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GROUP SHOW
WE SPEAK 2.0
GASTROBAR CULTURA
TASHKENT, SHARAF RASHIDOV AV., 40

2 APRIL 2026 - 2 MAY 2026
A few months ago, five artists from Uzbekistan and Russia presented an exhibition titled «WE SPEAK» in Samarkand. There was no predefined theme, no external selection — each artist chose what they wanted to speak about.
The hypothesis was simple: if individualists are given complete freedom, their works will naturally gather around universal themes. That’s exactly what happened. Five directions emerged: Identity, Community, Conflict, Myth-making, and Space. Five themes — like five ways of finding one another. This is how people communicate when they first meet: they try different approaches, search for common ground, collide, drift apart, and come closer again.
But something unexpected also happened. The process of working together changed the participants themselves. Individualists who never intended to form a group realized that they had become one.

«WE SPEAK 2.0» is the second stage of this experiment. Out of the five themes, two remain: Identity and Community. Not because the others are exhausted, but because this is how connection works. When people truly get to know each other, everything comes down to the essential questions: who am I, and who are we?
For this exhibition, we deliberately chose not a gallery, but a gastrobar. Cultura is a place where “I” and “we” meet every evening: people arrive alone, temporarily become a “we” — at the bar, during a talk, at neighboring tables — and then part ways again.
This exhibition does not simply hang on the walls. It names what is already happening here
Welcome!
FEATURED ARTISTS
MUKHAMMADIYOR MUMINOV
Contemporary fine artist

Mukhammdiyòr Muminov (born in 2003 in Fergana, Uzbekistan) currently lives and works in Tashkent. He graduated from the Kamoliddin Behzod National Institute of Arts and Design in Tashkent in 2024. In his work, the artist often turns to what is unspoken and unseen: to moments when words are not enough and emotions reveal themselves through glances, gestures, and empty space.

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NADINE DHIVER
Contemporary fine artist working with painting and drawing

Nadine Dhiver (born in 1990 in Magdeburg, Germany) currently lives and works in Moscow. She graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow in 2014 and later continued her studies at several institutions, including the Royal Drawing School ODDY24 in London, which she completed in 2025. Nadine’s works always exist at the boundary between the visible and the felt: in her practice she explores how a factual reality is layered with associations, memory, and lived experience.

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ROMA SOYEROV
Contemporary interdisciplinary artist

Roma Soyerov (born in 1993 in Moscow, Russia) currently lives and works in Tashkent. His professional background shapes his distinct architectural approach to how viewers perceive his works. The artist works across different media and techniques, but what unites his paintings, installations and sculptures is a continuous search for balance between the architecture of form and the element of chance, between the author’s intention and the viewer’s interpretation.

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SITORA BREJNEVA
Contemporary interdisciplinary artist

Sitora Brezhneva (born in 1984 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan) currently lives and works in Tashkent. She is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art, cultural inquiry, and visual storytelling. Sitora believes that art must act upon the viewer — shift thinking — and therefore chooses to work with themes of freedom and constraint, women’s roles in society, fear, solitude, and inner resilience.

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EXHIBITED WORKS
The section with the artworks will go live on the opening day. We don’t reveal the works in advance — come see them in person!
IMPRESSUM
Featured artists
Mukhammaddiyor Muminov
Nadine Dhiver
Roma Soyerov
Sitora Brejneva

Concept and selection
Roma Soyerov, curator
Mukhammaddiyor Muminov
Nadine Dhiver
Sitora Brejneva

Producer
Marina Zavartseva

Manager
Georgiy Shvanov

Texts
Roma Soyerov
Marina Zavartseva
Georgiy Shvanov
Mukhammaddiyor Muminov
Nadine Dhiver
Sitora Brejneva

Graphic design
Roma Soyerov
Marina Zavartseva

Promotion and media
Georgiy Shvanov
Marina Zavartseva
Digital punx

Special thanks
The team of gastropub “Cultura”
Kirill Runtov
Pavel Bezchastnov
Kristina Khabarova
Vitaliia Bronchenko
Ilya Bryanskiy

The project continues the curatorial research of Alena Haubenwaller, initiated during the first phase of the project
CONTACTS
+998 90 014 63 82
FOR VISITORS
Address: Sharaf Rashidov Avenue, 40, Tashkent
Gastrobar hours:
Mon–Thu: 10:00–00:00
Fri–Sat: 10:00–02:00
Sun: 09:00–00:00