Artist, filmmaker
- Email:daryaaagul@outlook.com
- Instagram:daryaaaandijan
Photography works
Press
Darya Andijan is a Central Asian artist based in the Netherlands.
After receiving her MA from the Netherlands Film Academy, she explores video, performance, and expanded cinema. She creates works that weave myths, poetry, and family history to challenge oppression and colonial erasure in Central Asia. Using critical fabulation, she makes space for erased stories to be alive again.
Her films have been shown at EYE film museum, Sheffield Doc fest, her performance and installation has been presented in art spaces such as Framer Framed, Plaatsmaken Arnhem, and 99 Canal. She also participated in the EYE film museum’s exchange programme with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2025.
Upcoming
5.2027 | The Shine of Our Eyes, Residency program
11.2026 | Belfort Entrevues International Film Festival
Screening.
Past events
2026
20.10.2026 | Eye On Art, New selected Dutch artist’s moving image
Screening.
27.09.2026 | Lingering voices
Screening of short films by Buryad, Oirad-Kalmyk,Sakha and Uyghur directors.
22.09.2026 | Leiden Essay film festival
Screening.
08.2026 | Qyzqaras film festival
Screening.
08.2026 | NOMSIZ festival
Screening.
11.06-12.06 2026 | Sheffield DocFest
International Short Film Competition.
28.05.2026 | Sally’s Fault
Artist Talk.
19.01.2026 |Young Art Support Amsterdam
YAA award ceremony 2025-2026.
19.01.2026 |Young Art Support Amsterdam
Artist Talk.
2025
06.12.2025 |Zine island
Workshop: Storytelling as a method of belonging.
03.12.2025-22.12.2025 |Group exhibition Under Light of Moon and Sun
Curated by Cici Wu & Karen Wang, 99 canal.
02.11.2025 |Nomsiz central asian experimental film festival
Yo’l kira:new experimental cinema of Central Asia.
29.10-07.11.2025 | Asian Movie Night x Qyzqaras Autumn
Screening of Lady of heaven.
Performance with Lady of heaven.
Artist Talk.
24.09.2025 | Public screening "With and Through"
As part of Lab Week of EYE Museum with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.