Dear friends,
For last years, Chrysalis Mag has been covering contemporary Belarusian art every single day. We help make artists’ work visible in the media, collect and organize valuable, internationally recognized art archives, and develop and launch social projects. We value our independence and do everything we can to continue supporting Belarusian art and sharing it with the world. Today, it is speaking to a global audience with renewed strength.

We have never asked for help before, but the time has come. Paying our regular contributors, maintaining the website, and creating and sustaining our social projects all require funding.

Support Us

This work takes a great deal of time and effort. If you value what we do, we invite you to support our project. By doing so, you become part of preserving and developing contemporary art in Belarus. You can contribute any amount that feels right to you →

PayPal → chrysalisartmagazine@gmail.com

Chrysalis Mag is more than a platform. Since the project began, we have:

Held the online exhibition Lockdown, created to help artists minimize cultural and financial losses during the COVID-19 crisis.

Launched the Zerno Project, an exhibition exploring the growth of collective Belarusian self-awareness.

Produced Synchronization — an educational platform service on contemporary art for older audiences, created with the support of the Goethe-Institut.

Co-created a multimedia project with the Art-Belarus Gallery, timed to the opening of the UNOVIS exhibition Direction of Motion.

Selected as finalists among more than 270 projects in Social Weekend, a national competition for Belarusian social initiatives (2020).

Co-sponsored the first U.S. exhibition of Rufina Bazlova at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Maintain the only Archive of protest art in Belarus, documenting events since August 2020. Our materials have been included in the web registry of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Publish on Instagram, with more than 22K followers, and have continuously updated our website for over 8 years with new materials on Belarusian artists and art events.

Featured in two individual reports on Belarusian art at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference (ASEEES 2021).

Awarded the third place in the Debut category at the Free Word competition organized by the Belarusian Association of Journalists for our project Political Prisoners of the 1930s: The History of Repressed Belarusian Artists.

Curated Visual Codes of Meaning exhibition — a visual dialogue between contemporary Belarusian art and the ideas driving innovation, society, and the future for TEDxUlicaMinska (2026).

Reliesed A Codes of Heritage — a stereogram generator built on Belarusian national ornaments (so we remember what they mean, effortlessly, while having fun). You can export your design and print it as a poster, and your wall keeps the depth in 2D.

And there’s more to come. We truly hope so.

 Regards, Chrysalis Mag team