128
The film »128« is inspired by this Article 128 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and will show the »expectations« versus the »reality« of the supporters of the authoritarian regime in Belarus
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Belarus. The Way
A digital exhibition, that reflects the transformation in Belarusian society and culture
»To Move On, We Need to Take Time to Grieve and Restore Justice«
About loops in time, and history that walks in circles
Embroidering Against Silence
Textile artist Liza MUR discusses her work supporting Russian political prisoners, how embroidery helps in processing tragedy and fighting for rights, and why the personal and political are inseparable
barren time
Fragments from Hanna Yankuta’s debut novel
Talks in Exile
Vika Biran talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile
Coming alive…
from the project «Х Letters»
A work based on a poem written by Ukrainian poetess Olena Stepanenko and translated by Belarusian poetess Julia Cimafiejeva
candidate of faith
This project is dedicated to all the living and fallen soldiers who fight on the side of Ukraine for their homeland and freedom
Interview about »A Place« performance–Rethinking the body in exile
»Every Artist is a Nomad«
Valeria Khripatch & Tatiana Antonova–about »A Place« performace, laboratory of interactions and touch that matters
Dis/Location Re/Visited
Stories from dis/located people re/visited
Servisas
A conceptual work about the hurdles a person faces as a visa applicant
From Illegal Constitutions to Silent Care of Smaller Lives
Using ecopoetry and self-empowering language Hanna Yankuta builds her »Constitution of Everything«–an unwritten document offering hope for a better, fairer and more equal world, where every living organism matters
Subline
The anti-hero with a thousand faces
Theatre performance trailer
Vilnius Museum Hosts Female Prison Art from Belarus
This Ivan Lutskievič Belarusian Museum hosted an exhibition of drawings made by former Belarusian female political prisoners »Prison on the Outside, Not Inside«.
»Literary Oasis« in a Cornfield
From Hong Kong with books
Moving countries is a painful process that can involve not only people and their families but entire businesses put at risk by political stances their owneres take. One of such businesses is »Bleak House Books« shop that had to leave Hong …
»One Day, Two Summers«
A digital exploration of how technology reshapes memory, distance, and our sense of closeness
»Belarus Exists Where Belarusian Language Is Spoken«
»Truths in Conflict–Voices of Belarus«
The two-day event Truths in Conflict–Voices from Belarus
1982
The unexpected broadcasting of Swan Lake came to symbolise the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union
It is in silence where the most evil things are done
Belarusian civic journalist and photographer Yauhenia Dougaya talks about women political prisoners enduring inhumane conditions during their incarceration
»Forgetting the Dictator is a Form of Therapy«
BELARUSIAN MUSIC IN EXILE/WORLDWIDE
Probably the most famous DJ from Belarus–on the energy of exile, building senses through the universal language of music, and hungry youth culture worth of sounding worldwide
»I Feel Like a Stone Brought from Another Land«
From the ongoing series »I Want to Be as Beautiful as You« (2011-now), Antanina Slabodchykava
Inner Emigration
A photo series entitled »Inner Emigration« reveal the theme of emotional experiences, fears, prejudices and self-reflection
wanderer between worlds
Group of Artists
An interdisciplinary festival about life in exile
0908
In 0908, the tribute will be paid to Alexander Taraikovsky and other brave heroes who suffered under the brutality and violence of the authoritarian regime in Belarus
Wedding Game Talk
Viktoryia Hrabennikava talks to Saltanat Shoshanova about her project »Wedding game«
The prayer against the fog of history
A work that explores the complex relationship between mystical rituals and political pressure within the authoritarian regime in Belarus
Endless Circle
»BLAU MAP«
A digital guide and network of places created with artists and art practitioners
Pray
from the project «Х Letters»
A video performance based on the text by Stanislav Turina
Teplushka
A multimedia project that draws parallels between the past of Siberia and the present
»Right now, we are united by a profound pain that permeates every text–whether voiced and named, or present as a figure of silence«
»My Doors Have No Locks«
Forest Faces
Talks in Exile
Dasha Brian talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her life and work in Exile
Collective inaction
Siberian counter-memory art activist on »Russian guilt«, motherland, and »despite« mode
Which language are you wearing today?
