Art Exhibitions
Dotted across the city are a surprising number of state run exhibition centres and independently owned galleries. There are token admission fees at many places, except for temporary exhibitions at the major museums where you may be charged a still modeset 7,000br. If you are touring the city on foot then dropping into an exhibition you may pass is rarely a disappointing experience.
Evangelical and Biblical Stories: Italian 18th Century engraving
Dom Vankovochei (Дом Ваньковичей) Internatsionalnaya 33a (Интернациональная, 33А)
From 16 October 2010
Boris Zaborov. Painting. Drawing. Sculpture.
27 October – 10 December 2010
Belarusian National Arts Museum, Lenina 20 (Ленина 20)
11:00-18:00 Wed-Mon. Closed Tuesdays
Boris Zaborov was born in Minsk in 1935 but moved to Paris in 1980 to escape the shackles of the USSR that restricted his ability to express himself as an artist. His work has been exhibited around the world and this particular exhibition of 38 pieces includes works borrowed from France, Holland and England.
Exhibition of All: Art Nu-VO from Novinki
14 November 2010 – 14 February 2011
Republican Theatre of Belarusian Drama, Kropotkina, 44 (Кропоткина 44)
An exhibition of work by in-patients at Novinki, the local psychiatric hospital. Novinki is a name to strike fear into the heart of Minsk residents. It has long had the reputation for being a real hell on earth, although in recent years the reality has changed, thanks in part to the efforts of overseas charities. Such an exhibition would once have been unthinkable, but it’s opening is yet another example of the changing attitude towards the institute.
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