{"id":558977,"date":"2026-07-11T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558977"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:29:37","slug":"three-years-ago-belarusian-artist-performer-activist-and-political-prisoner-ales-pushkin-died-in-hrodna-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/three-years-ago-belarusian-artist-performer-activist-and-political-prisoner-ales-pushkin-died-in-hrodna-prison","title":{"rendered":"Three Years Ago, Belarusian Artist, Performer, Activist and Political Prisoner Ales Pushkin Died in Hrodna Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Artist <b>Ales Pushkin<\/b> died on July 11 at the age of 57 in the intensive care unit of a Hrodna hospital, where he had been taken from prison. The artist had a perforated ulcer and did not receive timely medical assistance. According to human rights activists and his relatives, he was taken to hospital too late.<\/p>\n<p>In late March 2021, Pushkin returned to Belarus from Kyiv, knowing that a criminal case had been opened against him. Soon after his arrival, he was detained and sentenced to five years in a high-security penal colony over a portrait of anti-Soviet partisan <b>Yauhen Zhykhar<\/b>, which Pushkin exhibited in Hrodna, and a performance he staged in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_558935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558935\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558935\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1-551x1024.jpg 551w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1-768x1428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1-215x400.jpg 215w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/w6m5fy3338-17-z-minulaha-1-430x800.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-558935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ales Pushkin. Canvas, artist&#8217;s blood. 1989<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His art is difficult to separate from his life, which resembled an endless performance. He was a performance artist, painter, graphic artist, icon painter and restorer. He was arrested while working on the restoration of the palace in Zhylichy.<\/p>\n<p>A major art album devoted to Ales Pushkin is scheduled for release in autumn 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The artist&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alespushkin.com\/be\">memorial page<\/a> is also being expanded. It currently features about 300 works by Ales Pushkin. The archive section contains interviews with the artist, research texts, memoirs and materials about his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Ales Pushkin died on July 11 at the age of 57 in the intensive care unit of a Hrodna hospital, where he had been taken from prison. The artist had a perforated ulcer and did not receive timely medical assistance. According to human rights activists and his relatives, he was taken to hospital too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":558976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a526f75ad703.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Three Years Ago, Belarusian Artist, Performer, Activist and Political Prisoner Ales Pushkin Died in Hrodna Prison"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558977","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=558977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}