Curators
BogDana Ukraїna https://www.instagram.com/kosmy_na_studio_4/ Born in 1990 in Kyiv. In 2013 graduated from the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Faculty of Architecture. In 2013 got a scholarship from the French Embassy to study at the National School of Architecture ENSAN in Nantes, France. From 2015–Master of Architecture ENSAN. In 2014-2015 internship at bureau of urban design and architecture HUCA, Nantes. In 2017 entered HUDRADA (Artistic committee) curatorial and activist group. In 2017 co-founder of DA-Style «Modernist Uniform»aimed to protect Ukrainian architecture of 1970-80-х. From 2018 collaborates with urban collective METASITU devoted to the exploration of new spatial pedagogies. In 2020 with the curatorial group “Wet-Hole” founded the exhibition art space “Dzherelo” in the formal pump-room in Kyiv. Dana Kosmina represented the Ukrainian pavilion “Piazza Ucrania” at the Venice Biennale in 2022. Presented her projects at the exhibitions at Mystetskiy Arsenal (Kyiv, UA), “Voyage a Nantes” (Nantes,FR), International-Kyiv Biennale (Kyiv ,UA), Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC) (Kyiv UA),“Warsaw under construction” (Warsaw, PL), DAS ESSZIMMER (Bonn, DE), Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art (Kmytiv, UA),City Scanning Session (Ivano Frankivsk,UA), Burning Man (Black Rock City,USA), Alserkal Arts Foundation (Dubai, UAE), Pinchuk Art Center (Kyiv UA). Lives and works in Kyiv and Berlin.
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Alina Kleytman https://www.instagram.com/kleytmanalina/ is an artist and curator. Alina received her bachelor degree in Monumental Sculpture at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in 2012. She also studied at the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia named after Rodchenko in the studios Video Art and Installation, «Photography, Sculpture, Video” in 2012–2015. She was the mentor of the residency Coming out of Isolation 2.0, which aimed on the elimination of the discrimination, xenophobia and prejudice against members of the LGBTQ+ community in Ukraine, initiated by IZOLYATSIA (Platform for Cultural Initiatives) with the support of the Human Rights Foundation in 2019–2020. Since 2017, Alina has beenteaching video art at the Victor Marushchenko School of Photography. Alina is a winner of numerous awards. In April 2021, she received the Woman in Art Award, an independent award from the HeForShe Solidarity Movement. She is a two-time winner of the PinchukArtPrize: in 2015, Alina won the Special prize for the work Super A, and in 2018 — the Audience Awardfor the work Ask your mother. Alina has participated in such group projects as Vertigo at the Dora Ostrowska Art Center (Frankfurt, Germany, 2020), Strach at the Arsenal Gallery (Bialystok, Poland, 2020), Crossing line at the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019). Her works have also been presented as part of the Under Mud project at Lux Scotland (Glasgow, Scotland), the Orient 2 Biennale at the Kunsthalle (Bratislava, Slovakia), Armed and Dangerous in INSULATION (Kyiv, Ukraine), Permanent Revolution at the Ludwig Museum (Budapest, Hungary, 2018). Alina was both the curator and artist in the project The Story of an Old Fat Girl (2019), which was supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Her works are part of the Tranzit collection (Vienna, Austria). In summer 2020, she curated the Extraordinary Queer Cabaret Magic Infant, as well as the light kinetic sculpture REFLECTING TOY, which was created as part of the ISKRA festival, held by the Bassiani team.
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Nikita Kadan https://www.instagram.com/nikita.kadan/ is an artist and curator. He creates paintings, graphics and installation, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with architects, sociologists and human rights activists. He is a member of the artistic group REP, curatorial group Khudrada. In 2007 he graduated from the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Department of Painting in the Studio of Monumental Art under the direction of Storozhenko. In 2011 Mykyta received the First PinchukArtCentre Prize, and in 2014 — the Special Future Generation Art Prize. In 2015, he represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale. In 2016 he received the Kazimir Malevich Prize. In 2019 he was the head of the department of contemporary art of the Kmytiv Museum, as well as the curator of a series of exhibitions Gestures of Attitude. His works are in the collections of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the MUMOK Museum of Contemporary Art in Vienna, Center Pompidou in Paris and City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Fine Art in Kyiv, Kontakt Collection (Vienna), The Art Collection Telekom (Bonn) and Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation (Vienna).
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