5.09–20.11.2025
International participants announced to date include:
Gabriel Chaile (Argentina)
Liu Chuang (China)
Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (Mongolia)
Laila Gohar (Egypt)
Antony Gormley (UK)
Subodh Gupta (India)
Pakui Hardware (Lithuania)
Kei Imazu (Japan)
Shakuntala Kulkarni (India)
Delcy Morelos (Colombia)
Himali Singh Soin (India)
Marina Perez Simão (Brazil)
Slavs and Tatars
David Soin Tappeser (Germany)
Nomin Zezegmaa (Germany/Mongolia)
Participants from Uzbekistan announced to date include:
Aziza Azim, artist
Behzod Boltaev, documentary and street photographer
Oyjon Khayrullaeva, digital collage artist
Gulnoza Irgasheva, visual artist
Daria Kim, multidisciplinary artist
Davlat Toshev, miniature painter
Bukhara Biennial
Bukhara Biennial is a transformative and evolving platform for contemporary art and culture launching in September 2025 in the city of Bukhara, a UNESCO Creative City of Craft & Folk Art.
Inspired by a widely known Uzbek legend, Recipes for Broken Hearts takes the form of an expanded feast to explore the healing power of art and culture through communal participation and will look at time as a key ingredient in art, cooking and healing. Bukhara’s rich history as an important intellectual and economic centre for production on the Silk Roads and as a hub for cultural exchange between Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the twentieth century, will be manifested through an interdisciplinary experience with a strong focus on craft and cultures of togetherness.
Curated by Artistic Director Diana Campbell with Wael Al Awar as Creative Director of Architecture.
Bukhara Biennial is an open-for-all forum with free admission. This new initiative is developed by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation with its chairperson, Gayane Umerova, as commissioner.
All commissions, including works by international artists, will be made in Uzbekistan and the entire biennial will provide an open-for-all forum with free admission.
