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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
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
FESTIVALS & BIENNALE:
2021 4th Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, RO
2021 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
2015 The Wrong, New Digital Art Biennale, Ghent, Belgium
2015 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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 NEOPHYTE II, EXILE Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2020 NEOPHYTE, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 NEOPHYTE, Ў Gallery of Contemporary Art ,Minsk, Belarus
2019 Drunken Forest. Vyksa Steelworks History Museum, Vyksa, Russia
2017 Baptism by Fire, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Poppositions, ING Art Center (Brussels, Belgium)
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, Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus
2013 Repetition, Art space, Ghent, Belgium
2013 Transcendental Transition, Croxhapox Art Platform, Ghent, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 After the Future, Smena Center of Modern Culture, Kazan, Russia
2019 Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hatte, Richter space, Moscow, Russia
2019 After the Future, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 New Materialism: from instrument to sculpture, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow, 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 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
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
2016 Open Studios 2016, HISK, Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2016 In Love With Beauty, powered by Sotheby’s, Zwevegem, 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, Maksim Bahdanovich Literary Museum, Minsk, Belarus
2014 Inventory of the Premises, Zwart Wild art platform, Gent, Belgium
2014 Coming People 2014, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
2014 Offside, Ў Contemporary Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2014 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
2012 West of East. Ў Contemporary Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2012 Europe N, GfZK Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Household, Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus
2011 Opening the Door?, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 IOD group performance. Ў Contemporary Art Center, Minsk, Belarus
2011 IOD group performance. The Academy of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania