Slavs and Tatars

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SLAVS AND TATARS
founded 2006, Eurasia

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research.

The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications, and lecture-performances. The collective has published more than twelve books to date, including most recently Лук Бук (Look Book) with Distanz Verlag. In 2020, Slavs and Tatars opened Pickle Bar, a slavic aperitivo bar-cum-project space a few doors down from their studio in the Moabit district of Berlin.

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

Solo exhibitions have taken place at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2023); M HKA, Antwerp (2023); Humboldt Forum, Berlin (2022); Hacernoche, Oaxaca (2022); Neubauer Collegium Gallery, Chicago (2022); Cantor Fitz Gerald Gallery, Haverford (2021); Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2021); Hayward Gallery, London (2021); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2021); 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
M HKA, Antwerp
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

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