Hang Don't Cut, the exhibition by Slavs and Tatars, consists of two parts - their own new body of work and a group exhibition they have curated, intended to be experienced collectively. Sanft Power (2022), by Slavs and Tatars, a carpet doubling as doorway, serves as a threshold in the gallery space, inviting visitors to enter the second part of the exhibition, featuring a collection of works by Andrey Anro, Dozie Kanu, Mina Masoomi and Lin May Saeed, with whom the artists have collaborated with in the past. The showcased works further develop the concepts of writing, the universe and its complexity through different mediums such as paintings, sculpture, and installation. The works in this group exhibition focus on the aggression of state capture, whether it be towards natural resources or more intangible yet critical concepts such as integrity, souls, or opportunities.

Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

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Hang Don't Cut

current exhibition

SLAVS AND TATARS
FEAT. ANDREY ANRO,
DOZIE KANU, MINA MASOUMI,
LIN MAY SAEED

28.04.2023–29.07.2023

Place: Kraupa–Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany

2022 :

From 7 – 10pm, the following artists will be opening their studios to the public:
Heeza Bahc (KR), Sabine Senft (US), Anna Julia Fridbjörnsdottir (IS), Tracey Snelling (US), Yuya Suzuki (JP), Vasilisa Palianina / Andrey Anro (AdK/BY), Aziz Hazara /AG/BE), Manami Uetake (JP)

Open Studios #2

Place:
The Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Kohlfurter Straße 41-43, Berlin, Germany)

30/09/2022

29/04/2022 - 26/02/2023

Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK: Politics in Art


In the past, art served the purpose of bolstering political power –today it is a tool for questioning and holding authority to account.Once, artists used their talent to support the political system of the day. Today, they have become perspicacious and critical observers of the political scene and are active participants in opposition.

Artists: Michał Adamski, Paweł Althamer, Andrey Anro, Alpin Arda Bağcık, Mirosław Bałka, Krzysztof M. Bednarski, Marcin Berdyszak, Jerzy Bereś, Andrij Bojarov, Maciej Cholewa, Hubert Czerepok, Edward Dwurnik, Daniil Galkin, Thomas Galler, Jakob Ganslmeier, Lukáš Houdek, Khaled Jarrar, Hannes Jung, Šejla Kamerić, Allan Kaprow / Dick Higgins, kennardphillipps, Thomas Kilpper, Paweł Kowalewski, Jarosław Kozłowski, Marcin Kruk, Agata Kubis, Michalina Kuczyńska, Tomasz Kulka, Edgar Leciejewski, Alicja Lesiak, Zbigniew Libera, Ella Littwitz, Artem Loskutov, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Rafał Milach, Richard Mosse, Tanja Muravskaja, Joanna Musiał, Deimantas Narkevičius, Csaba Nemes, Laura Pannack, Pyotr Pavlensky, Beata Pofelska, Wojtek Radwański, Tomáš Rafa, Artūras Raila, Oliver Ressler, Adam Rzepecki, Bartek Sadowski, Tomasz Sarnecki, Maxim Sarychau, Santiago Sierra, Slavs and Tatars, Olia Sosnovskaya & a.z.h, Paweł Starzec, Stitchit (Rufina Bazlova & Sofia Tocar) and Collective SUPERFLEX, Paweł Susid, Jason deCaires Taylor, Piotr Uklański, Daniel Warmuziński, Sislej Xhafa, Ada Zielińska, Dawid Zieliński, Artur Żmijewski

Curators: Maria Anna Potocka Agnieszka Sachar Martyna Sobczyk
Co-ordinator: Mirosława Bałazy


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Politics in Art

current

Group exhibition

Place: Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Poland

Venue: Building A, level 0

Idriss Déby
40 x 30 cm
Oil on linen
May 2020

Isaias Afwerki
40 x 30 cm
Oil on linen
March 2020

Muammar Gaddafi
40 x 30 cm
Oil on linen
March 2020

Omar Al-Bashir
40 x 30 cm
Oil on linen
February 2020

Robert Mugabe
40 x 30 cm
Oil on linen
February 2020

Ferdinand Marcos
40 x 30 cm
Oil on linen
February 2020

2021 : Cover for Czech version of Fotograf Magazine # 38 and publication

A third of the population never talks about death with their loved ones. The society of the global North has lost its natural attitude towards death. Through the ideal of infinite growth, consumer life, and the cult of eternal youth, death gradually became taboo. The presence of death has been delayed by society through a healthcare system focused on improving citizens' physical condition, thus effecting the greatest possible delay to dying – not only in practice, but also within the collective consciousness of mainstream society. The importance and depth of the process of departure is reduced. One possible result is the suppression of fears connected to the end of life, which make it impossible to experience life in the present.

For theorists of photography such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, the medium of photography was itself a kind of death or its imprint. As Sontag points out: "Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction, and this link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people." The fragile line between death and life has been the subject of art since antiquity. What are the forms taken by the topic today? It might be difficult to go through all the layers of emotion that surround our cessation, but we will try to imagine the diverse moments of encountering death and the different perspectives one might adopt, with the aim, ideally, of accepting respect and gratitude for life, allowing us to perceive it in the present. The art of accepting death at that moment can become the art of living.


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#38 death, when you think about it

Project:
Happy Death Society

Fotograf Magazine
Size: 29 x 22,5 cm
Pages: 88
2021

2021 :

Вlazar is the official companion of the cosmoscow international contemporary art fair. Unlike many other fairs, the participants in blazar are not only galleries, but also artists at the beginning of their careers, working outside the structures of galleries, as well as creative associations and educational institutions.

Вlazar art fair

Вlazar young art fair

Gallery: Syntax
Place: Museum of Moscow (2 Zubovsky boulevard, Moscow, Russia)

08/09 - 12/09/2021

2019 :

Publication in book EEP Vol 1.
The eep Magazine is the first photography journal dedicated solely to the little known art and photography scenes of Eastern Europe. Its focus lies in uncovering the hidden nuances, dialogues and contrasts in the works of emerging and established Eastern European visual artists and photographers. We explore the absurdity of the Eastern European experience as endured by generations of artists who continuously have reflected on issues related to abrupt societal changes, war, migration and complex family history juxtaposed against the backdrop of mutually exclusive cultural legacies and political systems.

THIS ISSUE

18 Countries
41 Artists
312 Pages

Art Director: Ekaterina Shuvchinskaia
Editors: Krasimira Butseva, Ryan Morris

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EEP Vol. 1

Project:
Happy Death Society

Book
Size: 22,5 x 16,5 x (2) cm
Page: 230-138
2019