Nikita Kadan (*1982 in Kyiv) graduated from National Academy of Fine Art (Kyiv) in 2007. Nikita Kadan works with installation, sculpture, painting, graphics, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with historians, architects and human rights activists. He is a member of the artist group REP (Revolutionary Experimental Space) and founding member of Hudrada (Artistic Committee), a curatorial and activist collective. Kadan lives in Kyiv. His works were presented at in the Ukrainian Pavilion of the 56th Biennale Venice in 2015.
Website of the artist: http://nikitakadan.com
Selected group exhibitions:
2026
Four Rooms: Selections from ICA Miami’s Permanent Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
ANTIFASCISM: NOW., Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
Echoes of Tumult, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Looking into the Gaps III, Art Front gallery, Tokyo
Who's there, old question, who's here, Voloshyn gallery, Miami
FOCUS, Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw
... to leave a space in which the din of war might die down, THE NSDOKU (The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism)
Munich
2025
Near East, Far West, 6th Kyiv Biennial at MSN - Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Setouchi Triennial 2025, Oshima
Museum Yet to Be, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Breaking the Course of the European Boomerang, Pragovka gallery, Prague
Borders are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai, CAC/Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present, mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Art after 2000. A Glossary, Ukrainian House Cultural Centre, Kyiv
OFF-BIENNALE BUDAPEST 2025. EMERGENCY FREQUENCIES</, Bakáts Bunker Underground Cultural Space, Budapest
Sketching for the Basilica. Architect Albert Van Huffel, Art deco & 100 years of Arts and Architecture, MMRK (Museum of Religious Art) in basiliek Koekelberg
TRYVOHA, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
Poor but Sexy, EASTCONTEMPORARY, Milan
THE IMPERMANENT: FOUR TAKES ON THE COLLECTION, MSN - Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Eve of Destruction, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2024
The Museum Between the Palace and the Square, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Potential Histories, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
AVERT YOUR EYES, a pop-up exhibition by Voloshyn gallery, New York
The Circles of Sylvashi, UMCA/Ukrainian House Cultural Centre
IMAGES OF THE GOOD LIFE IN THE EAST, Lutnița Gallery, Chișinău
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024, various venues at Echigo-Tsumari Region
Biennale Matter of Art, National Gallery Prague
Le Dernier Poème (curated by Nikita Kadan), parallel project of the Biennale Matter of Art, Lidice Art Collection, Lidice
GROUP THERAPY, Collections in Dialogue – Art Collection Telekom and Prague City Gallery, Stone Bell House – Prague City Gallery GHMP
Looking into the Gaps (curated by Nikita Kadan), Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, when the world’s in constant fear, a Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice
The Ecologies of Peace, TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary/C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
From the Fog of War, Meckelhalle, Freiburg
Kyiv Perennial, Neue Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst (NGbK), Berlin
2023
The rest of the world, 5th Montevideo Art Biennial, The Palace of Justice, Motevideo
State of Emergence, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery/NADA East Broadway, New York
Kyiv 23' Biennial , Augarten Contemporary/Neuer Kunstverein Wien/hoast/Laurenz/Never At Home/IG Architektur/Ve.Sch/New Jörg, Vienna
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Art from Ukraine, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
Kyiv 23' Biennial exhibition Where Are We Now, After All Those Endlessly Repeated Words?, Sorry No Rooms Available, Uzhhorod
Thousand Yard Stare: Ukraine 2023, Sonya Gallery: A Sunflower Network Project, New York
On Loss (curated by Nikita Kadan), Lviv Municipal Art Centre, Lviv
Artists at Wartime, Museum Fort Liezele, Puurs
Crossing Ways, Basiliek Koekelberg - Museum voor Moderne Religieuze Kunst (MMRK), Brussels
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912–2023, Albertinum, Dresden
Happiness, Hygiene Museum, Dresden
ON STAGE—All the Art World’s a Stage, mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
How are You?, Foundation Museum of Contemporary art (UMCA)/Ukrainian House Cultural Centre, Kyiv
NORM, Apartment exhibition, Kyiv
The Fog of War, Dom cultural Centre, Almaty
Flooding, Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk
Artists in a Time of War, Castello di Rivoli contemporary art museum, Turin
A poetic of resistance, Jerome Poggi gallery at ARCO 2023, Madrid
2022
Flags, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
The Pain of Others, DOX Art Centre, Prague
