Raman Tratsiuk, Double Sickle, 2023

mosaic, 26 x 50 cm

Raman Tratsiuk's political abstractions

I view Raman Tratsyuk's serpentine paintings as an example of contemporary
political abstraction. The artist addresses the current issues of our time
of the time by expressing himself through the multiplied motif of the sickle,
Which is turned into a repetitive abstract symbolic form
symbolic. This is the essence of the action of art, which is completely different
from the literalness of language, for the image contains a synthesis,
multiplicity of positions, ambiguity, irrationality and haze of
meanings, all however enabling meanings. Paradoxically, in
this multiplicity the Sierps aesthetically seductive and mesmerizing effectively cut the
the surface of our ideological reality.

Pavel Leszkowicz

Raman Tratsiuk (1981, Brest, Belarus).
He lives and works in Poznań.
Since 1998, together with Volha Maslouska, he has co-founded the Bergamot group. Graduate of Painting (2004) and Intermedia (2007) at UAP.
In 2012 he defended his doctorate in fine arts.
From 2004-2018, together with Prof. Izabella Gustowska, he co-founded the Film and Performative Activities studio at the UAP's Multimedia Communication Department.
2018-2023 - assistant professor at the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies at UAP.

As an artist, he is interested in performativity, interaction between the artist and the viewer, exploring issues of image and self-presentation in the media and the internet, discovering the signs of art in the everyday environment and also working with ready-made objects. Curator of more than 20 exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art.
Works have been presented at the Zachęta National Art Gallery, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Poznań, National Museum in Lublin, St-Etienne Metropole Musée d'Art Moderne, Museum of Modern Art MUMOK, European Media Art Festival, European Biennale of Contemporary Art Manifesta 9, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Venice Art Biennale, among others.

Works are in the collection of the National Museum in Lublin, private collections in the USA, Switzerland, England, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Belarus.

1999 - 2004 Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań faculty: painting,
Diploma in the atelier of Prof. W. Łazarczyk
2003 - 2007 Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań faculty: Intermedia, diploma in the studio of Prof. I. Gustowska
2004 - 2018 Assistant Prof. I. Gustowska in the Studio of Performative and Multimedia Activities at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication, UAP
2012 Doctorate in fine arts (artistic discipline-design arts)
At the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at UAP.
Promoter: prof. I. Gustowska, reviewers: Marek Wasilewski, prof. dr. hab., Artur Tajber prof. dr. hab.
2018-2023 Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Art Education and Curating at UAP.

