Slavs and Tatars

SLAVS AND TATARS founded 2006, Eurasia

Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s work spans several media, disciplines, and a broad spectrum of cultural registers (high and low).

The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, books and lecture performances.

Slavs and Tatars participated in the 58th Venice Biennale (2019).

Their recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Villa Arson, Nice (2020); Sugar Contemporary, Toronto (2019); Gallery «y», Minsk (2019); Kunstverein Hannover (2018); Albertinum, Dresden (2018); Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2018); CAC, Vilnius (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2017); Salt Galata, Istanbul (2017); Pejman Foundation, Tehran (2017); Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2016). Their work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2020), GfZK, Leipzig (2020); Kunstmusem Wolfsburg (2020). Centre Pompidu Metz (2020); Kunstmuseen Krefeld (2019); the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2019); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2018); Kunsthaus Graz (2018); the Gwangju Biennale (2017); Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2016); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015); Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2015); Kunsthalle Zürich (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014); The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2014); Berlin Biennale (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); Centre George Pompidou, Paris (2013);Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Tate Modern, London (2011)

Their work is part of the collections of Art Collection Telekom; Art Jameel, Dubai; Barjeel Art Foundation; Sharjah, Dallas Museum of Art; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin;  GfZK, Leipzig; Kunstmuseen Kreefeld; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Sharjah Art Foundation;  Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.