This exhibition was organized specifically for the XIX Trialog in Krynki (XIX Trialog "Belarasian outside") and is a segment of Andrei Durejka's long-term research* dedicated to Belarusian art abroad.

In the late 1990s, against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Belarus gaining independence, a unique situation arose for Belarusian culture, when a large number of artists found themselves outside its borders, who, nevertheless, largely determine its current face. The title of the exhibition already expresses the dual nature of this situation: on the one hand, there is an emerging void, an interval of a marked border; on the other, there is a continuing testimony for/about the Belarusian platform.

Our world is being torn apart by a simultaneous globalist and nationalist counter-movement. We strive for freedom of movement, openness of borders, and at the same time advocate for the preservation of state independence and cultural identity. Meanwhile, the emigrant is gradually becoming the most typical inhabitant of the planet. This is not only an escape from political and economic problems, but also an eternal attempt to overcome barriers: geographical, natural, philosophical, aesthetic. Such a tragic situation of a break with the original culture, the desire for the new and the need for self-identification, a return to the origins, is one of the engines of rethinking the artistic language. Actually, first of all, this is an exhibition about the language of current art, with the help of which only the idea of ​​​​an expanded national culture as a universal one is possible; about contemporary art as a territory of freedom, where the main human battles take place, which remove the opposition between “here” and “there”.

The exhibition will feature artists: Alina Blumis, Maksim Vakulchyk, Egor Galuza, Zhanna Grak, Lena Davidovich, Andrei Dureyka, Alexei Kazantsev, Andrei Loginov, Vika Mitrychenko, Marina Naprushkina, Vladimir Paznyak, Anna Sokolova, Lena Sulkovskaya, Maksim Tyminko, Igor Tishyn, Sergei Shabokhin, Yana Shostak, Oleg Yushko, working today in America, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland and Russia. A wide range of media and trends will be presented, from geometric abstraction to political art activism.

Space / Prabel (Bel.) - Spacja (pl.)

Exhibition curator: Andrei Dureika; born in Grodno in 1971 – artist, curator, author of lectures on contemporary Belarusian art. Maintains a monthly chronicle of events of current Belarusian art abroad for the pARTisan almanac. Collects an archive of Belarusian contemporary art. Member of the Revision art group. Since 2014, a member of the expert council of the ZBOR resource. Studied at the Minsk Art School named after A. Glebov, the Belarusian Academy of Arts, graduated from the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. Since 1998, he has lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany