Selected Projects

2024-25-Globalisation Before Modernism, (lectures, artworks), Splash Gallery, Delhi, India

2024-Noomimesis: A Political Economy of the Meaningless Sign, chapter in Posthuman Mimesis, Brill https://brill.com/display/title/63101

2024-Headlines as Hieroglyphic Scripts, (book) Asterfest, Strumica, N. Macedonia https://www.asterfest.com/

2024-The Changing Shape of Time: The Crisis of Exteriorization and the Chronotope, chapter in Avant-Garde and Liberation: Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism, MUMOK, Vienna, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln 2024 https://www.mumok.at/en/publications/avant-garde-and-liberation-zeitgenoessische-kunst-und-dekoloniale-moderne

2023- Zeit im Akkusativ, chapter in Isaac Julien: Playtime, Palace Populaire/Kerber Art

2023- Time in the Accusative Case, chapter in Isaac Julien: 2023-Playtime, Palace PopulaireKerber Art https://neuegestaltung.de/clients/isaac-julien-playtime

2022- Russification project, MAM Documents 004, chapter in Transnational: From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories, Tate Modern and Mori Art Museum

2021- Is a ‘Post’ in ‘Post-human’ the Same as a ‘Trans’ in ‘Trans-human’? talk in the conference Posthuman Mimesis: Embodiment, Affect, Contagion, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english-literature/events/conference-posthuman-mimesis-embodiment-affect-contagion

2021- Contingency of cultures, cultures of contingency: Cultural Studies with a Philosophical Attitude, chapter in Matthias Wieser / Elena Pilipets (eds.) Medienkultur als kritische Gesellschaft analyse, Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne, Germany https://www.halem-verlag.de/produkt/medienkultur-als-kritische-gesellschaftsanalyse/

2020-Russification project, talk in symposium From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories, Mori Art Museum and Tate Modern in partnership with Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/hyundai-tate-research-centre-transnational/event-report-alexandria-tokyo 

2020-Unusual phrases, (online exhibition), Evolving Arts, Dubai, UAE

2020-The Time of the Image: A Philosophical Exploration of the Image in the Work of Bernard Stiegler, (book), Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne, Germany https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Time_of_the_Image/JSvdDwAAQBAJ?hl=en

2019 – Trans-imitation: translating imitation and derushage as a new image of thought, talk in The Mimetic Condition: A Transdisciplinary Approach conference, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven http://www.homomimeticus.eu/the-mimetic-condition-workshop/

2019-Trans-imitation: from representation of truth to its imitation: Bernard Stiegler’s notion of ‘derushage’ as a new mimesis, talk inTruth, Fiction, Illusion, Worlds and Experience conference, APL Annual Meeting co-organized with Theory, Culture and Society, 29 May – 2 June 2019 at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria https://www.philosophyliterature.com/2019-conference

2019- The incompleteness of the subject as a constant reminder and a fuzzy ontology,  lecture at the Baku Book Centre, Baku AZ

2019- Art in the Age of Pharmacological Translations, presentation in Ta(r)dino 6 Art Centre, Baku, AZ https://www.bakucity.az/afisha/1943/art-in-the-age-of-pharmacological-translations-by-zeigam-azizov

2019-Newspeak, (group show), Baku Biennale, Baku

2019-Headlines etc. (essay-installation), Azerbaijan pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/virtual-reality-at-pavilion-of-azerbaijan-venice-2674

2018-Without Origins: Husserl’s temporal objects in the light of non-essentialist thinking, talk at the  British Society for Phenomenology annual conference, the University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-podcast-zeigam-azizov-without-origins-husserls-temporal-objects-in-the-light-of-nonessentialist-thinking/

2018-Disappearance, (group show), Abilov Cultural Centre, Baku, AZ https://report.az/en/cultural-policy/exhibition-disappearance-opens-in-baku/

