was Created, Dmitry Mazorenko, May 2018

Manshuq: Alexandra Morozova: "After Studying Kalmykov's Life, I Stopped Being Afraid of My Illness",  Akzhelen Isabayeva, May 2018

​Vlast.kz: Heiner Goebbels, Theatre Director: "I Am Not the Owner of Truth, and I Do Not Want to Be", Dmitry Mazorenko, March 2018

Vlast.kz: Heiner Goebbels, Theatre Director: "I Do Not Watch Theatre", Rustem Begenov, March 2018

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2017

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Vlast.kz: Rustem Begenov, Theatre Director: "We Decided to ‘Return’ Kalmykov to the City of Almaty",

Dmitry Mazorenko, May 2017

​​Vlast.kz: The Performance "Medea.Material" Nominated for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award,

Daniyar Moldabekov, March 2017

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2016

 

Colta: Genetic Engineering, Elena Kovalskaya, December 2016

Buro247.kz: How Independent Theatre Came to Occupy a Special Place in Kazakhstani Culture, Kristina Matvienko, December 2016​​​

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