Heritage Rustam Khalfin made a great contribution to the development of art in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, leaving a huge creative legacy that is being "unpacked" and will continue to be revealed for many more years. His works are reflected in contemporary art, influencing the future. You can get acquainted with his works, look through his archive, and trace his creative path on our website. Advanced search and hashtag search allow you to select creative periods and view works and projects. Unique photos, letters, and drawings are available here. Rustam Khalfin received recognition during his life, and his legacy continues to live on, opening up new aspects of his talent for us.
Main exhibitions and projects:
1981: Exhibition of Four. Apartment of Lidia Blinova and Rustam Khalfin, Almaty, Kazakhstan (May)
1983: 1+1+1+1 . Union of Architects of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan (December)
1985: Rustam Khalfin: Paintings (solo show). Studio of Tatyana Glebova, Leningrad
1986: Three ways of shaping. Apartment of Nazipa Nedelova, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1986: Unofficial Art Exhibition. Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1987: Exhibition of Leningrad Artists. Okhta Exhibition Hall, Leningrad
1987: Republic Autumn Exhibition. KSSR Union of Artists, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1988: Sterligov, His Students and Followers. Direction of Association of Museums of Leningrad Region, Leningrad
1989: Centre for the Arts. Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1989: The Crossroad. Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1990: Sterligov's Group. City History Museum, Leningrad
1991: Exhibition of Soviet Paintings. Time Art Gallery, Adelaide (Australia)
1991: 7+1. Artists’ Union Exhibition Hall, Arkhangelsk
1991: Sterligov's Group. Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg
1991: Contemporary Artists in the Hommage to Malevich. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1992: Artists’ Quarter. Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1992: Art Contact. Manege Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, 18.03–15.04.
1992: Medvedka-Krotonozhka, 1st International Artists Symposium. Hanevo village, Moscow region
1992: ART-MYTH art fair (exposition of Eastern Gallery). Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1992: Towards Malevich. Karenin Gallery, Vienna
1993: Selections from Tengri-Umai Gallery's Collection. A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1994: Hand and Eye (solo show). Studio 20 Gallery, Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow
1994: St. Petersburg Biennale. Manege Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg; Tsarskoye Selo Collection Fine Arts Museum, Pushkin
1995: Parade of Galleries (Iskander Gallery exposition). A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1995: Erotics and Astrology. Ulasu Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996: Art in Private Collections. Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996: In Honor of L.B. (solo show). Parade of Galleries-96 (Rukh Gallery exposition). A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996: The Postman Song. Kazakh Business Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996: Autumn Gestures of Anger. In Memory of L. Blinova. Kazakh Business Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan 09/27/1996
1997: Paintings by Rustam Khalfin and sculptures by Georgy Tryakin-Bukharov. Asia Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1997: Through Form. Art Museum, Samara
1997: Parade of Galleries-97 (Asia Art Gallery exposition). A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan / The Skin of an Artist project (February-March)
1997: Art Discourse. Assy-Turgen Observatory, Almaty, Kazakhstan / Lazy Project
1997: Human Rights: Terra incognita. Kazakh Business Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1997: Human Rights: Second Breath. Kazakh Business Club, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1998: Towards the recognition of borders. Parage of Galleries (Asia Art Gallery exposition). A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan / The Large Glass project (March-April)
1998: Self-Identification: Futurological Prognosis. First Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art. Moscow shop, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1998: Flying White. Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
1998: Lazy Project-2. Samara Regional Local History Museum, Samara (May 6)
1999-2000: Zero Degree. The Clay Project. LOOK gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1999: An Extreme Fashion Show. LOOK gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (March, together with the agency "Fashion Design")
1999: East – West. Meeting on the Border. Shiryayevo village, Samara
1999: Almaty Underground in Private Collections. LOOK gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1999: LOOK gallery presentation. Rustam Khalfin B-day. LOOK gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1999: Art-Manege: Eurasian Zone. Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow. 9.12–15.12.1999
2000: Art Moscow-2000. Central House of Artists, Moscow. 16.05–05.21.2000
2001: Media City 7: International Festival of Film and Video. Windsor, Canada. 14.02–17.02.2001
2001: New Acquisitions from Central Asia: Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick
