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: 1. 2. – 31. 3.2025

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 Communication, EHU, Vilnius, Lithuania

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2025    (Upcoming) Management, New York, USA
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

2025   (upcoming) Tokyo Odaiba Triennale 2025, Tokyo, Japan
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

2025    (Upcoming) Public Park, Botanique (Brussels, Belgium)
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, 

RESIDENCIES

2025    (Upcoming) Artist Residency, The Watermill Center, New York, USA
2025    Artist Residency, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic

All information is accurate as of 01 February 2025.