Baurjan Aralov: Not Quite Dreams

Kramer Gallery presents not quite dreams, a solo exhibition by Baurjan Aralov, curated by Veronika Nikiforova. The exhibition marks the artist’s first presentation with the gallery and brings together a new body of paintings addressing memory as a process of image construction.

Working through layering, erasure, and recomposition, Aralov develops images that resist fixed representation. Figures, objects, and spatial fragments appear partially obscured or misaligned, suggesting states of transition rather than stable narratives.

Drawing on personal experience and cross-cultural references shaped between Kazakhstan and Austria, the works combine elements of domestic imagery with visual material informed by contemporary media. These components do not fully resolve into coherent scenes, but remain open, producing a shifting field of perception.

The exhibition presents painting as a site in which memory is actively formed rather than recalled, inviting viewers to engage with images that remain unstable and subject to change.

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Baurjan Aralov (b. 1997, Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a Vienna-based painter. He studied in the Painting and Animation class of Judith Eisler at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2019–2025), and previously at the Painting Department of the Masterschool for Art and Design in Graz. His practice is grounded in painting, with an emphasis on process, material transformation, and the construction of images through layering and revision. Recent exhibitions include projects at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Kunst im Traklhaus, the Angewandte Festival, and independent art spaces in Vienna and Salzburg.