Official. Unofficial. Belarus.

Opens Saturday, May 9

Sergey Grinevich Nicolai Khalezin Chef Rasmus Munk Olga Podgaiskaya Vladimir Tsesler

Belarus Free Theatre presents Official. Unofficial. Belarus. a collateral event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

There has been no official Belarusian participation at the Biennale Arte since 2019 and never has Belarus been represented independently.

So we are coming unofficially.

Curated by Daniella Kaliada with Natalia Kaliada MBE.

The exhibition concieved by the curatorial team places the audience inside the architecture of surveillance, censorship and control.

What happens to culture when it is forced outside the state?

What happens to the body when privacy disappears?

From Chagall and Soutine to samizdat and exile, Belarusian art has always survived in parallel.

This is not representation. This is reclamation. This is artistic authority.