Hanna Palei
art manager/curator/cultural programs producer
Belarusian cultural manager and curator. Hanna Palei (b.1987) studied European Cultural Foundation program (art management). Her curated projects are about local identity, feminizm and living ordinary life in Belarusian context. She is the founder of cultural and educational platform in Belarus (pershykrok.by), established 2018 as local art actors network for studies and practice of new media. Among her curatorial projects: International festival "Month of Photography" (regional program, theme: Survival, 2020), Series of audio-visual female portraits "Authentic" (2021), Educational art program "Palesse in Focus" (2022).
CV
- 2013 curator in collective photo exhibition Emotions. moments (Minsk, Belarus). About the role of emotions in the everyday life. The exhibition project was attended by participants from Belarusian cities: Minsk, Grodno, Gomel, Brest.
- 2014−2018 curator and participant of the musical project JazzGeGround (release "Sound interpretation: Minsk").
- 2019 curator of musical performances with the participation of modern Belarusian musicians.
- 2019 founder of the cultural and educational platform pershykrok.by. Nominations and awards pershykrok.by: Social weekend: the project was selected among 540 social projects all over Belarus and became one of 10 winners of the competition. Зрабілі: nomination Grass Roots, awarded. Rada Awards: Nomination "Art Project".
- 2019 producer and art manager of a crowdfunding campaign to publish a book about history Mozyr (Belarus). The book has been successfully published and it is now in private and public collections in the following countries: Germany, USA, Switzerland, Israel, Serbia, Ukraine.
- 2020−2022 Director of the independent cultural space pershykrok.by. During her work she organized exhibitions of Belarusian photographers: Andrey Liankevich "Pagan" (2020), Olga Bubich "20 women" (2021), performances of Belarusian poets Christina Bandurina, Nasta Shakunova and director Yulia Shatun and many others. Cooperation has also been established with cultural institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, Belarus and Poland.
- 2022 Author idea and curator of the documentary "That's all I wanted to say" (presented in Berlin, ZK/U).
Selected projects
Role: curator/digital/text Palesse in focus — an interdisciplinary program for the art community from Palesse region in Belarus that offers wide spectrum formats: workshops, lectures, discussions. Belarus has been in a deep political crisis since 2020. People still live under stress and constant threat of arrest and repression. The idea of program was to give an opportunity to research everyday life experience in modern Belarus and to create a field for reflection and collaborative art. During the program, the participants managed to become observes in their lives and prepared projects which can be points of support in stress situation. Duration of the program 2 months, 8 participants. Photo: Veronika Litvin. |
Role: regional curator, text Open call for local photo society within the theme of Month of Photography festival. Artists and photographers were invited to explore the topic "Survival". Despite the fact that the topic was supposed to be an ecological focus, the process was able to expand it. The resulting projects researched of the disappearing elements of urban infrastructure (The cities I don’t live, Julia Shatun), the man against nature (Ivan Yelmolin "Аsker"), life in industrialized city (Veronika Litvin), Human transformation under the influence of modern technology (Simbiosis, Ira Cherniakova). Photo: fragment "The cities I don’t live", Julia Shatun. |
Role: curator, author Authentic — series of audio-visual female portraits who soaking up the the atmosphere of the city in which they grew up, but never come back. Artist, film director and poet talk about the feeling of small city and reality. This project is researching work about the experience of living in the small Belarusian city and its influence to future projects and formation on personalities. In the process of simple conversations with the women of the project come up memories are still place to be in our society: gender stereotypes, lack of prospects, domestic violence, aggressive social environment. In the project it was important for me to show how this experience could be transformed into future art works and be used as a basis for the further development of the personality. All texts were published without editing. Portraits are not just a static photograph of person, but also audio, video and text. Such compilation apply to come as close as possible to members. Photo and video by Kate Korg. |
Public talks
2021 Podcast "Place of strength" about creative people of Belarus, creating places filled with meaning and beauty.
guest
2018-2021 Educational programs: VeskaLab, HomielUp, Do it bravely!
invited speaker
+49 177 45 64 137
palei.hanna@gmail.com
palei.hanna@gmail.com
