Exhibition at ZVE Bratislava 2020
Solo show at ZVE Prague 2019
Zhanna KADYROVA (1981, Ukraine)
Education
1992—1999 School of Art by T. G. Schevchenko
Awards
2018 Miami Beach PULSE PRIZE
2013 PinchukArtCentre Prize
2012 Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award (Public Art)
2012 Kazimir Malevich Artist Award
2012 Grand Prix – Kyiv Sculpture Project
2011 PinchukArtCentre Special Prize
Collections
The Permanent Collection at the Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Mystetski Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Galleria Arsenal ,Białystok, Poland
Kunsthalle Prague, Czech Rep.
Kontakt collection-ERSTE Stiftung, Vienna, Austria
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Izolyatsia Platform of Cultural initiatives. Ukraine
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Unexpected, curated by Björn Geldhof, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Rep.
2024 Border Memory, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala konstmuseum, Sweden
2023/24 Flying Trajectories, curated by Björn Geldhof, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Out of Home, Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Germany
2023 Daily Bread. A First Retrospective, curated by Christoph Platz-Gallus, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2022 Zhanna Kadyrova, Material Evidence, solo exhibition, Stavanger Museum, Stavanger, Norway
2022 PALIANYTSIA, St.Agnes Chapel, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany
2022 PALIANYTSIA, Castello 2145, Riva San Biasio, Venezia, Italy
2021 Art Cologne, represented by Galleria Continua and Zahorian & Van Espen
2020/21 (Almost) Involuntary Sculptures, with Jiří KOVANDA, curated by Elena Sorokina, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava
2020 It was forbidden to swim in the water area of the plant, Invogue gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2020 Redemption sale, with Davide Volponi, galleria MACCA, Cagliari, Italy
2020 Market site specific project-performance, Armory Show, New York
2019 Permiso para el coctel, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Havana, Cuba
2019 Animalier, Villa Pacchiani Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Pisa, Italy
2019 Resistance of Matter, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France
2019 Resistance of Matter, Zahorian & Van Espen Gallery, Czech Rep.
2018 Market, site specific project-performance, Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Market, site specific project-performance, PULSE Miami, Florida, USA
2017 Market, site-specific project-performance, in collaboration with Izolyatsia – Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Art Fair Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo
2017 Zhilmassiv, artist-run space, Apartment 14, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Perfomance V, Nikola Đurković Cultural Center, Kotor, ME
2016 Mia casa, mia fortezza, GALLERIA CONTINUA / San Gimignano
2016 Hohulya with Denys Ruban, Detenpula gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2016 Crypsis with Alice Nikitinova, PLATO – platform (for contemporary art) Ostrava City Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2016 Yours/Mine Бükü – Bureau for Cultural Translations, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Yours/Mine, Small Gallery Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
2015 Experiments. with Lada Nakonechna, BWA gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Performance The School of Kyiv - Kyiv Biennial 2015 National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kiev, Ukraine
2015 Second hand ,Platforma, Kiev, Ukraine
2015 Alterations, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2014 Street Collection, residency, Baro Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2013 Crowd, Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2013 Data Extraction, GALLERIA CONTINUA / San Gimignano, Italy
2012 Crowd, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Asphalt, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2011 City Project, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA
2011 Invisible Forms, Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Form of Light, public art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 The Guide, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 Apple, public art, Lenin St., Perm, Russia
2009 Monument to a New Monument, public art, Sharhorod, Ukraine
2009 Calculation, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 Calculation, Pop-up project, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 Graphs, public art, under the auspices of “City – Territory of Art” project, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 Prace [Work] (together with Alice Nikitinova), Nod Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic and 2007 Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 ORANGE SUMMER ‘06, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 Diamonds (together with Andriy Sagaidakovsky), Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 ORANGE SUMMER II (together with Lesia Khomenko), Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Daring to Dream in a World of Constant Fear, Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Venice, Italy
2023/24 The Permanent Collection at the Museum Ludwig / Collection Presentation, Museum Ludwig Köln, Germany
2022/23 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, curated by Shubigi Rao, India
2023 Kaleidoscope of story(s). Ukrainian Art 1912-2023, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
2023 Chronic Hunger – Chronic Desire, Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture, Timisoara, Romania
2023 Exhibition of 27 world artists, MOT, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 The Pain of Others, DOX, Praha, Czech Rep.
