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On March 31, "Izolyatsia" (Naberezhno-Lugovaya, 8) opens " ZBOR. Belarusian art movement" - the first exhibition of contemporary art of Belarus in Ukraine. At the request of Buro 24/7, the curators of ZBOR are artistsAndrei Dureiko and Maxim Tyminko spoke about the main contemporary Belarusian artists under the age of 35.
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Sergey Shabokhin
Representative younger generation, whose artistic activity marks the strategic transition of the national art scene from “partisan” to “activist” strategies. Shabokhin is engaged in curatorial activities, illegally conducts educational courses for students of the Academy of Arts, is the founder and editor-in-chief of the portal about modern Belarusian art Aktivist, and co-founder and editor of the research platform Kalektar. Lives and works in Minsk.
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Andrey Lenkevich
Representative new wave photographic community in Belarus, who came from photojournalism to the field of contemporary art and multimedia studies. In 2015, Andrei Lenkevich’s project Goodbye, Motherland received the main Art-Belarus prize at the Autumn Salon with Belgazprombank “for a historically responsible approach to the creation of works of contemporary art and for its contribution to the formation of the artistic environment.”
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Marina Naprushkina
Initiator of the educational platform at the intersection of politics, art and feminism “Belarus//The Institute of the Future” in Minsk, as well as the initiative to support refugees “New Neighborhood //Moabit” (Neue Nachbarschaft//Moabit) in Berlin. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Zhanna Gladko
A representative of the younger generation of artists, working using a variety of media with the theme of gender in the context of current feminist theories.
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Yura Shust
In his work he focuses on politically engaged art. In addition, he is the leader of the conceptual audiovisual group IOD.
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Denis Limonov
On December 19, 2010, presidential elections were held in Belarus, which once again Alexander Lukashenko won. In Minsk, a civil protest demonstration was harshly dispersed on Independence Square.
On March 22, 2011, a financial crisis began in Belarus. On April 11, 2011, a homemade bomb exploded at the Oktyabrskaya metro station in Minsk, as a result of which 15 people were killed and 203 were injured.
On April 13, 2011, Lukashenko announced the discovery of the terrorist attack, Dmitry Konovalov and Vlad Kovalev were detained and later sentenced to death. Reacting to what was happening, Denis Limonov sent a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in which he declared the involvement of his art group “Linden Flower” in the terrorist attacks of which Konovalov and Kovalev were accused.
Moreover, he declared that these crimes are a work of art, and dedicated them to the victims of the bloody state machine. At the end of the letter, Limonov openly signed his name. First of all, the artist wanted to stop the imminent enforcement of the punishment by trying to delay the investigation of the terrorist attack. “Denis Limonov’s letter to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus” did not achieve its stated goal, since no official response was received from the prosecutor’s office, and those accused of the crime were executed. The action led to the collapse of the group. Now Limonov lives and works in Moscow.
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Zakhar Kudin
Artist, painter, representative of the radical position in the new abstract painting of Belarus, supporter of the approach of updating “painting as a grandiose concept.” The author of large-scale works executed in a broad expressive manner. Lives and works in Minsk.
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Alesya Zhitkevich
An artist of a new generation, her works explore the relationship between sexuality and politics using a variety of media.
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Semyon Motolyanets
Both in individual and collective creativity he uses the principle of “mutually exclusive paragraphs”, working on the verge of academic traditions and the requirements of contemporary art. Winner of the "Innovation - 2009" award. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Belarus- a country of amazing natural beauty. Picturesque landscapes, clean lakes and rivers, healing springs, endless coniferous forests and birch groves, only occasionally interrupted by lonely fields or a whole string of blue lakes, will certainly captivate and inspire everyone who is lucky enough to visit there at least once. That this region is truly fabulously wonderful is once again convinced by looking at landscape painting Belarusian artist Viktor Yushkevich, lovingly capturing these corners of nature on his canvases.
Works by Viktor Yushkevich are in galleries and private collections in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, China, Canada, Israel and Poland. The artist painted more than 3,000 works.
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My Belarus, White Rus'...
The white morning grew purity.
Wherever I am, I strive for you,
You are mine and I am yours forever.
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They call you blue-eyed
Dear Fatherland and mother.
