Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective by Payam Sharifi and Kasia Korczak devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institution across the globe, including the Vienna Secession; MoMA, New York; Salt, Istanbul; Albertinum Dresden, amongst others.  The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications, and lecture-performances. The collective has published more than twelve books to date, including most recently their first children’s book,  Azbuka Strikes Back with Walther und Franz König, and their translations of the legendary Azeri political satire,  Molla Nasreddin, in 2011.⁠ ⁠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.