Aida Mahmudova, the artist, patron and niece of the first
lady, is hoping to build up the country’s fledgling art scene
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will get a display space
for international and local contemporary art within two years and could host a
visual arts biennale within three.
Aida Mahmudova, 30, an arts patron who is a niece of the
first lady, is currently assembling a collection for the Yarat foundation and
artists’ collective she set up a year ago, and has purchased works by the
British artist Idris Khan and the Iranian Farhad Moshiri, among others.