LONDON, November 11. /Dunyo IA/. The Tashkent Center for Contemporary Art is set to open in the coming months, becoming the first institution of its kind in Central Asia, reports Dunyo IA correspondent, citing the popular British magazine Wallpaper.

The artistic director and chief curator, Sara Raza, previously worked at globally renowned institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, and other leading museums worldwide. The Center will serve as a space for exhibitions, educational programs, and research initiatives.

According to her, the Center "is site-specific and rooted in the unique topography of the city of Tashkent, which has been an important hub for visual cultures from antiquity to the modern and contemporary periods".

"The CCA Tashkent straddles two eras of the city's history in its dual locations. The Centre itself is under construction in a relatively rare Tsarist relic in the city centre, a former tram station and diesel power hall designed in 1912 by Wilhelm Heinzelmann (a few of whose other designs survive in the city centre, including the former Romanov Grand Duke’s residence). Artists' residences are located in a historic 19th-century madrassah and mosque, and a former kindergarten nearby in yet older neighbourhoods", - the magazine reports.