ARTISTS
Sayyora Muin
Born 1977 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Lives & works in Berlin, Germany
Participation as costume designer in several film & theater productions in Uzbekistan and Germany. Sayyora Muin works as costume designer, in Fine Arts, graphic artist & book illustrator.
Awards
Collections
Lives & works in Berlin, Germany
| 2011 | nomination as master student |
| 2010 - 2011 | master student of Prof. Florence von Gerkan at UdK Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 - 2010 | studies at the University of Art (UdK) – field: stage costume design |
| 1998 - 2003 | studies of book illustration at the National Academy for Painting & Design in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| 1991 - 1995 | artistic education as costume designer at the Art School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
Participation as costume designer in several film & theater productions in Uzbekistan and Germany. Sayyora Muin works as costume designer, in Fine Arts, graphic artist & book illustrator.
Awards
| 2002 | Grand Prix of the competition of Uzbek fashion designers within the scope of the festival „Boysun bahori“, UNESCO, Ministry of Culture Uzbekistan |
| 2001 | 3. Place of the competition of young female artists of Uzbekistan, Ministry of Culture, Academy of Art |
| 2001 |
winner of the competition of Uzbek fashion designer „The Orient goes West“, GTZ Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uzbekistan |
Collections
| - | National University of Painting & Design |
| - | Private Collections in Uzbekistan, Russia, Italy, Germany and Poland |
The passion for costume is reflected over and over again in her artwork, drawings, and photographs as well as in her work on objects/ installations.
Women's fate: their dreams, hopes, fears are the main theme of Sayyora’s artistic work. She is always looking for different ways to tell her stories: sometimes in lighter, seemingly casual graphic, sometimes as objects of an installation or in photographs. Also her homeland Uzbekistan often plays a role in her paintings. The work "Listen to the silence of the lost sea" is dedicated to the women of the desiccated Aral Sea.
Women's fate: their dreams, hopes, fears are the main theme of Sayyora’s artistic work. She is always looking for different ways to tell her stories: sometimes in lighter, seemingly casual graphic, sometimes as objects of an installation or in photographs. Also her homeland Uzbekistan often plays a role in her paintings. The work "Listen to the silence of the lost sea" is dedicated to the women of the desiccated Aral Sea.
Listen to the silence of the lost sea – The Farewell
InstallationMixed Media
2011
This work is my way of farewell, a soul and memory journey that deals with my home.
How one says "goodbye"? How one deals with a farewell?
How much time does it take to perceive loss? How much time does it take to accept loss? How much time does it take to walk through all these circles, to finally let things go?
In different cultures there are different rituals. But in the end everybody is looking for his/ her very own way to say goodbye.
This work became such a quest for me.
The questions regarding the "farewell" issue have inspired me to make a research on the death of the Aral Sea.
The lake, which has left its place to the salt desert. The towns around it, once filled with life, now swallowed by dust, are empty and silent. For the few people, who still remained there, to say goodbye has become their everyday lives.
Their way of life and their costumes served me as a metaphor to find the right vehicle for shape, surface and structure of the figures. It was important to me that the materials "get one" with the desiccated salty sea bed.
Basically it does not take much to say goodbye: it takes time, which stands still for a few moments. It needs silence. And you need someone who is there and shares the silence and stillness; somebody who is just there for you and listens silently within the silence his/ her everybody’s own silence.
My circle of figures is going into this relationship of people, how they are to each other and how they are for each other, feels into this silence.
Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | 56th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia l Azerbaijan Pavilion l Vita Vitale, Venice, Italy |
| 2014 |
"here today", London, UK ''KunstVisite'', Charité Berlin, Germany Central Park Praha, Prague, Czech Republic “Neighbourhood“, Galerie Berlin-Baku, Berlin, Germany “Bilder Denken- Das FILM KOSTÜM BILD“ at Zoofenster Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | “Vested Memories“ at UdK Berlin, Germany |
| 2011 | Mater student exhibition „Zurückbleiben…“ at Udk Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 | Diploma Exhibition „Kaips zweite Reise“ at UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 | Group exhibition of book illustrators of Uzbekistan at the Centre for Modern Art in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| 2002 | “National Art Exhibition“ of the Academy of Art in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| 2002 | Group exhibition of book illustrators of Uzbekistan at the Centre for Modern Art in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| 1997 | “National Art Exhibition“ of the Academy of Art in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| 1995 |
“Exhibition of Young Artists of Uzbekistan“ at the Academy of Art in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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