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Rooms to view online, shows on site, the incubator programme and the fairs we travel to.
Incubator
Artists exploring traditional and contemporary nomadic experience through new media, working around the notion of traditional and digital nomadism and the aesthetics connected to nomadic life.
Exhibitions
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SAPAR Contemporary works with international artists who span three generations and five continents. They are as much at home in Baku, Almaty and Istanbul as they are in New York, Berlin, Paris and Mexico City.
What connects them is the artists' capacity for empathy, insight and imagination, their whimsy and generosity of spirit, and the rigour and depth of their studio practice. Through their projects they show different viewpoints, observations and analyses of neo-nomadism, highlighting shared connections and content.
About Us
SAPAR Contemporary
Gallery+Incubator
is the brainchild of Raushan Sapar and Nina Levent. The project has been in the works since 2014 while we were looking for a space that was in line with our vision. The gallery has finally acquired a ground floor space at 9 North Moore Street and renovated this older traditional Tribeca space into a modern sunlit gallery that respects the architectural legacy of the neighborhood and retains its original charm. After opening in Tribeca in spring of 2016, Sapar Contemporary has launched the Tribeca Art Night (now an independent project) that brought together art spaces, art lovers, and creators in this neighborhood four times a year.
SAPAR Contemporary works with international artists who span three generations and five continents. They engage in global conversations and develop vocabularies that resonate as strongly in Baku, Almaty and Istanbul as they do in New York, Berlin, Paris and Mexico City. Their artistic practices vary from meditative traditional ink painting to writing programming code; what connects them are the artists' capacity for empathy, insight, and imagination, their whimsy and generosity of spirit, as well as the rigor and depth of their studio practice. The gallery program offers a unique lens that is immediate and global, future-oriented and accessible, multi-sensory and immersive. We bring together visual artists and creative minds of other disciplines: scientists, engineers, architects, performers, musicians and perfumers. SAPAR Contemporary also commissions works that are site-specific but infused with sensibilities, materialities and traditions of the artists' backgrounds.
SAPAR Contemporary has also launched a Neo-Nomad Incubator focused on the emerging art scene and cultural traditions of Central Asia. The Incubator program is headquartered in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The first edition of the Neo Nomad Incubator evolved around the notion of traditional and digital nomadism and aesthetics connected to nomadic experiences. The project explored the relationship between traditional nomadic cultures of Central Asia and Middle East, and realities of migration, globalization and hyper mobility. Current incubator efforts are going towards unique art trends emerging in Central Asia, South East Russia and Mongolia. SAPAR Contemporary artists' works have been featured in international Biennials and are included in private and public collections around the world; among them are the MoMA, LACMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Guggenheim, M+, and many others.
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ART CHANGE Life
Press
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Patron
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Patron
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Patron
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Patron
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Patron
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Patron
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Patron
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Patron
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Patron
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Patron
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Patron
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Patron
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Patron
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Patron
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Patron
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Patron
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Patron
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Patron
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Patron
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Patron
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
My Modern Met
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
My Modern Met
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
My Modern Met
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
My Modern Met
2022-22
Contact Us
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9 N Moore Street,
1st Floor
New York, NY 10013
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- Sun – Mon
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View Rooms
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Textile Traditions
Re-imagined
Textile
2021
Viewing Room 1
TEXTILE TRADITION practice speaks from the porous space between here and there. She works intuitively across media, centering drawing.
STILL LIFE A Taxonomy of Being A capsule of drawings by Phoebe Boswell (Kenya/UK) made during the UK's third national lockdown Sapar Contemporary is delighted to present Still Life: A Taxonomy of Being, the gallery's second solo exhibition of work by Phoebe Boswell. The works on paper are installed so as to create an immersive experience that also features video with a soundtrack of breathing. The works encapsulate a year in which breathing became perilous and, for many, technologies and devices functioned as the primary mediators of seeing, being, and socializing.
Dilyara Kaipova
Dilyara Kaipova (Uzbekistan) works with Uzbek textiles, reviving its centuries-long traditions, to make this medium relevant to current socio-cultural and ecological problems of the region and its post-modern history. Kaipova's practice is located at the interaction of folk artisan traditions and contemporaneity. The artist designs original patterns and produces her ikat fabrics in collaboration with traditional masters. She also sources and uses vintage fabrics and embroideries local fabrics of the Soviet period and 'naive' homemade embroideries.
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Dilyara Kaipova
Dilyara Kaipova (Uzbekistan) works with Uzbek textiles, reviving its centuries-long traditions, to make this medium relevant to current socio-cultural and ecological problems of the region and its post-modern history. Kaipova's practice is located at the interaction of folk artisan traditions and contemporaneity. The artist designs original patterns and produces her ikat fabrics in collaboration with traditional masters. She also sources and uses vintage fabrics and embroideries local fabrics of the Soviet period and 'naive' homemade embroideries.
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Dilyara Kaipova
Dilyara Kaipova (Uzbekistan) works with Uzbek textiles, reviving its centuries-long traditions, to make this medium relevant to current socio-cultural and ecological problems of the region and its post-modern history. Kaipova's practice is located at the interaction of folk artisan traditions and contemporaneity. The artist designs original patterns and produces her ikat fabrics in collaboration with traditional masters. She also sources and uses vintage fabrics and embroideries local fabrics of the Soviet period and 'naive' homemade embroideries.
