Bermet Borubaeva

Researcher, curator, and artist from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, co-curator of Bishkek School of Contemporary Art. In her practice, she engages with the political and economical issues of food production and conservation, labour, migration, urban environment, and gender emancipation. She graduated from the ArtEast School of Contemporary Art in 2009 and studied at the First Moscow Curatorial Summer School, initiated by Viktor Misiano and the V-A-C-Foundation.

She has participated in curatorial research residencies What Could/Should Curating Do?, Serbia; ReDirecting East, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and the Curatorial Program for Research, Mexico. Recent artistic projects include the café Still Life (2019) at Kunstraum Dreiviertel, Bern, and I.Food (2019), with Polina Nikitina, at the Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow.

She curated and participated in local and international projects. She has contributed to several publications in the fields of art, political science, and urban environment and is founder of grass goot initiative #BishkekSmog.