For someone, you are very distant,
It’s easy for me to hug you like that.
(Vadim Antosh-Kozlov)
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A childhood passion for drawing grew over time into something more, and when his father handed 15-year-old Victor a canvas and professional brushes, the beginner young artist started new stage creative life. Unusually beautiful landscapes native land became the main theme of his works. Victor learned step by step to capture the mysterious the world around us, capture the mood of nature, create the unity of space, air and light. And he did it perfectly.
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For the last two years, 30-year-old Viktor Yushkevich has been exhibiting at art exhibitions in his native Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Denmark, Spain, where his paintings are in great demand and decorate the interiors of apartments of many admirers of his talent.
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Singer Alexander Rybak became the most popular “foreign” Belarusian of the past year. But he is far from the first to glorify his homeland beyond its borders.
IN recent years Many Belarusian media cannot resist the temptation to find out the distant Belarusian ancestors of all kinds of foreign celebrities. Either a grandmother will be found, or a grandfather, of whom the stars themselves do not even suspect. But let's dwell on those of our famous compatriots and more or less contemporaries who at least knew where their homeland was located.
Flight painter
The jealous French, with sullen stubbornness, keep silent about the fact that the famous artist Marc Chagall is a Belarusian Jew; they really want to have him as their undivided property. During a tour of the Grand Opera in Paris, lampshades theater hall which was described by our internationally recognized compatriot, the guide so persistently did not remember Chagall’s Belarusianness that the portal’s observer had to ask a leading question. The guide changed his face and exclaimed expressively: “He left you!” But, no matter how much the French want to appropriate our artist, they cannot escape the fact that the master’s Vitebsk childhood became main theme his creativity throughout his life, not only pictorial, but also literary - the autobiographical book “My Life”. It’s sad, but albums with reproductions of Marc Chagall’s paintings are not published in Belarus, because the French copyright holders are not interested in this. But everyone can visit the Chagall art center in Vitebsk and see the house where he was born and grew up.
Leger's steel muse
Another Belarusian Nadezhda Khodasevich-Léger, a native of the Belarusian village of Zembin, became a famous French artist and muse of the famous painter and sculptor Fernand Léger. This woman had huge amount will and perseverance. Since childhood, she wanted to draw and live in Paris. In the village where she was born, such an idea was perceived solely as a form of madness. Nadya, without her parents' permission, ran away to study painting in Smolensk, from there to Warsaw, where she got married, and together with her husband went to Paris, to the academy of her idol Fernand Léger, who himself invited them. After a quarrel with her husband, who returned to Warsaw, left without money, with a small daughter in her arms, Nadya Khodasevich began working as a servant. But at the same time, with her tiny funds, she published a magazine about painting, where works by Picasso, Le Corbusier, Léger were published...
During World War II, Khodasevich, an active participant in the French Resistance, worked as a teacher at the academy during the day and posted leaflets around the city at night. After the war, she helped Russian emigrants by organizing an auction at which paintings by the same Picasso and Léger were exhibited. After the death of the teacher’s wife, Nadezhda Khodasevich marries him and adds Leger to his surname, and the most famous people Russia and France. After the death of the master, Nadezhda returned to her first husband, and together they opened a museum in memory of the master, which they donated to France. Khodasevich-Léger herself became famous in monumental art; her mosaic portraits of her contemporaries are exhibited in many galleries around the world. Was an active supporter 
development of Franco-Soviet relations, for which she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Order of the Legion of Honor of France.
The Greatest Science Fiction
Writer Isaac Asimov, who, together with Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein, makes up the top three science fiction writers in the world, was born in the village of Petrovichi, Mogilev region, and at birth received the name Isaac Ozimov. His parents, who worked as millers in Belarus, took away the future luminary three years after Isaac’s birth science fiction in the USA, where, maintaining their love for flour, they opened a confectionery store.
Isaac grew up, acquired the profession of a biochemist and became a unique, multifaceted author of science fiction, whose works synthesized all styles and directions of science and literature: detective fiction, humor, astronomy, genetics, chemistry, history. Not to mention the fact that it was Asimov who invented the concepts that only appeared many years later in real life and were named with words that he coined: robots, robotics, positronic, psychohistory.
