An art group of artists from Mogilev, who later partially moved to Minsk.

Members of the team: Denis Limonov, Yuli Ilyushchenko, Ekaterina Samigulina, Irina Turbina.

The works of the art group were shown in Belarusian institutions only once: behind closed doors during the round table “Art and government pressure: the Belarusian version” (moderator Alexander Kolesnikov) at the Ў Gallery on January 8, 2012. The format of this event was one of the reasons for the conflict within the group, which ended in its collapse.

The activity of the group coincided with a surge of civic activism in Belarus in 2011.

The activity of the Lime Flower group is a vivid example of politically biased art in Belarus. Despite the fact that the group existed for only two years, their activities recorded the most important historical contexts of the period of the surge of civic activism in the country in the period 2010-2012. The group managed to reveal the diseases of the Belarusian society and show that fear is hidden behind the apparent stability.

The Linden Flower group was created in Mogilev by Denis Limonov and Yuli Ilyushchenko. Later, the group began to operate in Minsk and two more members joined the team: Katya Samigulina and Ira Trubina. Tellingly, there is not a single action of the group in which all four members of the art group would participate.

So in November 2011, the Lime Flower group makes a situationist action “Kipish on Bus No. 23”. After being published on the naviny.by website, a seven-minute video of the confrontation between Denis Limonov and city bus passengers quickly gathered more than 5,000 views. In the video, Denis Limonov forcibly - with cries and provocations - causes a situation of boiling-boiling in the very thick of everyday life, urging Minsk residents not to be afraid.

On December 19, 2010, presidential elections were held in Belarus, which were once again won by Alexander Lukashenko. In Minsk, a demonstration of civil protest was brutally dispersed on Independence Square. On March 22, 2011, the financial crisis began in Belarus. On April 11, 2011, a homemade bomb exploded at the Oktyabrskaya metro station in Minsk, killing 15 people and injuring 203 people. On April 13, 2011, Lukashenka announced the disclosure of the terrorist attack, Dmitry Konovalov and Vlad Kovalev were detained, and later sentenced to death.

Reacting to what is happening, Denis Limonov sent a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in which he stated the involvement of the art group Lime Flower in the terrorist attacks, in which Konovalov and Kovalev were accused. In addition, he announced that these crimes were a work of art and dedicated them to the victims of the bloody state machine. At the end of the letter, Limonov openly signed his name. Of course, first of all, the artist wanted to stop the imminent enforcement of the punishment by trying to delay the process of investigating the terrorist attack. "Denis Limonov's letter to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus" dated December 22–23, 2011 became the most famous work of both Denis Limonov and the Lime Flower group, although it did not achieve the stated goal, since no official response was received from the prosecutor's office, and the accused of the crime were executed. In addition, this action led to the collapse of the group.

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All works of the group:

"Carousel" (2010-2011), video 38 min 53 sec
"Gluing the Bible" (November 13, 2010), video 4 min 24 sec
“Finger rolling or fingerprinting” (2010-2011), video 5 min 26 sec
"Icons for the People" (September 2011), 9 images - exhibition in the apartment of Denis Limonov
“Luka and his son Nikolai” (Mogilev, August 2011), an image of one of the “Icons for the People” on the wall of an abandoned building on the street. Lazarenko
"Orgy of Vandalism" (2011), video 15 min 11 sec
"Kipish on Bus No. 23" (November 18, 2011), video, 7 min 21 sec
"Stuffed cabbage" (Minsk, 2011), street art as part of the Global Art Project, a poster in one of the Minsk underground passages
"Date with" Death "" (2011), video 1 min 12 sec
“Renaming the metro in them. Konovalova and Kovaleva" (December 2, 2011), video, 40 sec
"Denis Limonov's letter to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus" (December 22-23, 2011), text