Aiganym Gali (b. 1980, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a painter based in London and Mallorca. Trained in the Soviet academic tradition, she took her degree in fine art in Almaty and a postgraduate degree in art history at the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, before completing an MA at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. Her practice is grounded in Tengri, the ancient philosophy of the Eurasian Steppe, and in a meditative, automatic method of painting; the Financial Times has placed her among the heirs of Hilma af Klint. Her principal series, Steppe, Tengri. Light Works and ÜNDES, have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery and SETAREH, Düsseldorf. Her work has been exhibited alongside that of Leonora Carrington and Marina Abramović and is held in the Kistefos Museum, The Bunker Artspace and the LightEn collection.
Solo exhibitions include ÜNDES | Resonance, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL (2026); Light Works, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (2024); Tengri, Star Seeds, STEMS & ESMB Gallery, Dubai, (2023); Lux Ex Machina, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Tengri, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2022); START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2019); Steppe, Georgian National Museum of Art, Tbilisi, Georgia (2016); The Holy Garden, The Hay Hill Gallery, London, UK (2011); OYU Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2009); Abylkhan Kasteyev Museum of Arts, Republic of Kazakhstan (2007); Zig-Zag Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2006); Ark Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2005); The Alma-Ata Art Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2004); Untitled, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2004).
Group exhibitions include Rhythm in the Blues, 14 Percy Street, London (2026); After Leonora: Echoes of Surrealism, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK (2025); Self-Similar, Paul Smith Space, London (2025); Art Cologne, with SETAEREH, Cologne (2024); Contemporary Istanbul, Gillian Jason Gallery, Istanbul (2024); Mythic Origins, Setareh, Berlin, Germany (2024); Art Düsseldorf (2024), Navigating With Nature, Tach Space, Hanoi, Vietnam (2024); La Makan. Cosmic Corporeality, Ainalaiyn Space, London (2023); Lightness of Being, Kwai Fung Hin Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); Abundance, Maison Suri, Paris, 2023 (18-23 October); Blue Minds Festival, Catherine Prevost, London (2021); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2021); Light Works, 68 Kinnerton Street, London (2021); Hay Hill Gallery, London (2016); VP Studio Art4 Museum, Moscow, Russia (2016); Hay Hill Gallery, London (2015).
Highlights and Collections
Aiganym Gali has exhibited internationally in the USA, Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. Her works can be found in prominent private and public collections such as the Kistefos Museum, Norway, the Bunker Artspace Museum, USA, the LightEn collection (UK and USA) and Atelier 27.