Hikmah

21 Mar – 30 Jun 2026
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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The Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent will open in March 2026 with its inaugural exhibition, Hikmah. The museum occupies a restored 1912 tram depot in Old Tashkent, transformed by Studio KO into a sequence of brick volumes, light-filtering screens, and courtyard spaces. Conceived as Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution dedicated to contemporary art, the CCA positions architecture as an active framework for exhibition-making, with galleries shaped by the former diesel station’s scale and material character.

The inaugural exhibition responds directly to this architecture. Taking its title from the Arabic and Uzbek term for ‘wisdom,’ the show presents site-specific commissions by Muhannad Shono, Nari Ward, Shokhrukh Rakhimov, and Tarik Kiswanson, alongside works by Kimsooja and Ali Cherri. The show uses the building’s vaulted spaces and industrial memory as conceptual ground for spiritual inquiry.

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