Public non-profit initiative. The main idea of the NOVA gallery is to promote the development of unbiased author's photography in Belarus, which is aware of its documentary nature and speaks to the viewer in a modern visual language.

The gallery showed the first solo exhibitions of beginner photographers, works of recognized authors, as well as old Belarusian photography. NOVA actively cooperated with foreign representative offices accredited in the Republic of Belarus, thanks to which it exhibited exhibitions of German, Polish, French, American, Swedish, Belgian, Czech photography. Occasionally one could see graphics, painting, installations in NOVA.

From May 2011 "NOVA"

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Selected dates:

1996

The NOVA Visual Arts Gallery was founded on the basis of the Central Public Library. Yanka Kupala in Minsk as a public initiative.

1996-2009

The gallery existed on the basis of the library .

December 2009 – May 2011

The gallery existed only on the Internet , searching both for its new format and for a new exhibition space.

2011

NOVA Gallery resumed its activities in partnership with the Minsk Center for Photography, announcing a change in the format of the gallery’s activities ( “according to version 2.0, the NOVA Gallery will be not only an exhibition platform for demonstrating works of photographic art, but also a space for discussion and educational work” ). In practice, this means that access to the gallery to view the exposition is open only on Saturdays. On Saturdays, films about photography and meetings with photographers are also periodically organized.

2013

The work of the gallery and its satellite projects has been stopped.

Since 2013

The project exists as an online community.