Friday, 2 October 2026 · Almaty

At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone Have Been Installed, and They Can Be Viewed for Free, Since They Are Displayed in the Museum Foyer

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At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone Have Been Installed, and They Can Be Viewed for Free, Since They Are Displayed in the Museum Foyer

At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone have been installed, and they can be viewed for free, since they are displayed in the museum foyer. The idols will last until 22 August and will most likely be destroyed, which is a pity, as I would gladly have installed the egg at home. The enormous sculptures are made partly from natural materials, remember primary school? Straw, moss, bark, wood chips and sticks. All of which echoes another art project opened at Garage, "Silence" by the Polish artist Paweł Althamer, which is located in the park to the left of the main entrance and presents non-spectacular practices or, as the curator described it, a multitude of small adjustments to being: a garden within a garden, with the typical garden furnishings, authorial interpolations and performative elements in the form of a choir of Russian church singing suddenly breaking the silence. But one has to be lucky enough to catch it, because the choir will be quite genuine and quite sudden, without any system or documentation

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