Hudrada collective - Ana Zvyagintseva and Nikita Kadan | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Ana Zvyagintseva and Nikita Kadan

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Ana Zvyagintseva was born in 1986. in Dnipropetrovs'k, the Ukraine, and currently lives and works in Kiev. Education: 2010.: graduated painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Since 2010. she is a member of the curatorial collective Hudrada, and since 2011. co-founder of the ISTM (Art Workers' Self-Defense Initiative). Awards: Awards finalist fly (Young Ukrainian Artists) prize, Kiev. Selection of exhibitions: 2012.: Disputed territory, Sevastopol Art Museum named after Michael Kroshitsky, Ukraine, participating in laboratory History. Stage, Oleg Sulimenko, educational art project Performativity, Kiev, Book Packed 07/08/12, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine Love!, Gallery Lavra, Kiev, Landscape shielded by the picture, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, Zhinochy tseh (Women's Workshop), Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev; 2011.; Muzychi Christmas Art Fair curated by Alevtina Kakhidze and Olena Ostrakova, Muzychi, Ukraine, Labour show, curatorial project HUDRADA, Centre for Visual Culture Research, National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, OCTOBER PROJECT Flutgraben eV, Berlin, experiment Court Project, a special project for ViennaFair, Vienna, Austria, etc.

Nikita Kadan was born in 1982. in Kiev, Ukraine. In 2007. he graduated monumental painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts (Kiev).
Since 2004. he is a member of the art group R.E.P. - Revolutionary experimental space. He is the co-founder (2008.) and a member of the curatorial collective HUDRADA.  He works in the medium of installation, performance prints, paintings, wall drawings and posters in public places. He is often working in interdisciplinary collaborative projects - with architects, activists, human rights and social scientists. Selection of solo exhibitions: 2012.: Project (with Lado Nakonechnom), Kyiv Pop-Up Galleries in Kiev, Corrections, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, The speech of the silent, Soska gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine; 
 2011.: 
 Figures on white, Karas gallery, Kiev, Nesezon, Arsenal Gallery, Kiev; 2010.: 
 Procedures room / Fixing, NORMA gallery, Odessa, 
 On the surface, Collection Gallery, Kiev, Bright perspectives / War in the sky (with Lesya Khomenko), Karas Gallery, Kiev, 
 Procedures room, Institutskaya gallery, Kiev; 
 2009.: 
 Scenes of action, Collection Gallery, Kiev; 
 2007.: 
 Mushrooms, Kiev, Fine Art Gallery, Kiev; 2006th: 
 Silent TV, L-Art Gallery, Kiev. Selection of group exhibitions: 2012.: 21 Artists shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012t., PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, 
 The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since the 1945., German Historical Museum, Berlin, Disputed Territory Sevastopol Art Museum named by M. Kroshitsky, Sevastopol, Newtopia, Museum Busleyden Hof van Mechelen, Belgium, 
 Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (dip), Salt Lake City, USA., The best of times, the worst of times - Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, First Kyiv Biennale Arsenale 2012., Art Arsenal, Kyiv, The crooked mirrors, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Sound of Silence: Art during dictatorship , The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2011.: Cut paper, Ya Gallery, Kiev., 
 Labour show, Centre of Visual Culture Research at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (NaUKMA), Kiev, Life in the forest , Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland, And Making Art, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Austria, 
 Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria. CONTRA MATER, Special project of Moscow Biennale 4, Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts, Moscow, Russia. Awards: 2011.
 PinchukArtCentre prize. Residence: 
 2010. LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme www.liap.eu) Spinnerei Cultural Centre, Leipzig, Germany 
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 2008 LIA, Spinnerei Cultural Centre, Leipzig, Germany; 
 2005. Centre for Contemporary Art at the National University "Kiev-Mohyla Academy", Kiev, Ukraine.

Court Experiment

03.-15.02.2013.

Court Experiment, an exhibition of Ukrainian collective Hudrada, was created in response to the persecution of activists, artists and theoreticians due to their expression of disagreement with the current Ukrainian politics. Court Experiment documents trials with the purpose of expressing opposition to prosecution of Ukrainian activists for expressing disagreement with the existing injustices. This is an action of solidarity with the accused, whose trial had been going on for years. Court Experiment is an attempt to address the public's attention to these specific cases of persecution and the judiciary in general, which, based on capitalist economic relations, is becoming an instrument of violence and injustice. Another important goal of the exhibition was to detect real problems against which activists rebelled - destructive expansion of capital in the social sphere, the rise of moral censure as a symptom of authoritarian systems – placing them in the broader context of political, cultural and social circumstances inherent in the post-Soviet societies. The exhibition consists of original works and trial documentation, achieved collectively. The exhibition presents works made by the following authors: Yevgeniya Belorusets, David Chichkan, Ksenia Hnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Yulia Koster, Yuriy Kruchak, Vasyl Lozynskyy Lada Nakonechna, Mykola Ridniy, Oleksiy Salmanov, Oleksandr Wolodarsky, and Anna Zvyagintseva.

NGO SIZ

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SIZ Gallery was founded in 2009, at the initiative of artists and curator Nemanja Cvijanovic. By 2010. the Gallery acts as one of the most important programs of the NGO The Other Sea. Active  participants of the gallery are, artists and designers,: ABS group, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babic, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Focus Group aka Iva Kovac and Elvis Krstulović, Igor Grubic, Janez Jansa, Sinisa Labrovic, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler, SCRAP, Slaven Tolj and associations NGO The Other Sea. SIZ Gallery is designed as an artist run gallery in which all  artists  are actually shareholders of the Gallery, and jointly decide on the program, promotion, guest appearances, etc.

In 2011. members  of the Gallery  established the NGO SIZ, thorugh which annual programme the Gallery continues to exist. In 2013. SIZ  (NGO and the Gallery) starts a collaboration with Museum of modern and contemporary art in Rijeka -  its annual program will be presented in the Mali salon gallery in Rijeka's main street Korzo. SIZ is defined by artistically never more relevant model of functioning of the collective association of equal individuals whose puropse is joint appearances in the art system. SIZ Gallery through a specific approach to artistic system emerged as one of the most interesting programs in Rijeka and beyond. Small, independent, rapidly rotating exhibitions thar connect Croatian contemporary art scene with artists from both the immediate region and other countries. Programme of the Gallery,  through the presentation of some of the most interesting tendencies in contemporary art, which in a  determined way, reflect social reality and its various, specific, dimensions such as politics, culture, ideology, cultural policy, etc., is aimed at informing the public and creating a critical counterbalance to the programs of large institutions.

With the founding of the Gallery and later by founding of the Association SIZ they try to act positively in the exhibition scene in Rijeka, where the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had created  a positive impact on the cultural life of the city, primarily educating audiences for contemporary visual language. Unexpectedly large and encouraging interest in international and regional art scene for SIZ Gallery which annually receives dozens of offers for collaboration, and in a way has become an important center of contemporary visual arts and cultural scene in general.

Through Gallery SIZ to date the following has been achieved ...

2009.: Nemanja Cvijanovic, Sinisa Labrović, Slaven Tolj, Igor Grubic, Sinisa Labrović, Club of Art Lovers and Oliver Ressler; 2010.: exhibitions Tomislav Brajnović, Cesare Pietroiusti, ABS Group, Rodion, Janez Janša, Janša and Janez Jansa, the artist duo Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (also director and advisors one of the most important international exhibitions - Document 13 - Ms. Carolyn Christov Bakargiev); 2011. Vlado Martek, Marijan Crtalić, collective GREY, art group Claire Fontaine, Sasha Huber, Milijana Babic, and Marko Markovic; 2012 and 2013.: Alexi Kukuljevića, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Pasquini, Ciprian Muresan, Ibro Hasanovic, Kristina Norman, Giuliana Racc0, Hudradea Collective and Fokus group.

Summary: NGO  SIZ (SIZ - Self-management community of interests) is running the SIZ gallery. The Gallery started as a programme organized by the NGO Drugo more (The Other Sea) in 2009. During its 3-year long existence the Gallery created a certain recognisable profile of visual content in regional and local cultural community.

It gradually became a significant point of contemporary artistic production and pratice. The content it presents is focused on works of Croatian and foreign artists that reflect various dimensions of social reality and its numerous fine nuances in specific ways.