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18.07.2012 |
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In a series of short interviews Alexander Rodin, famous contemporary artist from Minsk, Belarus, talks about his paintings "Destiny" and "Inspiration". |
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13.06.2012 |
 Solo exposition “Metabolism of Art Space” by Sergey Kiriuschenko was opened on the 7th of June, 2012 at the Palace of Arts in Minsk, Belarus to the raving reviews by the critics and audience. |
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22.02.2012 |
 Solo exhibition "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by Andrei Buryak opened at "Akademiya" art gallery this month in Minsk, Belarus. |
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23.09.2011 |
 Solo exhibition of Ruslan Vashkevich opened in the National Art Museum in Minsk, Belarus and will be on display through October 10, 2011. The project is named "Museum". |
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21.09.2011 |
 The paintings by Maja Poljak, Natalia Biletnikova and Katerina Michnuk are to be a part of an art exhibition “Dialogue with Nature” in Berlin. |
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26.08.2011 |
 Belarusian “Y” gallery from Minsk was awarded Best Foreign Participant at ARTVILNIUS11. The winning project "She cannot say HEAVEN" was created by a group of eleven Belarusian artists. |
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26.08.2011 |
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 Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today is the exposition on show at Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, that presents both artists living and working in Belarus as well as those residing abroad.
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04.03.2011 |
 Natalia Berschin’s solo exhibition "Wasteland" opens on March 12, 2011 at Factory-Art gallery in Berlin. All of the showcased artworks are interlinked by one theme - the disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986. |
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23.02.2011 |
 Sergey Kiryuschenko completed his work on the latest series of artworks "Grids". The artist lets a couple of sneak-peeks from his studio in Minsk, Belarus. |
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25.01.2011 |
 One of Ruslan Vashkevich’s new projects - “Hunting for the Minotaur” was presented during the annual international contemporary art fair “ART-KYIV contemporary” last November. |
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18.12.2010 |
 New project by Ruslan Vashkevich 'Richter Scale' (the artist’s quest for a solid strategy in this shaky world) |
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10.09.2010 |
 A number of Belarusian painters and visual artists examine and interpret contemporary German poetry. The art show opened n Minsk in Goethe-Institut in Belarus on September 8. |
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25.07.2010 |
 Sergey Kiryuschenko, an iconic Belarusian abstractionist has started his new series and already revealed a couple of works last month. |
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02.06.2010 |
 The 10th Belarusian-German art festival Dach 10 opened on May 15, 2010 at Kunsthaus Tacheles (Berlin, Germany). Alexander Rodin and Zmitser Yurkevich are the curators of this event. |
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20.05.2010 |
 The Belarusian Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 was decorated by Igor Rimashevski, a well-known Belarusian artist. |
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05.03.2010 |
 An exhibition of paintings "Free Flight" by Natalya Zaloznaya, a renowned contemporary Belarusian artist who lives and works in Belgium, opened at the Museum of Modern Art in Minsk. This is the artist’s first exhibition at her home country for over 10 years. |
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05.02.2010 |
 A solo exhibition of Anna Silivonchik’s works opens at the Gallery of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. The show is called "In a Mood for Love" and includes oil paintings, mixed media and art objects. The latter are made using various reflecting surfaces. |
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18.01.2010 |
 Belarusian artist Katsiaryna Sumarava is participating in the 4th Biennial International Art Exhibition ‘Women and Art 2010 - A Global Perspective’ at Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. |
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15.01.2010 |
 The exhibition named "Vasily Sumarev. The Master and His Pupils" has opened today in the Belarusian National Art Museum. The works by this renowned Belarusian artist side by side with his contemporary followers' art are on display. |
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05.01.2010 |
 An exhibition of 33 paintings by Yehuda Pen are on display in the National Historic Museum of Belarus in Minsk. They all have come from the repository of Vitebsk Art Museum and haven’t been available for a public view for more than 50 years. |
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23.10.2009 |
 A printed edition of a complete collection of etchings made by Marc Chagall for a famous novel “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol was presented in Minsk and Vitebsk in October. |
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07.10.2009 |
The gallery of contemporary art, named "Y"  , was opened on the 7th of October downtown Minsk. It’s an ambitious project, which fuses together an exhibition space, book store, café and a library for its visitors. |
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26.08.2009 |
 The opening of the International Art Festival “Dach-9” took place at the Palace of Art in Minsk. The organizers, curators and authors of its conception are Belarusian artists Alexander Rodin and Zmitser Yurkevich (Mitrich). The pivotal event of the festival is their art project “Victims of Art”. |
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29.07.2009 |
 The latest conceptual progect of famous Belarusian artist Sergei Kiryuschenko named "It's High Time to Get Down to Down-to-Earth Art" is based on synergy of photography, serigraphy, painting and real-life objects. |
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04.06.2009 |
 “Belarusian Pavilion at 53d Venice Biennale” is a unique art project and exhibition of contemporary Belarusian art opened on June 3 in Minsk. Paintings, photos, sculptures, installations by thirty artists are put together in the exposition. |
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03.05.2009 |
 In honor of Earth Day, the US Embassy in Minsk, Belarus organized a painting and sculpture contest in which more than 80 young Belarusian artists and sculptors took part, submitting over 100 artistic works. |
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12.04.2009 |
 For world-renowned contemporary Belarusian artist Alexander Rodin his life and creative work are indivisible. His paintings can be enjoyed over and over again, and any time you look at then, new submarines, continents or planets pop up...[read new article] |
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09.04.2009 |
The exhibition of artworks by Katsiaryna Sumarava “Subjective Landscape” will be on display at the Museum of contemporary art in Minsk, Belarus from April, 14 through April, 26. |
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20.03.2009 |
A number of artworks from the recently opened in Minsk art exhibition “Grapheme” were banned and were dismounted and replaced with different ones after having been on display for a week. |
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17.03.2009 |
 The art exhibition “Grapheme” is opened at Janka Kupala Museum in Minsk through April 5, 2009. It conceptually unites works of key Belarusian contemporary artists, which in one way or another communicate textual information. |
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10.02.2009 |
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It is hard not to notice the phenomenon of Belarusian straw weaving. There are few places where objects and figures made of straw are created on such a high artistic level. The secret of its success and distinction is in long traditions, extraordinary craftsmanship and even in the fact that Belarusian straw has different qualities due to specific climatic conditions. |
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04.02.2009 |
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Director of the Musee du Louvre Henri Loyrette is planning to visit Belarus this summer. |
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23.12.2008 |
 In November 2008 a solo exhibition of Tatiana Grinevich was held at “Souz Tvorchestvo” art gallery in Moscow. The project is named “Hand Made” since a specific conception embraces all displayed artworks. |
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15.12.2008 |
 Each artwork by Andrei Buryak is like a single piece of theatrical performance. One also might notice aesthetics of European filmmaking, surrealism and conceptualism. Drawing, coloring and unrestricted vision of composition – the core elements of artist’s craftsmanship. |
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08.12.2008 |
 In his new art and photo project "Rhymes" Ruslan Vashkevich continues his dialogue with Art. The artist's own early and recent artworks have become the object of self-investigation and novel, this time photographic reincarnation. |
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04.12.2008 |
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Website visitors of the Saatchi Gallery are invited to vote for their favorite artists from the Top 500 list of artists of the 20th century. Among them seven artists of Belarusian origin - Chaim Soutine, Mark Rothko, Kasimir Malevich,El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz and Léon Bakst. |
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06.11.2008 |
 Ruslan Vashkevich is considered to be a crown jewel of the contemporary Belarusian art scene. He is not afraid of experiments, plays with images and reality without restraint, stimulates imagination, provokes the audience and invites it to discussions. |
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04.11.2008 |
 "Suprematist Composition'' (blue rectangle over purple beam) by Kazimir Malevich was sold for a record $60 million on the 3d of November 2008 at Sotheby's to a lone bidder. |
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02.11.2008 |
 The 3d International Festival of Landscape Art is being held in Minsk, Belarus. This festival is traditionally dedicated to Vital Tsvirka (1913 - 1993), an exceptional Belarusian artist and a master of landscape art. The sceneries of Belarus created by him are distinguished for their unrestricted and powerful plasticity. |
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24.10.2008 |
 The project "K-R-R" by emerging Belarusian artists Antonina Slobodchikova and Mikhail Gulin is performed in genre of "total installation". It touches a burning issue of our time - the problem of total digitalization and virtualization, as well as aggressive intrusion of mass media "culture" to the sphere of interpersonal relationships. |
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23.10.2008 |
 The international art exhibition "Together" was opened on the 22th of October at the Palace of Arts in Minsk. The exhibition features more than 180 works by artists from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Moldova and Romania. |
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22.10.2008 |
Belarusian artist Alexander Rodin is simultaneously a representative of neo-avant-garde and "ole good" painting school - narrative and figurative. But even in comparison with artists of similar background Alexander Rodin's works astonish by the immense volume of the laborious manual process... |
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21.10.2008 |
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 This year two art exhibitions dedicated to 120th anniversary of Belarusian artist Yazep Drazdovich opened up in Minsk. Yazep Drazdovich is one of the founders of Belarusian modern art and one of the initiators of the Cosmos topic in world art. He also was a prominent master of applied arts, a sculptor, a social anthropologist, a folklorist and a writer.
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26.09.2008 |
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The US Embassy in Minsk, Belarus presented the Vitebsk Center of Contemporary Art with a $30,000 grant. It will partly cover the renovation of the building of an art school that fostered the talents of such renowned artists as Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall.
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11.07.2008 |
The fact that you live either in Minsk or Berlin gives you more options to observe the conceptual art of Alexander Rodin, one of the most striking contemporary Belarusian artists . He's chosen German or Belarusian capital as his primary creative labs and display spaces. However, we try to bring the ambience of Alexander Rodin's art exhibitions closer to everyone. Here you can find the photos from his recent art shows. |
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23.05.2008 |
 Alexander Rodin is an icon of contemporary Belarusian art. You can examine his artworks for hours - the entire galaxies of details, images and motifs open up a new and mysterious world. Unfortunately his exhibitions have been held in Belarus very rarely. Here is an interview with Alexander Rodin where he explains why it’s so. |
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06.05.2008 |
 The 1st Minsk International Exhibition of Graphic Art ‘Art-liniya’ (‘Art-line’) was opened in the gallery of the National Library of Belarus. There are over 160 different graphic works of Belarusian, Austrian, Italian, German, Armenian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish and Estonian artists on display. |
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05.05.2008 |
 Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani family is the mystery buyer of Mark Rothko’s White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950, which sold at Sotheby’s New York on 15 May 2007 for $72.8m. |
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30.04.2008 |
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To mark this year's Queen's Birthday Party, the British Embassy in Belarus invites young Belarusians (25 or under) to create a work of art to represent relations between the United Kingdom and Belarus. |
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26.04.2008 |
 Longstanding dispute between the City of Amsterdam and the Heirs of Malevich concerning the Malevich collection that has been in the Stedelijk Museum since 1958 has been finally resolved. |
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02.04.2008 |
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 Among Belarusian emerging artists Anna Silivonchik is a painter of marked individuality. Working in a traditional oil on canvas technique Anna strives for diversity as she experiments with various figurative tools. She makes use of the texture and pattern of the canvas, which she specially selects for every work of art.
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12.03.2008 |
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In this series of articles about the Belarusian history of fine arts we are going to explore the position of Belarusian art on a global cultural level and the connection between Belarusian artists of the present and rich cultural heritage left by their predecessors in the 20th century. |
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10.03.2008 |
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 A book by a French historic Claire Le Foll The Vitebsk School (1897-1923): its birth and Golden age in days of Pen, Chagall and Malevich was presented by the author herself at the XV International Fair Books of Belarus – 2008.
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07.03.2008 |
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 Our online gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and graphics by Katsiaryna Sumarava. She is a prominent charmer of blue color. She’s the one who perfectly succeeded in creating a warm painting in cold colors. Very few artists managed to accomplish that. Her landscapes, still life and nude works are deep and bewitching.
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26.02.2008 |
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A permanent exhibition “Spaces of Chaim Soutine” was opened in a small Belarusian town of Smilavichy (Minsk region). After years of wandering Belarusian-born painter Chaim Soutine is back home - to the place where he was born in 1893 and spent all his childhood and early youth before he left for Paris, France in 1913 |
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24.02.2008 |
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 A book show 'Magic of Black Square' dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Kasimir Malevich is featured through March 25, 2008 at the National Library of Belarus.
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16.02.2008 |
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 An art exhibition "Private Space" is held at the Museum of Nonconformist Art in Saint Petersburg, Russia where the paintings of such Belarusian artists as Alexander Rodin, Andrey Bondarev, Alexey Fyodorov, Zmiter Vishnev, a sculpture by Andrey Vorobyov and an installation by Sergey Zhdanovich are on display.
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09.02.2008 |
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For the first time Belarus takes part in the Unilever International Schools Art Project (UISAP) – a program, which allows aspiring artists to have their work displayed at London's Tate Modern gallery. |
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13.10.2007 |
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Belarus is located in Eastern Europe and is a country rich in cultural traditions. It has absorbed centuries-old Western European tendencies in fine art, though it used to be under suppression of Soviet regimen for seven decades. Here you can find some general geographic facts about Belarus and locate it on the map |
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Simon de Pury selects 
Art Exhibition "New Collection 2011" by