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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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 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. The center furthers the idea that contemporary art encompasses multi-sensory forms of expression in which aesthetic, cultural and social meanings are exposed and debated. BACTRIA’s goal in visual arts is to expose local artists and art professionals (art historians, journalists, art managers) to the concept and ideology of contemporary art processes. We invite and support artists and art professionals to learn about curatorial work though workshops and master classes. In collaborative works with visiting artists and scucurators from Central Asia, Europe and the USA local artists gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the world’s artistic context. Our regularly organized exhibitions, both solo and group ones, are conceptually structured and aim at opening a discourse among artists and visitors.
Workshops, lectures, dissions accompany the exhibitions. Artist's talks prompt the audience to integral participants of debates and stimulate critical thinking and cultural activism.
BACTRIA strives to develop the artistic processes of local artists in order to help them become more competent in the international art arena and to increase the presence of artists from Tajikistan in international exhibitions and biennales.
An exhibition is not only a place for open dialogue, but also a situation where special tension is created, where comparison is born and where the difficulty of contemporary art graphically manifests itself, making the exhibition even more interesting. Exhibitions are unique points where viewers can observe the world and the vice versa.
Jamshed Kholikov – Exhibitions coordinator |
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Tajik contemporary art
Exhibitions 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 
