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Sergey Shabohin

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

Atlas of Tectonic Landscapes: Through the Eclipse Corridor

Servisas

A conceptual work about the hurdles a person faces as a visa applicant

Servisas

Rehearsal For The Victory Day

A hybrid audio-visual live performance between Stuttgart, Kharkiv and other European cities

Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer

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

Invisible Trauma

Echoes-Voices from Belarus III

A video created by Belarusian artists and activists in collaboration with music artists from numerous countries

Invisible Trauma

Anton Zherebnov

»Truths in Conflict–Voices of Belarus«

The two-day event Truths in Conflict–Voices from Belarus

Nadzeya Naurotskaya

»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.

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 …

Olga Bubich, Aliaksandr Veledzimovich

From »I« to »We«: Trauma, Empathy, Memory

Looking for a path toward healing through sharing traumatic experiences and collective memory

Zophia Ewska, Anton Avdieiev, Anton Anishchanka, Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer, Anastasia Pavlenko, Konstantin Novikov, Stanislav Lushch, Svetlana Lushch, Olga Somka, Mark Gappel

wanderer between worlds

Group of Artists

An interdisciplinary festival about life in exile

Belarus. The Way

A digital exhibition, that reflects the transformation in Belarusian society and culture

Belarus. The Way

Masha Pryven, Olga Bubich

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

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?«

Ludmila Pogodina

Dis/Location Re/Visited

Stories from dis/located people re/visited

Maryna Rusia Shukiurava (Rusya), Olga Bubich

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

barren time

Fragments from Hanna Yankuta’s debut novel

Hanna Yankuta, Olga Bubich

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

Nikita Betekhtin

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

Ready for Ecstasy

Chak-lui Chan, Olga Bubich

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 …

Atefe Asadi, Juli Nazarova, Olga Bubich

»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

Inner Emigration

A photo series entitled »Inner Emigration« reveal the theme of emotional experiences, fears, prejudices and self-reflection

Inner Emigration

Maria Gulina, Olga Bubich

Who do wir really care of?

Care as an art practice and a way to collaboration with other-than-humans

Revision 30

Revision 30 shows the changes in Belarusian society from Perestroika to the present through the archives of two photographers Sergey and Dmitry Brushko

Revision 30

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

SIARHEI YAZLAVETSKI

A search for Eden: Art, Migration and the Human Experience

Interview with Photographer Siarhei Yazlavetski by Volha Arkhipava

Hanna Yankuta, Olga Bubich

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

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

»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

when monuments can not speak

How memorial sites dedicated to the tramatic past can prevent us from making the same mistakes today

Antonina Stebur

»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

Ludmila Pogodina, Maria Komarova

TALKS IN EXILE

Maria Komarova talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile

Dasha Brian, Maryia Kruk, Art-Project »Revolution«

657

The film is based on a dream Dasha Brian had and reflects on the word »home«

657

Sveta Ben, Olga Bubich

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

Dasha Brian, Maryia Kruk, Art-Project »Revolution«

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

128

Yanina Boldyreva, Olga Bubich

Collective inaction

Siberian counter-memory art activist on »Russian guilt«, motherland, and »despite« mode

The Sun Through Trees

A video created from fragments of footage from the artist mobile phone

The Sun Through Trees

Sergej Newski, Olga Bubich

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«

Yauhenia Dougaya, Olga Bubich

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

Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer

Pray

from the project «Х Letters»

A video performance based on the text by Stanislav Turina

Pray

Aleksandra Kononchenko, Olga Bubich

»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

Which language are you wearing today?

On Foreign and Home Languages

On Foreign and Home Languages

Independent Research Initiative Air InSIlo

(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

Tatiana Antonova, Valeria Khripatch, Olga Bubich

Interview about »A Place« performance

»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.