King of the Air
The super popular American TV presenter Larry King is also a native of Belarus. His mother Jenny was from Minsk, and his father Eddie Zeiger was from Pinsk (one can assume that before emigration their names were Zhenya and Edik). They left for America, where she was born future star screen. Larry King is the recognized king of news journalism and talk shows, which he conducts in a rather tough manner. It was King who asked Vladimir Putin an uncomfortable question: “So what happened to the Kursk submarine?”, to which the then Russian president replied: “It drowned.”
Larry King is the author of a practical guide, How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, designed to help not only journalists, but also ordinary people who often cannot overcome their indecisiveness. 
Radio amateur and television professional
An extremely extraordinary and insightful businessman ahead of his time, David Sarnoff, before leaving for New York, was called David Sarnov and lived in the Belarusian village of Uzlyany.
Already at the age of 15, the enterprising David owned a newsstand, and then his fate developed progressively. At first, Sarnov worked in the company of the famous Italian Marconi, and it was he who, back in 1915, proposed using radio for entertainment and starting the production of household radios. But then this idea, which later brought in billions, seemed so crazy that its implementation was postponed for decades. While working as president of Radiocorporation of America, Sarnov gave the green light and provided conditions for the development of another emigrant, Vladimir Zvorykin, who invented the kinescope and determined the direction of development of the media business for many years.
The Roaring Lion of the Film Industry
The film company's most memorable screensaver - the roaring head of a lion - belongs to the Metro Goldwyn Mayer corporation, which was founded by Lazar Meir, who was born in Minsk. After emigrating, turning into Louis Barth Mayer, he gradually began to realize his American dream by selling scrap metal. But he loved cinema so much that for the sake of it he betrayed non-ferrous metals and bought a crumbling cinema in a provincial town. And a few years later he moved his small company to Los Angeles, where, to consolidate success, he lured the first beauty of those times, actress Anita Stewart, from another studio. And then for many years worked on the lion's share of what would later be called Hollywood. In addition, it was Mayer who founded the American Film Academy and invented what millions of movie lovers wait for every year - the Oscar.
Presidents of Israel
The first President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, was born near Pinsk, in the village of Motol, where he graduated from cheder. Afterwards he entered the Pinsk real school, after which he continued his education in Germany and began his path to the formation of the state of Israel.
Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel, who took this post in 2007, is also a native of our country: he was born in the village of Vishnevo, Volozhin district, Minsk region. His father was a lumber trader, his mother was a Russian language teacher and librarian. The love for the culture of the Jewish people was instilled in the future president by his grandfather, a rabbi. Since childhood, Shimon Peres wrote poetry, and did not abandon his passion for literature when he became a politician. His books were published in Israel and were successful, and one of them was written under a female pseudonym and on behalf of a woman.
Closer to the sky
The famous fighter aircraft designer and inventor Pavel Sukhoi was born in the city of Glubokoye, Vitebsk region. His parents were teachers. Pavel Sukhoi graduated from the Gomel gymnasium, went to study in Moscow and went down in history as the general designer of the bureau named after himself. Under the leadership of Sukhoi, the Su line of combat aircraft was created.
Cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk was born in the village of Komarovka, Brest region. He made three flights into space as the head of the crew, spending a total of more than 2.5 months in Earth orbit. In the cosmonaut’s homeland, which during space exploration turned from Komarovka into Tomashovka, a museum has been opened that contains unique exhibits, many of which were in space with Klimuk.
In addition, you can read about space travel in two books written by Peter Klimuk: “Near the Stars” and “Attack on Zero Gravity.”
Russian businessmen
The main reformer of the Russian energy system, Anatoly Chubais, was born in the city of Borisov in the family of a retired colonel who worked as a philosophy teacher. After many high positions, he became chairman of RAO UES. Chubais's main project - privatization - turned out to be very controversial and was considered a failure. It is not surprising that nothing worked out, but the people were hungry after the communist past and firmly believed in the promises of Chubais, which stated that each voucher would eventually cost as much as two cars.
