Artist Profile
Anvar Musrepov
Artist from Almaty
Anvar Musrepov (b. 1994) is an artist from Almaty. works with video, digital art, photography, installation and performance. Anvar Musrepov graduated from Rodchenko School in Moscow and is currently studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Apart from his artistic practice he is a curator and a publisher of an online magazine about contemporary art in Central Asia Horsemilk. While exploring identity after the Internet, he examines the extent to which we are shaped by the local context into which we are born. In his works he compares ideas of nomadism to the current culture of internet surfing. He plays with Orientalism and reproduces an external, often exaggerated, projection of himself, but does so at the intersection of internet culture, consumerism and national traditions.