Belarusian perspectives

The aim of the exhibition is to present selected Belarusian artistic environments. We wanted to avoid transferring our standards and habits on Belarusian reality and matching the things we saw to our map of notions and likings. Therefore we asked Belarusian curators to choose the works. It is Lena Prents from Berlin who showed in Center for Contemporary Art Łaznia exhibition: “Minsk. Urban diary”, Artur Klinov, artist and editor of magazine of contemporary Belarusian art “pARTisan” and Tatiana Bembel – professional curator of contemporary art also living in Minsk. The perspective will be broader thanks to the contribution of performer and art historian Juras Barysevich and organizer of performance festival “Navinki” and artist Victor Petrov both of whom agreed to give a lecture about contemporary Belarusian art.

Curators:

Tatiana Bembel, Minsk
Artur Klinov, Minsk
Lena Prents, Berlin

Artists invited by curators:

Tatiana Bembel:
Olga Sazykina
Vladimir Tsesler
Sergey Zhdanovich

Artur Klinov:
Aliaksey Fedarau
Artur Klinov
Igor Savchenko
 

Lena Prents:
Janna Grak
Aleksander Komarov
Revision Group (Andrei Dureika, Janna Grak, Andrei Loginov, Maxim Tyminko, Maxim Wakultschik)
 

Guest artists:

Ivan Bazak
Oxana Gourinovitch

Idea of the project:

Anna Łazar and Maria Rubersz

The exhibition under the patronage of the Polish Institute in Minsk, Belarus
Cofinanced from the funds of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage

opening:
Friday, September 5, 2008, 6 p.m.
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panel discussion:

Saturday, September 6, 2008

11.00 – 12.00 a.m.
Juras Barysevich – lecture „Art and organization of artistic life in Belarus”

12.15 – 1.00 p.m.
Artur Klinau – presentation of the independent Belarusian contemporary art magazine “pARTisan” (No 7)

1.15 – 2.15 p.m
– discussion with invited artists and curators

moderator: Anna Łazar