Exhibition space created by a team led by Anna Loktionova. The main areas of curatorial work were: queer optics, grassroots initiatives and groups, Soviet utopian bodies.

The site housed: Community Center for helping LGBTQ+ people and their relatives (including a club for parents); some independent cultural initiatives, festivals and parties.

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Selected dates and key events:

2016

The space has been launched in Minsk.

February 24 — March 6, 2016

Group exhibition "More than She" as part of the festival of queer cultures DOTYK-II

October 27 — November 27, 2016

Personal exhibition of the Estonian artist Janus Samma "Three works in the Canteen". Curator: Anna Loktionova.

1 – 25 December 2016

Personal exhibition of Alexei Tolstoy "Shards".

February 20 — March 5, 2017

Group exhibition "We are (not) alone" as part of the festival of queer cultures DOTYK-III.

September 6 — October 6, 2017

Month of Photography in Minsk

October 31, 2017 — November 25, 2018

Personal exhibition of Alexandra Kononchenko "Expedition. Flamenco". Curator: Anna Loktionova.

November 29, 2017 — January 1, 2018

Personal exhibition of Sergei Kiryushchenko "Cultivate new tastes". Curator: Anna Loktionova.

January 20 — February 10, 2018

Group exhibition "Utopia. A place that does not exist". Curator: Anna Loktionova.

April 11 — June 31, 2018

A month and a half of the installation of the exhibition and (from June 1) more than 40 private closed illegal excursions as part of the personal exhibition of Sergei Shabokhin "18 / Subordination Practices". Curator: Anna Loktionova. The exhibition was shown in this format because due to the censorship of the DOTYK festival that took place before the opening of the exhibition, the space was forced to close to the public.

2018

Was forced to close.

2019

A site-archive of the space canteena.xyz was developed.