Entrepreneur Andrei Melnichenko was born and raised in Gomel, where his grandmother still lives, whom he visits on a private plane. Having started his career with currency trading in the 90s, Melnichenko subsequently became a co-founder of MDM Bank, and then its sole shareholder. Now Andrey Melnichenko is the chairman of the board of directors of Eurochem. His personal fortune before the crisis was estimated at $10.3 billion. Andrei Melnichenko is married to model Alexandra Nikolic, who is called the most beautiful Serbian woman on the planet.
Vice-president of the Lukoil concern Sergei Kukura was born in Brest. Very little is known about this businessman, but in 2002 his name made headlines in connection with a high-profile kidnapping: Sergei Kukuru was attacked at a railway crossing by unknown men dressed as police officers and held for two weeks in an abandoned Belarusian village, demanding $3,000,000 and EUR3 for his release. 000 000. Kukura hardly liked this return to his homeland, but then the kidnappers took the businessman to Bryansk, provided him with money and released him, according to Sergei Kukura, for reasons unknown to him.
Nobel laureates
Academician Zhores Alferov, born in Vitebsk and graduated from school in Minsk, received Nobel Prize in physics for the development of semiconductor heterostructures and the creation of fast opto- and microelectronic components. We use Alferov’s inventions every day. Wouldn't exist without them possible work mobile phones and disk drives, Alferov’s laser is even used in store “readers” of product barcodes.
Alferov is not the first Belarusian to receive the Nobel Prize. In 1971, its owner was the economist Simon Kuznets, a native of Pinsk, who coined the terms “gross national product”, “ human capital“, and also invented and proved the “Kuznets law” for the economies of developing countries: in the first 10 years of development, inequality in income distribution will increase sharply, then tendencies to level out will appear. He has done a lot for the modern world economy.
Tatiana Prudinnik
This Belarusian artist called a modern impressionist. His paintings are full of life and emotion. It is impossible to ignore his bright canvases, painted in an unusual technique.
The talented Belarusian artist Leonid Afremov never ceases to amaze users of social networks with his works. His paintings are always emotional, they evoke only positive and joyful emotions, despite the fact that the artist depicts autumn. Afremov does not paint with brushes. He uses a palette knife (a special spatula knife) with which oil paints masterfully applies the necessary strokes.
Many compare Afremov with the great masters of the past. But the artist insists that he has found his own style. His works can be regarded as contemporary art, which is based on the traditions of the past.
The artist himself notes: “The human mind is unique. We tend to cling to the past and be hypercritical of the present. We compare new creations with classic masterpieces and look for the slightest flaws. The grass may have been greener centuries ago, but talented people are still being born today.”
Leonid Afremov prefers to post his works on social media, rather than doing solo exhibitions in galleries. His artistic philosophy is based on the idea that art should not only be accessible to the elite.
Jan Damel Belarusian-Polish Lithuanian artist of the early 19th century. Representative of classicism. He began mastering painting in 1799 at Vilna University with Francis Smuglevich and Jan Rustem. After completing several courses and passing exams, he received a master's degree in liberal arts and later became a gymnasium teacher. In 1809 he became a master of painting and vice professor.
Jan Damel wrote mainly in historical topics: “The Death of the Master of the Crusaders Ulrich von Jungingen in the Battle of Grunwald”, “The Death of Prince Poniatowski”, “Paul I frees Kosciuszko from Captivity”, “The defeated troops of Napoleon in Vilna”, “The crossing of the French across the Berezina”, etc. His works are known on religious themes (“Entombment”, “Christ and the Samaritan Woman”), portraits of Prince D. Radziwill, Counts Joachim Khreptovich, landscapes of Minsk and its environs (“Water Mill”, “Trees under water”), drawings and sketches on everyday topics peoples of Siberia. In addition, Damel, like many artists of that time, paid tribute to landscape drawing. The artist’s work was formed under the influence of classicism, but in a number of his works one can feel the desire for a romantic depiction of reality. Damel's portraits have a subtle psychological characteristic.
