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Selected dates:
1974
Born in Minsk (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus).
1991-1996
Study at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk.
1998
Course of new technologies in photography and digital art, AMOS, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2006
Personal exhibition Bruno Museum, Podzemka Gallery (Minsk, Belarus).
2007
Exhibition Welcome, Installation at Handelsboers Arts Centre, Ghent, Belgium.
2007-2008
Study at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium.
2009
Sumu Residence, Turku, Finland.
2009
Solo exhibition Artistic Statement in the Context of the Spiritualist Seance, Sumu, Turku, Finland.
2010
Residence a271 - Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2010
Solo exhibition A36YKA A6CZPDA, a271 - Atelier Höherweg, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2017
ArToll Summer Laboratory Residency 2017, Bedburg-Hau, Germany.
2019
Personal exhibition Portable Museum, Gasthof Worringer Platz, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2023
Solo exhibition X3-BOX, German Roentgen Museum, Remscheid, Germany.
2023
Solo exhibition X3-BOX, University of Witten/Goerdecke, Witten, Germany.
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“The social reality around us is full of funny, irrational and even absurd elements that we usually barely notice when stuck in the routine of everyday life. In fact, it doesn’t really matter what kind of society we live in. In my home country, Belarus, with its the infamous President Lukashenko and the disgusting political system, in Western democratic welfare countries or in developing countries of the so-called "third world" - everywhere we can find these meaningless social phenomena, rituals and rules, from the mechanisms of functioning of the bureaucratic system to the methods of creating media events or trends consumption and fashion.
However, these absurd moments can be perfectly brought out and examined with the help of works of art. And this is what I try to do in my work - to recognize and capture some of these absurd phenomena and offer them a critical, yet humorous artistic reflection through a subtle change in the overall perception of our everyday life experiences and events. To achieve this effect, I try to ironically apply some historical, art-historical, scientific, cultural or technological allusions and metaphors to these phenomena."