Slavs and Tatars

SLAVS AND TATARS (founded 2006, Eurasia) 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.

Solo exhibitions have taken place at Raster, Warsaw (2024); Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2024); Memphis, Linz (2024); Kraupa-Tuskany zeidler, Berlin (2024); West, The Hague (2023); Monnaie de Paris (Asia Now), Paris (2023); Basement Roma, Rome (2023); Tanya Bonakdar, New York (2023); 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); the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); 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).

Their work is part of the collections of:

Art Collection Telekom

Art Jameel, Dubai

Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah

Bundeskunstsammlung (Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) - The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Bonn 

Dallas Museum of Art

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin

GfZK, Leipzig

Kunstmuseen Krefeld

M HKA, Antwerp

Pejman Foundation, Tehran

Philara Collection, Düsseldorf

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