Nikita Kadan

Nikita Kadan studied monumental painting at the National Academy of Fine Art in Kyiv. He has been a member of the artist group R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space) since 2004 and has been a cofounder and member of HUDRADA since 2008. He received the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2022), the Kazimir Malevich award (2016), a special Future Generation Art Prize (2014), and the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2011). He has been a participant in the Venice, Istanbul, Kyiv, and Busan biennials. His work can be found in the collections of such museums as Centre Pompidou and City of Paris Museum of Modern Art (Paris), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), MUMOK Museum Contemporary Art (Vienna), MuHKa Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), and National Art Museum (Kyiv).

Contributions

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

post presents: Art, Resistance, and New Narratives in Response to the War in Ukraine

On the evening of October 12, 2022, post presents hosted presentations and conversations with artists, scholars, and curators about the artistic responses to the war in Ukraine, looking at the period between the Maidan Revolution, which was followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and occupation of Donbas in 2014, and the full-scale Russian invasion launched on February 24, 2022. This conversation is a continuation of the presentations and conversations commenced that evening.