Vankovich Valentiy-Wilhelm Belarusian painter, representative of romanticism. Born into a moderately prosperous noble (gentry) family of judge Melchior Vankovich and Scholastica Gorecka, sister of the famous Polish poet Antoni Gorecki. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (since 1824). Creativity is associated with artistic life Belarus and Russia
Creativity Vankovich's first teacher in painting was the future general of the Jesuit Order, Gabriel Gruber, a miniaturist. A native of Vienna, he painted extensively for the Polish king Stanislaus Augustus. Young Vankovich, in his free time from studying, read old books collected in the Jesuit library and copied paintings located in the monastery. By the time he finished sixth grade, he already knew how to paint miniatures and portraits in oil, improving his drawing and color. In St. Petersburg he is gaining increasing recognition. After four years of painstaking study, he returns to Vilnius University with a gold medal. After 1830, painting miniatures ceased to interest the artist; he was now attracted only by historical themes, and only in this direction did he want to work. However, the influence of Andrzej Towianski’s science also reached his estate in Slepyanka. At first, his old enthusiasm was still alive. Vankovich was an ambitious man, but his successes in Vilna and St. Petersburg did not continue. However, the forty-year-old artist’s thirst for new success was awakened again. He left his home and country, and went to Paris, where he again became close to Adam Mickiewicz.
Napoleon Orda Belarusian and Polish writer and composer, musician, artist, sculptor, teacher. Since 1833, while living in Paris, he took drawing lessons in the studio of F. Gerard. I travel around Europe and North Africa, made many sketches of landscapes, mainly urban views. In Belarus he is known for his album of views of the provinces of Grodno, Minsk, Kyiv, etc., the material for which he collected during his travels.
Napoleon Horde and Ukraine 177 works by the artist have survived to this day, depicting architectural landscapes Ukraine. His drawings were used during the preparation of restoration projects for the following objects: Fortress in Kamenets-Podilskyi Podgoretsky Castle
Ostrog Castle And also such architectural monuments as: · St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv, · Church of John the Baptist in Bila Tserkva, · Dubensky Castle, · Letichevsky Castle.
Napoleon Horde and Belarus Among the Belarusian works of the Horde: “Volozhin Palace”, “Geranensky Castle”, “Dyatlovskaya Estate”, “Zakozelskaya Estate”, “Logoisk Park”, “Ruzhansky Palace”, “Skokovsky Palace”, “Minsk. Cathedral Square", "Svisloch", "Grodno", "Osveya", "Krevsky Castle", "Novogrudok" (1850-1870s). Based on his drawings and watercolors in 1873-1883, lithographs (260 graphic sheets in 8 series) were created (artist A. Misurovich) and published in Warsaw. Interesting. Every Belarusian can see the work of Napoleon Horde “Nesvizh Castle of the Radziwills” on the banknote of 100,000 Belarusian rubles. Interesting. Each drawing of the Horde has a small detail - people are depicted casually, as if by accident.
Khrutsky Ivan Fomich Belarusian artist, painter, nobleman of the Leliv coat of arms. Known for his still lifes and group portraits. Born on January 27, 1810 in the family of a Greek Catholic priest, nobleman Tomasz Hrutsky. Average art education Khrutsky received in Polotsk higher school. In 1827 he came to St. Petersburg. Here, until 1829, he took lessons from the English painter J. Doe and at the same time studied in Imperial Academy arts Copied in the Hermitage. In 1830, Khrutsky entered the Academy of Arts. There he studied with such masters as A. G. Varnek, F. A. Bruni.
Creativity Ivan Fomich Khrutsky is known as an artist who worked in line with the Russian academic school. He entered the history of art with his still lifes. The artist's first dated sketches - "Still Life with a Vase" and "Still Life with a Bird" - date back to 1832. The main direction of Khrutsky’s creativity during this period was work on the still life “Still Life with a Vase” (1832) “Still Life with a Bird” (1832)
On September 24, 1839, I. F. Khrutsky “for excellent work in portraiture, landscape, and especially in the painting of fruits and vegetables” was awarded the title of academician of painting. From this time on, Khrutsky stopped painting spectacular still lifes. The painting “An Old Woman Knitting a Stocking” (1838) brings him closer to artists who did not have an academic education, for example, A. G. Venetsianov and especially V. A. Tropipin. In 1838, for this work, as well as for the still life “Flowers and Fruits,” Ivan Khrutsky was awarded the small gold medal “An Old Woman Knitting a Stocking” (1838). Another line of the artist’s creativity at this time was represented by the depiction of interiors - a kind of “in rooms” genre : “In the Room” (1854) and others.
