The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation announces the participation of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, running from April 20 to November 24, 2024. This year, the pavilion entitled “Don’t Miss the Cue”is curated for the first time by the Centre for Contemporary Art Tashkent, and sees the Uzbek artist Aziza Kadyrileading the project. The exhibition “Don’t Miss the Cue” will also feature a collaboration with the Qizlar collective, a Tashkent-based artists group.The key objects presented in the pavilion will be a series of embroideries handcrafted by the suzani master Madina Kasymbaeva. The central piece is a theater curtain, also created by Madina. Resonating with the theme of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia “Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere”, set forth by the curator Adriano Pedrosa, the
exhibition «Don’t Miss the Cue» addresses issues of belonging and identity through the experiences of women from Central Asia, offering insight into how they navigate and redefine themselves in the migration process.»For me personally, the collaborative aspect of the creative process is a key moment where women’s voices, representing various experiences — migration, transformation, and overcoming — come together. Together, we reinterpret ways of interacting with cultural and historical heritage, particularly textiles and costumes, traditionally associated with ‘female’ crafts — through the synthesis of art and technology as tools for exploring contemporary Uzbek identity,» says artist Aziza Kadyri.The concept of the exhibition project «Don’t Miss the Cue»is directly related to the theme of the Biennale Arte 2024: entering the Tesa, visitors will embark on a complex migration journey, rethinking their personal experience through interaction with installations. The exhibition creates an atmosphere of theatrical backstage, inspired by the Houses of Culture
that were located throughout Eurasia in the early 20th century.

The Centre for Contemporary Art Tashkent is a space for the development and support of contemporary culture in Central Asia. The building was constructed in 1912. Before the revolution, it housed a diesel power station that produced energy for the city’s first street car line. It was here that the electrification of the city of Tashkent began. This is also where the renewal of the artistic environment of modern Uzbekistan will begin. It opened in 2019
and operating in test mode since then. The Centre hosted lectures, public discussions, film screenings, workshops for children and adults. Film directors, artists, curators, architects, museum professionals and heads of institutions from France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Singapore, USA and Uzbekistan were invited to speak at the Centre. In late 2021 the Centre hosted the exhibition Dixit Algorizmi by Josef Grima, Italian architect, art critic, curator, and editor, who was displayed at the Uzbekistan National Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022.