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2024

Andrei Dureika
Belarusian art: the future, armed with tools from the past
publication
InshyJA (The Others)
"Artists and journalists are so dangerous to the regime because they teach critical thinking." How to talk about important things through art now
publication
"Фатаграфія — гэта лад жыцця". Вытрымкі з інтэрв’ю Уладзіміра Парфянка і фатаграфіі ягонага аўтарства
publication
Sergey Shabohin
Milestones in Pinhole Photography
lecture

2023

Belarusian National Arts Museum
"Butterfly with Flame Wings" phenomenon of creativity of the Belarusian artist Zinaida Astapovich-Bocharova
publication
Reform.by
"Я расказваю і пра тое, што цяпер адбываецца ў калоніях і турмах": мастачка Марына Напрушкіна аб сваёй выставе ў Берліне
publication
Andrei Dureika
Belarusian Art Abroad: April 2023
цикл "Беларусское искусство за рубежом"
Andrei Dureika
Belarusian Art Abroad: March 2023
publication
Andrei Dureika
Belarusian Art Abroad: May 2023
publication
Status, Дита Войт
Mimicry. Almost white, but not white
publication
Chrysalis Mag, Пелагея Кудин
Zakhar Kudin
publication

2022

Reform.by, Светлана Станкевич
"Волонтеры для них в диковинку". Специальный репортаж Reform.by о беларусских "стюардессах" и украинских беженцах на польской границе
publication
Reform.by
"Ёсць тое, што нельга зруйнаваць і немагчыма адсекчы": куратар Аляксей Барысёнак – пра афекты 2020-га, палітычныя архівы і выставы-даследаванні
publication
Белсат
A sculpture exhibition in Hrodna was closed due to the denunciation of a lover of "russian world"
publication
syg.ma, Yuli Ilyushchanka (Karen Karnak)
Art that requires attention (and time), or some comments on the works of Semyon Motolyanets and Alina Khalitova
publication
Reform.by
Institutional breakdown, underground movements and international success: results of a year in art
publication
Chrysalis Mag
Is Art Brut art only for the mentally ill and marginalized? Let's look at the example of A.R.Ch's creativity
publication
FIELD, Olga Kopenkina
No Time for Art? Strategies of Negation in Belarusian Art During the 2020 Anti-Government Uprising
publication
e-flux, Aleksei Borisionok
Queer Temporalities and Protest Infrastructures in Belarus, 2020–22: A Brief Museum Guide
publication
Sasha Razor
The Code of Presence: Belarusian Protest Embroideries and Textile Patterns
publication
Chrysalis Mag
The School of Paris and modernity: how does the past become the present?
publication
Status, Olga Bubich
The story of one yard, or remember everything
publication
Chrysalis Mag, Alexei Kuzmich (junior)
Time to Act: Actionism, Performance, Activism. Part 2 Actionism vs. Performance
publication
Chrysalis Mag
Traditional art of Belarus: how it is preserved and transformed into the present
publication
Walera Martynchik. Catalogue 1
catalog
Walera Martynchik. Catalogue 2
catalog
Walera Martynchik. Catalogue 3
catalog
Walera Martynchik
Walera Martynchik. Reconstruction of events
book
Chrysalis Mag, Alexandr Adamov
Where where? In the open air! "There's Nobody Here" as part of the landscape
publication
Chrysalis Mag
Women of Belarusian art. Our past and present
publication
Уладзімір Зяленскі ў "выжыванцы" з арнаментам ад Руфіны Базловай
photo document

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Aleksei Borisionok

1992
© photo by Kristina Kulakova

Curator, writer and organiser.

He is a member of the artistic-research group Problem Collective and the Work Hard! Play Hard! working group. He writes about art and politics for various magazines, catalogues and online platforms such as e-flux Journal, L’Internationale Online, Partisan, Springerin, Paletten, among many others. He is currently a fellow at Vera List Center, New York, and, together with Katalin Erdődi, he is co-curating the upcoming edition of the Matter of Art Biennale in Prague (2024).

Currently lives and works in Minsk and Vienna.

Groups

Problem Collective
group

Selected events

Matter of Art
2024. large-scale exhibition
[ curator ]
Lossy notes or typically a presentation has many constraints
2024. exhibition
[ curator ]
Imagining OpenMuzej Belarus:  community, contemporary art, engagement 
2023
[ спикер ]
If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible. Infrastructures and Solidarities Beyond the Post-Soviet Condition
2023. group project, overseas event
[ curator ]
A Forest Marathon / pARTisanka-Party
2022. overseas event
[ participant ]
ODKSZTAŁCENIE / ДЭФАРМАЦЫЯ / UNLEARNING
2021. group project, foreign, exhibition
[ curator ]
Neophyte II
2021. solo show, overseas event
[ author of the text ]
Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance
2021. group project, large-scale exhibition, overseas event, international event
[ co-curator ]
A Secret Museum of Workers Movement
2021. group project, overseas event
[ curator ]
Калі камяні знаходзяцца на ўзгорку, гарматныя ядры ляжаць на абочыне
2018. solo show
[ curator ]
Absorption
2017. solo show
[ curator ]
Всё, что твёрдое, растворится в воздухе
2015. group project
[ curator ]
ZBOR. Constructing an Archive
2015. large-scale exhibition, overseas event, research project, archive project
[ expert ]
Minsk. Nonconformism of the 1980s
2015. group project, archive project
[ co-curator ]
Diploma
2015. group project
[ co-curator ]
XXY
2014. group project
[ curator, participant ]
OFFSIDE
2014. group project
[ co-curator ]

Selected artworks

Olia Sosnovskaya
Citing Sources
2021, performance
[ поддержка ]
Gleb Kovalski
Eat For Sentsov
2018, performance
[ participant ]

Associated institutions

Work Hard! Play Hard!
festival headquarters
[ co-founder, со-руководитель, archivist ]
KALEKTAR
research institution, internet resource
[ co-founder ]
ZBOR
internet resource, research institution
[ участник совета ]
Facultative course of Activist Criticism (FAC)
lecture course, internet resource
[ co-founder, editor ]
On the way to the modern Museum
contest
[ winner ]
saliva.live
internet resource
[ contributor ]
Month of Photography in Minsk
festival headquarters
[ editor ]

Articles on KALEKTAR

Aleksei Borisionok
Андрей Ленкевич: проект "Прощай, Родина!", с 2011 года
Aleksei Borisionok, Maria Kotlyachkova, Sergey Shabohin
Why does an artist need an academy diploma?
Aleksei Borisionok, Maria Kotlyachkova
What is institutional criticism and why does an artist need it?
Sergey Shabohin
How to not/collaborate with art institutions in Belarus?
[ editor, консультант ]
KALEKTAR
Exhibition "ZBOR Constructing an Archive" in Bialystok
[ participant, mentioned ]
Aleksei Borisionok, Vera Zalutskaya, Raman Tratsiuk
What needs to be deformed? About (not) knowledge, clearance and refusal
Open Muzej (OM) , Ambasada Kultury, Pilecki Institut
Conference Imagining OpenMuzej Belarus
[ mentioned ]
Sergey Shabohin
Aleksei Borisionok and Antonina Stebur: "If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible. Infrastructures and Solidarities Beyond the Post-Soviet Condition"
[ respondent, mentioned ]
KALEKTAR, Andrei Dureika
Results of 2023
[ mentioned ]
OM Podcast
Episode 2: Museum and (non)format
[ mentioned ]
OM Podcast
Episodes 3 and 4: Museum and Community
[ respondent, mentioned ]
KALEKTAR
Review: Digital art practices in Belarusian art
[ mentioned ]
Lizaveta Stecko
Опыт миграции в беларусском искусстве. Часть 2. Эстетика и практики произведений после 2010, организации, транскультурные практики.
[ mentioned ]

Associated Documents

Andrei Dureika
Belarusian art: the future, armed with tools from the past
publication
Andrei Dureika
Belarusian Art Abroad: March 2023
publication
FIELD, Olga Kopenkina
No Time for Art? Strategies of Negation in Belarusian Art During the 2020 Anti-Government Uprising
publication
e-flux, Aleksei Borisionok
Queer Temporalities and Protest Infrastructures in Belarus, 2020–22: A Brief Museum Guide
publication
Reform.by
"Ёсць тое, што нельга зруйнаваць і немагчыма адсекчы": куратар Аляксей Барысёнак – пра афекты 2020-га, палітычныя архівы і выставы-даследаванні
publication
Aleksei Borisionok, Vera Zalutskaya
Что нужно деформировать? О (не)знании, зазоре и отказе
publication
Afterimage, Olga Kopenkina
Exhibition Review: Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance. Mystetskiy Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine: May 3–June 6, 2021
публикация
BLOK, Anna Karpenko
The Best and Worst of Art in Central Europe in 2019
publication
Художественная практика и социальные изменения. Наблюдения из Беларуси и Швеции
edition
Status, Aleksei Borisionok
Industrial drama: the work and laziness of the artist in Belarus
publication
Status, Дина Жук, Оля Сосновская, Nicolay Spesivtsev
Lazy simulator
publication
Aleksei Borisionok
Алексей Лунёв: графический лист "Нiчога няма", 2009
публикация
Aleksei Borisiono k
Факультатив активистской критики: Интро
lecture
Aleksei Borisiono k
Зачем художнику диплом академии?
lecture
Aleksei Borisiono k
Что такое институциональная критика и зачем она нужна художнику?
лекция
Aleksei Borisiono k
Как не/сотрудничать с художественными институциями в Беларуси?
lecture
ZBOR, Aleksei Borisionok, Olia Sosnovskaya
Andrey Lenkevich: project "Farewell, Motherland!", since 2011
publication
Aleksei Borisionok
Флора и фауна "Документы"
публикация

Selected dates:

March 10, 1992

Born in Minsk, Republic of Belarus.

2015

He defended his master's thesis at the European Humanities University on the topic "Dispositive Belarusian contemporary art in the context of Eastern European artistic practices (1990-2000)".

Since 2014

He is one of the initiators and leaders (together with Maria Kotlyachkova and Sergei Shabohin) of the Faculty of Activism Criticism (FAC) - a course of lectures for students of Belarusian art institutions.

2014

Together with the artists Sergei Kiryushchenko and Sergeн Shabohin, he founded the research platform for contemporary Belarusian art KALEKTAR. The platform was presented on March 30, 2015.

Since 2014

He is a member of the expert council of the ZBOR resource.

2015

Helps organize the exhibition "Minsk. Nonconformism of the 1980s" as one of the curators of the project.

2024

Together with Katalin Erdődi, he is co-curating the upcoming edition of the Matter of Art Biennale in Prague.

Page created 5/6/2015
Last modified 10/25/2023
Editors:
INDEX Mikita Bubashkin Maxim Tyminko