LONDON, April 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BE OPEN Art, an
online art gallery set up by BE OPEN think tank, a humanitarian
initiative founded by Austria-based international businessperson and
philanthropist Elena Baturina, is
running a new competition for emerging artists, aimed to support
those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic
identities – BE OPEN Regional Art.
Every month of the first quarter of 2024, works by 20 emerging
artists from the countries of Central
Asia: Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were posted at the online gallery
for the public to select the Regional Artist of the Month.
In March, Yigitali Sattarov, Uzbek artist concerned about global
issues, humanity and its future, has become the last of the three
candidates for the Artist of the Region and the 500 euros prize, alongside Guzel Zakirova (Kazakhstan) in January and Zhyldyz
Bekova (Kyrgyzstan) in
February.
Based on the amount of votes by the public and BE OPEN's art
community members, the February winner Zhyldyz Bekova, painter and
digital artist based in Kyrgyzstan, has become the Artist of
the Region for Central Asia. The
artist will be offered a grant of 500
euro from BE OPEN.
Zhyldyz Bekova was born and raised in a family of artists in
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She has two
diplomas — in Architecture, Design and Construction from the
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, and in Decorative and Applied
Fabrics from the Kyrgyz State Art School. She started painting in
oil in 2020, and draws inspiration from the myths, customs and
traditions of Turkic ethnic peoples of Central Asia. She loves to convey Kyrgyz
national motifs and her unique cultural heritage.
Founder of BE OPEN Elena Baturina selected her own favourite
among the Central Asian artists: Baurjan Aralov, an artist of
Kazakh origin, also based in Austria. He was born in Almaty, now lives in Graz, Austria, studying Painting and Animation
at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His art shows incidental
moments the artist experiences in his daily life.
On the 1st of April, the focus of the competition
moved to Middle East. The regional
competition runs alongside the regular ongoing work of BE OPEN Art,
whose experts every month select 20 new artists for the gallery,
and the public names the Artist of the Month and Year.
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