Why do we need your help?

Because we can’t continue our work without it.

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. The Chrysalis Mag team consists of 15 people, all of whom currently work on a volunteer basis.

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 →

Chrysalis Mag is more than a magazine. 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 — a lecture series on contemporary art for older audiences, created with the support of cultural center Corpus and 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.
  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.
  Co-sponsored the first U.S. exhibition of Rufina Bazlova at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  Publish daily on Instagram, with more than 22K followers, and have continuously updated our website for over two 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 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.

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

Regards, Chrysalis Mag team