Artist
Sabina Quańǵalı (Kuangaliyeva)
Sabina Quańǵalı (Kuangaliyeva), (b. 1994, Atyrau, Kazakhstan) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is built on a critical engagement with photography as a tool of looking: decoding landscapes, reading material traces, and questioning spectatorship itself. Working across installation and artistic research, she extends this practice into other dimensions through installations, theory, and collective practices.
Quańǵalı studies the technogenic catastrophes of Kazakhstan, engaging with the material remnants of these events as a way to access the structure of collective trauma and the mythology that grows from it. Working with anthropogenic minerals and the intersection of personal and collective memory, she studies what persists in landscape, matter, and in the body after ecological and historical rupture.
Member of the ORTA Collective (2018–2024), she co-authored publications and co-curated projects including the inaugural Kazakhstani Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Her research has been featured in Cosmic Bulletin 2022 by The Institute of the Cosmos (IOTC) and in The GABR Project, premiered at New York Spectacular Experiments (2024). Recent exhibitions include Everything is Lost & Therefore Safe, Atelier Cauchemar, Almaty (2025), New York Spectacular Experiments (2024), Here, There, Nowhere, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture (2021), Limited Liability Pavilion 4.0, Dubai (2019), and Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum, South Korea (2018).
Quańǵalı studies the technogenic catastrophes of Kazakhstan, engaging with the material remnants of these events as a way to access the structure of collective trauma and the mythology that grows from it. Working with anthropogenic minerals and the intersection of personal and collective memory, she studies what persists in landscape, matter, and in the body after ecological and historical rupture.
Member of the ORTA Collective (2018–2024), she co-authored publications and co-curated projects including the inaugural Kazakhstani Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Her research has been featured in Cosmic Bulletin 2022 by The Institute of the Cosmos (IOTC) and in The GABR Project, premiered at New York Spectacular Experiments (2024). Recent exhibitions include Everything is Lost & Therefore Safe, Atelier Cauchemar, Almaty (2025), New York Spectacular Experiments (2024), Here, There, Nowhere, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture (2021), Limited Liability Pavilion 4.0, Dubai (2019), and Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum, South Korea (2018).