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Belarus as a Global Case

PerspAKTIV Final Art + Alumni + Networking-Event: "Belarus as a Global Case: Art and Activism in Conditions of Risk"



The PerspAKTIV event aims to showcase Belarusian contemporary art and to highlight the current Belarusian context as an example of the complex realities faced by cultural workers under political repression and forced migration.

The event will not only discuss and reveal the challenges Belarusian artists face in conditions of political and social exile, but also explore the opportunities for artistic development and international integration, showing the positive perspective of art as a tool of adaptation and self-expression in new circumstances.

The program includes an exhibition of Belarusian contemporary art, concerts, performances, discussions, and workshops.

The event is the Final Art + Alumni + Networking Event of the residency project PerspAKTIV, implemented by RAZAM, Ambasada Kultury and Galeria Miejska Arsenał and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. PerspAKTIV has been launched in 2022 and has grown to a network of 33 cultural institutions in Germany and Poland supporting repressed Belarusian artists and cultural workers.

PerspAKTIV invites all those interested in the topic of ‘artists at risk’ to come and engage in a dialogue, profit from the network's expertise, hear our alumni, and - most important - immerse themselves in the diverse manifestations of Belarusian contemporary art presented during the event.

Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin

11:00  — Opening & PerspAKTIV in words, numbers and moving images
12:00 — Panel discussion - Residencies as a remedy for artists-at-risk?

Elsenstr. 87, 12435 Berlin

17:00 — Opening of collective exhibition “КРОПКА СХОДУ / VANISHING POINT” with participation of PerspAKTIV Alumni
18:00 — Curatorial tour
19:00 — “Rimma and me" dance project

Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin

17:00 — Performance

19:00 — Concert of “WTBSK”

A project by singer-poet Sveta Ben and electronic musician Sergey Novitsky, blending experimental electronics, trip-hop, psychedelics, noise guitars, trance and techno with piercing, visceral lyrics. 20:00 — Madmapper
(live techno, hypnotic)

Participants: Aliaksandr Belsky, Rasalina Busel, Aliaksandr Kot-Zaitsau, Volha Savich, Varvara Sudnik (anonymously), Sasha Velichko
Curators: Volha Arkhipova, Ewelina Muraszkiewicz

Elsenstr. 87, 12435 Berlin

Wednesday-Friday 16-18, Saturday-Sunday 16-20

Elsenstr. 87, 12435 Berlin

(this workshop will be held in German and Russian languages)

(this workshop will be held in English)

(English)

Collective exhibition Vanishing Point

April 11-April 25, 2025

︎  Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile

Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin

Wednesday-Friday 16-18, Saturday-Sunday 16-20

︎ Vernissage: April 11, 5 pm

Participants: Aliaksandr Belsky, Rasalina Busel, Aliaksandr Kot-Zaitsau, Volha Savich, Varvara Sudnik (anonymously), Sasha Velichko
Curators: Volha Arkhipova, Ewelina Muraszkiewicz



Exhibition curator Volha Arkhipova:

The presented exhibition is a part of the current movement happening with Belarusian art abroad. Artists from Belarus have received the opportunity to express themselves within the framework of the international creative process. Individual experience, shaped under difficult social and public conditions, through various forms of creativity - from classical and traditional to conceptual and innovative - narrates and presents, in a unique own way, the topics that are understandable to everyone.

These are the topics of understanding, protest, borders, war, prison, and home, and at the same time, the conditionality of these topics, an example of how stable concepts change their essence and transform into their opposites. Art not only makes us think about it but also finds ways of salvation, showing the viewer how it is possible to find these landmarks in the face of lost meanings.

And here the exhibition name "Vanishing point" is coming from - a search for a place where different directions and outcomes converge, a place of exploration. What efforts do artists apply and what images do they find in this environment? Reflections on self-identification and content create more questions than answers, because it is always a living process, a process of solidarity and resilience.

Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin

(this workshop will be held in German and Russian languages)

(this workshop will be held in English)

(English)

Join us at the Duża Scena UAP Gallery on Wodna Street 24 in Poznań for an extraordinary art exhibition, curated by our artist in residence Volha Arkhipava.

We are happy to announce the continuation of our residency and cultural exchange project PerspAKTIV for another two years!

«Х Letters» — the project of our artists in residency at Musik der Jahrhunderte (Stuttgart) will be shown as part of the festival "Die Grenzen" in Berlin.

The performance is based on the Scottish poet Robert Stevenson's ballad "Heather Honey" (1880), which tells about the struggle of the Pictish tribe against the Scottish invaders. The topic of fighting for one's freedom and independence is relevant today in the context of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the oppression of Belarusians by Lukashenka's regime.