Slavs and Tatars

Slavs and Tatars are an artist collective based in Berlin, originally founded in 2006 by Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi as a reading group. Self-described as a “splinter group of polemics and close friendship,” they dedicate themselves to the area “east of Berlin and west of the Great Wall of China , known as Eurasia”. Her practice consists of exhibitions, publications and lecture performances.

History and work

Slav's and Tatar's work draws on references from pop culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral history , modern myths, and scientific research. Nicholas Cullinan described Slavs and Tatars in an Artforum article as “ the most cosmopolitan of collectives, where a geopolitics of globe-trotting allows their shape-shifting projects and concerns to continuously cross-pollinate divergent, and sometimes diametrically opposed, cultural specificities. "(German:" the most cosmopolitan of all [artist] collectives, whose globetrotter-like geopolitics allow their changing projects and concerns to mutually stimulate divergent or even contradicting cultural specificities. ")

The practice of slavs and tartars can be classified into different work cycles - with topics ranging from fermentation as a political discourse ("Pickle Politics") to medieval advisory literature ("Mirrors for Princes") to German-Islamic history ("Made in Germany ") pass.

An important aspect of the multidisciplinary work of Slavs and Tatars is the “metaphysical balancing act” - the resolution of cultural or logical contradictions. Competing usabilities (“poetry and politics”), ideologies (“Marx and Mohammed”), or regions (“Poland and Persia”) from Eurasian traditions are “condensed into polemical statements or objects” and thus visualized by the “hypothetical Turner”.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2008: A Thirteenth Month Against Time , Newman-Popiashvili Gallery, New York
2009: Kidnapping Mountains , Network Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst +
2010: Common Wealth , Ooga Booga, Los Angeles
2011: Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi'ite Showbiz , Kiosk, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
2011: A Monobrow Manifesto , Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2011: Przyjaźń Narodów: Lahestan Nesfeh-Jahan , Gdańsk City Gallery
2012: Not Moscow Not Mecca , Secession , Vienna
2012: Khhhhhhh , Moravian Gallery, Brno
2012: Continuous Conversation (with Janek Simon), Karlin Studios, Prague
2012: Not Moscow Not Mecca , Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
2012: Too Much Tłumacz , Raster Gallery, Warsaw
2012: Never Give Up the Fruit , Forever & Today, New York
2012: Projects 98: Beyonsense , Museum of Modern Art , New York
2013: Long Legged Linguistics , Art Space Pythagorion, Samos
2013: Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi'ite Showbiz , Presentation House, Vancouver and REDCAT, Los Angeles
2013: Behind Reason (with Cevdet Ereks Anti-Pattern), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
2014: Naughty Nasals, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok
2014: Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars, Dallas Museum of Art
2014: Lecturer, GfZK , Leipzig
2014: Mirrors for Princes, Kunsthalle Zürich
2014: Language Arts, The Third Line, Dubai
2015: Mirrors for Princes, Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane
2015: Dschinn and Dschuice, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
2015: Mirrors for Princes: Both Sides of the Tongue, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
2015: Stongue, Kunsthal Aarhus
2015: Lecturer, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2015: Long Legged Linguistics, Trondheim Art Museum
2016: Slavs and Tatars: Lecture-Performances 2009–2016, Villa Empain , Brussels
2016: Towarzystwo Szubrawców, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
2016: Made in Germany, The Third Line, Dubai
2016: Mirrors for Princes, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
2016: Afteur Pasteur, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2016: Mouth to Mouth, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2017: Reading Room, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
2017: E – Z Chasm, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
2017: Nose to Nose, Pejman Foundation, Tehran
2017: Mouth to Mouth, SALT Galata, Istanbul and CAC, Vilnius
2018: Saalbadereien / Bathhouse Quackeries, Westfälischer Kunstverein , Münster
2018: Pickle Politics, Kulturhuset , Stockholm
2018: Kirchgängerbanger, ar / ge kunst, Bolzano
2018: Made in Dschermany, Albertinum , Dresden
2018: Sauer Power, Kunstverein Hannover
2019: Моваланд, Ў Gallery, Minsk

Group exhibitions

Slavs and Tatars work were among others. a. Exhibited at Tate Modern , Center Pompidou , İstanbul Modern and Artists Space, New York, as well as at the 8th Berlin Biennale , 2017, the 9th Gwangju Biennale , 2012, the 1st Yinchuan Biennale, 2016, the 10th Manifesta , 2018 , and the 58th Venice Biennale.

Publications

Founded as a reading group, Slavs and Tatars have published many books with various publishers:

Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names. Book Works, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-906012-19-9 .
Molla Nasreddin. jrp | ringier, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03764-212-2 .
Not Moscow, Not Mecca. Revolver Verlag / Secession, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-86895-219-3 .
Khhhhhhh. Mousse Publishing and Moravian Gallery, Brno 2012, ISBN 978-80-7027-249-7 .
Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi'ite Showbiz. Book Works, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-906012-42-7 .
Naughty nasals. Galeria Arsenał, Białystok 2014, ISBN 978-83-38977-853 -6.
Mirrors for Princes. jrp | ringier, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03764-407-2 .
Churchgoers. Westphalian Art Association, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-2-940524-70-9 .
Wripped Scripped. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2108, ISBN 978-3-7757-4472-0 .

In 2017, the first monograph on Slavs and Tatar's work was published by Walther König by Pablo Larios.

Pablo Larios (Ed.): Slavs and Tatars . König Books, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3960980704 .

Performances

Slavs and Tatars regularly teach at leading universities and museums, including a. at Yale University , Warsaw University , Princeton University , UCLA and New York University , Abu Dhabi. Her lecture performances deal with topics such as Russian and Soviet Orientalism ( I Utter Other , since 2014), the Iranian Revolution and the Polish Solidarność ( 79.89.09 , since 2009), which accompany the writing systems of the great powers ( Transliterative Tease , since 2013) and Drafts of black identity in Russia ( Red-Black Thread , since 2018).

literature

Dina Akhmadeeva: Naughty Nasals and Monobrow Manifestos. Canvas, May / June, 2016
Thea Ballard: Lost in Translation. Modern Painters, January 15, 2016
Christoph Chérix (Ed.): Print / Out: 20 Years in Print. New York: MoMA, 2014
David Joselit: On Aggregators. October, Nº 146, Fall, 2013
Jesi Khadivi: Slavs and Tatars. Harper's Bazaar Art Arabia, Nov-Dec, 2012
Pablo Larios (Ed.): Slavs and Tatars. London: Walther König, 2017.
Nick Thurston: Doing the Splits. frieze.com, October 15, 2017
Ian Wallace: The New Manifestos: 6 Artist Texts That Are Defining Today's Avant-Garde. art space, May 17, 2014

Individual evidence

↑ Behrang Samsami: Gin? Djinn! In: Friday. 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .
^ Slavs and Tatars: Not Moscow not Mecca . Secession, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902592-56-9 , p. 21 .
^ Nicholas Cullinan: Group Think . In: Artforum . tape 49 , no. February 6 , 2011 ( artforum.com ).

^ Slavs and Tatars: Work Cycles. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .

↑ Adriana Blidaru: Metaphysical splits . In: Revista Arta . Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici din România, March 26, 2017 ( revistaarta.ro ).

^ Susanne Altmann: Cross + Cross Thinker . In: Art: The art magazine . July 2018, p. 76-83 .

^ Nick Thurston: Doing the Splits . In: Frieze . October 15, 2017 ( frieze.com ).

[1] Behrang Samsami: Gin? Djinn! In: Friday. 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .

[2] Slavs and Tatars: Not Moscow not Mecca . Secession, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902592-56-9 , p. 21 .

[3] Nicholas Cullinan: Group Think . In: Artforum . tape 49 , no. February 6 , 2011 ( artforum.com ).

[4] Slavs and Tatars: Work Cycles. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .

[5] Adriana Blidaru: Metaphysical splits . In: Revista Arta . Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici din România, March 26, 2017 ( revistaarta.ro ).

[6] Susanne Altmann: Cross + Cross Thinker . In: Art: The art magazine . July 2018, p. 76-83 .

[7] Nick Thurston: Doing the Splits . In: Frieze . October 15, 2017 ( frieze.com ).