2022 We No Longer Feel the Future, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 Ukraine, Une donation contemporaine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2022 War art, Nikitos, Paris, France
2022 Stolen sun gallery New York, USA
2022 Fire and Hope, group exhibition of Ukrainian artists, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Rep.
2022 Death and the Maiden – Der Tod und das Mädchen, group exhibition, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Austria
2021 Semmering – Land, Besitz und Commons, group exhibition curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber, Semmering, Austria
2020 WHY THERE WILL BE WOMEN ARTISTS IN LVIV, Lviv Municipal Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 WBS70 – 50 years later: Reception of the prefabricated building in contemporary art, Raskolnikow Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
2020 The monument, the toil and the hippocampus, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
2020 JISP Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2020 Fear, Galeria Arsenał elektrownia, Białystok, Poland
2020 Crack up crack down, Uyazdovski castle, Warsaw, Poland
2020 Still Still Life, Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finnland
2020 Fantastic Utopias, Rocca di Angera, Italy
2019 May you live in interesting times, 58th International Art Exhibition curated by Ralph Rugoff, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2019 Hotel Europa, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2018 A space of one’s own, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Brave Factory festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Fantazery festival, Dragobrat, Ukraine
2018 Porto Franko, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2018 Permanent revolution, Ludwig museum, Budapest, Hungary
2017 The Invisible Cities, UNAICC = National Union of Cuban Architects and Construction Engineers, Havana, Cuba
2017 The Festivities Are Cancelled!, Kyiv Biennial 2017, Ukrainian Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Anonymous Society, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Montezuma, Fontana, Mirko. La scultura in mosaico dalle origini a oggi, MAR – Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
2017 Museum of the city of Svetlograd, Lisichansk Local History Museum, Lisichansk, Ukraine
2017 Biruchiy Festival 2017, Biryuchyi Island, UA
2017 Gogolfest, Kyiv, UA
2017 Urbs Sacra, Mains d’Œuvres, Saint-Ouen, FR
2017 Stan zagrozenia, Pracownia duzy pokoi, Warsaw, PL
2017 Continua Sphères Ensemble, Le CENTQUATRE-Paris, Paris, FR
2017 Reconstruction of Memory, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
2017 Art Prospect Bishkek: Breathing new life into green zones, Gareev Botanical Garden, Bishkek, KG
2017 The Story about Certain Histories, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL
2016 The School of Prosperity. A Class of the School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015, MUSA, Vienna, Austria
2016 Переведіть мене через майдан (Make me cross the Maidan), Modern Art Research Institute of the Ukainian National Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 NaViyane, Shishaki Fest, Cinema O. Dovzhenko, Shishaky, Poltava, UA
2016 Social contract, Izolyatsia. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, UA
2016 Bud’mo!, BWA Zielona gora, Zielona Góra, PL
2016 On/Off. Museum (science) fictions, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
2016 The School of Prosperity. A Class of the School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015, MUSA, Vienna, AT
2016 De ne De, Institute of Scientific-Technical and Economic Information, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Follia Continua! 25 years of Galleria Continua, Le CENTQUATRE-Paris, Paris, France
2015 Hope! Ukrainian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale
2015 Hope! Ukrainian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale
2015 The School of Kyiv. Leipzig Class, Seminar: Politics of Form, Leipzig, Germany
2015 The School of Kyiv. Karlsruhe Class, Lecturer: Alexandra Exter Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015 Biruchiy 10×15, 10th International symposium of contemporary art in Ukraine, Biruchiy, Ukraine
2015 Nad Bogom, cultural and artistic residence, Cinema Rossiya, Vinnitsa, Ukraine
2015 Zone of peace and freedom Shishaki Fest, cinema O.P.Dovzhenko, Shishaki, Poltava region, Ukraine
2015 Recreation, Symposium of Contemporary Art, Irshansk, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine
2015 Master Art, Vozdvizhenka Art House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Hope, Ukraine pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2015 Trotz allem, Polish institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
2015 Borderlands, Grad gallery, London, England
2014 Post Pop. East meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
2014 R.E.P. 10 lat . O metodzie, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2014 Through Maidan and Beyond, Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria
2014 21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2014, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 Sister europe, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
2014 Everything and Nothing, Skuc Gallery, Lubljana, Slovenia
2014 Open City, Art Festival in Public Spaces, Lublin, Poland
2014 The Ukrainians*, DAAD, Zimmerstrabe, Berlin, Germany
2014 Occupation art, Artists Union, Ternopil, Ukraine
2014 Places, National History Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 Fear and Hope, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 Upstairs, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2013 Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
2013 Lenin: icebraker, a special project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, icebreaker Lenin, Murmansk,Russia
