Selected dates:

2000

Foundation of the gallery at the Goethe Institute in Minsk.

February 2008

The M-Gallery was closed without explanation by the then director of the Goethe Institute in Minsk. An archive of some of the exhibitions that took place in the gallery can be found on the website of the Goethe Institute in Minsk.

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• Ekaterina Kenigsberg about the gallery:

• "The gallery was a narrow space of an L-shaped corridor, and the works could be exhibited only on the right side in the direction of travel, since the left side was entirely glass, overlooking the courtyard of the Writer's House. A small room, which could accommodate about 20 works on average, turned out to be very demanded. And then, and now in Minsk there is a shortage of "small-sized" exhibition spaces where one could show a small series of works or a project, exhibit for novice artists. At the beginning of its activity, the M-Gallery, in accordance with belonging to the German cultural center, still trying to form exhibitions that had links with Germany.Subsequently, the curator of the gallery managed to convince the then head of the Goethe Institute in Minsk to expand the range of exhibitions, and the gallery showed works of mainly young Belarusian artists, most often graphic artists and photographers. gal here, one can name personal exhibitions of famous artists Olga Sazykina “Autobiographical Surfaces” (handmade paper, 2000) and “Glass Objects” (2003); Pavel Tatarnikov's "A House Built of Doors" (graphics, 2002), Igor Savchenko's "Cloudless Sky Over All Germany" (photography, 2001), Minsk underground legend Viktor Petrov's "Green Wall of an Old House" (graphics, 2001) and "Painting and objects” (2003–2004), Mikhail Borozna’s photo projects “Preview” (2001), “Waiting Room” (2004), “Triangle Movement” (2006), “Graphics” by Valery Slauk (2005), exhibition of paintings by Vladimir Zinkevich “Tea at sea” (2008), etc. Particular attention was paid to young artists - students and graduates of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Suffice it to mention Denis Sinyugin's exhibitions “Theme: Germany. Location: Bremen (photography, 2000) and Little Differences (assemblage, 2001–2002), Yuri Alisevich Colored Riddles (graphics, 2002) and First Anniversary (graphics and woodwork, 2005), Andrey Basalyga "Unsent Letters" (graphics, 2002), Olga Nikishina "Dial" (graphics, 2002), Roman Sustov's exhibition "Sea of Silence" in two parts (graphics, 2002 and 2003), Ekaterina Sumareva "Antik" (painting, 2003), a collective exhibition of students and teachers of the BGAI "New Journey" (2004), a photo exhibition by Vladimir Skomoroshchenko "The Face of a Man" (2005), etc. - © Ekaterina Kenigsberg, " Presentation of Contemporary Art of Belarus: a look through the art galleries of Minsk", Alla prima, 2015