Biography

Aliaksandr Biruk (b. 1992, Minsk) is a painter currently living and working in Warsaw. He received his initial training in easel painting before completing higher education in monumental painting. This dual background continues to inform his practice, in which painting is approached not simply as an image, but as the construction of a perceptual and psychological environment. Biruk's practice explores states of experience that exist before meaning solidifies into stable narratives and those in which established narratives begin to dissolve. He is interested in the fragile threshold between presence and interpretation — moments in which experience remains immediate, embodied, and not yet fully articulated. Experiences of displacement and movement between different cultural contexts have deepened this interest by revealing the constructed nature of personal and collective narratives. In response, Biruk's paintings construct symbolic and phenomenological spaces — often forests, landscapes, and ritual-like environments — in which familiar structures of meaning become temporarily suspended. Within these spaces, he explores the human impulse to generate significance through perception, repetition, symbolic association, and embodied action: the processes through which experiences of presence, ritual, enchantment, and narrative itself emerge. For Biruk, simple gestures, bodily play, and elementary forms of attention function as pathways into this pre-narrative space, where the experience of presence temporarily precedes explanation and interpretation.

In 2024, Biruk received the Gaude Polonia scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Georgia and the Netherlands and is held in private collections in the USA, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Thailand, the UAE, Ukraine, and Georgia.