Born in 1989, Belarus
Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Contact: u.hramovich@gmail.com
Graduated from the Gymnasium-College of Arts named I. O. Akhremchik in Minsk, Belarus (2009) and the graphics arts department of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk, Belarus (2015). Member of the Problem Collective since 2016. Works with installations, graphics and video.
I see materials such as concrete, granite, metal, paper and paint not just as surfaces that history leaves its imprint on but as agents that themselves deform history. In my artistic practice, I draws on the history of modernist art and architecture, the history of ideology and political movements, and the transformation of the urban space in Minsk (Belarus). I interested in the tension between the past and the present and studies monuments and rituals of memory that are overloaded with ideological meanings and embodied in material objects.
Personal exhibitions:
2021.
Let's drink for those Who failed! Brno House of Arts, Brno, Chech2019.
Holding a Hedgehog with your bare Hands. Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria2018.
When the rocks are uphill, the cannonballs are off the road. Gallery of Contemporary Art Ў. Minsk, Belarus.Curated by Aleksei Borisionok
2017.
Resistance of the material. Brzuch Centrum Trawienia Wizji, Wroclaw, Poland.Curated by Magdalena Skowrońska
Curatorial project:
2024.
Sometimes I hold onto the air. Galerie im Körnerpark. Berlin, Germany.Co-curator with Katharina von Hagenow and Paulina Olszewska
2019.
Keep to the white-black line. Gennady Grak. Gallery of Contemporary Art Ў, Minsk, BelarusSelected exhibitions and events:
2023.
L'horloge à répétition (The repeating clock). The Left Place, The Right Place. Reims, France.Curator: Patricia Couvet.
Ersatz. The SURVIVAL Art Review21. Wroclaw, Poland.
Сurators: Michał Bieniek, Anna Kołodziejczyk, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, Ewa Pluta, Daniel Brożek.
If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible. Infrastructures and Solidarities beyond the post-Soviet Condition. National Gallery of Art. Vilnius, Lituania.
Curators: Aleksei Borisionok, Antonina Stebur.
ПРАЗ ПРАВА/BY LAW. Collaboration with Lesia Pcholka. The Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Gdynia, Poland.
Curator: Maksymilian Bochenek.
𝖭̶𝗂̶𝖼̶𝗁̶𝗍̶ Unser Krieg Videokunst in Solidarität mit der Ukraine. Platform Antiwarcoalition.art WELTKUNSTZIMMER, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022.
In the meantime, midday comes around, Kunsthalle Wien. Vienna, Austria. (Problem Collective). Curator: What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović)
MANIFESTA 14. Prishtina, Kosovo
GASTMODERNE, Das Rechenzentrum, Potsdam, Germany.
Curator: Oxana Gurinovich
Yiddishland Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Curators: Maris Veits, Yevgeiy Fiks
Odszkolnić! Gallery Arsenał, Białystok, Poland. (Problem Collective).
Curator: Katarzyna Różniak-Szabelska
АЗБУКА STRIKE! Pickle Bar, Berlin, Germany.
Curator: Patricia Couvet
VERSSchmuggel Belarus – Deutschland. Galerie Intershop. Leipzig, Germany.
Curator: Louise Walleneit.
When Red and White ain’t so Black and White. Sentiment, Zürich, Switzerland.
Curators: Slavs and Tatars
2021.
Information Boards. A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava, Slovakia (Problem Collective)UNLEARNING. Domie, Poznań, Poland.
Curators: Aleksei Borisionok, Raman Tratsiuk, Vera Zalutskaya
A Careful Strike*. ABF, Stockholm, Sweden (Problem Collective).
Curator: Michele Masucci
SPRACTICING REVOLUTION: Short Film Programme. Sinima Transtopia, Berlin, Germany
CROP. Collaboration with artist Gleb Amankulov. WAF gallery. Vienna, Austria
Screams of the Silenced. The Grey Space in the Middle. Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Cykl ADAPTACJE. MOS. Municipal Art Center. Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland.
Curators: Marta Gendera, Gustaw Nawrocki and Bartosz Nowak
Poetic Dissident. IoDeposito B#S Gallery. Treviso, Italy
Secret Museum of Workers Movement. Host. Vienna, Austria.
Curator: Aleksei Borisionok
Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance. Mysteckiy Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine.
Curators: Aleksei Borisionok, Andrei Dureika, Marina Naprushkina, Sergey Shabohin, Antonina Stebur and Maxim Tyminko
Ommach to Zahar Kudin. Zala 2, Minsk, Belarus
2020.
Echoes. Voices from Belarus. Festival ECLAT, Stuttgart, Germany.Curator: Christine Fischer
Faceless. KX Space. Brest, Belarus.
Curator: Lizaveta Mikhalchuk
Das Minsk. Gallery of Contemporary Art Ў, Minsk, Belarus.
Curators: Oxana Gurinovich, Uladzimir Hramovich
B.A.R. (Belarus. Art. Revolution). Berlin, Germany
Curator: Sergey Shabohin
Know Thy Neighbor. Oxygen. Tbilisi, Georgia.
Curator: Irena Popiashvili
2019.
Urban Festival Vulica Brazil. Minsk, BelarusCurator: Mila Kotka
Pose, Subordination, Festivities and Hedgehogs. Apart Raum, Berlin, Germany.
Curators: Slavs and Tatars
2018.
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! Minsk, BelarusWITH NO EXCEPTION! In process. Gallery of Contemporary Art Ў, Minsk, Belarus.
Curators: Anna Karpenko, Valentina Kiselyova, Lena Prents, Sophia Sadovskaya, Anna Chistoserdova, Mikhail Gulin and Eltaj Zeynalov
2017.
5 Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odessa, UkraineCurator: Mikhail Rashkovetsky
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! Minsk, Belarus
2016.
Talks about politics. Critical Art of Belarus of the 10th. DK Do it yourself, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Aliaxey TalstouFair of Contemporary Art Art-Vilnius '16. LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
Curators: Anna Chistoserdova, Valentina Kiselyova
2015.
5 Land Art Festiwal Podlaski Przelom Bugu. PolandDiploma. Gallery of Contemporary art Ў. Minsk, Belarus.
Curators: Aleksej Borisenok, Anton Barysenka, Tania Setsko, Sergey Shabohin
2014.
Replika. Gallery of Contemporary art Ў. Minsk, Belarus.Curator: Natalia Harachaja
2013.
Soram. Gallery Tseh, Minsk, BelarusStructuring: fragments. Gallery of Contemporary art Ў. Minsk, Belarus.
Curator: Natalia Harachaja
Awards and
nomination:
2023.
Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2023, with Problem CollectiveResidens:
2021.
Q21. Vienna, AustriaWAF gallery. Vienna, Austria
Brno Artists in Residence. Brno, Czech Republic
Galeria Arsenal. Bialystok, Poland