Artist, curator, art-activist, critic,
chief editor of the portal of contemporary
Belarusian art — ART AKTIVIST,
co-founder and editor in chief of the platform
of contemporary Belarusian art — KALEKTAR.
chief editor of the portal of contemporary
Belarusian art — ART AKTIVIST,
co-founder and editor in chief of the platform
of contemporary Belarusian art — KALEKTAR.
CV
General biography:
1984
Born in Novopolotsk, Belarus
2001 – 2016
Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus
2000 – 2003
Studies at Republican College of Art, Minsk, Belarus
2004 – 2009
Studies at Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2009 – 2013
Curator and co-curator of some exhibitions and programs in Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2011 – 2014
Founder and editor in chief of the portal of contemporary Belarusian art Art Aktivist
Since 2015
Awards:
2018
Rada Award. Nomination: Best Art Project 2018
Exhibition Sergey Shabohin: 18 / Practices of Subordination, Canteen XYZ, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ana Loktionova
Exhibition Sergey Shabohin: 18 / Practices of Subordination, Canteen XYZ, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ana Loktionova
2011
Artvilnius’11 festival. Nomination: Best Project of Foreign Gallery (Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus)
Exhibition She Cannot Say Heaven, Vilnius, Lithuania / curators: Valentina Kiselyova, Alexey Lunev, Sergey Shabohin
Exhibition She Cannot Say Heaven, Vilnius, Lithuania / curators: Valentina Kiselyova, Alexey Lunev, Sergey Shabohin
Winner of the pavilion: The Belarusian Hall 53 Venice Biennale. Nominations: The Jury’s Choice & The Choice of Viewers
Belexpo, Minsk, Belarus
Belexpo, Minsk, Belarus
Residences+:
+ plein air and stipend
July 25 – 29, 2019
Contexts 2019 / IX International Festival of Ephemeral Art (festival and plein air), Sokołowsko, Poland
November 20 – December 20, 2018
Slavs & Tatars studio (residence), Berlin, Germany
20 – 28 August, 2017
Shadow of Freedom, within Paradzhanov Festival (festival and plein air), Suputnik place, Lviv, Ukraine
18 – 24 September, 2017
Art Prosрect (festival and plein air), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
05 – 18 July, 2017
ПУСТ* (research and plein air), Minsk and Belavezha Forest, Belarus
07 – 10 August, 2017
Astravec of Culture (ecological plein air), Astravec, Belarus
February 1 – July 31, 2016
September 12 – Oktober 9, 2016
ПУСТ*, ZKM (residence), Karlsruhe, Germany
The East of Culture / Another Dimension, Galeria Arsenal (residence), Bialystok, Poland / curator: Monika Szewczyk
Solo exhibitions+:
+ total and public art installations, and solo shows in duets and groups
2019
Sergey Shabohin: Social Marble in the Center of Europe (solo), OK16, Minsk, Belarus
Fear of Castration, (total installation) for exhibition We Will Not Change Our Show, Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech / curators: Gyula Muskovics, Martin Vaněk
2018
Sergey Shabohin: 18 / Practices of Subordination (solo), Canteen XYZ, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ana Loktionova
2017
Sergey Shabohin: Divided Solidarity (solo), during the festival Artes Liberales 2017, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
PUST* (in a group), Berthold Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia / with: Yuri Akbalkan, Volna group, Isadorino Gore Dance co-op
ST()RE #8, (public art installation) for festival Art Prosрect, Gareyev Botanical Garden, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / curators: Muratbek Djumaliev, Gulnara Kasmalieva
Practices of Subordination, (total installation) for exhibition White-Red-White. Contemporary Belarusian Art, CSW Toruń, Torun, Poland +catalog
Wozu Poesie? (solo), Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Germany
Wozu Poesie? (solo), Cultural Literacy in Europe Second Biennial Conference, Warsaw, Poland
2016
Sergey Shabohin: Practices of Subordination (solo), Galeria Arsenal Power station, Bialystok, Poland / curator: Lena Prents +catalog
PUST* (in a group), ZKM, Kubus space, Karlsruhe, Germany / with: Yuri Akbalkan, Alexandra Portyannikova, Snezhana Vinogradova
Wozu Poesie? (solo), StAnza Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, St Andrews, Scotland
2015
ST()RE #6, (total installation) for exhibition All That Is Solid Melts into Air, Bogdanovich Museum, Minsk, Belarus
Gold Censorship, (public art installation) for Art Prospect festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2014
Wozu Poesie? (solo), City Library Malmö, Sweden
Wozu Poesie? (solo), Umeå International Literary Festival, Umeå, Sweden
2013
Wozu Poesie? (solo), The Frankfurter Buchmesse 2013, main programm, Frankfurt, Germany
Wozu Poesie? (solo), Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
ST()RE #1-2, (total installation) for exhibition The East of Culture / Another Dimension, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2012
Practices of Subordination, (total installation) for exhibition The Radius оf Zero. The Ontology оf Art-Zero, Horizon plant, Minsk, Belarus +catalog
Practices of Subordination, (total installation) for inSpiracje International Art Festival, Szczecin, Poland +catalog
Practices of Subordination, (total installation) for exhibition Young Belarusian Art, flat Mr. Simon Mraz, Moscow, Russia +catalog
2011
Art Terrorism, (total installation) for exhibition The Journey to the East, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland +catalog
Terror Ready-Made Collection, (total installation) for exhibition Im Osten Viel Neues, Gallery of the Polish Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
2010
ST()RE, (public art installation) at the festival Art Boom, Krakow, Poland / curator: Hanna Liubakova +catalog
2009
Autoproject (solo), Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Vermes (solo), Schaubude Theater, Berlin, Germany
Group shows+:
+ biennales, festivals, art fairs
2019
We Will Not Change Our Show, Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech / curators: Gyula Muskovics, Martin Vaněk
Ain't Nobody's Business, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine / curators: Valerie Schiller, Alexandra Tryanova
Love Hope Faith. In Honour of. 2nd part, Exhibition Bureau / Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland / curators: Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak
Love Hope Faith. In Honour of. 3rd part, Exhibition Bureau / Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland / curators: Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak
Pose, Subordination, Festivities and Hedgehogs. Young Belarusian Artist, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany
Wessen Europa? Whose Europe?, CLB Berlin, Berlin, Germany
100 Flags on the 100th Anniversary of the Polish Women's Suffrage, BWA Wrocław Awangarda Gallery display windows, Wrocław, Poland
100 Flags on the 100th Anniversary of the Polish Women's Suffrage, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland
Contexts 2019 / IX International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko, Poland / curator: Małgorzata Sady
Border, House of Youth, Tashkent, Uzbekistan / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, Hay Art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
2018
Last Meal, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands / curators: Vasiliy Bogatov, Taisiya Krugovukh
Utopia, a Place Doesn’t Exist, space Canteen XYZ, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ana Loktionova
PRA___BEL, Fundacia Villa Sokrates: XIX Trialog Belarusian Outside, Galeria Krynki, Krynki, Poland / curator: Andrei Dureika
Los Atravesados, Treize gallery, within Queer Week festival, Paris, France / curator: Q rators group
Zbor in Progress, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Andrei Dureika, Maxim Tyminko
One Can Not Be Too Careful, Club of the Polish Losers, Berlin, Germany / curator: Rodina Art Group
Border, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, Kasteyev State Art Museum of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
King/Queen of Matter, Marchand Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2017
White-Red-White. Contemporary Belarusian Art, CSW Toruń, Toruń, Poland / curator: Krzysztof Stanisławski +catalog
Festivities are Cancelled!, (biennale) part of The Kyiv International — Kyiv Bienniale 2017, Tychyna Literary Memorial Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine / curator: Hudrada
Market, (biennale) part of The Kyiv International — Kyiv Bienniale 2017, Zhytniy Market, Kyiv, Ukraine / curator: Hanna Tsyba
Art Prosрect (festival), Gareyev Botanical Garden, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / curators: Muratbek Djumaliev, Gulnara Kasmalieva
Names, Korpus, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Anna Karpeko, Antonina Stebur
Names, Art Space, Vitebsk, Belarus / curators: Anna Karpeko, Antonina Stebur
Names, KH space, Brest, Belarus / curators: Anna Karpeko, Antonina Stebur
Border, Korpus, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, MMOMA: Zurab Tsereteli Gallery of Arts, Moscow, Russia / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, ARTPLAY SPB, Saint Petersburg, Russia / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, art center Plivka, Kyiv, Ukraine / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, Historical Museum Tbilisi, Georgia / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
Border, Hartware MediaKunstVerein HMKV, Dortmund, Germany / curators: Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
One Can Not Be Too Careful, Lock In Gallery, Brighton, England / curator: Rodina Art Group
SALÒ #29: Bentega Independent Kiev Scene, SALÒ club, Paris, France / curators: Q rators group
Shadow of Freedom (festival), Paradzhanov Festival, Suputnik place, Lviv, Ukraine / curators: Sarmen Beglarian, Viktoria Danelian
Astravec of Culture, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
About Love, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2016
ZBOR. Belarusian Art Movement, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine / curators: Andrei Dureika, Maxim Tyminko
Now in Poland, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland / curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk
Moving the (b)order, studio of sculptor Aytsemik Urartu, Yerevan, Armenia / curator: Lusine Talalyan
Non-Fashion, NCA, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Dzina Danilovich
Flip Flap Moment (Ў Gallery booth), Artvilnius’16 (art fair), Lithuanian Art Gallerist Association, Vilnius, Lithuania +catalog
2015
ZBOR. Constructing an Archive, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland / curators: Sergey Shabohin, Sergey Kiryuschenko
Pro_spectus, Art Prospect (festival), Saint Petersburg, Russia / with Andrei Dureiko, Igor Savchenko / curator: Lizaveta Matveeva
All That Is Solid Melts into Air, Bogdanovich Museum, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Aleksej Borisenok
Social Grid, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ilona Dergach
Social Grid, gallery MENO NISA, Vilnus, Lithuania / curator: Ilona Dergach
Measurements of Emptiness, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Vera Zalutskaja
Diploma, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Fear. The Origin of the State, Kunsthalle Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia / curators: Fedor Blaščák, Christian Kobald
2014
XXY, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Tania Arcimovič, Aleksej Borisenok, Valentina Kiselyova, Inga Lindarenko
The Right to be Forgotten, C-ROOM, Stockholm University’s Frescati Campus, Stockholm, Sweden / curator: Maria Kotlyachkova
Four Corners, Luda Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia / curator: Semen Motolianec
Alphabet, Art Gallery Vashenko, Gomel, Belarus / curators: Mikhail Gulin, Tatiana Kondratenko, Olga Rybchinskaja, Anna Samarskaja
Protest. Culture. Policy. 2014, Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, Germany
2013
Manifest in the Presence of the Viewer, Azgur Museum, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ales Kudrashou
Art Moscow’13 (art fair), Ў Gallery booth, Moscow, Russia
Let`s Talk About … (Ў Gallery booth), Supermarket’13 (art fair), Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden +catalog
Camera Mañana, AJZ space, Yerevan, Armenia / curator: Harutyun Alpetyan
Does Europe matter? in Europe? in China?, Conference Pavilion of Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing, China / curator: Lena Prents
Hole Mole #2, Warsztaty Kultury, Lublin, Poland / curators: Anna Chistoserdova, Valentina Kiselyova, Sergey Shabohin
Artist/Collector in Belarus, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Valentina Kiselyova, Taciana Arcimović
2012
Sound Of Silence: Art Against Dictatorship, EFA Project Space, New York, USA / curator: Olga Kopenkina +newspaper
The Radius оf Zero. The Ontology оf Art-Zero, Horizon plant, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Olga Shparaga, Ruslan Vashkevich, Oksana Zhgirovskaya +catalog
Young Belarusian Art (festival), the main program of the Festival of Private Collections, flat Mr. Simon Mraz, Moscow, Russia +catalog
Banners and Diaries, parallel program of the festival Artisterium’5, Literary Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia +catalog
The Palace Complex, Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble, Gomel, Belarus / curator: Mihail Gulin
-O-L-O-G-Y, Amstel 41, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hole Mole, Aula Gallery, Poznan, Poland / curators: Anna Chistoserdova, Valentina Kiseleva, Sergey Shabohin
2011
A Complicated Relation, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden / curator: Martin Schibli
Im Osten Viel Neues (J // K // M // W), Gallery of the Polish Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany / curator: Marcin Golebiewski
Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland / curator: Kestutis Kuizinas +newspaper
The Journey to the East, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland / curator: Monika Szewczyk +catalog
Free Fall (festival), main program of the festival Artisterium’4, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia / curator: Magda Guruli +catalog
Revolution Art: Justs So Stories, Europe House Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia +catalog
She Cannot Say Heaven (Ў Gallery booth), Artvilnius’11 (art fair), Lithuanian Art Gallerist Association, Vilnius, Lithuania +catalog
She Cannot Say Heaven, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2010
Visual Arts. New Practices, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Martin Schibli
Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania / curator: Kestutis Kuizinas +catalog
Litera. Visual Study of Poerty, Goethe-Institut, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Irina Gerasimovich
Oil Painting, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Alexey Lunev
2009
The Crowd Philosophy. Belarusian Neo-Pop Art, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Sergey Shabohin +catalog
Red Corner (Ў Gallery booth), Artvilnius’09 (art fair), Lithuanian Art Gallerist Association, Vilnius, Lithuania +catalog
Reflexionen, Raskolnikow Gallery, Dresden, Germany / curator: Irina Gerasimovich
Ctrl+Art, Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2008
Begehungen (festival), Hemnitz, Germany +catalog
T.K. & A.S. vol.1, Underground Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Zoya Lucevich
T.K. & A.S. vol.2, ZOYA Gallery, Warsaw, Poland / curator: Zoya Lucevich
Wheel, Beauty School, Minsk, Belarus
Photographic, Victory Theater, Minsk, Belarus
New Time, Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2007
2 International Book Exhibition (festival), Belexpo, Minsk, Belarus
School’07, Gallery of the Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
Curatorial projects:
2018
Life Goes On, personal exhibition of Agata Awruk, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Bialystok, Poland
Rе-View, personal exhibition of Lucjusz Sawicki, Matter of Time space, Bialystok, Poland / co-curator: Pavel Preobrazhensky
2017
The Wind Tangled Her White Hair. Belarus Story, personal exhibition of Agata Awruk, 81º Gallery, Warsaw, Poland / co-curator: Magdalena Pietruk
2015
Diploma, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / co-curators: Aleksej Borisenok, Anton Barysenka, Tania Setsko
Social Grid, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / co-curator: Ilona Dergach
2013
Hole Mole #2, Warsztaty Kultury, Lublin, Poland / co-curators: Anna Chistoserdova, Valentina Kiselyova
2012
Metabolism of Painting Space, personal exhibition of Sergey Kiriuschenko, Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus +pdf-catalog
Sergey Kiriuschenko: Works 1970 – 2012, retrospectiv exhibition of Sergey Kiriuschenko, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus +pdf-catalog
High Time to Get Down to Down to Earth Art, personal exhibition of Sergey Kiriuschenko, Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus +pdf-catalog
Inciting Force, personal exhibition of Zhanna Gladko, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Banners and Diaries, parallel program of the festival Artisterium’5, Literary Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia / co-curator: Monika Szewczyk +catalog
The Immediate, personal exhibition of Roman Aksenov, Competition for young artists Smart Art, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Hole Mole, Aula Gallery, Poznan, Poland / co-curators: Anna Chistoserdova, Valentina Kiselyova
Balance. Given the circumstances, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / co-curators: Anna Chistoserdova, Valentina Kiselyova, Natalia Zemchenok
2011
She Cannot Say Heaven, Artvilnius’11 festival, Vilnius, Lithuania / co-curators: Valentina Kiselyova,, Alexey Lunev +catalog
Smart Art Competition for Young Artists, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2010
Ambivalent, personal exhibition of Zhanna Gladko, in the program stART, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Chrysalis, personal exhibition of Nadzezhda Makeeva, in the program stART, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2009
The Crowd Philosophy. Belarusian Neo-Pop Art, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus +catalog
Project #1, Yozm-Yozm, in the program stART, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Bibliography
2017
Catalog of the group exhibition White-Red-White. Contemporary Belarusian Art; CSW Toruń, Poland
Booklet of the project PUST*; Berthold Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016
Catalog of the solo exhibition Practice of Subordination; Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland / ISBN 978-83-89778-39-0
Booklet of the project PUST*; Kubus space, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Catalog of the art fair Artvilnius’16; Lithuanian art gallerist Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014
2013
CD about the young front Belarusian contemporary art Suchart; 34Mag.net and ArtAktivist.org, Minsk, Belarus
Catalog of the art fair Supermarket 2013; Stockholm, Sweden
2012
Catalog Europe n, info about of the group exhibition West of East; Germany
Catalog of the festival inSpiracje; Szczecin, Poland
Newspaper of the group exhibition Sound Of Silence: Art Against Dictatorship; EFA Project Space, New York, USA
Book of the exhibition The Radius оf Zero. The Ontology оf Art-Zero; Minsk, Belarus
2011
Catalog of the group exhibition The Journey to the East; Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
Catalog of the group exhibition Revolution Art: Justs So Stories; Europe House Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Newspaper of the group exhibition Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2010
Book of the group exhibition Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Catalog of the group exhibition Vis-a-Vis. Actual Dialoges; Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2009
Pdf-catalog of the group exhibition The Crowd Philosophy. Belarusian Neo-Pop Art; Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Catalog of the art fair Artvilnius’09; Vilnius, Lithuania; Lithuanian art gallerist Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
Selected articles
Articles in English:
Lena Prents: Sergey Shabohin: Archive-Museum-Laboratory; text for the catalog for the personal exhibition, Poland, 2016
#Sex #Gender #Art: «My Right for Porno»; pARTisan magazine, Belarus, 2014
Olga Shparaga: Sound of Silence: New Art Strategies and Tactics of Belarusian Artists; Moscow Art Magazine, Russia, 2012
Sergey Shabohin: Regeneration in Partisan Conditions; Moscow Art Magazine, Russia, 2011
#Sex #Gender #Art: «My Right for Porno»; pARTisan magazine, Belarus, 2014
Olga Shparaga: Sound of Silence: New Art Strategies and Tactics of Belarusian Artists; Moscow Art Magazine, Russia, 2012
Sergey Shabohin: Regeneration in Partisan Conditions; Moscow Art Magazine, Russia, 2011
Articles in Russian:
Никита Кадан и Сергей Шабохин: Поворот к памяти;
диалог для портала Prostory, Украина, 2017
Лена Пренц: Сергей Шабохин: архив-музей-лаборатория; текст к каталогу персональной выставки, Польша, 2016
Вадим Добровольский: Авторитарная власть и современное искусство: белорусский вариант; Художественный журнал, Россия, 2013
Ольга Шпарага: Звуки молчания: белорусские художники в поисках новых арт-стратегий и тактик; Художественный журнал, Россия, 2012
Сергей Шабохин: Регенерация в партизанских условиях; Художественный журнал, Россия, 2011
Лена Пренц: Сергей Шабохин: архив-музей-лаборатория; текст к каталогу персональной выставки, Польша, 2016
Вадим Добровольский: Авторитарная власть и современное искусство: белорусский вариант; Художественный журнал, Россия, 2013
Ольга Шпарага: Звуки молчания: белорусские художники в поисках новых арт-стратегий и тактик; Художественный журнал, Россия, 2012
Сергей Шабохин: Регенерация в партизанских условиях; Художественный журнал, Россия, 2011
Articles in Polish: