In 2016, four Minsk-based artists: Aleksey Borisenok, Vladimir Gramovich, Olya Sosnovskaya, and Alesya Zhitkevich created the art group "Problemny Kollektiv". Created as a reading group, the Collective organizes shared reading sessions, drawing inspiration from and analyzing the methods of early Soviet working-class reading groups. The group focuses on the history of Belarus and Eastern Europe, including political history and art history, through work with archival materials, practical methods, and images.

The artists' research, in particular, the history of the International Red Aid Pavilion built in Minsk in 1930, created by the Finnish artist, engineer and teacher Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo. The documentation of the pavilion, which houses a diorama depicting the history of political violence, is very scant. During archival research, the participants of the "Problem Collective" discovered a document with a list of more than 150 exhibits presented there: works of art, photographs, objects and furniture. The collective works with this document in several ways during sessions of joint reading and performative reconstructions using their own methods.