SHORT BIO:
Vasilisa Palianina (b. 1986, Minsk, Belarus).
Artist lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
She works with the topics of sexual identity, gender, human and animal natures and Belarusian politics through mythology. She works across graphics, installation, and performance, applying experimental techniques.
Since 2019 is member of the art group “Who Except Us” (duet with Andrey Anro).
Since 2023 is member of the art collective “Shklatar” (with Andrey Anro and Aliaxandar Adamau)
SELECTED DATES:
2009 graduated the Faculty NIMST (National Institute of Management for Social Technologies), Arts Department of Belarusian State University on specialty “Design”
2016 Art Hub Residence. Abu Dhabi, UAE. 2017 Resident of “Residence of The Young Writer”, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2019 Resident of Scholarship Program “Gaude Polonia”, Warsaw, Poland. 2020 Resident of art group “Slavs and Tatars. Picklebar”, Berlin, Germany. 2022-2023 Resident of MRI, curated by Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
2024 Resident of MQ, Artist-in-Residence, Vienna, Austria
Vasilisa Palianina (b. 1986, Minsk, Belarus).
Artist lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
She works with the topics of sexual identity, gender, human and animal natures and Belarusian politics through mythology. She works across graphics, installation, and performance, applying experimental techniques.
Since 2019 is member of the art group “Who Except Us” (duet with Andrey Anro).
Since 2023 is member of the art collective “Shklatar” (with Andrey Anro and Aliaxandar Adamau)
SELECTED DATES:
2009 graduated the Faculty NIMST (National Institute of Management for Social Technologies), Arts Department of Belarusian State University on specialty “Design”
2016 Art Hub Residence. Abu Dhabi, UAE. 2017 Resident of “Residence of The Young Writer”, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2019 Resident of Scholarship Program “Gaude Polonia”, Warsaw, Poland. 2020 Resident of art group “Slavs and Tatars. Picklebar”, Berlin, Germany. 2022-2023 Resident of MRI, curated by Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
2024 Resident of MQ, Artist-in-Residence, Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 – “Cross My Heart!” / Syntax Gallery / Moscow, Russia
2015 – “The Water as Itself” / National Center of Contemporary Art/ Minsk, Belarusp
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 “Sometimes I Hold Onto the Air”/ Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
2024 “The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within”/ Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany 2023 “Piasek”/ Shklatar Gallery, Studio Iskra, Warsaw, Poland
2023 “The Long Night of Exile”/ Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2022 “Dialog between Gen erations. Belarusian Female Artists” / KVOST - Kunstverein Ost and EPP Berlin / Berlin, Germany
2022 “When Red And White Ain’t So Black And White” / Sentiment and Slavs and Tatars Picklebar / Zurich, Swit zerland
2021 “CULTPROTEST.ME: Kün stler:innen für Demokratie in Belarus”/ Museum Folkwang / Essen, Germany 2021 “When Forms Become Attitudes” / Fundacja Villa Sokrates / Krynki, Poland
2021 “Expired. Belarus art of resistant” / Ultra Super New / Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Restricted Areas” / KX Gallery / Brest, Belarus 2020 “Faceless” / KX Gallery / Brest, Belarus
2019 “Native Case”/ National Center of Contemporary Art/ Minsk, Belarus
2018 “One Can Not Be Too Careful. Special Feminist Version”/ Lock In Gallery / Brighton, UK
2018 “Here and now”/ Exhibition space “Squat” / Minsk, Belarus
2017 “One Can Not Be Too Careful”/ Exhibition space “ЦЭХ” / Minsk, Belarus 2017 “Fertile soil”, art group “Palianina / Pchelka”, festival “Memory Lands // Inaugurazione & talk d’artista”, B # S Gallery, Treviso, Italy 2017 Performance “The problem that doesn’t exist”, art group “Palianina / Pchelka” / WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! TRANSMISSION / Minsk, Belarus
2016 “To be like “I”/ Gallery Y/ Minsk, Belarus Minsk, Belarus
2013 “Wastepaper” / The Museum of Modern Art/ Minsk, Belarus
2011 “DAH-JAH-11”/ Palace of Art/ Minsk, Belarus
2021 – “Cross My Heart!” / Syntax Gallery / Moscow, Russia
2015 – “The Water as Itself” / National Center of Contemporary Art/ Minsk, Belarusp
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 “Sometimes I Hold Onto the Air”/ Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
2024 “The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within”/ Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany 2023 “Piasek”/ Shklatar Gallery, Studio Iskra, Warsaw, Poland
2023 “The Long Night of Exile”/ Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2022 “Dialog between Gen erations. Belarusian Female Artists” / KVOST - Kunstverein Ost and EPP Berlin / Berlin, Germany
2022 “When Red And White Ain’t So Black And White” / Sentiment and Slavs and Tatars Picklebar / Zurich, Swit zerland
2021 “CULTPROTEST.ME: Kün stler:innen für Demokratie in Belarus”/ Museum Folkwang / Essen, Germany 2021 “When Forms Become Attitudes” / Fundacja Villa Sokrates / Krynki, Poland
2021 “Expired. Belarus art of resistant” / Ultra Super New / Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Restricted Areas” / KX Gallery / Brest, Belarus 2020 “Faceless” / KX Gallery / Brest, Belarus
2019 “Native Case”/ National Center of Contemporary Art/ Minsk, Belarus
2018 “One Can Not Be Too Careful. Special Feminist Version”/ Lock In Gallery / Brighton, UK
2018 “Here and now”/ Exhibition space “Squat” / Minsk, Belarus
2017 “One Can Not Be Too Careful”/ Exhibition space “ЦЭХ” / Minsk, Belarus 2017 “Fertile soil”, art group “Palianina / Pchelka”, festival “Memory Lands // Inaugurazione & talk d’artista”, B # S Gallery, Treviso, Italy 2017 Performance “The problem that doesn’t exist”, art group “Palianina / Pchelka” / WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! TRANSMISSION / Minsk, Belarus
2016 “To be like “I”/ Gallery Y/ Minsk, Belarus Minsk, Belarus
2013 “Wastepaper” / The Museum of Modern Art/ Minsk, Belarus
2011 “DAH-JAH-11”/ Palace of Art/ Minsk, Belarus
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ART FAIRS:
2021 Blazar Young Art Fair / Museum of Moscow / Moscow, Russia
2021 Viennacontemporary / Vienna, Austria
2020 Viennacontemporary / Marx Halle / Vienna, Austria 2020 online auction VLADEY / vladey.net
OPEN STUDIOS:
2022-2023 – Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2022 – Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2021 Blazar Young Art Fair / Museum of Moscow / Moscow, Russia
2021 Viennacontemporary / Vienna, Austria
2020 Viennacontemporary / Marx Halle / Vienna, Austria 2020 online auction VLADEY / vladey.net
OPEN STUDIOS:
2022-2023 – Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2022 – Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany