{"id":543769,"date":"2026-05-20T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543769"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:02:58","slug":"divers-in-the-biennale-famous-graffiti-by-belarusian-artist-appear-in-venice-photo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/divers-in-the-biennale-famous-graffiti-by-belarusian-artist-appear-in-venice-photo-report","title":{"rendered":"Divers in the Biennale! Famous Graffiti by Belarusian Artist Appear in Venice \u2014 Photo Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belarusian street artist Mihas Mishuk<\/b><\/strong> decided to join the Venice Biennale \u2014 his signature graffiti figures, divers, have appeared across the city on the islands.<\/p>\n

Mihas describes his action as an unofficial intervention of Belarusian street art into the Venetian forum.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mihas Mishuk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI came literally for a couple of days to put up the divers,\u201d<\/i><\/em> he told Reform.news, commenting on his appearance in Italy. \u201cThis is my personal \u2018parallel programme\u2019 during the Biennale, an attempt to make a statement outside institutions and return art directly to the urban space.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

The signature diver image created by the Belarusian street artist can now be seen in many countries around the world. Residents of Warsaw know it well. Now the divers have \u201c<\/em>arrived\u201d in the famous city of art on the islands.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mihas Mishuk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn Venice, the divers are integrated into the urban landscape as temporary figures of people living between different countries, languages and identities,\u201d<\/i><\/em> Mihas recalled the concept behind his work. \u201cThese characters \u2014 people in protective shells \u2014 symbolise different human stories united by the experience of losing a home, emigration, vulnerability and the search for one\u2019s place.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

Importantly, for Venice the artist created a special image: a diver together with the winged lion \u2014 the symbol of the city.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mihas Mishuk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI made a collaboration, so to speak, to be a little more understandable to the local audience,\u201d<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

There are now 36 graffiti works by Mihas Mishuk in Venice \u2014 both the \u201cclassic\u201d divers and versions featuring the winged lion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do more, but I ran out of energy,\u201d<\/i><\/em> the artist said, adding that he now plans to create a city map showing where his graffiti can be found.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mihas Mishuk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mihas did not manage to visit the Belarusian project at the Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a different goal,\u201d<\/i><\/em> the artist replied, referring to the specifics of his artistic practice. \u201cBut at night I walked past the Belarusian exhibition and, so to speak, sent my greetings to it.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belarusian street artist Mihas Mishuk decided to join the Venice Biennale \u2014 his signature graffiti figures, divers, have appeared across the city on the islands. Mihas describes his action as an unofficial intervention of Belarusian street art into the Venetian forum. \u201cI came literally for a couple of days to put up the divers,\u201d he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":543768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0d78c54c7df.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Divers in the Biennale! Famous Graffiti by Belarusian Artist Appear in Venice \u2014 Photo Report"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}