Van Gogh Multimedia Exhibition: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Tashkent)

Sunflowers off the escalator

This Van Gogh show is inside a shopping mall. You come through the glass doors of Tashkent City Mall, past the shop fronts and food court signs, and somewhere inside is a dark room where the work of a Dutch painter who died in 1890 is projected at the size of a building.

The Van Gogh Multimedia Exhibition is about his life and art. Its announced run ends on June 9, 2026. Shows like this one don’t hang original canvases. They take high-resolution images of the paintings, enlarge them and move them across the walls with sound, so you see brushstrokes far bigger than any museum could show them.

What the room usually holds

Immersive Van Gogh shows tend to follow the same broad order. His career was short and well documented, so most of them tell it roughly in sequence:

• The Netherlands years: dark, earthy pictures of peasants, including The Potato Eaters
• Paris: brighter colour and self-portraits, painted after he met the Impressionists
• Arles: sunflowers, the Yellow House, the bedroom, café terraces at night
• Saint-Rémy and Auvers: cypresses, wheat fields and The Starry Night, through to the end in 1890

The Tashkent production has its own running order and its own soundtrack. In this format, though, the main hall usually loops, so you can come in at any point and stay until the sequence comes round again. Benches or floor cushions are normal in these rooms. Many people sit through one full cycle and then walk through the rest.

The Starry Night, two blocks from Paxtakor

Where the show sits is part of the experience. Tashkent City is the newest district of the Uzbek capital. It’s a cluster of towers, hotels and boulevards built in the last few years on central land in Shaykhontohur district. The mall is one of its anchors, and Tashkent City Park opens out beside it with fountains, lawns and a lake.

So you swap a swirling Provençal night sky for a very modern Central Asian evening. A lot of visitors pair the two. They see the show, then walk out as the park lights come on and the fountains start. Alisher Navoi National Park, one of the city’s large green spaces, is also within walking distance to the southwest.

Getting to Tashkent City Mall

The metro is the easiest way in, and the stations are worth seeing in their own right. Two stations serve the area:

• Paxtakor, on the Chilonzor line, next to the Paxtakor football stadium
• Alisher Navoiy, on the Oʻzbekiston line, linked underground to Paxtakor as an interchange

From either one it’s a short walk on foot to the Tashkent City complex. Alisher Navoiy is among the most decorated stations in the system, with blue-and-gold domed ceilings. Tashkent’s metro is famous for its Soviet-era interiors, so it’s worth looking up on the platform.

Taxis are cheap by international standards and most people book them through the Yandex Go app, which shows the fare upfront. Drivers know Tashkent City Mall by name. For a hotel nearby, the Tashkent City area has several international brands, including a Hilton.

Tickets, queues and paying in Tashkent

Paying here works differently from many European or Asian capitals, and knowing that saves time at the desk. Uzbekistan runs on its own card networks, Uzcard and Humo. Local payment apps such as Payme and Click are everywhere. International Visa and Mastercard work in many malls and hotels, but not everywhere. Visitors from abroad often carry some Uzbek som in cash as a backup.

Tickets for this kind of mall exhibition are usually sold at a desk by the hall entrance, and often online too. We haven’t been given a ticket price for this show, so we don’t print one.

A few habits help inside:

• Language: staff speak Uzbek and Russian. A greeting of assalomu alaykum is always welcome. Basic English is more common among younger staff in Tashkent City than in older parts of town.
• Photos: phone photos are normally fine in immersive shows, but people switch off the flash because it washes out the projections.
• Timing: weekends and school holidays tend to fill mall attractions with families, and visitors who want room on the benches often go on a weekday.
• Children: these shows suit families. Expect pushchairs and children sitting on the floor near the walls.

How long to give it

Most immersive shows take 45 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on how long you sit in the main hall. Because it’s indoors and air-conditioned, it fits a hot Tashkent afternoon well. Late spring is already warm in the city, and the June end date falls at the start of real summer heat.

If you have half a day, a simple circuit works:

1. Take the metro to Paxtakor or Alisher Navoiy.
2. See the exhibition at Tashkent City Mall.
3. Walk through Tashkent City Park.
4. Go on by taxi or metro to Amir Temur Square and the Broadway pedestrian street (Sayilgoh), or north to Chorsu Bazaar under its huge green dome.

Who will get the most out of it

People who already love Van Gogh go to see familiar pictures at a size and movement no gallery offers. People who know nothing about art get the story of a short, troubled life in a form that needs no reading. Parents get something calm and dark that holds a child’s attention.

Purists should know what this isn’t. There are no original Van Gogh canvases here. The nearest public collections of his actual paintings are a long way from Tashkent. What you get is a show about the art, built around the paintings rather than containing them. Inside a mall in the newest part of Tashkent, that’s easy to enjoy on its own terms.