The book “Minsk. The Sun City of Dreams” was written special for Suhrkamp Verlag (Berlin) in 2006. Than it was published on Belarusian in Logvinau publishing house in Minsk (2008). Translated on Polish, Sweden, Hungarian, Russian. The book is a part of Klinau’s concept Minsk as a Sun City of Dream →
“A partisan, says Artur Klinau, is not only a heroic guy with the gun in his hand. “He is also a diagnosis. Pathological state of consciousness with deep-seated fears in response to historical trauma-related”. A partisan is a typical Belarus figure which associated in Belarus with II World War. Using this concept, Klinau created a new myth – partisan as Belarusians’ state of mind, when culture and art are the only way out of the deep misery of his country →
“Śklatara” (Note: “Empties” – “Empty bottles and Jars”) is an autobiographic novel. It is a kind of a partisan report from the closed territory that could mean both the cultural environment and the main character’s soul.We hear the voice of a man who speaks from within his existential situation. Each of us has the same situation: we live and we will die” →
It is difficult to find in the Belarusian literature a text more suitable and “open” to research space-describing techniques, literary topography of European cities, artistic reflection of the opposition “East-West”, and other manifestations of modern geopolitics. →
Artur Klinau became an active member of a non-conformist art movement in Belarusian art in the 80es →
This project consists of large black birdhouses. 2-3 meters high, these birdhouses were handcrafted from wood and designed →
Artur Klinau was an art director of the film “Hard Reboot” (dir. Andrey Kudzinienka 2014). “The film was →
The pARTisan project is a media project, which includes pARTisan magazines about Contemporary Belarusian Culture (since 2002), the pARTisan’s Collection series (albums by Belarusian artists, since 2009) and web-portal partisanmag.by (sinse 2012). “A Partisan is someone who always hides (‘hide-and-seek’ is the only national game of Belarus); a Partisan is someone who always says about →
In 2012 with The Last Supper Klinau represented Belarus at the 54th International Venice Biennale →
Sweet Straw Life series of installations invite the viewer to visit a strange dimension exploring straw simulacra of reality →
The main part of the project consists of a chic fall-winter 1996 collection of catafalques. Each visitor has the opportunity to choose and purchase a catafalque that best corresponds to his or her taste, income and comfort requirements for the body’s voyage to the other side of the known →