Jura Shust

Jura Shust (b.1983, Maladzeychna, Belarus; based in Berlin) explores the relationship between ritual and escapism. Intrigued by semantic polysemy, informational intoxication, and primal aspiration for an out-of-body experience, he reflects on how the mythological overlaps with the technological. Revising the linear and circular temporalities, Shust juxtaposes an archaic worldview with a futuristic perspective. Exploring the renewal cycle within organic decomposition and artificial synthesis, he is focused on the relationship between the human psyche and the natural world.

Based on scientific research, the artist’s practice merges various forms to construct mental landscapes illuminated by ethnoreligious beliefs and flooded by biopolitics.  

Date of residency: 01.02. – 31.03.2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT 

Jura Shust plans to use his time at the residency to focus on his ongoing multidisciplinary project, tentatively titled Turpentine Vapor. The project explores sacred grove phenomena, the mythical concept of a parallel world, and interspecies relations. Jura will conduct post-ethnographic research while investigating the interplay between organic decomposition and artificial synthesis. Within the framework of this project, he aims to bridge animistic ethnoreligious beliefs with speculative futures, using performative language, materials such as pine resin, and AI-powered sculpting techniques.
 

EDUCATION

2016    Higher Institute for Fine Arts, HISK, Ghent, Belgium

2013    MA in Fine Arts, KASK, Ghent, Belgium

2010    BA in Visual Comritumunication, EHU, Vilnius, Lithuania

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2023    Coniferous Succession, Management, New York, USA

2022    Amber Hum, Centrum, Berlin, Germany

2021    Neophyte II, EXILE Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2020    Neophyte, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2019    Neophyte, Gallery of Contemporary Art Ў, Minsk, Belarus

2017    Absorption, Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus

2015    Exo Oblivion, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, Belgium

2014    From Where to When, the White House Gallery, Leuven, Belgium

2014    Requiem for a New Year, Gallery of Contemporary Art Ў, Minsk, Belarus

2013    Transcendental Transition, Croxhapox Art Platform, Ghent, Belgium

BIENNIALS / TRIENNIALS / FESTIVALS / FAIRS

2024    15th Gwangju Biennale, Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century. Gwangju, Korea

2024    Paris International Fair, Paris, France

2023    LOOP Fair, Barcelona, Spain

2021    4th Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania

2021    14th Baltic Triennial, The Endless Frontier. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

2020    14th Baltic Triennial, Intro Maze and the Lighthouse. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

2017    Poppositions Fair, ING Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

2017    Work Hard! Play Hard! Festival, Minsk, Belarus

2016    5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Deep Inside. Moscow, Russia

2015    Survival K(n)it 7, International Contemporary Art Festival, Riga, Latvia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Mirrormap, Opale Foundation (Lens, Switzerland)

2024    UtOpium, GESTE, Paris, France

2024    Chlorophyllic Chorus, Council+, Berlin, Germany

2024    Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

2024    Constellation, Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France 

2023    Ring Ring Ring, Pal Project, Paris, France

2023    This Is Us, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium

2023    Other Edges of the World, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic

2023    Listening to the waterfalls of the sun. Bratislava, Slovakia

2022    On Hearing of an Absence, Haus N. Athens, Greece

2022    When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long, GfZk Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

2022    When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

2022    In the Field of the Other, Management, New York, USA

2021    Things We Sense About Each Other, Baden Art Association, Karlsruhe, Germany

2021    Screams of the Silenced, Grey Space, the Hague, Netherlands

2021    Every day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020    Belarus Art Revolution, Berlin, Germany

2019    Drunken Forest. Vyksa Steelworks History Museum, Vyksa, Russia

2019    After the Future, Smena Center of Modern Culture, Kazan, Russia

2019    Highlights of S.M.A.K. collection, Strombeek Cultural Center, Ghent, Belgium

2019    TENANTS group show, Giorgio Galotti Gallery, Turin, Italy

2018    Dead End Galaxies, Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2018    The Future is Certain, Houston, Texas, USA

2018    The Dutch Savannah, Museum de Domijnen, Sittard, Netherlands

2017    The Future is Certain; It’s the Past which is unpredictable, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK

2017    Camouflaged Pearls, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, Belgium

2016    The Specific Emotional: Between the repetition and the event, Liljevalchs Hubb, Stockholm, Sweden

2016    The Empty Foxhole, HISK, Gent, Belgium

2016    Drawing is Thinking, Thinking is Moving, CIAP Contemporary Art Center, Hasselt, Belgium

2015    Liquid Art, duo exhibition, Plagiarama art space, Brussels, Belgium

2015    Ritualia, Ename Archaeological Museum, Oudenaarde, Belgium

2015    Everything That is Solid Melts into Air, Maxim Bahdanovich Literary Museum, Minsk, 

All information is accurate as of 01 February 2025.