Uladzimir Hramovich
area: Conceptual art, Visual art
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November 2021 - December 2021Uladzimir Hramovich (1989) — artist, lives and works in Minsk and Gdansk. Graduated from the Gymnasium-College of Arts named after i.o. Akhremchik in Minsk (2009) and the graphics arts department of the Belarusian StateAcademy of Arts in Minsk (2015). He is a member of the Problem Collective since 2016. Works with installations, graphics and video. Explores themes of history and memory.
Uladzimir Hramovich sees 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 his artistic practice, Hramovich 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. He is 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, Czech
2019. «Holding a Hedgehog with your bare Hands», Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria
2018. "When the rocks are uphill, the cannonballs are off the road", Gallery of Contemporary Art «Ў», Minsk, Belarus
2017. "Resistance of the material", Brzuch Centrum Trawienia Wizji, Wroclaw, Poland
Selected exhibitions:
2021. «Cykl ADAPTACJE», Gorzów Wlkp, Poland
2021. «Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance», Mysteckiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021. «Ommach to Zahar Kudin», Minsk, Belarus
2020. «Echoes. Voices from Belarus», Festival ECLAT, Stuttgart, Germany
2020. «Faceless», KH space, Brest, Belarus
2020. «Poetic Dissident», IoDeposito B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy
2020. «B.A.R. (Belarus. Art. Revolution)», Berlin, Germany
2020. «Know Thy Neighbor», Oxygen,Tbilisi, Georgia
2019. Urban Festival «Vulica Brazil», Minsk, Belarus
2019. «Pose, Subordination, Festivities and Hedgehogs», Apart Raum, Berlin, Germany
2018. «WORK HARD! PLAY HARD!», Minsk, Belarus
2018. «WITH NO EXCEPTION! In process», Gallery of Contemporary Art «Ў», Minsk, Belarus
2017. 5 Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odessa, Ukraine
2016. «Talks about politics. Critical Art of Belarus of the 10th», DK Do it yourself, Moscow, Russia
2016. Fair of Contemporary Art «Art-Vilnius '16», LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015. 5 Land Art Festiwal 2015 Podlaski Przelom Bugu, Poland
2015. «Diploma», Gallery of Contemporary Art «Ў», Minsk, Belarus
2014. «Replika», Gallery of Contemporary Art «Ў», Minsk, Belarus
2013. «Soram», gallery «Tseh», Minsk, Belarus
2013. «Structuring: fragments», Gallery of Contemporary Art «Ў», Minsk, Belarus
Residencies:
2021. «Brno Artists in Residence», Brno, Czech Republic
2021. «Galeria Arsenal», Bialystok, Poland
2019. «Rotor», Vienna, Austria
2018. «Slavs and Tatars», Berlin, Germany
I am going to continue working on the project "Salt Sellers" - a project about the connection between history, art history and mining on the example of Belaruskali (the only mining industry in Belarus that produces potassium to fertilize the land).
As part of the project I am going to make objects and videos as well as texts. As a result of the residency, I am planning an exhibition or presentation. There are plans to do a joint collaboration with artist Lesia Pchelka.
Interview:
Uladzimir Hramovich in conversation with Sabine Winkler
Visual and conceptual artist Uladzimir Hramovich was invited in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs as Q21 Artist-in-Residence in November and December 2021. For Vienna Art Week, Sabine Winkler talked with him about his recent works.
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