Welcome to Johannes Rau International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB)!
IBB Minsk is a German-Belarusian project, created, elaborated and filled with verve by Germans and Belarusians in a result of joint partnership. The founders of the Centre are: Association for Education and Exchange Dortmund, Sputnik Minsk, Minsk City Executive Committee and Belarusbank. Johannes Rau Center was established following the example of German Academies of Education. The creation was supported by the German Federal State North Rhine-Westphalia, the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, and by a lot of sponsors and individuals. IBB Minsk began its work in 1994 and is happy to welcome guests!
“Building a house” – Belarusian constructivist artist Kazimir Malevich’s painting has been accompanying IBB from the very start of its work.  Firstly, because it inspired the architect Richard Pierschke to develop an unique project, where he creatively applied Malevich’s constructivism, transferring it from a sketch on paper to a real house fit for living. Secondly, because Johannes Rau Center, in its educational programs and daily activities ties in with the ideas of Malevich's paintings from 1915: an expression of creative, new thinking, which could evolve in an atmosphere of changes in modern art style.
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