Ilya Sprindzhuk

Ilya Sprindzhuk (b. 1994 in Minsk, Belarus)

Multidisciplinary artist in political exile in Warsaw since 2021. His artistic practice includes painting, installation, sculpture, actionism, and focuses on phenomena of power, boundaries, and the politics of memory. His works often operate at a large scale, interact directly with space, and incorporate processes of self-decay and transformation. Growing up in Belarus, he witnessed how history and cultural heritage were instrumentalised by the state and transformed into tools of ideological control. This experience has become central to his artistic research, which examines how local narratives are shaped and manipulated within broader global political processes. Through material-based and site-specific practices, his work investigates how memory becomes a field of power and resistance.

Sprindzhuk graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Minsk, Belarus. He studied at the Faculty of Furniture Design in the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. In 2021, due to political repressions and persecution by the Belarusian authorities, he was forced to leave the country and emigrate to Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2024). His practice also includes designing exhibitions and cultural events. Sprindzhuk has participated in many artist residencies, discussions, and interventionist projects, i.e. Knock-knock, Poland; Za’opatrzenie (Provision), Poland; Monuments of Oblivion, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, as well as grup shows in Poland and abroad, i.e. Made in Trenčin, Slovakia (2026), Crash Club, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Poland (2024), Art-Minsk, Minsk, Belarus (2020).