TITLE PAGES
Alexey Lunev
Sergey Shabohin
Alexey Lunev and Sergey Shabohin will present a new joint work entitled TITLE PAGES in which they address Belarusian literature, textbooks, books - dissecting and changing their covers to emancipate the images already so familiar to us.
︎︎︎ Alexey Lunev ︎
Alexey Lunev is an artist, curator, collector. Born in Belarus. Since 2022 lives and works in Poznań.
Works with the themes of individual time, personal images and their fetishization, sexuality. Just as often, private experiences and experiences become inspiration for Alexey Lunev.The artist uses different media: performance and video, ready-made and installation, graphics and painting.
Aleksey Lunev’s graphic work “Nothing Nyama” was transformed into an iconic work of Belarusian culture and became a critical, sometimes caricature, symbol of the situation in the system of Belarusian contemporary art in the 2000s, and the depicted phrase in the Belarusian language “there is nothing” acquired a common noun.
︎︎︎ Sergey Shabohin ︎
︎︎︎ website
Sergey Shabohin is a belarusian artist, independent curator, author of texts about art, archivist and researcher of Belarusian culture. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Kalektar research platform for contemporary Belarusian art, a member of the working group of the OpenMuzej initiative, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Art Aktivist portal about activism and contemporary Belarusian art.
He owns the Gray Mandorla Studio space in Poznan. He has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, programs, and competitions. He is a Belarusian art activist, author of lectures, creator of numerous cultural initiatives, co-founder of cultprotest.me, and initiator of the program aimed at creating a Museum of Contemporary Art in Belarus. The artist is also involved in interdisciplinary practices: directing films and performances, collaborating with musicians and theatergoers.
︎︎︎ Alexey Lunev ︎
Alexey Lunev is an artist, curator, collector. Born in Belarus. Since 2022 lives and works in Poznań.
Works with the themes of individual time, personal images and their fetishization, sexuality. Just as often, private experiences and experiences become inspiration for Alexey Lunev.The artist uses different media: performance and video, ready-made and installation, graphics and painting.
Aleksey Lunev’s graphic work “Nothing Nyama” was transformed into an iconic work of Belarusian culture and became a critical, sometimes caricature, symbol of the situation in the system of Belarusian contemporary art in the 2000s, and the depicted phrase in the Belarusian language “there is nothing” acquired a common noun.
︎︎︎ Sergey Shabohin ︎
︎︎︎ website
Sergey Shabohin is a belarusian artist, independent curator, author of texts about art, archivist and researcher of Belarusian culture. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Kalektar research platform for contemporary Belarusian art, a member of the working group of the OpenMuzej initiative, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Art Aktivist portal about activism and contemporary Belarusian art.
He owns the Gray Mandorla Studio space in Poznan. He has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, programs, and competitions. He is a Belarusian art activist, author of lectures, creator of numerous cultural initiatives, co-founder of cultprotest.me, and initiator of the program aimed at creating a Museum of Contemporary Art in Belarus. The artist is also involved in interdisciplinary practices: directing films and performances, collaborating with musicians and theatergoers.
