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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as a contemporary artistic space, serves as a catalyst by providing opportunities to local artists to express their creativity in an entirely free and experimental way. At present it is the only venue in Dushanbe that encourages artists to apply innovative approaches to manifest their artistic visions. |
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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as the cultural actor of ACTED’s activities, is fully devoted to provide access to information and to vocational training. Educational activities aimed at artists and art professionals are organized with the firm belief that an understanding of national identity as well as social changes and development can originate from active participants of society. The role of an artist is, and always has been, the observer, the analyzer, and the initiator. |
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| One of the main information points in Bactria is its library, which has a collection of books in Tajik, Russian, English, German and French, focusing on mostly culture and history. Art books on the works of Michelangelo, Levitan, Vrubel, Aivazovsky, Theophanes the Greek, movies of Russian and Western avant-garde, and Italian Renaissance are the most valued pieces of the collection. |
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Photo exhibition "Light and Shadow" - October 2008
Gairat Usmonov: putting sophisticated matters simply
He sought to avoid theatrics and sharpness. He even managed to argue that art does not have to be beautiful. As a young and obviously gifted artist, Gairat Usmonov presented some of his photo works to the audience.
The exhibition “Light and Shadow”, curated by BACTRIA’s exhibition coordinator Jamshed Kholikov, allows each viewer to see the artworks by Gairat’s eyes and at the same time with their own world-view. The exhibition title says everything and nothing giving the viewer no direction of expectation. The works have no titles and this is undoubtedly an important part of the project, which shows the “dark side” of the global processes affecting the whole society, segregating it, turning people into small cogs of the machine and assigning them suitable roles.
The untitled works, like a reference from Lewis Carroll’s tale, give one a feeling as if things are what they look like but at the same time they are something totally different. This brings us to the question; “Who we are in this world behind the looking-glass”? The problem of self-identification in contemporary society is not comprehended by all its layers equally. Often we forget about those who would be happy living in a purely traditional society, which has been destroyed. Women become the symbol of contemporary traditional society in Gairat’s works. A Young smudgy girl, a woman in a black paranja with a bare ankle, and between them an empty basket, like stolen happiness, where there are only forms but without content.
In these works, we see loneliness and poverty comparable to emptiness. It is everywhere; on the empty streets, among the many solitary leaves, in the unique similarities; as if things are the same but then at the same time authentically different.
(Abduraufova Gamila)
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Exhibition: “Search for Space” – February 2008
Exhibition: “Art of Feminine Gender” – March 2008
Exhibition: “April Thesis” – April 2008
Exhibition: “Shade” - collaborative work between Martha Jackson-Jarvis and local artists and art students – June 2008
Exhibition: "Pre-Islamic Heritage of Tajikistan.
Non-museum Interpretation" - September 2008
Exhibition: "Original Copy" - November 2008 |
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| Bactria Cultural Centre is engaged in projects that further capacity building and development of music industry in Tajikistan. First of all, it offers a venue to musicians through the organization of regular concerts where they can freely practice their creativity. We impose no limitation in the direction of musical genres, but we do promote world music and experiments based on the combination of traditional and contemporary music. |
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| If the context allows, Bactria Cultural Centre uner the auspices of ACTED, carries out heritage conservation and rehabilitation activities, if the heritage in question has been damaged or suffers from a lack of maintenance due to the difficulties facing the communities. |
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As a result of the continuous degradation of Tajik educational structure, from a unified primary and secondary education under the Soviets, barely 60 percent of Tajikistan’s current school-age population is receiving educational opportunities. Through opportunities for learning and vocational training BACTRIA aims at democratizing access to information and education. |
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Artistic Vision 