Selected exhibitions:
2023 Now. Gallery Exhibition Office. Polish Modern Art Foundation. Warsaw
2023 The 10th Asia-Europe Mediations Biennial. ArtIstambul Feshane, Istanbul
2023 Pluto conservat omnia, Domie, Poznań
2023 ARE YOU HERE WITH US? New Media Museum.
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, The Netherlands
2023 Bergamot Group. Organic life. MQ, Vienna, Austria
2022 Bergamot Group. Organic life. Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
2022 Flight. Conference Crisis and the Arts.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2022 Infrastructures For Care. Antiwarcoalition.art at Venice Art Biennale
2022 When Language Is Lost. Possibilities of art in the face of war:
One day with Anti-War Coalition. Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Kubus
2022 One week screening, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
2022 Coalition, Domie, Poznan, Poland
2022 8 Mediations Biennale Poland. EXIT CODE, Gdansk, Poland
2022 Pavilion 0/4. Beyond CODE & Time, Spazio Thetis, Venice, Italy.
2022 International Malta Festival, Poznan, Poland.
2022 Sickles. Solo exhibition, Rectorat gallery, Zielona Góra.
2022 pARTisanka, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany.
2022 Symularis 6, Fx gallery - Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
2022 Symularis 4, CCA Power Plant, Czeladź, Poland
2021 Deformation, Domie, Poznan, Poland
2021 Fantazeri festival. (Budapest Hotel Art Residency) Jasinia, Ukraine
2021 Screams of the Silenced. The Grey Space in the Middle. The Hague, Netherlands
2021 Performensk. Performance Festival. Minsk, Belarus
2021 Please don't be confused!
Navicula Artis, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021 Every Day. Art Solidarity. Resistance.
Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Correspondences Artist to collection,
National Museum in Lublin, Lublin
2021 Recollect And Collect, Third place, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2020 We Are People, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin, Poland.
2020 BELARUS / ART OF RESISTANCE, Arti et Amicitiae Gallery,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 Raman Tratsiuk. Electric Objects. Individual exhibition
From the series 100 / 100 - one hundred exhibitions for one hundred years of the University of Arts
in Poznan, Rotunda Gallery. Poznan, Poland
2020 Belarus: The Square of Change. Perron West, CK Utrecht, the Netherlands
2020 Belarus. Art Revolution. Red Square Festival.
Festival of activism and critical art of Eastern Europe.
Kulturfabrik Moabit, Berlin, Germany.
2020 Faceless, KH Gallery, Brest, Belarus.
2019 Permanent Reflections / Permanent Reflections.
Individual exhibition, National Museum in Poznań, Poland.
2019 Suprematist Wedding. Individual exhibition,
Atelier WIMAR, Poznan, Poland.
2019 Organic Work. Saray Gallery, Brest, Belarus.
2019 Illness as a source of art. National Museum in Poznań
2018 BUNT. Large Stage of the University of Arts in Poznań, Poznań.
2018 ANTI-STATIC. National Museum in Poznań
2018 Isotope, Skala gallery, Poznan, Poland
2018 Zbor In Progress, gallery "Y " Minsk, Belarus.
2018 Suprematic Wedding. Individual exhibition.
Main program Month of Photography in Minsk (MFM),
KH gallery, Brest, Belarus
2016 ZBOR. Belarusian Art Movement, Izolyatsia,
Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Krzyżówka, MOS, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland.
2015 Poison, Pawilon Nowa Gazownia, Poznań, Poland.
2015 PIERRE_FEUILLE_CISEAUX, Le Générateur gallery, Paris, France.
2015 COLLECTION/COLLECTION - constructing the archive - Belarusian art
contemporary art, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2014 XXY, gallery "Y" Minsk, Belarus
2012 Still ON (35 years of ON gallery), ON gallery, Poznan, Poland.
2012 Biennale of contemporary art "Mediations", Poznan, Poland.
2012 Hotel De Inmigrantes - Cosmopolitan Stranger, Manifesta 9, Hasselt, Belgium.
2012 Festival of performative actions "Offscenic", Czestochowa, Poland.
2012 Anonymous Self-Portraits. Individual exhibition,
Art Stations, Poznań
2011 Thriller, SiC Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2011 Thriller, Gallery BWA Leszno
2011 Thriller, Pressure Tower, Konin
2011 Love is Love Festival Transeuropa, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin.
2010 Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum in Warsaw.
2010 Living Sculptures, Stary Browar, Poznan.
2009 Larvas of the future, as part of the 3rd Moscow Art Biennale,
Moscow, Russia
2009 Vogue, CCA Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
2008 Subfebrile state, Stary Browar, Poznań
2008 Another City Another Life, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
2008 Art Must be Beautiful. Stary Browar, Poznań
2007 Empire of the Senses - exhibition of lecturers from the Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts
in Poznań, Stary Browar, Poznań
2007 Mandala Performance Festival, Wroclaw
2007 Artists in Wonderland, Baltic Sea Cultural Center, Gdansk.
2007 Arterie festival, Katowice
2007 Belart. Belarusian art festival , Prague, Czech Republic
2007 New Eurasia Festival of Performance (within the framework of Europe-Asia Mediations),
Poznan
2007 Performance Park Art Festival, Podlaska Gallery, Biala Podlaska
2006 European Performance Art Festival.
CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2006 Territories, Cultural Center in Lublin, Lublin
2006 Out-or? Polish-English exhibition, Poznań
2006 Vidioci, Stary Browar, Poznań
2006 Mandala Performance Festival, Wroclaw
2006 TARDIS International Performance Art Festival, Ipswich, UK
2006 Willing to look, ON Gallery, Poznań
2005 Full Season, Modelarnia, Gdansk, Poland
2005 Art Poznań Now. Exhibition as part of the Art Biennale in Lodz.
2005 PUSTO 4th international video art festival, Moscow, Russia
2005 Urban flesh and blood, Prodajna Galerija, Beograd, Serbia,
Barricades, Kaliningrad, Russia
2005 Frankly. 3rd Polish-English exhibition, Stary Browar, Poznań
2004 Passage d'Europe, St-Etienne Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne,
St-Etienne, France
2003 Inner Spaces Multimedia festival, Poznań
2003 Precedence 06 festival Tarnowskie Góry
2003 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
2003 Public Rituals. Art/Video from Poland,
Museum of Modern Art MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2002 Navinki+. International Performance Festival, Minsk, Belarus
2002 Inner Spaces Multimedia festival, Poznań
2002 Space festival, ON Gallery, Poznań
2002 Organic life, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznań
2001 Eternal Quest For Home, Performance festival,
CCA Inner Spaces, Poznań
2001 Intermedia art festival, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń.
2001 Inner Spaces Multimedia festival, Poznań
2000 Navinki+International Performance Festival, Minsk, Belarus
2000 Fort of Art International Festival of contemporary art, Cracow
2000 Time, Space, Persona. Festival of contemporary art,
Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus
2000 New Art of Belarus , Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
2000 Projection. International video art festival, Minsk, Belarus
2000 Description of One Place. Festival of Belarusian Contemporary Art,
Arsenal City Gallery, Poznań
2000 Organic Life, Podlaska Gallery, Biala Podlaska
2000 Inner Spaces Multimedia festival, Poznań
1999 First Belarusian-Polish Festival of Contemporary Art, Brest, Belarus
1999 Navinki+. International Performance Festival, Minsk, Belarus
1999 Young Art, Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus
1998 4+B-0 Belarusian-Polish exhibition, Brest, Belarus.