Gleb Burnashev was born in 1992 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Because of the Civil War that started there, he emigrated with his family to Slonim, Belarus, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. At the age of 17 I went to Minsk, got a Bachelor's degree in political science and stayed to live and work in Minsk.
In my projects I study political and civil crises, the interaction between the small man and the state, repressive apparatus, migration processes, both local and global. Taking into account the history of my family, emigrants in several generations, my focus is now shifting towards memory and its distortion. Working in the mediums of performance, video, photography and artificial intelligence.
Reaction to the events of 2020 in Belarus (protests and civil crisis) became political performances and photo and video installations:
- Performance & Video project "We Make Human Out of You"
- Performance & Video project "My State" together with the Belarus Free Theatre - Performance & Photo project "In August 2020"
- Performance & Photo project "Portrait of Protesters"
With whom he participated in publications and exhibitions:
- Group Online Exhibition 08.2020 AFF Galerie Online Exhibition, Berlin
- Belarus Protest Art Group Exhibition 10.2020 59 Rivoli Art Gallery, Paris
- FACE IT: Faces of Belarusian protest 27.03.21
- 04.10.21 Newman's Fine Art, San Francisco
- Exhibition of Belarusian artists "Scream from Belarus" 17.05.21
- 30.06.21 Municipality of the City of Prague
- B#Side War POETIC DISSIDENT Online Exhibition 12.03.2021 IoDeposito association in Italy
At the end of 2020 emigrated to Warsaw for political reasons. In 2021 I got to work as a volunteer at Sputnik Photo, I also became a student at the Sputnik Photo Mentor Program, where my mentor was Adam Panchuk. Within the framework of this collaboration I made two projects: - Installation "The Republic's Ritual of Guilt and Shame", which completed my cycle about repression and violence by the state.
by the state. - Performance & Video project "Est-ce qu'on emporte la patrie sous la semelle tie ses souliers?", with which I started a new cycle about local and global migration processes, as well as the study of memory and its distortion.
With which he participated in publications and exhibitions:
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Miesiąc Fotografii / Krakow Photomonth 27.05-26.06.2022 Galeria Promocyjna / Warszawa 09.09-29.10.22
- No.11 Społeczne Centrum Fotografii / Warszawa 20.05-10.06.2023 Galeria Ogrodowa8 / Fotofestiwal Lodz 14.06-15.08.2023
- książką "No.11" pod redakcją Michala Luczaka - POZA KRAJEM Al. Armii Ludowej 12 27.09.-31.10.2023
In 2022 received Stypendia artystyczne m.st. Warszawy.
In 2023 I participated in the residency of the Fantasiers festival, which took place in Ukraine.
STEITMENT.
The themes that Gleb shows are not random. Each of them relates directly to him. Gleb is a reactionary artist. Living the event - realizes the response to what is happening. Works related to state violence and repressive apparatus were dictated by the events in Belarus after the elections in 2020, in which Gleb directly participated and felt the repressive apparatus and the impossibility to resist it. Having emigrated to Poland, he began to explore the theme of emigration, as his family are hereditary emigrants in many generations, the search for his own identity and sense of homeland. The space of memory and its impermanence. Nostalgia