On Foreign and Home Languages
On Foreign and Home Languages
Primary Noise
Project XYZ
The project Primary Noise interacts with a space where the concert takes place
Echo
A video reflection on the awakening of a Russian city
(Un)limited Artistic Resource Survey
Independent research initiative investigates the conditions of work and life of (non)migrant artists
Independent research initiative investigates the conditions of work and life of (non)migrant artists
Vicious Circle
Echoes-Voices from Belarus III
A video created by Belarusian artists and activists in collaboration with music artists from numerous countries
B as in
A music composition, reclaiming symbolic resistance through the human voice and image
Where are you from?
from the project «Х Letters»
A video performance based on videos filmed by five Belarusians in Minsk and by five Belarusian migrants in Warsaw, London, Berlin, Vilnius and Tbilisi
28.7.1951
The film draws public attention to the humanitarian crisis facing refugees and shows that support is needed regardless of citizenship, sexual orientation or nationality
WHICH LANGUAGE ARE YOU WEARING TODAY?
On Foreign and Home Languages. Artists in Talk
Volha Hapeyeva talks about her work in exile and her essay »WHICH LANGUAGE ARE YOU WEARING TODAY?«
000109
Experimental work with references to utopia and shows an »ideal« Belarusian citizen
Invisible Trauma
Echoes-Voices from Belarus III
A video created by Belarusian artists and activists in collaboration with music artists from numerous countries
Selective Empathy, Russian Colonial Lense and »Opinions« that Start Mattering More than Facts
Ukrainian photographer Masha Pryven speaks up on the problematic issues around the EU’s current perception of the full-scale invasion and the role of artists and art
Homeless under an Alien Rainbow
Belarusian photograper Kseniya Halubovich expores the feelings of the lost home through empathetic connections and daily exchange of images with the family she cannot visit
Belarusian Art in Exile: Who Cares?
On 24 November 2024, the legendary Berlin venue Silent Green became a centre of attraction for Belarusian art
Resist and love
A music piece inspired by love and resistance
on »memory plants«
Interview with the writer hanna yankuta
On »memory plants«, books that help define the place we belong, and hope able to give strength to resist
Postcards Home
A Hongkongese artist in forced exile explores creative ways to keep connected to his home through travelling postcards
»Exiled Artists around the World Face the Same Problems«
MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE, AS SIMPLE AS THAT
A psychologist from Belarus struggles with formalism and bureaucracy in Italy, but continues showing social art from Belarus, Ukraine, Iran, and Russia.
All of Us Are Living in the World of Colonized Languages
A Belarusian writer Golya z Opolya talks about her debut book, the importance of knowing one’s kin and language as a way to resist colonization.
»Wandering Roots«
A virtual gallery presenting recent artistic projects and initiatives by Belarusian authors exploring migration, memory, identity, and borders through the lens of nature and field research
24 hours
This animated film takes a look at a heroine’s busy day and highlights the invisible, unpaid work we all juggle.
On The Other Side. Father’s Letter
The video composed of fragments of video footage shot by the artist’s father and sent to her in August 2020
The bars
A music composition inspired by the environment
One The Other Side–Force, Farce, False
Video footage through the glass in the door of the artist’s children’s room in her parents’ apartment as a reflection on recent events in Belarus, accompanied by the music by Gareth Davis
Planting a Garden of Inclusive and Hybrid Culture
Sam Chak Lui Chan, a star of Cantonese opera, speaks about the reasons of her emigration and new life in Britain with both the story behind her exile from Hong Kong and new challenges she is facing abroad resonating with the stories of artists in exi …
Tread Lightly
A Syrian poetess reflects on the contrasts between funeral practices and perceptions of mortality, weaving together personal experiences of loss and cultural observations, inviting readers to contemplate the universality of death’s impact on hu …
The Return Of Lilith. Winter Solstice
A video work that reflects on winter solstice and the beginning of a new cycle
»ABC der Ausrufe« (»The ABC of Exclamations«)
The »ABC der Ausrufe« is an artistic interpretation of the Belarusian alphabet by poet Vera Burlak and her son Kastuś Žybul (19), who lives with autism. For each sound of the 34 letters, the two found an emotional exclamation and transf …
657
The film is based on a dream Dasha Brian had and reflects on the word »home«
Ready for Ecstasy
Ursula Andkjaer Olsen’s poems about the female body in the biological and emotional cycle of life transformed into a hyper-polyphonic electro-acoustic sound narrative by Juliana Hodkinson
Anything Multiplied by Zero Gets Destroyed
Two researchers in exile launch an anti-war exhibition offering a space for empathy, pain, solidarity and questions many of which remain unanswered
talks in exile
Nadya Sayapina talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile
Hello, Home!