2018-Letters to Words, (a site-specific installation), Baku, AZ

2017-(with Rainer Winter), Cultural Studies in the Past and Future: Interview with Stuart Hall, Studi Culturali, Bologna, Italy https://www.academia.edu/64504768/Cultural_Studies_in_the_Past_and_Today_Interview_with_Stuart_Hall_2008_?uc-g-sw=85063860

2017- A Temporal Order of Things: Husserl’s ‘temporal objects’ and the (industrial)   temporalisation of consciousness, talk at the  British Society for Phenomenology annual conference, Brighton University, Brighton https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-podcast-zeigam-azizov-a-temporal-order-of-things-husserls-temporal-objects-and-the-industrial-temporalisation-of-consciousness/

2017-Local Time, (group show, Artspace, Sydney, Australia https://www.artspace.org.au/ideas-platform/julie-louise-bacon-the-time-salon

2016-Time in the accusative case, Playtime conference,  talk at the University of Arts, London and Stuart Hall Foundation, London, UK https://www.victoria-miro.com/news/329

2016-In This City of Bright Fires, (group show), Artim Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan https://yarat.az/index.php?lang=en&page=12&yrtMaincatID=12&yrtCalYear=2016&yrtCalMonth=7&yrtSubcatID=0&yrtEventID=1410&yrtCalDay=1

2016-Decaffeinated colonialism, (site-specific installation) ,MSDM, London

2015- Watching Philosophy on YouTube, an essay in ETUM, E-Journal for Theatre and Media, November

2015-Three films by Zeigam Azizov, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mNKosFY7U

2013-The Origin of Geometry, (group show), Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE https://maraya.ae/exhibitions/view/the-beginning-of-thinking-is-geometric/30

2012- The ‘Cut-n-mix’ Culture: The Impossibilities of Production in New Media, an essay in Ibraaz Journal, https://www.ibraaz.org/essays/47

2012-Oilscapes, (group show) Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/4499/

2012-Oilscapes, catalogue, (ed. with Janet Stewart), Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, 2012 https://issuu.com/peacockvisarts/docs/oilscapes_publication_online_210912/2?e=0

2012 -Migrasophia: migration +philosophy, (book), Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/zeigam-azizov-migrasophia

2011- Linguini, Languages, Cultures, chapter in Commerce by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada https://artmetropole.com/shop/4823

2009-Keynote Lecture at the conference: Rethinking Complicity and Resistance: The Relationship between Visual Arts and Politics,  Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland https://apha.pt/archives/1072

2011-Commentary, a seminar with students of film studies at Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcN5dBjs1Fk

2011-Illumunazioni, (group show), (54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/35745/the-republic-of-azerbaijan-at-the-54th-venice-biennale/

2011-Machine Raum, (group show) , Velje Museum of Art, Velje, Denmark

2010-Representing Saualm, screening and talk at Lakeside Kunstraum, Klagenfurt, Austria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9tkP8lkyDQ

2009- Unusual phrases for the usual phrasebook, a special project in Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics After the Net, Autonomedia https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/project-space-migrasophia

2009- Post-script to Migrasophia: Ubiquitous topology, an essay in the Open Space, Divus, Vienna

2009-Oil and Art, talk at Kunstraum Lakeside, Austria https://archiv.lakeside-kunstraum.at/index.php?id=117&L=1

2009-Re-imagining October, (group show), Calvert22, London https://www.isaacjulien.com/projects/28/

2008-Dramaturgy of the Subject, (curator), Open Space, Vienna

2008-Hard spell 2, (site-specific installation), https://www.artrabbit.com/events/bursary-showing-zeigam-azizovToynbee Studios, London

2008-The rehearsal room, (group show) FormContent, London

2007-Hard spell: A Promise to Generations, (one-person exhibition), Kunstraum Lakeside, Austria https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/zeigam-azizov-hard-spell-a-promise-to-generations-2/

2007-Dreams and Realities, (group show) ,3rd Baku Biennale, Baku, Azerbaijan

2007- Can we still speak? Text for the MAFA degree show catalogue, Central St. Martins, University of Arts, London

