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PROBLEM COLLECTIVE

Artistic and research group formed in Minsk in 2016 by Aleksei Borisionok, Uladzimir Hramovich, Olia Sosnovskaya and A.Z.H. Started as a reading group, Problem Collective hosts collective reading sessions, as well as produces art works and research with a focus on the (post)socialist and modern history of Belarus.

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PROBLEM COLLECTIVE

Artistic and research group formed in Minsk in 2016 by Aleksei Borisionok, Uladzimir Hramovich, Olia Sosnovskaya and A.Z.H. Started as a reading group, Problem Collective hosts collective reading sessions, as well as produces art works and research with a focus on the (post)socialist and modern history of Belarus.

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Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2023

The work focuses on the legacies of Ihnat Abziralovich, Belarusian philosopher and cooperative movement activist, who in the beginning of the twentieth century wrote an essay on creativity, cooperative movements, east-west relations and the in-between position of Belarus, opposing both

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27/11 2023-
29/1 2024

Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2023

Salzburg,
Austria

In the meantime, midday comes around

How did it come about that we don’t work to live but rather live to work, and that we can scarcely imagine other forms of living? Taking inspiration from the famous Marienthal Study, In the meantime, midday comes around revolves around questions like these.

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10/11 2022-1/5 2023

Kunsthalle
Wien
Karlsplatz

Vienna,
Austria

Deschool!

Conflicts at art schools in Central and Eastern Europe result, on the one hand, from their inherited feudal and patriarchal structures and, on the other hand, from the post-transformation offensive of neoliberal practices.

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8/07 - 18/08 2022

Arsenal Gallery

Bialystok,
Poland

Information Stands

Thinking about the representation of strikes in the historical perspective, Problem Collective juxtaposes it with the contemporary strikes in Belarus. In 2020-21 many factories, universities, cultural institutions, and companies have been striking against police and state violence.

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15/11 -
24/11 2021

A Promise of Kneropy

Bratislava, Slovakia

Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance.

“Every day” is the slogan protesters in Belarus shout to emphasize the duration and rhythm of the resistance, to express confidence that the protests will continue tomorrow, that they will not end.

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25/03 - 06/06 2021

Mystetskyi Arsenal

Kyiv, Ukraine

A Careful Strike*

Mint presents A Careful Strike*; a group show that departs from the monumental painting The History of the Workers Movement by the sheet metal worker, musician and artist Ruben Nilson (1893–1971), permanently installed at ABF Stockholm. Painted during a ten year period around 1940.

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3 /12 2020 – 21/2 2021

Mint

Stockholm,
Sweden

WORK HARD! PLAY HARD!

This year WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! invites you to join a week of events from 25 June to 1 July where we will navigate along the axes of several “parameters”, physical and conceptual spaces, the logics of temporality and themes.

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7/25 — 7/1 2018

Minsk, Belarus

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