Almagul Menlibayeva is a video artist and photographer who works primarily in multichannel video, photography, and mixed-media installation. Her work addresses critical issues of post-Soviet modernity, including social, economic, and political transformations in Central Asia, decolonial re-imaginings of gender, environmental degradation, and Eurasian nomadic and indigenous cosmologies and mythologies.

Born in Kazakhstan, Menlibayeva works between Germany and her home country. Her multimedia practice specialises in site-specific multi-channel video installations, immersive digital media, photography, contemporary textile art, and AI technology.

Next to her solo exhibition Transformation at the Grand Palais in Paris (2016–2017), she was awarded the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. She also received the Daryn State Prize of Kazakhstan (1996), the Tarlan National Award of the Club of Maecenas of Kazakhstan (2003), Grand Prix Asia Art at the II Biennial of Central Asia in Tashkent (1995), and the Main Prize at the Film Festival Kino Der Kunst in Munich (2013).