5.09–20.11.2025

The current and growing list of participants includes to date:

Ighshaan Adams (South Africa)

Khadim Ali (Australia/Afghanistan/Pakistan)

Majid Al-Remaihi (Qatar)

Ahmad Angawi (Saudi Arabia)

Tarek Atoui (Lebanon)

Dana Awartani (Palestine/Saudi Arabia)

Aziza Azim (Uzbekistan)

Louis Barthélemy (France)

Jahongir Bobokulov (Uzbekistan)

Bakhtiyor Bobomurodov (Uzbekistan)

Behzod Boltaev (Uzbekistan)

Abdulvahid Bukhoriy (Uzbekistan)

Sabina Burkhanova (Uzbekistan)

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan (Turkey)

Gabriel Chaile (Argentina)

Yun Choi (South Korea)

Liu Chuang (China)

Bahriddin Chustiy (Uzbekistan)

Denis Davydov (Uzbekistan)

Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser, India/UK)

Binta Diaw (Senegal)

Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (Mongolia)

Antony Gormley (UK)

Laila Gohar (Egypt)

Pavеl Georganov (Uzbekistan)

Subodh Gupta (India)

Heenat Salma Farm (Qatar)

Samah Hijawi (Jordan/Belgium)

Carsten Höller (Sweden)

Kei Imazu (Japan)

Gulnoza Irgasheva (Uzbekistan)

Eva Jospin (France)

Bakhshillo Jumaev and Mukkadas Jumaeva (Uzbekistan)

Shonazar Jumaev (Uzbekistan)

Aziza Kadyri (Uzbekistan)

Zi Kakhramonova (Uzbekistan)

Zokhir Kamalov (Uzbekistan)

Madina Kasymbaeva (Uzbekistan)

Oyjon Khayrullaeva (Uzbekistan)

Munisa Kholkhujaeva (Uzbekistan)

Islom Khudoyberdiev (Uzbekistan)

Daria Kim (Uzbekistan)

Jenia Kim (J.Kim) (Uzbekistan)

Shakuntala Kulkarni (India)

Hassan Kurbanbaev (Uzbekistan)

Jeong Kwan (South Korea)

Akmal Mihiddinov (Uzbekistan)

Hana Miletić (Belgium)

Delcy Morelos (Colombia)

Gulnur Mukazhanova (Kazakhstan)

Yulduz Mukhiddinova (Uzbekistan)

Abdullo Narzullaev (Uzbekistan)

Pakui Hardware (Lithuania)

Alisher Rakhimov (Uzbekistan)

Shokhrukh Rakhimov (Uzbekistan)

Suchi Reddy (US)

Slavs and Tatars

Ruben Saakyan (Uzbekistan)

Zilola Saidova (Uzbekistan)

Aisultan Seit (Kazakhstan)

Aziza Shadenova (UK/Kazakhstan)

Kamruzzaman Shadhin (Bangladesh)

Jurabek Siddikov (Uzbekistan)

Marina Perez Simão (Brazil)

Tavares Strachan (Bahamas)

Saule Suleimenova (Kazakhstan)

Davlat Toshev (Uzbekistan)

Erika Verzutti (Brazil)

Nomin Zezegmaa (Germany/Mongolia).

 

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. 

Image courtesy: ACDF, Rafal Sliwa
Image courtesy: ACDF, Rafal Sliwa