HIKMAH

Exhibition
06 September 2026 — 31 January 2027
CCA Tashkent

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Hikmah, the inaugural group exhibition by CCA Tashent's Chief Curator, Dr Sara Raza, brings together leading voices from across the globe, exploring ideas of wisdom, spirit, and material transformation through powerful new commissions and celebrated works.

CCA Tashkent's inaugural exhibition

Hikmah marks the opening of the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent) and is rooted in the concept of wisdom as it relates to material intelligence and higher levels of consciousness. The exhibition also draws upon the building’s layered past, first as an Imperial-era structure, then as a Soviet-era tram depot and diesel station, offering a space of movement and holding a very particular architectural memory. Reimagined by Studio KO, the building has been sensitively restored using vernacular methods and materials, crafts, and design from across Uzbekistan, weaving together the country’s diverse geographies and cultural vocabularies.

Curatorially, Hikmah can be reframed as an exhibition “method” for understanding the open-ended relationship between art, material intelligence, and architecture.

Dr Sara Raza, Chief Curator of the CCA Tashkent

Site-specific works and new commissions

Exploring ideas around insight, intelligence, and divine wisdom, the exhibition presents works by Ali Cherri, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Kimsooja, Tarik Kiswanson, Vladimir Pan, Shokhrukh Rakhimov, Bakhtiyar Saipov, Daribay Saipov, Muhannad Shono, and Nari Ward.

Curatorially, Hikmah can be reframed as an exhibition “method” for understanding the open-ended relationship between art, material intelligence, and architecture. This represents a way of thinking about exhibition-making within the architectural context of the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent), which has multiple ideologies and principles, in its current adaptive redesign as a space for contemporary arts and ideas.

In this context, Hikmah subverts architectural ideologies through abstract thought and embodied wisdom, where the artist’s hands serve as a decisive tool.

In this sense, the definition of hikmah extends beyond the theory of knowledge to encompass a haptic exploration of the relationship between art and material intelligence, experienced across a wide spectrum.