SIARHEI HUDZILIN: BELARUS IS A MULTICULTURAL CHAOS
It is not for the first time that among the winners of «Belarus Press Photo» we find the name of Siarhei Hudzilin — a photographer from «the first Belarusian newspaper», a man who truly loves his job and goes on documenting our routine, asking himself and the audience questions that deal with a very sensitive and yet necessary issue — the Belarusian national identity
REPLIKA: BELARUSSIAN ART-GENERATION Z
While the narrative of the contemporary Belarusian art of the 1990s and the 2000s is only recently being written (names are regained, facts and phenomena recalled, a struggle with state institutions against the monopolization of history and the spheres of influence is pursued), a number of exhibition-events have been held in Minsk. What are they like? What distinguishes them from one another and from their predecessors?
WHAT DID WE GET: THE REPRESSIVE MECHANISM OR FREEDOM?
The discussion «Sport and the Body of the City» was held on May 22, 2014 within the exhibition and discussion project «OFFSIDE». What areas can be identified in the course of the preparation for the World Hockey Championship, and what has changed in the urban landscape during this event?
Belarussian Hockey Opera Buffa: Denouement Unknown
The Ice Hockey World Championship officially kicks off in Minsk on May, 9. Since May 2009, when the venue of the championship was announced, Belarus has been living through this event (with a particular intensity in the last months of preparation). What changes have occurred in the country so far? How is this event perceived by the Belarussians? What lies to the other side of the facade? And what can we expect afterwards?
PROCRUSTEAN BED OF BELARUSIAN ART: 10 CENTURIES?
The exhibition «Ten Centuries of in Belarus Art », which opened at the National Art Museum in March, was immediately named as «unique» by critics, visitors and mass media. Nevertheless, despite all the advantages, the importance of such a project in the country’s culture and its historical role, what can such a form of presentation warn us about? What things already dealing with our present days does it speak about? What is it that we are losing now and in what way are we becoming witnesses of the history formation?
THE SPACE OF ONE’S PRIVATE FOREST
In March 2014 the project «Angulum Ligno» was exhibited in the Contemporary Art Gallery «Ў». The installation bearing the same name was created by the artist Alena Haiduk in the framework of the gallery’s program «START» aimed at supporting the creative youth
To Ruin The Schizophrenic Reality
The discussion «Independent Communities in Belarus: Solidarity and Action» took place on March, 11 in Gallery «Ў» (Minsk). The organizers are media-project «pARTisan» and internet-magazine «New Europe». The participants are historian Alaksei Brataćkin, artist Michaił Hulin, artist and writer Artur Klinaŭ, human rights activist Alena Tankaćova, philosopher Volha Śparaha. The moderator of the discussion is Taciana Arcimović.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS, or PHOTOGRAPHY in ‘PROCESS’
Having learnt that a new photo-exhibition at ‘CECH’ art-space is named ‘Process’, the first thing that comes to one’s mind is certainly Franz Kafka. The story which starts with the absurd of nothing and ends up with the death of nothing, despair and foolishness of bureaucratic pitfalls as well as the painful omnipresence of Big Brother seem to be more than relevant