Marinika Babanazarova

Marinika Babanazarova
Born
Мариника Маратовна Нурмухамедова

(1955-09-07) September 7, 1955 (age 68)
NationalityUzbekistan
Known forCurator, Museum director
AwardsOrdine dell'Amicizia (Uzbekistan)
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Marinika Babanazarova is an Uzbekistani museologist and curator, mostly known for being a director of Nukus Museum of Art for thirty years after death of its founder Igor Savitsky.[1]

Biography

Babanazarova was born on September 7, 1955, in the family of a philologist scholar, the first Karakalpak fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR and a major Communist party functionary Marat Nurmukhamedov. She graduated from the Faculty of Roman-Germanic Philology of Tashkent State University with a degree in English Philology and from the art history department of the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theater and Art Institute with a degree in art criticism. Her graduation thesis was about Igor Savitsky as an artist, art historian, and creator of the museum. Babanazarova worked as an English teacher at Nukus State University from 1977 till 1983.

In 1983–1984, she was the scientific secretary and chief curator of the Karakalpak State Museum of Art in Nukus (at present, the Nukus Museum of Art.

From 1984 to September 2015 - Director of the Karakalpak State Museum of Art. Headed the museum after the death of its founder, friend of her father, Igor Savitsky. During the directorship of Mariniki, the Savitskiy Museum received world fame and the metaphorical name "Louvre in the Desert" - for its unique (second in the world) collection of the Russian avant-garde in a place that was unexpected to foreigners.

Internship at the Louvre (1998), British Museum (2000); She studied museums in the United States (1993), France (1998), Austria (2002), Sweden (1999, 2003) and Holland (2007).

From 1998 to 2015 she was a member of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Bibliography

Books

  • Авангард, остановленный на бегу. Книга про то, как на берегах Аральского моря пропала художница Вера Ермолаева, а потом пропало и море: Альбом. Л.: Аврора. 1989. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Бабаназарова М., Хакимов А. (2003). Авангард XX века. Из собрания Государственного музея искусств Республики Каракалпакстан. Альбом-каталог. Ташкент.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Бабаназарова Мариника. (2011). Игорь Савицкий: художник, собиратель, основатель музея. Лондон: Silk Road Publishing House. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Галеев Ильдар, Бабаназарова Мариника, Коровай Ирина. (2011). Венок Савицкому: Живопись, рисунок, фотографии, документы (500 экз ed.). Галеев Галерея. ISBN 978-5-905368-01-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Awards

References

  1. ^ MacFarquhar, Neil (2015-08-26). "Director at Uzbekistan Museum Is Dismissed and Accused of Crimes". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  2. ^ "President of Uzbekistan award ceremony". Retrieved 2018-12-30.
  3. ^ "Мариника Бабаназарова стала кавалером ордена "За заслуги в области искусства и литературы"". gazeta.uz. 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
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