It brings together critical essays, artist dossiers, recorded dialogues, archival research, and experimental visual formats. The publication documents and interprets the region’s ongoing aesthetic and intellectual transformations, situating them within both local histories and global discourses. BOSMA is designed and published in Uzbekistan.
Published by ACDF, BOSMA highlights the most compelling developments in the contemporary arts of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, while also engaging with fashion, architecture, design, writing, and photography.
KEY DETAILS
Collectible Art Publication
Format
2025/2026
Established
Biannual
Publication Frequency
272/288
Number of Pages
ACDF
Publisher
BOSMA features a carefully curated structure, balancing long-form criticism with experimental visual formats across 272/288 pages
Editorial structure
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Long-form analysis from leading global and regional voices, o ering theoretical, historical, and contextual perspectives.
In-depth artist portraits and narrative-driven explorations mapping the contemporary creative landscape.
Immersive encounters with artists, designers, architects, and craft masters in their working environments, revealing their processes and conceptual foundations.
Interdisciplinary, cross-generational conversations bringing together practitioners, scientists, and cultural thinkers to re lect on shared global questions.
A focused examination of a single object’s form, memory, materiality, and symbolic resonance.
A series dedicated to design practices that carry cultural, ecological, and emotional memory, exploring spaces as vessels of lived experience.
A dedicated space for sound, rhythm, and acoustic culture, from historical lineages to contemporary sound art.
Methodologies, sketches, alternative visual formats, and speculative propositions at the edges of artistic practice.
An alternative atlas of overlooked spaces, practices, and local knowledge, mapping subtle cultural geographies.
Critical Essays
Roundtables
Features
Object Stories
The Process Room
Studio Visits
Design as Memory
Experiments
Dialogues
The Listening Room
Hidden Guides
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