Sign up for occasional news


A value is required.Please enter a valid email address.


Subscribe
Unsubscribe


     BIO

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) focusing on an oft-forgotten sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 

 

     SOLO SHOWS
     2009
Hymns of No Resistance
, Kaai Theatre, Brussels
Kidnapping Mountains, Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium
     2008

Common Wealth, 032c, Berlin and Ooga Booga, Los Angeles (2010)
A Thirteenth Month Against Time, Newman-Popiashvili Gallery, New York

 

     SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

     2011
Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz, Sharjah Biennale, UAE
     2010
Between the silhouette and the background, unosunove gallery, Rome
Monobrow Manifesto, Frieze Sculpture Park, London
Salon5, Argos, Brussels
25th Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak, Serbia
Correct Me if I am Critical, Felleshuset, Nordische Botschaft, Berlin
Frozen Moments, Ministry of Transport, Tbilisi, Georgia
032c Workshop # 1, BAIBAKOV art projects, Moscow
Miseducation, Brucennial, New York
The Past is a Foreign Country, Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Znaki Czasu’ in Torun
Freischuss, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin

     2009
Industrial Light Magic, Goethe Institut, New York
Wola Art Festival, Warsaw
Betlemi Mikro-Raioni, Laura Palmer Foundation, Tbilisi
Nomadic Focus, Interzone, Studio BWA, Wroclaw
Live Archive of ‘The Generational: Younger Than Jesus’, New Museum, New York
     2008
Grotto, Museum 52, London
Place it, Parallel Events Manifesta 7, Lungomare Gallery, Bolzano

Shifting Identities, Kunsthall Zürich         

Pro eto, NCCA, Moscow Biennale of Young Artists
Forms of Inquiry, traveling show: Casco, Utrecht; lux, Valence; IASPIS, Stockholm; BolteLang, Zürich; Archizoom EPFL, Lausanne

Ostersund, Färgfabriken, Stockholm

     2007
Left Pop
, Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art

New Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto
NY Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, New York 

Books by Artists, E:vent Gallery, London
10 Years, Colette, Paris

     2006 

Publish and Be Damned,  Casco Projects, Utrecht 

30ANSCHLAEGE, Public Exhibition in Heidelberg

     2005

Festival International de la Mode et de Photographie, Hyéres

Proud and Sad/ Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Barbican, London

Somewhere Totally Else, Design Museum, London

 

     TALKS
     79.89.09
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University’s Edifying series, New York 
Opening Lecture, Studium Generale, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Theory and Practice, Afisha Picnic, Moscow
Cycles and Seasons, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

     AWARDS

      2010

Le prix Fernand Baudin 2009, Brussels   
      2009

Le prix Fernand Baudin 2008, Brussels

     2008

Grand Prix of the Brno Biennial 2008, The Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Award
     2005

Selection Officielle, Festival International de la Mode et de Photographie, Hyéres

Bloomberg New Contemporaries
 

     COLLECTIONS

Print Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

     BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PRESS

     2010

Slavs and Tatars, ’Go East, Young Man!’ 032c, issue 19.

Slavs and Tatars, ‘Who is the enemy?’ Kaleidoscope, issue 5

Slavs and Tatars, ‘Польские Татары (Polskie Tatari),’ Black Square, issue 9

‘Short takes: Kidnapping Mountains’ Bidoun, issue 20

Visionaire No. 57: 2010
     2009
Slavs and Tatars, ‘What is Urgent’ Metropolis M, issue 6
A
ndrzej Rejnson Wolska architektura w rekach artystow Polska, November 18
Slavs and Tatars, ‘Poland 1989: In Praise of the Normal, Methodical and Slow’, 032c, issue 18
Slavs and Tatars, ‘Tehran 1979: Paper, Participation, Politics’, 032c, issue 17
Isabelle De Baets, ‘Strak, Minder Strak, No-Nonsense’, <H>ART, issue 52, June 4
Jasmine De Bruycker, ‘Kidnapping Mountains’, Klara.be, May 13
Agata Araszkiewicz, ‘Slavs and Tatars’, flaneriaa, May 18
Slavs and Tatars, Kidnapping Mountains, Book Works, London
Shaun Walker, ‘The Expatriate’, Fantastic Man, issue 9
Negar Azimi, ‘I Often Dream of Slavs’, Bidoun, issue 16
     2008
 

Payam Sharifi, ‘Flattened History’, Metropolis M, No. 5
Anna Dyulgerova, ‘Novi Moskvich’, Harper’s Bazaar, September
Ingrid Chu, ‘Rebuilding the Pantheon’, Filip, issue 8
Slavs and Tatars, ‘Mohammed Mossadeq’, LamMagazine.com, May

Alison Cool, ‘Wall to Wall’, Style.com, April 8

     2007

Slavs and Tatars, ‘Drafting Defeat’, Cities from Zero, Ed. Shumon Basar, AA Publications

Holland Cotter, ‘Art between Covers’, New York Times, September 29

Suzy Menkes, ‘Paris’ Colette’, International Herald Tribune, March 26

     2006

Featured in ‘The Conditions of Graphic Design’, IDEA No. 316

Featured in ‘The Creators Network’, +81, vol. 33

Slavs and Tatars, ‘Slavs’, 032c, issue 11

Payam Sharifi, ‘Veiled Beauty’, Another Magazine, issue 10

     2005

Brigitte Ollier, ‘L’oeil Hyéres’, Libération, May 5

Gert Jonkers, ‘Modewereld is op zoek naar foto’s met inhoud’, De Volkskrant, May 2

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, ‘Iran – her motherland, his first trip’, Austin American-Statesman, April 21

Heather Mathews, ‘Soody Sharifi with Payam Sharifi’, Glasstire.com, April 21

Payam Sharifi, ‘Past – The Undecideds’, Another Magazine, issue 9

Payam Sharifi, ‘Discretion’, A Magazine curated by Haider Ackermann, vol 3

Payam Sharifi, ‘Révolutions de Façade’, Libération, August 11

 

     ENGAGEMENTS

Visiting Lecturer, The Royal College of Art, London

Judge, HfG Ulm School of Design

Visiting Lecturer, The Architecture Association, London

Moderator, Independent Publishing, ICA, London

Pecha Kucha, Sadwell’s Theatre, London

Lectures and Workshops in various European institutions and festivals