Social art project

BelonicaArt

This is a project where blind people create amazing pictures using the Likhtar device, which translates colors into music.

Our artists are blind. They feel color through emotions, smells, music. The unique perception of the world around us makes the paintings of our artists extraordinary. This philosophy of understanding the world with your fingertips.

Main artists

SerjB

SerjB founded the BelonicaArt project, where he teaches painting to blind people. He developed a unique technique for teaching blind people to paint and created a device that translates color into music. He is a leading expert and speaker in Belarus on inclusion in art. SerjB`s works have been at exhibitions in New York and Minsk, are represented in the collection of the National Art Museum of Belarus and private collections in the USA, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania.

Selected exhibitions

2021 - National Art museum of Belarus // Permanent exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

2021 - DorDor gallery // Personal exhibition // USA, New-York

2020 - Palace of arts // Personal exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

Anastasia Bergovina

She lost her sight at the age of 6. The lack of vision doesn’t prevent Anastasia from leading an active lifestyle. Now she has closely got her life with creative work. She conducts remedial classes with the blind in the BelonicaArt project and dedicates all her free time to creating her own works. With the loss of vision, the author began to develop synesthesia. Often, when meeting people, Anastasia has different color sensations that help her remember a person. Anastasia`s paintings are in the collection of the National Art Museum of Belarus.

Selected exhibitions

2021 - National Art Museum of Belarus // Permanent exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

Yana Smirnova

Yana hasn’t seen since birth. For Yana, it is important to understand and feel the color. Any color for an artist is an emotion. Quite so with the help of color, you can talk to the viewer, and this is the only way you can feel the color if you have never seen it. Yana`s paintings have been at exhibitions in New York and Minsk, and are also represented in the collection of the National Art Museum of Belarus.

Selected exhibitions

2021 - National Art museum of Belarus // Permanent exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

2021 - DorDor gallery // Personal exhibition // USA, New-York

2020 - Palace of arts // Personal exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

Taras Samsonov

Taras lost his sight more than 20 years ago. But the love of color and the desire to experience colors remained and led the artist to create his astonishing paintings. Taras can’t see color, but the effects on other senses help him to cause color sensations.

Anna Pleskach

Selected exhibitions

2021 - National Art museum of Belarus // Permanent exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

2021 - DorDor gallery // Personal exhibition // USA, New-York

2020 - Palace of arts // Personal exhibition // Belarus, Minsk

Zarina Lisenkova

Since childhood, Zarina had defective eyesight, which eventually disappeared completely. Self-expression through creative work has always been an important part of life and the loss of vision didn’t stop the creative path but helped to rethink. Now colors are not just a visual perception - it is an emotion that causes a much greater response.

Assistance to people with disabilities

Our team is launching a project that is aimed to provide assistance to the disabled. Blind artists are creating wonderful art pieces with a special device called Likhtar. Its function is transferring colors into sound.

People who create beautiful drawings can't see. They can feel colors via smells, emotional aspects, musical sounds. That's what is called the extraordinary ability to percept the surrounding world without seeing it. Their pictures are especially valuable for us. It's based on the philosophy of world understanding with the fingertips.