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Born 1982, Kiev, lives and works in Kiev, UA.Education2007
National Academy of Fine Art, Kyiv, UA
2015
Limits of Responsibility, waterside contemporary, London, UK
The Hesitant Museum, Detenpyla Gallery, Lviv, UA
Журнал "Польща", Ya Gallery, Kiev, UA
2014
Everybody wants to live by the sea, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan, IT
Engeneering hope, Art Brussels 2014, Transit gallery, Brussels, BE
Limits of Responsibility, Campagne Première, Berlin, DE
2013
Erasing and overposting, Transit gallery, Mechelen, BE
Kyjev hotel, Bratislava cinema, Gandy gallery, Bratislava, SK
2012
Project, with Lada Nakonechna, Kyiv Pop-up Galleries, Kiev, UA
Corrections, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
The speech of the silent, SOSka gallery, Kharkiv, UA
2011
Figures on white, Karas gallery, Kiev, UA
Nesezon, Arsenal gallery, Kiev, UA
2010
Procedure room/Fixing, NORMA gallery, Odessa, UA
On the surface, Collection gallery, Kiev, UA
Bright perspectives/War in the sky, with Lesya Khomenko, Karas Gallery, Kiev, UA
Procedure Room, Institutskaya gallery, Kiev, UA
2009
Scene of action, Collection gallery, Kiev, UA
2007
Mushrooms, Kiev Fine Art gallery, Kiev, UA
2006
Silent TV, L-art gallery, Kiev, UA
2015
Lest the two seas meet, curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now, curated by Sarah Fritchey and Martha Willette Lewis, ArtSpace, new Haven, US
Cobra 1.7, curated by Theo Price, 71a Gallery, London, UK
Ukrainian Pavilion, curated by Björn Geldhof, 56 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Europe: The Future of History, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, CH
Hope!, with Yevgenia Belorusets, Zhanna Kadyrova, Mykola Ridnyi & Serhiy Zhadan, Artem Volokitin, Anna Zvyagintseva, Open Group, curated by Björn Geldhof, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
2014
Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks", Institute for African Studies in partnership with the V–A–C Foundation, Moscow, RU
One place next to another, Winzavod centre of contemporary art, Moscow, RU
Fear and hope, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, UA
The Ukrainians, daadgalerie, Berlin, DE
(Re)construction of friendship, Corner House (The former KGB headquarters), Riga, LV
50 YEARS OF HELL, Positive Propaganda projectspace, Munich, DE
Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2013
global aCtIVISm, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, DE
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe Since 1945, MOCAK, Krakow, PL
Spaces of Exception, 5th Moscow biennale, Artplay, Moscow, RU
RENDEZ-VOUS 13, Lyon Biennial, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, FR
Love of the space, biennale, Museum centre, Krasnoyarsk, RU
Self-government: cultural evolution vs. revolution, Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of modern art, Odessa, UA
Union of Hovels, island of Lido, Venice, IT
The Future Generation Art Prize. Venice 2013, Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, IT
Disobedience Archive (The Republic), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT
Ukrainian news, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
The Desire for Freedom. Arte in Europa dal 1945., Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
Court Experiment, SIZ gallery, Rijeka, HR
Showing its colours. What makes art, MARTa museum, Herford, DE
Sun of the Poor, Ya Gallery Art Center, Dnipropetrovsk, UA
2012
21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945, German Historical Museum, Berlin, DE
Disputed Territory, Sevastopol Art Museum named by M. Kroshitsky, Sevastopol, UA
Newtopia, Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, BE
Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City, US
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times- Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, First Kyiv biennale Arsenale, Art Arsenal, Kiev, UA
The crooked mirrors, Lavra gallery, Kiev, UA
WHO TOLD YOU SO?! #1 Truth vs. Government, Onomatopee projectspace, Eindhoven, NL
Atlas Critique. Une carte blanche au peuple qui manque, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
Myth of Ukrainian baroque, National Art Museum, Kiev, UA
Picture covers the landscape, National Art Museum, Kiev, UA
Ukrainian body, VCRC at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, US
2011
PROSTO.ART, National Art Museum, Kiev, UA
Cut Paper, Ya gallery, Kiev, UA
Labour show, Centre of visual culture research at National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kiev, UA
Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Life in the forest, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, PL
Newspeak, Art Arsenal gallery, Kiev, UA
A complicated relation, part 2, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, SE
Making and Art, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, AT
Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT
CONTRA MATER, Special project of 4 Moscow biennale, Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts, Moscow, RU
Unreliable life, Special project of 4 Moscow biennale, Art House Squat Forum, Moscow, RU
Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit, MSL museum, Lodz, PL
Art Training, in frame of European cultural congress, project in city spac, Warsaw, PL
Six and three, Cheremushki gallery, Moscow, RU
Impossible community, Moscow Museum of modern art, Moscow, RU
The independent, Art Arsenal, Kiev, UA
ATLANTIS 11, 54 Venice biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, IT
ViennaFair special project, Wien, AT
The trick, work in city space, Gorlitz, DE
Abstract vision test, Ya gallery, Dnipropetrovsk, UA
Space Odyssey 2011, Art Arsenal, Kiev, UA
Let’s talk about nationalism. Between ideology and identity, LABOR projectspace, Budapest, HU
2010
Special projects of Art-Kyiv contemporary 2010 art fair, Art Arsenal, Kiev, UA
Court experiment, Centre of visual culture research at National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kiev, UA
10.10.10, Les Kurbas Centre, Kiev, UA
Videozone 5, Tel Aviv, IL
Those who came at 2000th, М17 Centre of contemporary art, Kiev, UA
Minimal differences, organized by Arsenal gallery (Bialystok, Poland) in White box gallery, New York, US
LIA artists on Rundgang, Spinnerei cultural centre, Leipzig, DE
Shock-workers of mobile images, 1 Ural industrial biennale, Ekaterinburg, RU
IF. Ukrainian art in transition, PERMM museum, Perm, RU
Over the counter, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, HU
From town to town, Music theatre, Kiev, UA
Great Surprise, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, UA
Euro-renovation in Europe, Kunstraum Munich, Munich, DE
Supermarket art fair 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
Let’s talk about nationalism. Between ideology and identity, KUMU museum, Tallinn, EE
2009
Revolutionary moments, CCA at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
Future was yesterday, HDLU gallery in Mestrovic pavillion and SC gallery, Zagreb, HR
20 Ukrainian artists. Shortlist of PinchukArtCentre prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Another City, Another Life - of the Archives, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Communism Never Happened, Feinkost gallery, Berlin, DE
New old Cold war, Red October factory, special project of 3 Moscow biennale, Moscow, RU
(Re)socialization of art, Museum of modern art, Odessa, UA
European constitution. What creates Europe?, 2 biennale in Katowice, Katowice, PL
Views, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
Martian field – Collaboration, M’ARS Centre of contemporary art,, Moscow, RU
No more reality. Crowd and performance, DEPO Centre of contemporary art, Istanbul, TR
Land of human rights, Centre of contemporary art, Graz, AT
2008
Fresh blood, Volker Deihl + Gallery one, Moscow, RU
Patriotism. Art as a present, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Salon of revolution, HDLU gallery in Mestrovic pavillion, Zagreb, HR
Alphabetical Order, Index Foundation, Stockholm, SE
SCHENGEN, Feinkost gallery, Berlin, DE
Another city. Another life, Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, PL
No more reality, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, NL
10 Gyumri biennale, Gyumri, AM
New Ukrainian painting, Marat Guelman gallery together with White Box gallery, New York, US
Transit, Ya gallery, Kiev, UA
Common space, project in public space supported by Eidos foundation, Kiev, UA
Cheсkpoint, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, PL
Satellite Tunes, National University of Fine Art, Budapest, HU
The Art World, Feinkost gallery, Berlin, DE
2007
Progressive notalgia, Luigi Pecci centre of contemporary art, Prato, IT
Return of memory, KUMU museum, Tallinn, EE
Petroliana, Second Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow museum of contemporary art, Moscow, RU
Prague biennale 2007, Prague, CZ
Generations UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Communities project, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
Communities project, Arsenal gallery, Bialostok, PL
2006
Barwy clubowe, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, PL
Testing station, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, SE
Postorange, Kunsthalle, project space Karlsplatz, Vienna, AT
Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, US
Intervention, Zamek Ujazdovski centre of contemporary art, Warsaw, PL
2005
Intervention, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
Silent TV, L-art gallery, Kiev, UA
Control, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
Ukrainian Hermitage, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
The disappointed, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
2004
R.E.P., Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, UA
2014
Future Generation Art Prize (Special prize), PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
2011
Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
2009
Future Generation Art Prize (shortlist), PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
2014
Art, social critique and activism. Ten lectures, Cultural Project. National Academy of Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
2012
Pedagogical Poem, New Didactic Museum and the End of the Epoch of Critical Parasitism, Presnia historical museum, Moscow, RU
Time Bank, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, RU
2011
October Project, Flutgraben, Berlin, DE
Iron Applause, International simposium, National Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2008
A talk with Sönke Hallmann
SPEAKING OF A GAP CAN CAUSE DOUBLES
CCCK, the Iasi Periferic Biennial 8 - Art as Gift, Iasi, RO
It was a kitchen, this place, with Inga Zimprich and Ajdin Basic
DESIGNING CONTENT, Press To Exit, Skopje, MK
2007
Department of parasitism and symbiosis, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2012
Cantastoria, UMOCA museum, Salt Lake City, US
ARSENALE 2012, Art Arsenal, Kiev, UA
2011
History of image. Art of 2000th, by Viktoria Burlaka, Kiev, UA
Life in the forest, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, PL
Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit, MSL museum, Lodz, PL
Independent, Art Arsenal, Kiev, UA
Over the counter, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, HU
2010
Shock-workers of mobile images, Ural industrial biennale, Ekaterinburg, RU
IF. Ukrainian art in transition, PERMM museum, Perm, RU
Great surprise, National Art Museum, Kiev, UA
Revolutionary moments, Polish Institute, Kiev, UA
Let’s talk about nationalism. Between politics and identity, KUMU museum, Tallinn, EE
2009
Younger then Jesus. Artist directory, New Museum, New York, US
20 young artists. Shortlist of Pinchuk Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Salon of revolution, HDLU gallery, Zagreb, HR
2008
Progressive nostalgia. Art from Post-Soviet countries, by Victor Misiano, WAM, Moscow, RU
Patriotism. Art as a present, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Fresh blood, Volker Deil + Gallery One, Moscow, RU
Common space, EIDOS foundation, Kiev, UA
Communities Project, Arsenal gallery, Bialostok, PL
2007
Generations UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
Progressive nostalgia, Luigi Pecci centre of contemporary art, Prato, IT
Bloomsday, Collection gallery, Kiev, UA
A4 drawings, Atelier Karas gallery, Kiev, UA
24 hours UA, Zamek Ujazdovski centre of contemporary art, Warsaw, PL
2006
Patriotism. Team colours, F. A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, PL
Postorange, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, AT
2014
Everybody wants to live by the sea, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan, IT
, KulturKontakt, Vienna, AT
2013
Plans of Dust, FLACC, Genk, BE
2010
Leipzig international art programme, LIA, Leipzig, DE
2008
Spinnerei cultural centre, LIA, Leipzig, DE
2005
Kamov Residency, Kiev-Mohyla Academy, National University, Kiev, UA
2015
Radical Roots from Kiev, by Mark Sheerin, Bad at Sports
Limits of Responsibility, by Adam Rompel, Dailyserving
Limits of Responsibilit, by Sonja Hornung, Frieze, March 2015
Future Greats, by Oliver Basciano, ArtReview, March 2015
Nikita Kadan, by Alexander Scrimgeour, ArtForum, March 2015
Provocateur and Degenerate: Nikita Kadan’s Limits of Responsibility, by Will Gresson, re:sculpt
Limits of Responsibility, by Zoë Marden, thisistomorrow
2014
Blacked Out in Ukraine, by Larissa Babij, Guernica, February 2013
The Historical Museum, by ikita Kadan in conversation with Björn Geldhof, Pinchuk Art Centre
Different Shades of Withdrawal, by Nikita Kadan in conversation with Joanna Warsza, Manifesta Journal, 18
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Krasnoyarsk museum centre, Krasnoyarsk, RU
Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, FR
Centro per l'arte contemporanea LUIGI PECCI, Prato, IT