from the project «Х Letters»
A video performance based on the letters wrote to the homes
»Even the Sun Is Imperfect and Vulnerable, just like us«
Anastasia Rydlevskaya—on three languages of her lyrics, freedom of expression behind pagan masks, and subtle dialogues with strangers
Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes: Through the Eclipse Corridor
This work is a part of the cycle about large-scale geopolitical upheavals: military conflicts, pandemics, protest waves, remaking of the world order, cultural revolutions–by way of example of the turbulent times in the Eastern European region
Oneness
The video reimagines Belarusian ornament through sculptural animation
How to enter the German university (and why)
Artists in Talk
A talk about the difficulties and advantages of studying at a German university
when monuments can not speak
How memorial sites dedicated to the tramatic past can prevent us
from making the same mistakes today
The Art of (not) Forgetting
for four voices and video
A music Performance based on traumatic and resourceful memories of women and LGBTQ+ Belarusians collected into the photobook »The Art of (Not) Forgetting«
»Die Fraktur der Frakturen«
The fracture of the fractures
A search for Eden: Art, Migration and the Human Experience
Interview with Photographer Siarhei Yazlavetski by Volha Arkhipava
SKETCHES OF A WARTIME CITY
A wartime intimate catalog of small salvations, each a quiet rebellion against erasure.
Who do wir really care of?
Care as an art practice and a way to collaboration with other-than-humans
From »I« to »We«: Trauma, Empathy, Memory
Looking for a path toward healing through sharing traumatic experiences and collective memory
TALKS IN EXILE
Maria Komarova talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile
My suitcase stands in the corner
from the project «Х Letters»
A project based on interviews with migrants collected by the artist in the ‘Letter to Mom’ project
»We All Deserve to Be at the Top«
Samir TimajChi, an Iranian musician and artist, talks about his artistic identity, repression, and hope for a better future.
Heimat
A piece about memory and exile
A place
The project rethinks the meaning of place in exile
Belarusian Forest as a Cultural Landscape
Belarusian researcher dwells on the multiple dimensions of forest and approaches it as shelter, community, chronotope and matter
»We are Alive and Fragile«
ART AS RESISTANCE, WEAKNESS AS POWER
Antonina Stebur’s reflections on fragility and corporeality becoming political concepts, when approached as fundamental characteristics of human existence
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»In Belarusian culture in exile, our bullets are not symbols–but meanings!«
Probably the most famous DJ from Belarus–on the energy of exile, building senses through the universal language of music, and hungry youth culture worth of sounding worldwide
The Sun Through Trees
A video created from fragments of footage from the artist mobile phone
My Great-granddad Saw the Statue of Liberty,
or family memory that gain the voice century later
or family memory that gains the voice century later
»I Wanted to Hear the Voice Telling me that All Was Temporary«
»exile is a library in Tehran that does not fit in a backpack«
Iranian poetess Atefe Asadi–on the freedom and power native language gives you, translation losses and memory that at times could be very cruel
»Sounds can unlock the access to parts of our memories we might not often think of«
Sasha Smirnova–on nostalgia that inspires, Berlin that sounds like summer dacha and pandemic collaborations that taught us to trust and share
Wedding Game
A project leads us through the process of a non-heteronormative marriage registration in the reality of today’s Belarus
»What We call Belarusian Music is Breaking into Pieces«
Aliaksandr Charnukha about resilience and creativity, challenges and successes of Belarusian music four years after the start of the dark days
Shuma on the Choir Cures
singing that heals
Belarusian vocal therapist shares her experience of group singing in the choir of women émigrés as a way to show care, cherish the moment of togetherness and give each other support
Journey to Eden
Love, Longing, and Life in Transition
Letter to mom
Echoes-Voices from Belarus III
A video created by Belarusian artists and activists in collaboration with music artists from numerous countries
Searching for »Hope to Hope«
Sveta Ben–one of the most famous Belarusian singers and actresses, now in exile,–speaks about the power and fragility of German interwar cabaret,
music able to predict the future, and Berlin where she will always feel as a guest
Rehearsal For The Victory Day
A hybrid audio-visual live performance between Stuttgart, Kharkiv and other European cities
»Dear life«
A fragmented family album
»It Breaks My Heart When I See People Refusing to Talk to Each Other«
CARING THROUGH GESTURES–BIG AND SMALL
Belarusian photographer and visual artist Aleksandra Kononchenko on the challenges of shooting dance performances, meaningful collaborations, and cross-cultural trauma healed through dialogue
No fun allowed
compsitions in blue and rust
After the annexation of Crimea by Russia, one of the peninsula’s most famous events, the Kazantip Festival, ceased to exist in its old location