2006-Global Photography now: Post Soviet states, presentation at Tate Modern, London https://www.tate.org.uk/audio/global-photography-now-post-soviet-states-audio-recordings

2006-2nd Caucasus Biennale, (group show) ,Tbilisi, Georgia

2006-Border Crossing, (group show) ,Care off, Milan, Italy

2006-Semionatu, (group show), Neon Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2005- Global tour: Art as a scene of proliferated ‘attractions’ and ideas, chapter in Global Tour: Art, Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/41646/global-tour-art-travel-beyond/

2005- A joker in the pack of globalisation: Dialogue with Stuart Hall, in Routes (ed. Christian Kravagna) Grazer Kunstwerein, Austria https://www.grazerkunstverein.org/routes-imaging-travel-and-migration/

2005-Die Rundshau, (group show) , Aarau Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

2004-Trading Places, (group show) , Pump House Gallery, London

2004- Investigations towards the film: Back to Moscow and Back. Again. (book), Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau

2004-North, (group show) ,Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin

2003-(with Stuart Hall), The world has to be made to mean! Venice Biennale, Venice http://projects.e-flux.com/utopia/art/061zeigamhall/index.html

2003- Will multiculturalism be Russified? chapter In Moneynations, (ed. Marion von Osten), Selena Verlag, Vienna, 2003

2003-Utopia Station,(group show), Haus der Kunst, Munich

2003-Dreams and Conflicts, (group show), the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice https://www.e-flux.com/projects/66652/utopia-station/

2003-Sparwasser HQ, (performance), Berlin

2003-Migration: Globalization of Space and Time, (group show), Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi

2002- Migrasophia: de ser ‘Artista’ a ‘Devenir Otro’, an essay in Brumaria 1, Madridhttps://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1134816059.html

2002-Domesti(fi)cation of Visual Pleasures, chapter in Outsourcing, (ed. Paula Raush) inIVA/MSDM, London, 2002

2002-Outsourcing, talk at inIVA, London

2002-Risk and responsibilities of representation, talk and screening at Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2002-City-Info, (group show), Dresden-Prohlis, Dresden

2002-Broadcast, (performance), Cubitt Gallery, London

2002-Art in Media Space, (group show), Austrian Cultural Forum, London

2002-Routes, (group show) , Grazer Kunstverein, Austria https://www.artforum.com/events/routes-205720/

2001-Mutations, TN Probe, (group show), Tokyo, La Rafffinerie, Brussels,

2001-Belonging, (talk and screening), Shedhalle, Zurich

2001-Loft Story, (group show), SE Travel Agency, Istanbul

2001-Never look back, talk and screening, Shedhalle, Zurich

2001- Radiotemporarie, (ed.), Le Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble

2001-Touring London, online project, (with Isaac Julien), inIVA, London https://iniva.org/programme/projects/touring-london/

2001-Strategies of Presentation, (group show), Kopelica gallerie, Ljubljana

2001-Videonalle 9, (group show), Kunstverein, Bonn

2000-ForthepeopleontheirwaytoEurope, (group show), Exnergasse Kunsthalle, Vienna

2000-Arcade Project, (group show), The Trade Apartment, London

2000-Mutations: Urban Rumours, (group show), Free Art, Fribourg,

2000- Mutations: Urban Rumours, (group show), arc en reve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux

2000-Transact, (online project), Museum in Progress, Vienna https://www.mip.at/en/persons/zeigam-azizov/

2000- A Seminar with Stuart Hall: The world at one with itself, inIVA, London

1999-Temporary Radio, Espace 2, (site-specific project) Radio Suisse -Romand, Geneva

1998-The Trial of Pol Pot,(group show), Centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble

1998- Russification and terrain of self-determination, chapter in Imported (ed. Rainer Ganahl), Semiotexte, NY

1995-Ideal Standard Summertime, (group show), Lisson Gallery, London https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/ideal-standard-summertime

1995-Postscript, (group show) , Lisson Gallery, London

1995-Viewpoint, (one person exhibition), ICA, London