GlogauAIR resident from January, 2023 to March, 2023

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Installation, Object, and Photography

From 2018 to the present day I’m working on a monograph researching the status of modern ritual veneration of roadside crosses of Palesse region. I traveled thousands of kilometers across Belarus, visited hundreds of villages and captured more then 430 crosses. 

These crosses  are a phenomenon of material and spiritual culture, which contains important evidence of the ethnic history of Belarus. They  are excellent examples of traditional art, which often still reflect the experience of entire groups of woodcarvers, weavers, embroiderers, and blacksmiths. This alive  tradition acquires new and more specific features every year, transforming under the pressure of time. Bearers of ancient knowledge, craftswomen and masters are leaving this world, and the collective experience manifests itself with new forms.

Education

Graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (2014) as a costume designer.

Solo Shows 

2020       “Long Way Home”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus

Selected Group Shows

2022      “Good as Hell: Voicing Resistance”, National Gallery Of Kosovo, within Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo 

2022      “When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long”, GfZK Gallery, Leipzig, Germany 

2022       “Home That Doesn’t Exist”, International Festival of Photography (within Month Of Photography In Minsk), OFF Piotrkowska Center, Lodz, Poland

2022       “Fight Like A Girl”, Kunsttraject, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2022       “So Far Yet So Close”, De Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2022       “So Far Yet So Close”, Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2022       “When The Sun Is Low  – The Shadows Are Long”,  Arsenal Gallery, Bialostok, Poland 

2022      “The Code of Presence: Belarusian Protest Embroideries and Textile Patterns”, University of Michigan Library (virtual exhibition), Michigan, United States

2021       “When forms become attitudes”, Fundacja Villa Socrates, Krynki, Poland

2021       “Screams of the Silenced”, The Gray Space in the Middle, The Hague, The Netherlands

2021       “Voices of Belarus. Chapter two: Restoring Connections”, Punt WG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2021       “Voices of Belarus”, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2021       “Farewell Of Season”, Concetto Di Casa, Minsk, Belarus

2020       “Vocabulary Of Polesia”, Kult. center “Korpus”,  Minsk, Belarus

2020       “Grain And  Chrysalis”,  Zerno, Minsk, Belarus

2020       “Heart Of The Birdwatcher”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2019       “Anthology Of Holiday”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2019       “Running With Scissors”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2018       “Non-Fashion. Chapter two”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2018       “More Color Project”, Palace of Art, Мinsk, Belarus

2017       “Inside side”, Museum of the History of Minsk, Minsk, Belarus

2016       “Nоn-Fashion”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2015       “The 70th anniversary of the founding of Belarusian State Academy of Arts”, Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus

2013       “Dual”, Expoforum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012       “Origins”, gallery of Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus