Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since their inception in 2006, they have shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production encompassing popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories and modern myths, in addition to scholarly research. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions across the globe, such as the Vienna Secession; MoMA, New York; Salt, Istanbul; and the Albertinum, Dresden, amongst others.

The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications and lecture-performances. To date, Slavs and Tatars has published more than twelve books, including their first children’s book, Azbuka Strikes Back (2024), with Walther und Franz König, and their translations of the legendary Azeri political satire, Molla Nasreddin (2011), with JRP.

In 2020, Slavs and Tatars opened Pickle Bar, a Slavic aperitivo-bar-cum-project-space a few doors down from their studio in the Moabit district of Berlin as well as a residency and mentorship program for young professionals from the region. Upcoming shows solo exhibitions will be held at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City and Kunstmuseen Krefeld. The collective’s forthcoming book, Simurgh Self-Help, will be out with JRP|Ringier in the summer of 2026.

Their works are in important public and private collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; the Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, Italy; and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, amongst others.