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. 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 have published Kidnapping Mountains (Book Works, 2009), a celebration of complexity in the Caucasus, Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names (onestar press, 2010) and Molla Nasreddin: the magazine that would‘ve, could‘ve, should‘ve (JRP-Ringier, 2011). They are currently preparing solo engagements for the Secession, Vienna, MoMA, NY, and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

picture credits:
Group Affinity, 2011. Installation views Kunstverein München e.V., 2011. Courtesy Kunstverein München e.V., photographs by: Ulrich Gebert