From June 12 to 28, 2026, the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev will host a personal exhibition by artist Alexander Dilbazi "The Pomegranate Garden", a large—scale international art project that reveals the author's philosophical view through painting.
The curator of the exhibition is Ekaterina Dilbazi. The general sponsor of the exhibition is the Altyn Alliance.

The Pomegranate Garden is not just an exhibition, but a living artistic system that has been changing its shape, expanding over the years, and continuing its movement through countries, cultures, and audiences.

The history of this project began in 2015 at The Ritz-Carlton Moscow with the collection "When does the pomegranate blossom?". Then, for the first time, a series of fifteen canvases was presented to the viewer as a single artistic statement. Over the past decade, the exhibition has changed the space many times: the paintings traveled the world, complemented by new works, new colors, subjects and philosophical reflections.

Each new exhibition, while maintaining its foundation, acquired a different form of communication with the audience. Over time, the project went beyond the classical exposition and turned into an exhibition-performance, where painting, space and the viewer become part of a single action. So the pomegranate trees gradually turned into a "Pomegranate Garden".

Of particular importance is the exhibition at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev, an artist whose name is part of the cultural history of Kyrgyzstan. For Alexander Dilbazi's project, this is not only a new exhibition area, but also a space of cultural dialogue, where the words of the great son of the Kyrgyz people, Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov, are spoken.: "Compared to the speed of thought, the speed of light is nothing; the idea that, going back in time, it can move in the opposite direction in time and space is the fastest" is consonant with the paintings of the Pomegranate Garden.
This thought runs through the entire Pomegranate Garden project, where memory becomes not an archive of the past, but a living extension of man, culture and time.

After Bishkek, the Pomegranate Garden project will continue its international movement, enriching itself with new spaces, meetings, thoughts of writers, philosophers, artists and new viewers. The exhibition will be part of a series of further international shows, where each new country will bring its own cultural voice to this garden.

In June 2026, Bishkek will become one of the most important cultural centers of this artistic route.
The organizers invite the audience to visit the Pomegranate Garden exhibition and become part of an art space in which painting turns into memory, and memory into a living dialogue of time.