ARTFACT GROUP   *   SINCE 1985

BELARUS   *  RUSSIA   *   USA

S.Zhilevich

I. Shlosberg

V. Saganovich

E. Kuznetsov

V. Yushkevich

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The popular group of artist established in 80-th in Belarus. Artists of Artfact participated in many exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, French, Germany, Spain, Israel, Hungary, Poland and USA.

There were many art groups established in Russia in the middle of Gorbachev's Perestrojka. ArtFact Group is one of them. It was organized by Viktor Saganovich and Eugen Kuznetsov back in end of 1980-s. Together they developed the idea of an art group and Viktor Saganovich gave the name for this group - ArtFact.
They called artistic friends and in a couple of months the first exhibition of ArtFact had a place in the culture center of Pinsk city in Belarus. The first exhibition was eclectic because participating artists followed their own style. As a result the exhibition became non-commercial and very creative. There were well known as well as younger artists: Sergey Zhilevich, Nikolay Kozlovsky, Michael Peysahovich, Vladimir Minakov, Naum Sheir, Sergey Koprusov, Sergey Tolkachev, Genady Gurin, Viktor Ushkevich, Izya Shlosberg.
In the late 90s, the ArtFact group entered the Shiva-club association. Association Shiva-club - represents artists, writers, poets, scientists, musicians and actors with numerous talents.