Shust explores the relationship between ritual, discipline, and escapism. Intrigued by modern polysemy, informational intoxication, and the ancient desire for oblivion he reflects on how the mythological overlaps with technological. Being inspired by the sacral concept of the human mind incorporation into a global system, Shust addresses the idea of spiritual ecology. The artist has a multidisciplinary approach and works in the field of installation using a variety of mediums.
Since 2012 Shust has collaborated with the Museum of Contemporary Art GFZK (Leipzig), Contemporary Art Museum S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Museum de Domijnen (Sittard), Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv), Calvert 22 Foundation (London), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe), Blaffer Art Museum (Houston, Texas) and other galleries. He took part in the 5th Biennale for Young Art (Moscow, Russia), 14th Baltic Triennial, CAC (Vilnius) and 4th Art Encounters Biennial (Timișoara).
EDUCATION
Higher Institute for Fine Arts, HISK, Ghent, Belgium
MA in Fine Arts, KASK, Ghent, Belgium
BA in Visual Communication, EHU, Vilnius, Lithuania
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Evergreen (Forthcoming), Fragment Gallery, New York, USA
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
Baptism by Fire, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long (Forthcoming), GfZk Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long (Forthcoming), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
In the Field of the Other, Fragment Gallery, 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
After the Future, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
New Materialism: from instrument to sculpture, Omelchenko Gallery, 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
No matter that the phone is ringing the special program of 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
Limited Access V screening, Festival for Moving Images, Sound, and Performance, Tehran, Iran
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2020
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, nominee in the Best Media Object category, Russia
2015
Coming People. Nominee. Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium