Aliaksey Talstou, Interspecies kinship. The server cabinet, the reindeer and the doctor, 2020

acrylic, canvas, 40 x 50 cm

"The work depicts a medical worker, a reindeer and a data rack and suggests the option of non-hierarchical optics on the relationship between humans, other species and artificial intelligence." Aleksey Talstou

BIOGRAM: 10/2021
Individual shows, performances and other practices:
2020 If the Past Doesn't End, performance poetry in urban space (Brest, Belarus)
Soup of Time. Sketches, solo exhibition (KX space gallery, Brest, Belarus)
2019 Inner meditative sitting, collective practice, reading, conversation (context festival,
Bol'shoye Goloustnoye, Russia)
2016 Shards, site-specific installation (Canteen XYZ gallery, Minsk, Belarus)
Khyzhouka local field cross (Khyzhouka region, Minsk, Belarus)
Fortunately! performance (Independence Square, Minsk, Belarus)
It's so beautiful! installation (Ў gallery, Minsk, Belarus)
Lasunak, performative intervention (National Center for Contemporary Art,
Minsk, Belarus)
2013 Self-Control, oil painting, video, installation (Ў gallery, Minsk, Belarus)
2012 Reaction to the Stranger, printmaking (gallery Ў, Minsk, Belarus)
2011 Comic strip, oil painting (BY the Sea House of Culture, Minsk, Belarus)
Group shows and collaborations:
2021 Antikörper. Junge Kunst from Belarus | Antibody. Young Art from Belarus (gallery.)
Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany)
Everyday. Art. Solidarity. Resistance. (Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine)
2020 Frontal Reality (24 x 4 gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Invisible Heritage, an online exhibition organized by the Brest Fortress
Development Foundation.
2019 Coming-out plein air, group practice co-organized with Uliana Bychenkova
and Tanja Efrussi during the week of events Work Hard! Play Hard! (Minsk,
Belarus)
2018 Убежище / Suoja / Shelter-laboratory festival (public underground shelters,
Helsinki, Finland)
2017 You can't be too careful, (Lock In gallery, Brighton, UK)
2016 Fortress Europe. Eastern Bastion (KX gallery, Brest, Belarus)
A conversation about politics (DK Delay Sam/a, Moscow, Russia)
Emotional specific: between monument and ritual (KX gallery, Brest,Belarus)
Boundaries of The Other (CECH, Minsk, Belarus)
2015 Measurements of Emptiness (gallery Ў, Minsk, Belarus)
All That Is Solid Melts into Air (Maxim Bahdanovich literature museum, Minsk,
Belarus)
Social Grid (gallery Ў, Minsk, Belarus/ gallery Meno niša, Vilnius, Lithuania)
2013 Structuring (gallery Ў, Minsk, Belarus).
2011 Dach-XV festival (Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany).
2010 Painting In Oil (gallery Ў, Minsk, Belarus).
Dach-XI festival (Palace Of Arts, Minsk, Belarus)
Dach-X festival (Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany)
Curating:
2018 What unites us? (KX gallery, Brest, Belarus)
2017 One Can Not Be Too Careful (CECH, Minsk/KX gallery, Brest, Belarus)
Blind spot, Maxim Sarychau`s solo show (CECH, Minsk, Belarus)
2016 Fortress Europe. Eastern bastion (KX gallery, Brest, Belarus)
Talking about politics (DK Delaj Sam/a, Moscow, Russia)
Boundaries of The Other (CECH, Minsk, Belarus)
Literature:
2016 Midnight at the Siolim Bridge, novel (Piarshak multy-label/Lohvinau publishing
house, Belarus). Short list of Jerzy Giedroyc literature prize (Belarus).
2014 Vagrants, novel (Piarshak multy-label/Lohvinau publishing house, Belarus).
2012 Passers, novel (Galijafy publishing house, Belarus).
2008 Run, novel (Galijafy publishing house, Belarus)
Publications:
2021 We are alive and vulnerable. Together with Antonina Stebur. (Moscow Art
Magazine, #116, Russia)
2020 Like Water. The Dynamics of Belarusian Protest: from the Existing Technical
Base to Utopian Horizons of the Future. Together with Antonina Stebur. (Onlinepublication at syg.ma)
2019 Co-editor and author of RTV #3 magazine (Poland).
2018 Working with socially engaged art (Hjärnstorm magazine, #132, Sweden)
Fighting for time (Full Bleed magazine, #2, USA)
2017 Politics in the art of Belarus after 2010 (Moscow Art Magazine, 101, Russia)
Other:
2021 Residency at Sasha Waltz and Guests and Strandband Tegelsee (Berlin,
Germany)
Residency in the studios of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow,
Russia)
2020 Residency at the Brest Fortress Development Foundation (Brest, Belarus)
Border Recreation Residency (Zalessie, Belarus)
2019 Residency Context (Bol'shoye Goloustnoye, Russia)
Residency at Q21 (Vienna, Austria)
Residency at Arsenal City Gallery co-organized with Dom Kultury Zamek
(Poznan, Poland)
2018 Internship at Neue Nachbarschaft // Moabit (Berlin, Germany)
2018 - 2020 Project Leader at STATUS. The role of the artist in a changing society - a collaborative
A research project on working conditions, institutions, education, self-organization in the
art sphere and the impact of the art program on the society of Belarus and Sweden.
2017 - 2020 Curator and coordinator of art projects at KX space gallery (Brest,
Belarus)
2017 Residency for curators at Konstepidemin during GIBCA`17 (Götheborg,
Sweden)
Artistic director and curator of the gallery at the cultural and educational center CECH in
Minsk
2016 - 2018 Curator of exhibitions and cultural projects Human Constanta, human rights
advocacy organization.
2016 - 2017 Participation in ArtPlatform, an educational program for cultural managers run by the
European Cultural Foundation and Ў Gallery.
2016 National Council Awards (Belarus) for strong citizenship in the arts