Artist, sculptor. Member of the Artists’ Union of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1985 he graduated from Almaty artist’s college, faculty of miniature painting, and in 1992 – Almaty State Theatre-Artistic Institute named after T.Zhurgenov, faculty of monumental painting. Participant of numerous international conferences and exhibitions, including personal exhibitions in the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after A.Kasteyev, gallery of Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, galleries in CIS, Germany, France, United Kingdom, South Africa, Russia, Japan, Italy, UN headquarters in the USA, Mexico, Netherlands. Since 2011 he is the lecturer of Art and sculpture, artistic faculty of Kazakh National University of Arts. The works of Armat are at state and private collections in different countries of the world.
Armat Bektas studied the nature of lines for many years which he was searching for in the art of great artists: Malevich, Kandinskii, Picasso, and in the history of the Great Steppe – petroglifs, tribe signs of nomads, and runic writing. The detailed study of the nature of lines led Armat to creation of his own style of the “language of lines”, thanks to which Ernst Neizvestnyi, the world famous sculpture, for example, named Armat as the founder of new style of linear graphics of symbols and signs. Actually, the new concept of lines in art, created by Armat Bektas, gives the new definition of relationships in the society, culture and nature. The artist in his works by the lines shows the steppe architecture. Armat’s paintings really have the philosophical meaning, since by the author’s language of lines he tries to show and transfer the unity of all people, religions and nationalities.