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Jura Shust is interested in the relationship between traditional rituals and the escapism enabled by modern tools, in the ways ancient mythological beliefs can integrate with contemporary technology. Intrigued by semantic polysemy, informational intoxication, and the primal pursuit of out-of-body experiences, he reflects on how the archaic overlaps with the technological. Rooted in scientific research and focused on the connection between the human psyche and the natural world, Shust’s practice encompasses various media in constructing mental landscapes defined by biopolitics and ethnoreligious beliefs.
Shust has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art GFZK (Leipzig, DE), Contemporary Art Museum S.M.A.K. (Ghent, BE), Museum de Domijnen (Sittard, NL), Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, UA), Calvert 22 Foundation (London, UK), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe, DE), Blaffer Art Museum (Houston, Texas, US), Management (New York, US), among others. He participated in the 14th Baltic Triennial, CAC (Vilnius, LT), 4th Art Encounters Biennial (Timișoara, RO), and 15th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, KR). His works are held in the collection of S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium, and numerous private collections.
Coniferous Succession, Installation view
Jura Shust, Hardens the surface and heals the wound II, 2023
Jura Shust, Hardens the surface and heals the wound II, 2023 (detail)
Jura Shust, Walking, knocking on the roots, and shaking the spruce paws #5, 2022
Jura Shust, Walking, knocking on the roots, and shaking the spruce paws #8, 2023
Jura Shust, Walking, knocking on the roots, and shaking the spruce paws #1, 2023
Jura Shust, Until all the needles fall, 2023
Jura Shust, Coniferous Succession, 2023
November 4, 2024
September 16, 2024
August 21, 2024
November 27, 2023
November 21, 2023
September 27, 2023
April 4, 2023
February 22, 2023
January 25, 2023
December 1, 2019
EDUCATION
Higher Institute for Fine Arts, HISK, Ghent, Belgium
MA in Fine Arts, KASK, Ghent, Belgium
BA in Visual Communication, EHU, Vilnius, Lithuania
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Management, New York, USA (upcoming)
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, Ў Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus
Drunken Forest. Vyksa Steelworks History Museum, Vyksa, Russia
2017
Poppositions, ING Art Center (Brussels, Belgium)
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
Requiem for a New Year, Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus
2013
Repetition, Art Space, Ghent, Belgium
Transcendental Transition, Croxhapox Art Platform, Ghent, Belgium
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
PANSORI ― a soundscape of the 21st century, 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2023
On Hearing of an Absence, Haus N, Athens, Greece
Listening to the Waterfalls of the Sun, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
Other Edges of the World, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
Ring Ring Ring, Pal Projects, Paris, France
2022
When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long, GfZk Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
In the Field of the Other, Management, New York, USA
2021
Things We Sense About Each Other, Baden Art Association, Karlsruhe, Germany
Screams of the Silenced, Grey Space, the Hague, Netherlands
Every day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020
Belarus Art Revolution, Berlin Germany
2019
After the Future, Smena Center of Modern Culture, Kazan, Russia
Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hatte, Richter space, Moscow, Russia
Highlights of S.M.A.K. collection, Strombeek Cultural Center, Ghent, Belgium
TENANTS group show, Giorgio Galotti Gallery, Turin, Italy
2018
Dead End Galaxies, Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
The Future is Certain, Houston, Texas, USA
The Dutch Savannah curated by Barbara Cueto & Bas Hendrikx. Museum de Domijnen, Sittard, Netherlands
2017
The Future is Certain; It’s the past which is unpredictable, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK
Camouflaged Pearls, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, Belgium
2016
The Specific Emotional: Between the repetition and the event, Liljevalchs Hubb, Stockholm, Sweden
The Empty Foxhole, HISK, Gent, Belgium
Drawing is Thinking, Thinking is Moving, CIAP Contemporary art center, Hasselt, Belgium
Open Studios 2016, HISK, Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
In Love With Beauty, powered by Sotheby’s, Zwevegem, Belgium
2015
Liquid Art, duo exhibition, Plagiarama art space, Brussels, Belgium
Ritualia, Ename Archaeological Museum, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Everything That is Solid Melts into Air, Maksim Bahdanovich Literary Museum, Minsk, Belarus
2014
Inventory of the Premises, Zwart Wild art platform, Gent, Belgium
Coming People 2014, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Offside, Ў Contemporary Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Inventory of the Premises, Zwart Wild Art platform, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Final Show, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2012
The Harvest, Ў Contemporary Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
West of East, Ў Contemporary Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Europe N, GfZK Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
2011
Household, Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus
Opening the Door?, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
IOD group performance. Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus
IOD group performance. The Academy of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
FESTIVALS & BIENNALE:
2021
4th Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, RO
The Endless Frontier, 14th Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020
Intro Maze and the Lighthouse, 14th Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017
Work hard! Play hard! Festival, Minsk, Belarus
2016
DEEP INSIDE, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2015
Survival K(n)it 7, International Contemporary Art Festival, Riga, Latvia
The Wrong, New Digital Art Biennale, Ghent, Belgium
2014
Limited Access V screening, Festival for Moving Images, Sound, and Performance, Tehran, Iran
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Jura Shust is included in UtOpium at Geste, Paris
November 2, 2024
Paris Internationale
Management is pleased to present a solo booth with works by Jura Shust at Paris Internationale 10th edition, October 16 — 20
October 16, 2024
Jura Shust is included in Prologue: Chlorophyllic Chorus at Council + , Berlin
October 11, 2024
Vladislav Markov and Jura Shust are included in the 15th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, opening September 7th
March 29, 2024
Jura Shust is featured in I’m Driving Through Hell...And I Just Brought Snow on David Zwirner's Platform, curated by Graham Wilson
March 1, 2024
Jura Shust is included in Sacred Threads at Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, curated by Olga Generalova
March 1, 2024
Jura Shust is included in Interfaces at Lille Art Up! in Lille, curated by Annuschka Leung
February 8, 2024
LOOP, Barcelona
Management is pleased to present a new video work by Jura Shust at LOOP Fair in Barcelona, November 21—23
October 19, 2023
Jura Shust is included in Ring Ring Ring at Pal Project in Paris, curated by Andy Rankin
October 14, 2023
Jura Shust is included in Other Edges of the World at MeetFactory in Prague, curated by Lucia Kvocaková, Piotr Sikora, Flóra Gadó
September 13, 2023
Jura Shust is included in Listening to the Waterfalls of the Sun at Tranzit.sk in Bratislava, curated by Flóra Gadó
April 14, 2023