Kazakhstan (Republic of)

In the inaugural national Pavilion of Kazakhstan at the Biennale Arte 2022, the transdisciplinary collective ORTA set up a full-scale research centre based on the ideas of the artist, inventor, writer, and “urban madman” Sergey Kalmykov who died in complete obscurity in Almaty in 1967, but who inspired generations of contemporary artists in the region. Filled with rusting robots, embroidered memory drives, foil reflectors, and a monumental cardboard and light generator, the Centre will function as a platform for scientific and artistic experiments, which will eventually lead to opening of the Portal to the mysterious Fourth Dimension and reveal a hitherto unseen approach to human creativity – the Art of the New Genius.