2001: Inner Asia. Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2001: Communications between the Arts. 1st Valencia Biennial
2002: Off the Silk Road: No Mad's Land: Contemporary Art from Central Asia. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2002: Inventarisation. SCCA Video Art Festival. German Theatre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2002: Re-orientation: Kunst zu Mittelasien. ACC Gallery, Weimar
2002: Tengri-Umai International Art Festival. Almaty, Kazakhstan
2003: Nordic Nomads (solo show). Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius. 31.01–9.03.2003
2003: Live emergency, Ular Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2004: ... and Others. First Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. G. Aitiyev National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek
2005: Outskirts. Voyager Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan. January
2005: Rustam Khalfin: Retrospective (solo show). Tengri-Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 28.02.–26.03.2005
2005: Art from Central Asia: A Contemporary Archive. Central Asia Pavilion. 51 Venice Biennale. Since 06/11/2005 (curated by Victor Misiano)
2005: The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress. Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki: Quarter-Centro Produzione Arte, Florence. 22.07–18.09.2005; 6.10–13.11.2005
2006: Art from Central Asia: A Contemporary Archive. Spiridonov House, Moscow; Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Oct – 11/15/2006
2006: Barrel.kz. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2007: Paradox of Polarity: Contemporary Art from Central Asia. Bose Pacia Gallery, New York. 12.01–17.02.2007
2007: Rustam Khalfin. Intimacy – In Time (solo show). Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 15.03.-12.04.2007 (curator – Dastan Kozhakhmetov)
2007: Rustam Khalfin Retrospective: Love Races (solo show). White Space Gallery, London. 3.10–11.10.2007 (curated by Nadim Samman and Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen)
2007: Live Cinema – the Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. 15.11.2007–16.02.2008
2008: I Dream of the Stans: New Central Asian Video. Winkelman Gallery, New York. 20.03–19.04.2008
2008: The Silk Code: Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Radisson Sas Hotel, Astana, Kazakhstan. 12–14.06.2008
2008: Sterligov and his followers. St. Petersburg – Almaty. GMI RK named after A. Kasteev, since 17.09.
2008: Changing Climate. WUK – Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. 26.11–19.12.2009
2009: East of Nowhere: Contemporary Art from Post-Soviet Asia. Fondazione 107, Turin. 05/29 - 27/2009
2010: Ground Floor America. Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen. 3.07–8.08.2010
2010: Lonely at the Top. Europe at Large #6. Rustam Khalfin & Almagul Menlibayeva (solo show). MuKHA - Museum of Modern Art - Antwerp, Belgium. 16.07–29.08.2010
2010: The Melancholy of Resistance: Works from the Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun. 6.11.2020–20.02.2011
2011: Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from Centre of Asia. Calvert 22, London. 14.09 – 13.11.2011
2011: Between the Past and the Future. The Archeology of Contemporaneity. A. Kasteev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2012: The Bride's Face, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm 6.06–08.19.2012
2013: Le Pont. Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille 25.05–20.10.2013
2014: A Journal of the Plague Year. Continental Fear. Islands, Ghosts, Rebels. Arko Art Center, Seoul. 31.08–16.11.2014
2015: A Journal of the Plague Year. Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. 1.04–10.05.2015
2016: Eurasian Utopia of Rustam Khalfin (video screening). NCCA, Moscow. 30.09.2016
2016: Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens. 31.10.2016–5.02.2017
2018: At the Corner: City, Place, People, Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture, Kazakhstan. 15.09–4.11.2018
2018: Focus Kazakhstan: Post-nomadic Mind. Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London. 18.09–16.10.2018 (curated by Indira Dyussebaeva-Ziyabek and Aliya de Tiesenhausen)
2018: V.Sterligov School: Saint-Petersburg – Almaty, Kazakhstan, since 7.10.2018 (curated by Makbal Musina)
2018: Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum, Suwon I'Park Museum of Art, Suwon, 11.27.2018 – 3.3.2019
2019: In Honor of L.B.: Works by Lidiya Blinova and Rustam Khalfin, Aspan Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 30.10–12.15.2019
2020: Rustam Khalfin. Self-Portrait without a Mirror. A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 17.06.2020
2020: La nave va, Aspan Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 2.12.2020–17.01.2021
2020: Hand and Eye. Tselinny Temporary, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 25.12.2020 – 28.02.2021
He was awarded: 1974 - Diploma of the All-Union Competition for the Creativity of Young Architects for participation in designing houses on Republic Square in Almaty, Moscow, Russia. 1999 - Third Prize (jointly with G.Tryakin-Bukharev and L.Turganbayeva), The International Jury at the First Annual SCSI Exhibition "Self-Identification: Futurological Forecasts", Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The works of Rustam Khalfin can be found in museums:
as well as in other museums and private collections.
Some of Rustam Khalfin's works have been lost, you can view them at this link.
