Coming from an environmental technology background, artist Elnara Nasirli finds inspiration in biotechnology and mixed media. She creates biomorphic worlds through the use of unconventional materials in her paintings, sculptures,...
Leila Aliyeva is the Director of Marketing at the Ritz Carlton, Baku. Here she speaks to Maria Webster about her new podcast spotlighting female entrepreneurs and how the workplace is...
Azerbaijani artist and curator, Sabina Shikhlinskaya, speaks to Maria Webster about the opening of Metacode exhbition at Yarat Contemporary Art Space. Baku: Which works in the exhibition do you find...
The winter months may not have the attraction of sun-splashed summers by the Caspian Sea, but the next three months still hold plenty of promise for visitors in and around...
Paris-based Azeri artist, Babi Badalov has lived in Azerbaijan, France and America. Here he speaks to Will Standring about living in a range of cultural spaces and the effects it...
The city on the Caspian Sea has been a centre of jazz culture ever since the first oil boom in coincided with the original jazz era back in the 1920s....
Just a kilometre from the Baku City Circuit, where Max Verstappen won a crucial victory in his F1 2022 Championship hunt last month, a bustling community cinema is at the...
Baku reports on Garden of Ten Seasons Exhibition at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin At the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale an announcement was made at the Nepal Pavilion, that...
This year we sent Brandon Coburn to Venice to report back on Azerbaijan's Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Curated by Emin Mammadov, this is the fifth year Azerbaijan has participated in the...
Baku’s jazz musicians are famed for their continuous experimentation with classical jazz and traditional ethnic music. Their audiences are also more diverse than anywhere else in the world. Ahead of...