Kadan Nikita

Nikita Kadan (1982, Kyiv) graduated from National Academy of Fine Art (Kyiv) in 2007. Nikita Kadan works with installation, sculpture, painting, graphics, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with historians, architects and human rights activists. He is a member of the artist group REP (Revolutionary Experimental Space) and founding member of Hudrada (Artistic Committee), a curatorial and activist collective. Kadan lives in Kyiv. His works were presented at in the Ukrainian Pavilion of the 56th Biennale Venice in 2015.

Selected group exhibitions:

2023
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912–2023, Albertinum, Dresden
Happiness, Hygiene Museum, Dresden
Artists in a Time of War, Castello di Rivoli contemporary art museum, Turin
A poetic of resistance, Jerome Poggi gallery at ARCO2023, Madrid

2022
Flags, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
The Pain of Others, DOX Art Centre, Prague
Renewal, Biennale Zielona Góra 2022
Streams upstream | OSTRALE contemporary art exhibition, Central Post Office, Kaunas
Museum in Motion, M HKA museum, Antwerp
Stolen Sun, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
6 ½ WEEKS – ASORTYMENTNA KIMNATA. What is depicted here?, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Dzherelo artists’ screening, a part of ‘Practitheorizing Counterinstitutions’ workshop at DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN, WH22 AKA, Kassel
The Working Room, Asortymentna Kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk
When Faith Moves Mountains, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Radical Hope Exhibition of the Białystok’s Arsenal Gallery Collection II, National Gallery, Tbilisi
War Diaries, Gallery Artbeat, Propaganda Network, Tbilisi
Imagine Ukraine – Art as a Critical Attitude, M HKA, Antwerp
Imagine Ukraine – Small and Big Stories, Bozar, Brussels
Imagine Ukraine – The Artist as a Witness, European Parliament, Brussels
Artists at Risk (AR) at Frieze New York
The Territories of Abstraction, FRIEZE No.9 CORK STREET, Jerome Poggi gallery, London
The Movable Circle, public sculpture by Nikita Kadan installed at Union square during Romanian Creative Week, Iasi
Fractional Expressions, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Jiá Fèng 夹缝, Troy House, London
THIS IS UKRAINE: DEFENDING FREEDOM, A Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
POINTS of RESISTANCE IV: Skills for Peace, Zionskirche, Berlin
String Figures, after the butcher – exhibition space for contemporary art & social issues, Berlin
A Letter from the Front (curated by Nikita Kadan), Castello di Rivoli, Turin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Haus der Kunst, Munich/LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut), Lille/TBA21 on st_age/Kunsthalle Trondheim
Tryvoha (curated by Nikita Kadan), Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv