Hera Büyüktaşcıyan
Bukhara Biennial is a transformative and evolving platform for contemporary art and culture launching in September 2025 in the city of Bukhara, a UNESCO Creative City of Craft & Folk Art.
Inspired by a widely known Uzbek legend, Recipes for Broken Hearts takes the form of an expanded feast to explore the healing power of art and culture through communal participation and will look at time as a key ingredient in art, cooking and healing. Bukhara’s rich history as an important intellectual and economic centre for production on the Silk Roads and as a hub for cultural exchange between Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the twentieth century, will be manifested through an interdisciplinary experience with a strong focus on craft and cultures of togetherness.
Curated by Artistic Director Diana Campbell with Wael Al Awar as Creative Director of Architecture.
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Hera Büyüktaşcıyan
in collaboration with Islom Khudoyberdiev
Under the Mulberry Tree, the Wind Sang Our Names, 2024–2025
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s work interweaves themes of memory, displacement, and the layered histories of spaces and identities. Drawing from personal narratives and collective cultural heritage, Büyüktaşcıyan works with site specific interventions, sculpture, drawing and film to explore the tensions between visibility and erasure as well as permanence and impermanence. Looking at material as a vessel for memory, her work addresses how societies process, embody and transform grief and absence.
Her practice is deeply rooted in research, often engaging with the architectural and sociopolitical histories of specific sites to reveal hidden stories and forgotten connections. Her works invite viewers to contemplate the cyclical nature of history and the endurance of memory.