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Mickey Maus Robe, 2020
Cotton and silk
45 x 65 1/2 in
114.3 x 166.4 cm
4/4
Exhibitions
Éric Bourret Walks Alone
Éric Bourret Walks Alone
2022
Exhibition
Walking Experiences of the Visible
traveling the world on foot hiking over all kinds of terrains
Experiences of walking experiences of the visible.
“The landscapes that I travel through and that travel through me constitute me. I see the photographic image as a receptacle of forms, energy and meaning.”
Projects
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Onsite
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Onsite
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Onsite
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Onsite
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Onsite
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Onsite
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Onsite
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Onsite
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Onsite
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Onsite
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Onsite
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Onsite
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Onsite
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Onsite
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Onsite
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Onsite
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Onsite
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Onsite
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Online
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Online
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Online
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Online
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Online
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Online
2022-22
Muyana: Fragile Ecologies
Online
2022-25
Faig Ahmed: Pir
Online
2022-24
Immersion in Black and White
Online
2022-23
Moods in the Metaverse
Online
2022-22
Artists
No artists in this group.
Phoebe Boswell
Still Life
2021
Artist
PHOEBE BOSWELL practice speaks from the porous space between here and there. She works intuitively across media, centering drawing.
STILL LIFE A Taxonomy of Being A capsule of drawings by Phoebe Boswell (Kenya/UK) made during the UK's third national lockdown Sapar Contemporary is delighted to present Still Life: A Taxonomy of Being, the gallery's second solo exhibition of work by Phoebe Boswell. The works on paper are installed so as to create an immersive experience that also features video with a soundtrack of breathing. The works encapsulate a year in which breathing became perilous and, for many, technologies and devices functioned as the primary mediators of seeing, being, and socializing.
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Phoebe Boswell
Notes on a Lockdown: A Filter for Enforced Hibernation (after LiL Clown by paigepiskin), 2021
Pencil on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
16.7 x 24.5 cm
Art Fairs
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell's practice speaks from the porous space between here and there.
Nov 13, 2021
Incubators
Concept
NEO Nomad Project is the first initiative of Sapar Contemporary Incubator. It consists of series of multi-media exhibitions, screenings, and presentations that evolve around the notion of traditional and digital nomadism and aesthetics connected to nomadic experiences. The project explores the relationship between traditional nomadic cultures of Asia and Middle East, as well as other geographies in terms of conditions and realities of migration, globalization and hyper mobility. (www.neonomadproject.com) Artists exploring traditional and contemporary nomadic experience through new media neo nomad project consists of series of multi-media exhibitions, screenings, and presentations that evolve around the notion of traditional and digital nomadism and aesthetics connected to nomadic experiences. The project explores the relationship between traditional nomadic cultures of Central Asia and Middle East, as well as other geographies in terms of conditions and realities of migration, globalization and hyper mobility. NEO nomad project focuses on artistic researches and projects in the same frequency and unpredictability. For accumulative production, more production drives more input. Therefore, the project is an attempt to build a network architecture, which enables jumps from one node to another by gathering content from diverse sources through artistic research and practice. To grasp and compare different realities of diverse locations, cases, positions and situations would enrich this project. It will be an accumulative process, which concentrates on strong content and criticality in the research-based art works, conveyed through the use of advanced technologies. NEO nomad project site will develop content in time by documenting all editions of the exhibitions, screenings, activities, presentations, concepts, and the development of the entire project.
Curator
Basak Senova, Ph.D is a curator of the neo nomad project. She has been writing on art, technology and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. Senova was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She co-curated the UNCOVERED (Cyprus) and the 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground (Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2014, she acted as the Art Gallery Chair of (ACM) SIGGRAPH 2014 (Vancouver) the curator of the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014 and the Jerusalem Show. In 2015, she curated the Pavilion of Republic of Macedonia at the 56th Venice Biennale. Senova is the editor of art-ist 6, Kontrol Online Magazine, Lapses book series, UNCOVERED and Aftermath among other publications. She is an editorial correspondent for ibraaz.org and one of the founding members of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of “ctrl_alt_del” and “Upgrade!Istanbul”. She is a lecturer at Bilkent University. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam.
NEO Nomad Artists
Artists involved in the Neo-Nomad project are interested in new media and advanced technologies, and have a substantial body of work using moving images, digital media, sound art, web-based applications, software computing, data visualization, data driven and user activated works, biotechnologies as well as other emerging technologies. Through their outstanding projects, these artists show different viewpoints, observations, and analysis of subject matter related to neo-nomadism by highlighting shared connections and content between art, science, social dynamics, cultural discourses, spatial and ecological inquiries, archives and networks, personal stories and collective memory. The Neo-Nomad project gathers these correlated critical approaches, perspectives, creative practices through these artworks. Among the artists who have joined this project are Kate Armstrong (Canada), Refik Anadol (Turkey/US), Annemie Maes (Belgium), Rachel Riley (US), Zohar Kfir (Israel/Canada), Candas Eisman (Turkey), Daniel Garcia Andujar (Spain), Yael Kanarek (Israel/US), Petko Dourmana (Bulgaria), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel), Sara Schnadt (US), rootoftwo Cezanne Charles and John Marshall (UK-Scotland/US), Burak Arikan, Paul Devens (Netherlands), Stanza (UK), Jesper Just (Denmark/US).