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Texts
Selected Press
2025
Vlast: The Magician and the Sorceress Against the Atomic Bomb, Elena Kovalskaya, 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
e-flux: The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale — Séance: Technology of the Spirit, August 2025
2024
Vlast: The Great Atomic Bombreflector, Rustem Begenov, September 2024
CULTUREBOT: Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector, Maura Nguyen Donohue,
e-flux: New York Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector, (excerpts), June 2024
2022
Vlast: Posthumanism and ORTA at the Venice Biennale, Dmitry Mazorenko, June 2022
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
House & Garden: Why the Venice Biennale matters, Fiona McKenzie Johnston, April 2022
The Art Newspaper: Venice Biennale 2022: the must-see collateral exhibitions, April 2022
Artnet News: The Art Collective Behind the Improvised Kazakhstan Pavilion, Sarah Cascone, April 2022
ArtReview: The ORTA Collective on Representing Kazakhstan at the 59th Venice Biennale, April 2022
2021
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, January 2021
Manshuq: Rustem Begenov — We Love to Play Like Children and Are Not Afraid to Be Funny, January 2021
2020
Vlast.kz: New Geniuses of the First Rank, Rustem Begenov, April 2020
2019
Asya Akimzhanova, November 2019
2018
Vlast.kz: Heiner Goebbels, Theatre Director: "I Do Not Watch Theatre", Rustem Begenov, March 2018
2017
Vlast.kz: Rustem Begenov, Theatre Director: "We Decided to ‘Return’ Kalmykov to the City of Almaty",
Vlast.kz: The Performance "Medea.Material" Nominated for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award,
Daniyar Moldabekov, March 2017
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
Selected Publications
Catalogue of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: Séance: Technology of the Spirit. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art and Mediabus, 2025.
Goebbels, Heiner. A House of Call. My imaginary notebook. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2022.
Catalogue of the 59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2022.
Catalogue for the Kazakhstan Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale: The First New Genius Book: Sacred Expositions of the Great and Immortal LAI-PI-CHU-PLEE-LAPA. Venice: Foundation for Contemporary Art in Kazakhstan, 2022.
Terzopoulos Tribute Delphi. Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2022.
Nedlina, Valeria; Demiterko, Ekaterina. The Art of Light and Sound, issue 1. St.-Petersburg: Russian Institute of Art History, 2021.
Catalogue of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees. St.-Petersburg: Kuryokhin Center, 2018.
Catalogue of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees. St.-Petersburg: Kuryokhin Center, 2016.