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Kiryl Masheka

1988

Civil activist, actor, performer, playwright. Member of the group Pussy Riot. He was an actor at the Free Theater.

Lives and works in Berlin.

Groups

Selected artworks

Associated institutions

Articles on KALEKTAR

Selected dates:

July 8, 1988

Born in Minsk (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus).

2004–2008

Law College of the Belarusian State University.

2008–2010

Belarusian State University, Faculty of Law.

2008–2012

Participated in the youth opposition movement "Young Front".

2010–2012

European Humanities University, Faculty of Theory and Practice

contemporary art.

2012–2014

Fortinbras Theater Laboratory at the Belarusian Free Theatre.

2012–2017

Actor of the Belarusian Free Theater (organization of the theater, work with personal stories, topics taboo in the state).

2012–2021

Volunteer at the human rights center "Spring 96" (Belarus).

2013–2014

Participant of Makeout - an organization engaged in gender research (further cooperation as a participant in individual projects).

2014–2016

Teacher of directing for students at the Fortinbras Theater Laboratory at the Belarusian Free Theater.

2016–2021

Member of the Pussy Riot group (actor, playwright, director of the Riot Days project based on the book by Maria Alekhina).

2016

Completed courses on the fundamentals and protection of human rights with the support of the Youth Movement for Human Rights (St. Petersburg).

2016–2017

He was a member of the youth human rights group "Belarus".

May 2018

Winner of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize within the framework of the Belarusian Free Theater (Freedom Forum, Oslo) with a play about the 2010 elections in Belarus and the fate of the three wives of presidential candidates in Belarus, who were arrested and served their sentences in a KGB prison.

2018–2021

Organizer of seminars and master classes for the human rights organization HumanConstanta (Belarus).

2019

Member of the music group AWOTT (voice, percussion).

2019–2020

Actor of the Hunch Theater (England-Belarus).

2020–2021

Volunteer Probono.by a company that provides various types of assistance to victims of repression in Belarus.

2020

Collaboration with the Goethe Institute (Belarus) as an actor at various events.

Collaboration with ECLAB.

2020–2021

Cooperation with the human rights organization People in need (Czech Republic).

Member of the jury of the documentary film festival "One World" in Prague.

May 2021 – July 2023

He was in a pre-trial detention center in Moscow on a politically motivated case.

2023

Participant of the KALEKTAR residency in Berlin and Poznan (curator and director Sergei Shabokhin).