Performance

Dienstag Abend ⇝ No. 91 Kupalle an der Donau

Hoast
Jun 19 2018
Große Sperlgasse 25
Vienna 1020
18:00
free
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
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Ales Pushkin is a Belarusian artist and performer, whose works respond to current political situation of Belarus - a country that since 1994 remains under Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule. Ales Pushkin was born in 1965 to a family affected by soviet repressions. He got his education at the Belarusian State Fine Art Academy at the Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Painting. In 1993 Pushkin managed to open in Vitebsk one of the first private art galleries in the country, which after three years was closed by the authorities. One of his most well-known performances ‘A gift for the president’ (1999) ended up by two-year suspended sentence determined by Belarusian court and regular control by the police. SInce 1997 Pushkin lives with his family in the small rural hometown Bobr. In spite of its remote location, he continues being active in public sphere. The works of Ales Pushkin were exhibited in art galleries and museums in Belarus, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Norway and USA.

"Pushkin weaves together politics, religion, and everyday events in his art. His world is complex, with many points of entry, with surprises and paradoxes, and it’s not quite possible to describe him in terms of the art world’s usual categories.” (Martin Schibli)

is a Vienna-based collective, that deals with questions of curation and new forms of display, creating collaborative, interdisciplinary and site-specific projects, which are reflections about the very process of intervening in a space. The collective's nomadic projects feed themselves from the specificities of a myriad of spaces and display the roulette of dynamics inherent to working at/with what is public, private, associative, commercial, non-commercial, institutional, hype, forgotten, structured, wild ….
is currently formed by Ana de Almeida, Phelim McConigly, Fernando Mesquita, Sophie Thun and Dorota Walentynowicz.
http://dienstagabend.org

with contributions by
Stafett:
Minda Andren,
Flavio Palasciano,
Jennifer Gelardo,
Alexander Jackson Wyatt

Zosia Holubowska

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