白俄罗斯共和国地处东欧内陆，与毗邻的俄罗斯和乌克兰同为东斯拉夫人的一支，地缘历史复杂。此次展览邀请了来自白俄罗斯的八位艺术家，除了一位是80后之外，其他都出生于五六十年代，他们共同经历了90年代国家主权的确立，迎来了白俄罗斯现当代艺术发展的新契机。

经受了国家变革的洗礼，经历了漫长的艺术创作实践，在新的时代新的契机下，他们引入新观念、结合地域的特色，糅合原有苏联白俄罗斯绘画学派的实践理论和各种后现代主义的思想，加强自身概念形成了独特的观念手法与绘画风格。

八位艺术家的作品风格各异，囊括观念艺术、波普艺术、原始主义、抽象艺术等等，反映了自20世纪80、90年代起，白俄罗斯文化和自然环境的转变。同时，他们代表了白俄罗斯成熟的现当代艺术，反映了现代白俄罗斯艺术发展的主要趋势。例如鲁斯兰·瓦史克维奇，他曾代表国家参加过两届威尼斯双年展，维克多·阿利舍夫斯基是白俄罗斯共和国国家奖项的获得者，其他的艺术家也是活跃于国际艺术界，不断为艺术界注入新力量的前卫艺术家。

Preface:

Belarus Contemporary Painting Exhibition

The Republic of Belarus is located in the interior of Eastern Europe and shares a complex geographical history with the neighboring Russian and Ukrainian as the member of East Slavs. This exhibition has invited eight artists from Belarus, all of whom were born in the 1950s and 1960s, with the exception of one, who lived through the establishment of state sovereignty in the 1990s, it has ushered in a new opportunity for the development of modern and contemporary art in Belarus.

Having undergone the baptism of national transformation, they have experienced a long practice of artistic creation, and under the new opportunity of the new era, they introduce new ideas and combine the characteristics of the region, combining the practical theory of the original Soviet-Belarus School of Painting and various ideas of Postmodernism, strengthen their own concept and form a unique way of thinking and painting style.

The works of the eight artists vary in style from the 1980s to the 1990s, including the art of ideas, pop art, primitivism, abstract art, etc. At the same time, they represent the mature modern and contemporary art of Belarus and reflect the major trends in the development of modern Belarusian art. For example, Ruslan Vazkovic, who represented the country in two Venice Biennale, Victor Aleshevsky was a recipient of the State Award of the Republic of Belarus, and other artists were active in the international art world, avant-garde artists who continue to inject new energy into the art world.