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

Viktoryia Hrabennikava, Saltanat Shoshanova

Wedding Game Talk

Viktoryia Hrabennikava talks to Saltanat Shoshanova about her project »Wedding game«

How to enter the German university (and why)

Artists in Talk

A talk about the difficulties and advantages of studying at a German university

How to enter the German university (and why)

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

One The Other Side - Force, Farce, False

Dasha Brian, Maryia Kruk, Art-Project »Revolution«

000109

Experimental work with references to utopia and shows an »ideal« Belarusian citizen

000109

Postcards Home

A Hongkongese artist in forced exile explores creative ways to keep connected to his home through travelling postcards

Alexander Bogdanov/Papa Bo, Olga Bubich

»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

Ivan Lutskievič Belarusian Museum

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«.

Yanina Boldyreva

Teplushka

A multimedia project that draws parallels between the past of Siberia and the present

Nadya Sayapina, Viktoriia Vitrenko

Letter to mom

Echoes-Voices from Belarus III

A video created by Belarusian artists and activists in collaboration with music artists from numerous countries

Letter to mom

Hanna Šot, Olga Bubich

»To Move On, We Need to Take Time to Grieve and Restore Justice«

About loops in time, and history that walks in circles

Yanina Boldyreva

Echo

A video reflection on the awakening of a Russian city

Valeria Khripatch, Tatiana Antonova

A place

The project rethinks the meaning of place in exile

Anna Dial, Arina Kalimulina, Olga Bubich

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

Anton Zherebnov

Belarusian Art in Exile: Who Cares?

On 24 November 2024, the legendary Berlin venue Silent Green became a centre of attraction for Belarusian art

Dasha Brian, Maryia Kruk, Art-Project »Revolution«

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

0908

Vicious Circle

Echoes-Voices from Belarus III

A video created by Belarusian artists and activists in collaboration with music artists from numerous countries

Vicious Circle

Dasha Brian, Maryia Kruk, Art-Project »Revolution«

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

28.7.1951

Ludmila Pogodina, Vika Biran

Talks in Exile

Vika Biran talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile

Alina Anufrienko

Resist and love

A music piece inspired by love and resistance

Resist and love

Belarusian Forest as a Cultural Landscape

Belarusian researcher dwells on the multiple dimensions of forest and approaches it as shelter, community, chronotope and matter

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

On The Other Side. Father's Letter

Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer

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

My suitcase stands in the corner

Anton Anishchanka

Primary Noise

Project XYZ

The project Primary Noise interacts with a space where the concert takes place

Primary Noise

Zhanna Gladko, Volha Hapeyeva

Endless Circle

Endless Circle

The Return Of Lilith. Winter Solstice

A video work that reflects on winter solstice and the beginning of a new cycle

The Return Of Lilith. Winter Solstice

Lesia Pcholka, Olga Anna Markowska

Heimat

A piece about memory and exile

Heimat

Kseniya Halubovich

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

Ludmila Pogodina, Nadya Sayapina

talks in exile

Nadya Sayapina talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile

Bleak House Books, Olga Bubich

»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 …

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

No fun allowed

24 hours

This animated film takes a look at a heroine’s busy day and highlights the invisible, unpaid work we all juggle

Viktoryia Hrabennikava

Wedding Game

A project leads us through the process of a non-heteronormative marriage registration in the reality of today’s Belarus

Lisa MUR, Anna Dial

Embroidering Against Silence

Textile artist Lisa 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

Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer

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

Dasha Brian, Maryia Kruk, Art-Project »Revolution«

1982

The unexpected broadcasting of Swan Lake came to symbolise the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union

1982

Ludmila Pogodina, Dasha Brian

Talks in Exile

Dasha Brian talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her life and work in Exile

Nadya Sayapina, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer

Hello, Home!

from the project «Х Letters»

A video performance based on the letters wrote to the homes

Maxim Kolomiiets, Anton Anishchanka, Eugene Buldyk/Mufer, Nadya Sayapina, Olga Bubich, Siarhei Zwicky, Maria Komarova

LIMINARIUM

International Festival of Performative Arts

Aliaksandr Charnukha, Olga Bubich

»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

Anton Anishchanka

The bars

A music composition inspired by the environment

The bars

Zmicer Waynowski, Olga Bubich

»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

Zmicer Waynowski

The anti-hero with a thousand faces

Theatre performance trailer

SIARHEI YAZLAVETSKI

Journey to Eden

Love, Longing, and Life in Transition