BIO:

Founded in 2005, Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Based between Brussels, Cambridge, and Moscow, the collective's work spans several media, disciplines, and a broad spectrum of cultural registers (high and low) focusing on an oft-forgotten sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. Slavs and Tatars is Kasia Korczak, Payam Sharifi, Boy Vereecken and Victoria Camblin. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Musem of Modern Art, New York.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009
Hymns of No Resistance, Kaai Theatre, Brussels (upcoming)
Kidnapping Mountains, Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium and 032c, Berlin

2008
Common Wealth, 032c, Berlin
A Thirteenth Month Against Time, Newman-Popiashvili Gallery, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2009
79/89/09, Goethe-Institut, New York (upcoming)
Live Archive of 'The Generational: Younger Than Jesus', New Museum, New York

2008
Place it, Parallel Events Manifesta 7, Lungomare Gallery, Bolzano
Shifting Identities, Kunsthall Zürich
Pro eto, NCCA, Moscow Biennale of Young Artists
Forms of Inquiry, traveling show: Casco, Utrecht; lux, Valence; IASPIS, Stockholm; BolteLang, Zürich; Archizoom EPFL, Lausanne
Ostersund, Färgfabriken, Stockholm

2007
Left Pop, Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art
New Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto
NY Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, New York
Books by Artists, E:vent Gallery, London
10 Years, Colette, Paris

2006
Publish and Be Damned, Casco Projects, Utrecht
30ANSCHLAEGE, Public Exhibition in Heidelberg

2005
Festival International de la Mode et de Photographie, Hyéres
Proud and Sad/ Wrong and Strong, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Barbican, London
Somewhere Totally Else, Design Museum, London

AWARDS:

2009
Le prix Fernand Baudin 2008, Brussels

2008
Grand Prix of the Brno Biennial 2008, The Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Award

2005
Selection Officielle, Festival International de la Mode et de Photographie, Hyéres Bloomberg New Contemporaries

COLLECTIONS:

Print Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PRESS:

2009
Slavs and Tatars, 'Tehran 1979: Paper Participation Politics', 032c, issue 17
Jasmine De Bruycker, 'Kidnapping Mountains', Klara.be, May 13
Slavs and Tatars, Kidnapping Mountains, Book Works, London
Shaun Walker, 'The Expatriate', Fantastic Man, issue 9
Negar Azimi, 'I Often Dream of Slavs', Bidoun, issue 16

2008
Payam Sharifi, 'Flattened History', Metropolis M, No. 5
Anna Dyulgerova, 'Novi Moskvich', Harper's Bazaar, September
Ingrid Chu, 'Rebuilding the Pantheon', Filip, issue 8
Slavs and Tatars, 'Mohammed Mossadeq', LamMagazine.com, May
Alison Cool, 'Wall to Wall', Style.com, April 8

2007
Slavs and Tatars, 'Drafting Defeat', Cities from Zero, Ed. Shumon Basar, AA Publications
Holland Cotter, 'Art between Covers', New York Times, September 29
Suzy Menkes, 'Paris' Colette', International Herald Tribune, March 26

2006
Featured in 'The Conditions of Graphic Design', IDEA No. 316
Featured in 'The Creators Network', +81, vol. 33
Slavs and Tatars, 'Slavs', 032c, issue 11
Payam Sharifi, 'Veiled Beauty', Another Magazine, issue 10

2005
Brigitte Ollier, 'L'oeil Hyéres', Libération, May 5
Gert Jonkers, 'Modewereld is op zoek naar foto's met inhoud', De Volkskrant, May 2
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, 'Iran -- her motherland, his first trip', Austin American-Statesman, April 21
Heather Mathews, 'Soody Sharifi with Payam Sharifi', Glasstire.com, April 21
Payam Sharifi, 'Past - The Undecideds', Another Magazine, issue 9
Payam Sharifi, 'Discretion', A Magazine curated by Haider Ackermann, vol 3
Payam Sharifi, 'Révolutions de FaÁade', Libération, August 11

ENGAGEMENTS:

Visiting Lecturer, The Royal College of Art, London
Judge, HfG Ulm School of Design
Visiting Lecturer, The Architecture Association, London
Moderator, Independent Publishing, ICA, London
Pecha Kucha, Sadwell's Theatre, London
Lectures and Workshops in various European institutions and festivals