Gulnoza Irgasheva (Uzbekistan) is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist with a focus on anti-colonial resistance and Muslims’ agency. Her work spans moving images, audio, performance, photography, creative writing, poetry and curating. Using filmmaking as a form of autoethnography, Gulnoza documents female oral stories, such as her mother’s reflections on the constraints and joys of marriage and her grandmother’s memories of Islam’s survival under the Soviet anti-religious agenda.

During her residency, Gulnoza will finalise video work for the Bukhara Biennial and other new projects.

Gulnoza co-founded maqaal collective, aiming to decentralise epistemology, producing knowledge on Central Asia by Central Asians with an intersectional feminist lens. Within the collective, Gulnoza contributes to translating relevant texts into Uzbek to make them accessible to Uzbek-speaking people across the world, organising online reading groups, festivals, (online) screenings and fundraising events.

Gulnoza’s works have been screened 60th International Art Exhibition,  Foreigners Everywhere, at the Biennale Arte 2024 in the pavilion of Uzbekistan and in different festivals in Germany, Italy, Armenia and across Central Asia.

Gulnoza was born and raised in Namangan and is currently based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.