The approach that implies creative participation in the process of creating or in the process of presenting art to the public is called Participatory Art. It also has such names as socially engaged art, interaction art, socially engaged art.

This approach is aimed at creating art projects prone to transformation and change in society. This means not just engaging the audience to participate in the project, but also the opportunity to create art focused on change. The spread of participatory art was a response to the loss of socialist development of culture at the end of the 20th century and a demand for social change in art. Today, the art of interaction is a concept that describes collaborations aimed at direct interaction between people.

In general, it is difficult to trace when Belarusian artists began to practice participatory art. Basically, it manifests itself in the form of a reaction to certain problems and events in the country.

An example of participatory practices can be represented by the works of Sergei Shabokhin: "Wozu poesie?" (2013) and "Social marble: the rise of civil society in Belarus" (2020). As part of the first project, the artist gave space for 47 poets from 47 European countries to express themselves, and in the second, he formed a dynamic archive about the Belarusian protests of 2020 for 20 days, based on interviews that he took from 14 contributors during the project.

Another textbook example is Roman Aksyonov's personal project "Immediate", which took place in the Ў Modern Art Gallery in 2012. As part of the project, the artist advertised on the Internet, on radio and in newspapers, inviting anyone who wants to present his works at the exhibition, thus giving his space for others to express themselves.

In 2011, an exposition dedicated to Belarus was presented in the “Ў” gallery within the framework of the “New Urban Topology” project. The aim of the project was to rethink urban spaces, which involved the art community, civic activists and non-governmental organizations.

Another important collaborative project between the Ў Gallery and the environmental organization Green Network is EVAA (Environment Visual Audio Art Project). Every year, within the framework of the project, a plein air was held, followed by an exhibition and an agricultural festival. The goal of the project is to encourage the Belarusian art community to solve environmental problems. An illustrative example was the exhibition project "Astravets Kultury", which offered an alternative view of the construction of a nuclear power plant in the city of Ostrovets.

In 2018, the art space of the project "Without exceptions!" was opened in the "Ў" gallery. The essence of the project is to create the most favorable conditions for the involvement of people with special needs directly in the curation of exhibitions.

"Belarusian Free Theater" is another good example of the art of interaction. An independent theater troupe, whose work is officially banned in Belarus, secretly showed performances in apartments and sometimes in public places in Minsk. In 2008, the troupe opened a theatrical laboratory for young artists "Studio Fortinbras".

Unfortunately, in Belarus the majority of socially important topics are tabooed by the state. Artists cannot freely present statements on topics such as the political situation, history or rewriting history, rethinking the past and probably thinking about the future, LGBTQ+, language issues. Due to the current political situation, people do not feel safe, all this hinders the development of participatory art.