MADINA JOLDYBEK
Artist, illustrator and educator,
London/Almaty

madikendraws@gmail.com


Info/CV
Recent work
Workshops
Zines




 






SELECTED WORKS

FEB 02–MAY 21 2023  
Clouds, Power and Ornament show, CHAT, Hong Kong

JUN 25–AUG 04 2022   
DAVRA Collective Public Program, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel 

AUG 13–SEP 03 2021
Mixed Feelings Solo Show, dom36, Almaty 
WORKSHOPS

Azbuka Strikes Back︎︎︎

Tselinny 20.05.2023, Almaty

Parenthood Manifesto︎︎︎
CHAT, Hong Kong

Collective Zine Making︎︎︎
Babalar Press, online

Rethinking Dolls (& Agniya Barto)︎︎︎
Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar, Berlin
 
FEATURES

01. Metropolis M

Art of Manty

02. New Lines Magazine
Kazakhstan’s Bloody January 

03. ELLE 
On feminism and motherhood

04. Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Illustrators Wall  




This watercolor painting found a good home with @tfortati. İt is an illustration about the nature of a woman. We live in a world where there are so many rules for women about how they should behave at home and in public, how they should control their own bodies etc. So I illustrated this floral field – the imaginary place where women finally can be natural, real and vulnerable, where it's allowed to be inconvenient and to feel all the emotions. Those women are dancing, feeling playful, sometimes not accepting the futility of life, breathing deeply, going mad and getting sad.

Finding emotions and forms: