CV

︎General biography ︎Awards ︎Residences ︎Solo exhibitions ︎Group shows ︎Curatorial projects

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

Co-founder and editor in chief of the platform of contemporary Belarusian art KALEKTAR

Since 2016

Lives and works in Poland

Awards

2019

MPM Bureau Award. Nomination: Photography curator of the year for Ana Loktionova
Exhibition Sergey Shabohin: 18 / Practices of Subordination, Canteen XYZ, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Ana Loktionova

2018

Rada Award. Nomination: Best Art Project 2018
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

2009

Winner of the pavilion: The Belarusian Hall 53 Venice Biennale. Nominations: The Jury’s Choice & The Choice of Viewers
Belexpo, Minsk, Belarus

Residences

+ plein air and stipend

September 11 – 22, 2019

Forum Regionum (residence), Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnepr, Ukraine

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

Gaude Polonia (stipend), Warsaw, Poland / curator: Sarmen Beglarian

September 12 – Oktober 9, 2016

ПУСТ*, ZKM (residence), Karlsruhe, Germany

01 – 30 September, 2013

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

Sergey Shabohin and Paweł Matyszewski: Styk (duet), KH Space, Brest, Belarus

Social Marble in the Center of Europe (solo), Wessen Europa? Whose Europe?, CLB Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Greenhouse Conditions (total installation), Congress-Performance of Cultural Workers, Lo-Fi Social Club, Minsk, Belarus

ST()RE #11: Blind Window (total installation), Forum Regionum, Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnepr, Ukraine

Fear of Castration (total installation) for exhibition We Will Not Change Our Show, Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech

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), Akademie der Künste Standort Hanseatenweg, Halle 3, Berlin, Germany +catalog

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

2008

Untitled (solo), Nordens Ljus Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

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

The City of Tomorrow, Art Belarus Gallery, ZAL #2, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Ruben Arevshatyan, Anna Kats, Georg Schöllhammer, Dmitry Zadorin

Whole Poland. The Expedition to the Sources of Art, BWA Wrocław Gallery Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland / curator: Anna Mituś

Forum Regionum (residence), Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnepr, Ukraine

Today We Will Invent the Nations, Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art, Kmytiv, Ukraine / curator: Nikita Kadan

New Works in the Arsenal Gallery Collection II, Arsenal Gallery Power station, Bialystok, Poland / curator: Monika Szewczyk

Congress-Performance of Cultural Workers, Lo-Fi Social Club, Minsk, Belarus

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

QAI/by, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Lena Prents

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

Feminist (Art) Criticism, ZEH space, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Irina Solomatina +catalog

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

Minsk: (Re) construction, Zeh, Minsk, Belarus / curators: Vitali Schucky, Ilona Dergach +catalog

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

West of East, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Lena Prents +catalog

Sound Of Silence: Art Against Dictatorship, EFA Project Space, New York, USA / curator: Olga Kopenkina +newspaper

inSpiracje (festival), Szczecin, Poland +catalog

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, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland / curator: Monika Szewczyk +catalog

The Journey to the East, Polish Institute, Kiev, Ukraine / curator: Monika Szewczyk +catalog

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

Art Boom (festival), Krakow, Poland +catalog

Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania / curator: Kestutis Kuizinas +catalog

Vis-a-Vis. Actual Dialoges, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Valentina Kiseliova +catalog

Litera. Visual Study of Poerty, Goethe-Institut, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Irina Gerasimovich

Oil Painting, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus / curator: Alexey Lunev

2009

The Belarusian Hall 53 Venice Biennale, Belexpo, Minsk, Belarus / winner of the pavilion +catalog

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

2006

Reha Art, Gallery of the University of Culture, Minsk, Belarus +catalog

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

ZBOR. Constructing an Archive, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland / co-curator: Sergey Kiryuschenko

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

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