Art intervention is a form of performance based on interaction with a pre-existing art object, audience, space or situation. A characteristic feature is the desire for innovation, the stimulation of the outdated, the modification of the already existing with the help of artistic means.

The development of art intervention can be associated with the desire of artists to change their role in society. Interventionists may use the intervention art method as an artistic reaction to economic, political or social situations, or as an attempt to change circumstances, to convey information to an uninformed public. The very essence of art intervention - the rejection of existing systems, can be seen as a way of symbolic protest or challenge to familiar norms, which is often met with public resistance.

In 2012, within the framework of the project “Going Public — about the difficulty of speaking publicly” in Minsk, artist Mikhail Gulin held an art event — “Personal Monument”. Mikhail, along with three volunteers, moved around the city, temporarily installing portable modules, which consisted of three pink cubes and a yellow parallelepiped. The action was carried out on the squares of Kalinin, Yakub Kolos and Independence. On October Square, the artist and his assistants were detained by the police, but they were released a few hours later. In November, all charges against the participants were dropped, but the Goethe Institute in Minsk called this action unsanctioned and refused legal and material support. The artist himself was forced to resign from his teaching position at the Belarusian National Technical University.

Other interventions by Mikhail, for example, touched upon the attitude of citizens to the cultural and historical heritage: the interventions were implemented in the city of Kaliningrad and included two actions: “Golden Ring” and “Four funerals and not a single wedding”.

During the May Day demonstrations in Brest, the art group of the Brest theater “Wings of Khalop” held an art intervention. The theater actors, dressed in attractive bright clothes and participating in the solemn state procession, shouted out the slogan: “Free theater is art for normal people!”. Thus, the focus of the event shifted from a solemn and pathos mood to a lively and open interaction of artists with the public.