Die Künstler:in war zur Zeit ihrer Residency eine der wenigen in Brest, Belarus lebenden zeitgenössischen Künstler:innen und Kurator:innen.

Die Künstler:in beschreibt ihre Projekte, die sie im Rahmen einer von ihr selbst organisierten eintägigen Studioausstellung im MQ präsentierte, wie folgt:

“I create performances, video art, objects, photography and paintings. In 1998, I with founded Bergamot group. We create performances, videos, photography, and objects, and do curatorial work. In our longest series Organic Life, since 1998, we are interested in the subjects of communication, violence, gender relations, and social roles.

Postcards from the Homeland sind von der staatlichen Post herausgegebene Postkarten, die wichtigen Feiertagen in Belarus gewidmet sind. Auf ihnen stickt die Künstler:in kurze Kommuniqués aus den staatlichen Medien, Interviews mit hohen Beamten, von den Websites des KGB und des Innenministeriums, in denen sie ihre Sicht der Dinge beschreiben, die derzeit in Belarus geschehen. Außerdem hat sie auf diese Postkarten Fragmente von Anweisungen für das Verhalten in Notsituationen und bei Geiselnahmen gestickt.

© Archiv der Künstler:in.

In Kooperation MuseumsQuartier Wien.

Das Projekt wird in Kooperation und mit Unterstützung
des Bundesministeriums für europäische
und internationale Angelegenheiten
(Artists Solidarity Program Europe – ASoP) realisiert.

The artist describes her projects, which she presented as part of a one-day studio exhibition at MQ that she organized herself, as follows:

At the time of her residency in Vienna, the artist was one of the view contemporary artists and curators still living in Brest, Belarus.

“I create performances, video art, objects, photography and paintings. In 1998, I with founded Bergamot group. We create performances, videos, photography, and objects, and do curatorial work. In our longest series Organic Life, since 1998, we are interested in the subjects of communication, violence, gender.

Postcards from the Homeland are postcards issued by the state post, dedicated to important public holidays of Belarus. On them the artist embroider short communiques taken from the state media, interviews of high officials, from the websites of the KGB and the Interior Ministry, in which they describe their vision of what is happening now in Belarus. Also she embroidered on this postcards fragments of instructions for behavior in emergency situations and hostage-taking.

In 2021, the artist started teaching a course “Performative Practices as a Way of Interaction” at the European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus. Now, given the situation in Belarus, this cooperation, hopefully temporarily, has ceased.

Photo © Archive of the artist.

In cooperation with MuseumsQuartier Wien.

This project is a cooperation
with the Austrian Federal Ministry
for European and International Affairs
(Artists Solidarity Program Europe - ASoP).