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Belarus Festival

From 22 to 25 March 2024, the Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin was dedicated to Belarusian culture in the diaspora. It became a stage and a lively discussion and thinking space for Belarusian artists and cultural workers who had to leave their home country due to the dramatic situation in the country over the past three years and are now living in exile in Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Vilnius or Tbilisi.

Here you will find picture highlights of the Belarus Festival, at which over 50 theater makers, filmmakers, authors, poets, musicians, philosophers, visual artists and activists from Belarus presented a diverse interdisciplinary programme.

Festival Review Belarus

Festival highlights in pictures

  • Purple-green roll-up with the lettering Goethe-Institut in Exile Belarus with audience in the background © Dzmitry Brushko

    Opening of the festival Goethe-Institut in Exile [Belarus]

  • Shot of an inner courtyard from above with people in conversation © Dzmitry Brushko

    Opening of the festival Goethe-Institut in Exile [Belarus]

  • The curator of the progamme, Vera Dziadok, at the opening on stage with microphone. © Dzmitry Brushko

    The curator of the progamme, Vera Dziadok, at the opening

  • Author Sasha Filipenko in conversation with curator Lena Prents on a stage. © Ksenia Yanko

    Author Sasha Filipenko in conversation with curator Lena Prents

  • The band KOOB with guitarist and singer on stage © Dzmitry Brushko

    Concert of the band KOOB at the opening evening

  • DJ operates a DJ booth © Ksenia Yanko

    DJ stereobeaver

  • Cordelia Dvorak and Felix Ackermann on stage at the presentation of the book “Wenn du durch die Hölle gehst, dann geh weiter” © Dzmitry Brushko

    Cordelia Dvorak and Felix Ackermann at the presentation of the book “Wenn du durch die Hölle gehst, dann geh weiter”

  • Dmitri Strozew leans over a table and shows the audience how a book is bound © Ksenia Yanko

    Letterpress printing workshop and reading with Dmitri Strozew, Sabina Brilo, and Taciana Niadbaj

  • Hands shape paper and wire into flowers © Ksenia Yanko

    Paper flowers were made under the instruction of artist Razalina Busel

  • Eva Viežnaviec and Olga Bubich in conversation on stage © Ksenia Yanko

    Eva Viežnaviec and Olga Bubich in conversation

  • Man in the theater in front of a projection with a tiger © Dzmitry Brushko

    “Clausa fores” by INEXKULT (Director: Jura Dzivakou, Actor: Aleksandr Kazello)

  • The figure of a dragon hangs in the dark room © Ksenia Yanko

    #KeepMinskWeird

  • A dancer in a silver dress bends backwards © Ksenia Yanko

    #KeepMinskWeird

  • People dancing at a party © Ksenia Yanko

    #KeepMinskWeird

  • The three singers of the folk ensemble Kriwi sing on stage © Dzmitry Brushko

    Hukannie Viasny – Spring call with the folk ensemble Kriwi

  • Three people sit on the stage and present the “33 Bücher für ein anderes Belarus” campaign © Ksenia Yanko

    Presentation of the campaign “33 Bücher für ein anderes Belarus” with Sylvia Sasse, Iryna Herasimovich, and Zmicier Vishniou

  • Two people with a beamer projection on their face © Dzmitry Brushko

    eeefff “Algorithmic solidarity: can colonialism be encoded into algorithms?”

  • Author Alhierd Bacharevič and author Julia Cimafiejeva in conversation with Vera Dziadok on stage © Ksenia Yanko

    Reading and talk: Alhierd Bacharevič & Julia Cimafiejeva, moderated by Vera Dziadok

Opening Belarus Festival

Discursive Reading with Sasha Filipenko

The Belarus Festival of the Goethe-Institut in Exile, which took place from 22 to 25 March 2024 at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin, was opened with a discursive reading by Belarusian author Sasha Filipenko. Filipenko read excerpts from his literary works and spoke with art historian and curator Lena Prents about the current relevance of his work in the Belarusian context and the role of contemporary literature.

Opening Belarus Festival: Discursive Reading with Sasha Filipenko

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