STATEMENT: BE OPEN Art congratulates the winners of the Central Asian Regional Art Competition

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LONDON, April 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BE OPEN Art, an online art gallery created by the BE OPEN think tank, a humanitarian initiative founded by Austria-based international businesswoman and philanthropist Elena Baturina, is calling for a new competition for emerging artists, aimed at supporting those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities - BE OPEN Regional Art.

Each month in the first quarter of 2024, works by 20 emerging artists from the Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - were published in the online gallery for the public to choose the Regional Artist of the Month.

In March, Yigitali Sattarov, an Uzbek artist concerned with global problems, humanity and its future, has become the last of the three candidates for Artist of the Region and the 500 euro prize, along with Guzel Zakirova (Kazakhstan) in January and Zhyldyz Bekova (Kyrgyzstan) in February.

Based on the number of votes from the public and members of the BE OPEN art community, February winner Zhyldyz Bekova, a painter and digital artist based in Kyrgyzstan, has become the Artist of the Region for Central Asia. The artist will receive a scholarship of 500 euros from BE OPEN.

Zhyldyz Bekova was born and raised in a family of artists in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). She has a degree in Architecture, Design and Construction from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University and in Decorative and Applied Fabrics from the Kyrgyz State School of Art. She began oil painting in 2020 and is inspired by the myths, customs and traditions of the ethnic Turkic peoples of Central Asia. She loves to convey Kyrgyz national motifs and their unique cultural heritage.

The founder of BE OPEN, Elena Baturina, selected her favorite among the artists from Central Asia: Baurjan Aralov, an artist of Kazakh origin who also lives in Austria. He was born in Almaty and now lives in Graz (Austria), where he studies Painting and Animation at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. His art shows fortuitous moments that the artist experiences in his daily life.

On April 1, the contest focused on the Middle East. The regional competition is held in parallel with the usual work of BE OPEN Art, whose experts select 20 new artists for the gallery every month, and the public nominates the Artist of the Month and the Year.

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