2013 Contemporary Ukrainian art scene, Uyazdovsky Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2013 Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2013 Izolyatsia. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine, Donetsk, Ukraine
2013 Monument to the Monument, Ukrainian Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2013 Sopromat [strength of materials], ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia
2013 In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
2013 Ukrainian News, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2013 Coordinate System, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2012 Practice, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Spheres 5, Galleria Continua/Le Moulin, France
2012 Biryuchi012, Biryuchi Island, Ukraine
2012 Kyiv Sculpture Project, Grishko Central Botanical Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Contemporary Art Storage, courtyard of Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Double Game, Special Project, First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art
2012 ARSENALE 2012, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 False Mirrors, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Myth: Ukrainian Baroque, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 GENDER – the Right to Self-construction in Patriarchy, Izolyatsia. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine
2012 Apartment Exhibition Days “Zero Budget”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2012 Angry birds, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Women’s Guild, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 On/Off, Art House, Moscow, Russia
2011 Art Training: join the urban game!, Wroclaw, Poland and Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Impossible Community, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2011 3+6, apartment exhibition, Moscow, Russia
2011 “Independent”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Phantom Monuments, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2010 Ukrainian Art Platform, ART Paris, Paris, France
2010 Great Surprise, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 Eurorenovation in Europe, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
2010 From City to City, Musical Theatre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 ЯКЩО / ЕСЛИ / IF, Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm, Russia
2010 Tape it, Оui Gallery, Grenoble, France
2010 Abstract Vision Test, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 Those who arrived in the 2000s, CCA М17, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 The Conquered City, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 New History, Kharkiv Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2009 Views, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 On the Wall, LABgarage Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 MoskwApolice, Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm, Russia
2009 No More Reality: Crowd and Performance, Depo Gallery, Istanbul
2008 Art as a Gift, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 Transit, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 Another city. Another life, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2008 No more reality, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2008 Satellite Tunes, National University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2008 Alphabetical Order, Index Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 The Invisible Difference, Art Strelka Projects Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 ArchShargorod Festival, Shargorod, Ukraine
2007 XV years, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
2007 Witnesses to the Impossibile, 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Center of Art, Moscow, Russia
2007 Communities Project, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 Generation UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 Report Project, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 Modus R: Russian Formalism Today, The Newton Building, Miami Design District, Miami, USA
2006 Testing station, Skulpture Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Postorange, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2006 You?!, TSEKH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 8=8, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Intervention” part of the project
2006 24 Hours. Ukraine, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2006 Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art,Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA
2006 hot ukraine cool ukraine, Moscow Center of Art, Moscow, Russia
2005 Ukrainian Art and the Orange Revolution, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA
2005 Intervention, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla 2005 Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 Control, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 Do It Yourself, Art Strelka, David Ter-Oganyan’s showcase, Moscow, Russia
2005 Do It Yourself, Tomacz Vanek showcase, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 Orange Summer, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 Ukrainian Hermitage, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 Lost, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space), Center for Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 Romanticism, Ukrainian-Polish project, exhibition hall of Ukrainian Artists Union, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 Playing with archetypes, National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum”, Kyiv, Ukraine (1st prize)
2003 21 Views, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 “Art-Klyazma”, International Art Festival, Moscow, Russia
2002 BiBikov Boulevard, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 Blue Mud, Guelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine