Public art is called art produced in a public space, focused on an unprepared public and meeting the characteristics of the site. Public or public places have become a field for communication between the artist and the viewer, a place for the exchange of opinions and statements. The development of this style allowed art to go beyond the walls of galleries and museums. An important goal of public art is to invest and convey your ideas to the mass unprepared public, not included in the socio-cultural life, to involve it in a dialogue and make it take a different look at everyday codes.

The form of implementation of public art projects can be any: objects, drawings, light compositions, the use of natural elements, dances, sculptures, installations, performances, theaters, poetry, graffiti, posters and more. It can also be used as a political tool and as a reflection of civil protest.

At the beginning of its development, Belarusian public art was a means of implementing non-critical statements, this was due to the political situation. In general, public practices began to be engaged in unofficial organizations formed around the leaders of the artistic environment (Igor Kashkurevich, Lyudmila Rusova and the Pluralis group, Artur Klinov and the BLO group).

The project of Mikhail Gulin "Mink" (2011) became an intervention in the everyday life of the city. The object, half intervention, half installation, resembling a mink, was moved around the city by the artist. The reaction of the townspeople was unemotional, complex, some agreed to Mikhail's proposal to hide in the object. But one woman used the "mink" as a podium, telling the artist a personal traumatic story.

In 2012, as part of the Art City project, Ales Kudryashov’s installation “Corridor of Eternity” was presented on a street in Minsk.

13th Festival of art in the public space of Open City. War Art, organized by the Crossroads Center for Intercultural Creative Initiatives, was dedicated to Belarusian art. The curator of the public art festival was Andrei Dureiko, the exhibition touched upon the situation in Belarus, the connection of art with political and public life. Works by Belarusian authors that were exhibited in the center of the city of Lublin (Poland): Yonash - Mikhail Gulin, Social marble: Kolpak - Sergey Shabokhin, I want a president - Marina Naprushkina, How long can you look at 250,000 square cells that change their color? - Maxim Tyminko, Corner - Sergey Kiryushchenko, Negotiation table - Antonina Slobodchikova, Minute of shouting for Belarus - Yana Shostak, Train - group Hutkasmachna.