Sayan Baigaliyev was born in 1996 in the village of Betkuduk, Kazakhstan. Graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. He furthered his education in museum practice in Paris and won the Jackson Painting Prize 2021 in the “Scenes of Everyday Life” category in London.
Sayan Baigaliyev’s artistic practice delves deeply into the realms of space, memory, and perception, creating a rich tapestry that culturally reflects his roots.
His art is distinguished by its intricate interplay of compositional, coloristic, and plastic techniques. He transcends traditional painting by detaching it from the picture plane, transforming it into a substance with its own identity. His focus on the transformation of home spaces is evident in his works, where rooms and objects, pierced by openings and defined by sections, compress into impasto reliefs and unfold into complex optical perspectives. This method allows Sayan to explore optical distortions, light contrasts, and dynamic repetitions, crafting a unique visual language that merges “nomadic mobility” with “digital totality.”
His artistic gesture embodies a unity of Turkic locality and nomadic multiculturalism, engaging in a dynamic spatial transformation. By embedding the spectator into scenes from everyday life, Sayan reduces the aesthetic distance, fostering a meditative dialogue with the self through color and composition. His recent focus on still lifes is a response to external turbulence, emphasizing a sincere contemplation of chance observations and intuition.
He balances between ordinary and sacred spaces, substituting the real with the irreal and the functional with the afunctional. This approach takes the viewer back to a mythic consciousness, evoking a sense of naive earnestness and inviting them to engage with the artwork on a deeper, more introspective level.
Sayan Baigaliyev’s artistic practice delves deeply into the realms of space, memory, and perception, creating a rich tapestry that culturally reflects his roots.
His art is distinguished by its intricate interplay of compositional, coloristic, and plastic techniques. He transcends traditional painting by detaching it from the picture plane, transforming it into a substance with its own identity. His focus on the transformation of home spaces is evident in his works, where rooms and objects, pierced by openings and defined by sections, compress into impasto reliefs and unfold into complex optical perspectives. This method allows Sayan to explore optical distortions, light contrasts, and dynamic repetitions, crafting a unique visual language that merges “nomadic mobility” with “digital totality.”
His artistic gesture embodies a unity of Turkic locality and nomadic multiculturalism, engaging in a dynamic spatial transformation. By embedding the spectator into scenes from everyday life, Sayan reduces the aesthetic distance, fostering a meditative dialogue with the self through color and composition. His recent focus on still lifes is a response to external turbulence, emphasizing a sincere contemplation of chance observations and intuition.
He balances between ordinary and sacred spaces, substituting the real with the irreal and the functional with the afunctional. This approach takes the viewer back to a mythic consciousness, evoking a sense of naive earnestness and inviting them to engage with the artwork on a deeper, more introspective level.
Sayan Baigaliyev
Kazakhstan
Paintings and objects