Renewal, Biennale Zielona Góra 2022
Streams upstream | OSTRALE contemporary art exhibition, Central Post Office, Kaunas
Museum in Motion, M HKA museum, Antwerp
Stolen Sun, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
6 ½ WEEKS – ASORTYMENTNA KIMNATA. What is depicted here?, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Dzherelo artists' screening, a part of 'Practitheorizing Counterinstitutions' workshop at DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN, WH22 AKA, Kassel
The Working Room, Asortymentna Kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk
When Faith Moves Mountains, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Radical Hope Exhibition of the Białystok's Arsenal Gallery Collection II, National Gallery, Tbilisi
War Diaries, Gallery Artbeat, Propaganda Network, Tbilisi
Imagine Ukraine – Art as a Critical Attitude, M HKA, Antwerp
Imagine Ukraine – Small and Big Stories, Bozar, Brussels
Imagine Ukraine – The Artist as a Witness, European Parliament, Brussels
Artists at Risk (AR) at Frieze New York
The Territories of Abstraction, FRIEZE No.9 CORK STREET, Jerome Poggi gallery, London
The Movable Circle, public sculpture by Nikita Kadan installed at Union square during Romanian Creative Week, Iasi
Fractional Expressions, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Jiá Fèng 夹缝, Troy House, London
THIS IS UKRAINE: DEFENDING FREEDOM, A Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
POINTS of RESISTANCE IV: Skills for Peace, Zionskirche, Berlin
String Figures, after the butcher - exhibition space for contemporary art & social issues, Berlin
A Letter from the Front (curated by Nikita Kadan), Castello di Rivoli, Turin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Haus der Kunst, Munich/LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut), Lille/TBA21 on st_age/Kunsthalle Trondheim
Tryvoha (curated by Nikita Kadan), Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv
2021
The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things… from the Art Collection Telekom, National Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria
Dedication. Traces and Tactics, Konsthall Kristianstad
Botanica, Group Show at FIAC 2021, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
Das - Dingenen collection, CC Zwanenberg Heist-op-den-Berg
Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change, mumok, Vienna
Aukcja Sztuki Refugees Welcome 2021, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Ukraine. A Different Angle on Neighbourhood, The International Cultural Centre in Krakow
Garden After the Gods, Jump contemporary art centre and Poltava Grvimetric Obrervatory garden, Poltava
ZW-Art, Transit gallery, Mechelen
OSTRALE Biennale O21, Breathturn,Robotron-Kantine, Dresden
Der Katalysator. Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2020
The Wonderful Catch of Fishes - The Dialogue, Transit gallery, Mechelen
Cherries, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok
Know Thy Neighbor, former Headquarters of a Soviet printing press (currently Stambe Hotel), Tbilisi
In Vitro, M HKA Museum, Antwerp
( ),apartment exhibition, Kyiv
Till Tomorrow Without Sorrow, Transit gallery, Mechelen
La Peur au Ventre, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris
Fear, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok
The Sort List - Taras Shevchenko Prize, Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv
Feelings - Kunst und Emotion, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Triennial "De Leur Temps 6" - 20th anniversary of ADIAF, Collection Lambert, Avignon
2019
Upon Us All Equally, Tranzit.ro - Sala Omnia, Bucharest
Never Again, Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden, Gallery Kisterem, Budapest
Tale of Novorossiya, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan
Their Past, Your Present, Our Future - Hotel Europa, Open Space of Experimental Art, Tbilisi
Listen To Us – Artistic Intelligence, Art works from the Art Collection Telekom at various exhibition venues, Plovdiv
The Influencing Machine, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest*
11/944 - from the Collection of Galeria Labirynt, Labirynt Municipal Gallery, Lublin*
We are the people. Who are you?, Edel Assanti Gallery, London
2018
The Border is a State of Mind, Jerome Poggi gallery - Grand Palais, FIAC 2018, Paris
Ukraine: learning from a good neighbour, Institution Pasinger Fabrik GmbH, Мunich
Neighbours, 10th ed. Warsaw Under Construction festival, Cepelia Pavillion, Warsaw
Observations on Archives, Asymetria Gallery at Warsaw gallery weekend, Warsaw
Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna, M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp - Cultural centre de Werft, Geel
Divided We Stand, the 9th Busan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan
The Inhabitants of Colosseum, public action on Stone bridge of Regensburg and installation in Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg
Yesterday, Today, Today, Kunstraum Buchberg - mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien)
What is Enlightenment?, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
The Opposing Shore, les Abords, University of Brest (Service culturel de l'UBO), Brest
Pedagogical Acts, SKLO art space in M. Dragomanov Pedagogical University, Kyiv
Migration of Energies, Gandy gallery, Bratislava
I am the Mouth, Works from Central and Eastern European Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2017
Natural Histories. Traces of the Political, mumok | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig , Wien
The Market: an exhibition at the The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017, Zhitny Market, Kyiv
Festivities Are Cancelled!: an exhibition at the The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017, Ukrainian Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information) and the Pavlo Tychyna Literary Memorial Museum, Kyiv
Decreation, within 51zero festiva, Guildhall Museum, Court Hall, Rochester
Resisting Images, within Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2017,Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
NESXT festival, withSpace 4235, Turin
The Opposing Shore, CCI «Fabrika», Moscow
It Won’t Be Long Now, Comrades!, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Urbs Sacra, MAINS D’ŒUVRES, Paris
Attention! Border, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin/Galeria Arsenał elektrownia, Białystok*
5th Odessa biennale of contemporary art, The Museum of Modern Art of Odessa
A Romance with Revolution, ACC Galerie Weimar - Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg
Parliament of plants, daadgalerie, Berlin
In Edenia, a City of the Future, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv
A Story about Certain Histories, Labirynt gallery, Lublin
Postponed Futures, GRAD gallery, London
The Museum of Svitlograd City, Lysychansk local history museum, Lysychansk
Hold me down, waterside contemporary, London
2016
Collection, Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw
Do boomerangs always come back?, Castle d'Aspremont-Lynden, Oud-Rekem
From the Shores of the Black Sea, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi
Conservatism and Liberalism, Sculpture Quadriennial 2016, Wagner's Hall, Riga
Now in Poland, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
Bud'mo, Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora
Research Platform: Guilt, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Into the Dark, Kunsthalle Exnergasse - WUK, Vienna
Universal Hospitality, Alte Post, Vienna
As Rights Go By – On the Erosion and Denial of Rights, Freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna
Meanwhile, what about socialism?, AV festival 2016, Gallery North - Northumbria University, Newcastle
DE NE DE, Ukrainian Institute for Scientific-Technical and Economic Information, Kyiv
2015
Recent acquisitions, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Where to observe an eclypse, Mikhail Bulgakov museum, Kyiv
The Absent Image, Nectar gallery, Tbilisi
Private nationalism, Open Gallery, Bratislava/Kiscell Museum – Municipal Gallery, Budapest
BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, Kühlhaus, Berlin
Politics of form, GFZK Leipzig
Demonstrating Minds. Disagreements in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
The School of Kyiv, Kyiv biennale, National Museum of Ukrainian History, Kyiv
Fear. The Origin of the State , New Synagogue/ kunsthalle Žilina
Saltwater: a Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennale
Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now, ArtSpace, new Haven
Cobra 1.7, 71a Gallery, London, UK
ArtBat fest, Almaty
EUROPE. The Future of History, Kunsthaus Zürich
Limited liability pavillon, apartment exhibition, Venice
Hope!, Ukrainian national pavillon at the 56th Venice biennale
Some Say You Can Find Happiness There, VCRC, Kyiv
Lest The Two Seas Meet, Museum of modern art, Warsaw
2014
Referendum on Withdrawal from the Human Race, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw/ Closer art centre, Kyiv
The right to be forgotten, Manne Siegbahnhusen, Stockholm University’s Frescati Campus, Stockholm
Through Maidan and Beyond, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna
21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2014
, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now
, Saatchi Gallery, London
Kalashnikov, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Everything and nothing, Škuc Gallery, Lubljana
Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle, Kosice, Slovakia/ Ostrale’14, Dresden, Germany
MEETING POINTS 7: Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks, Institute for African Studies in partnership with the V–A–C Foundation, Moscow
One place next to another, Winzavod centre of contemporary art, Moscow
New message, Ehrenhalle, Äußeres Burgtor, Vienna
Fear and hope, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
The Ukrainians, daadgalerie, Berlin
(Re)construction of friendship, Corner House (The former KGB headquarters), Riga
50 years of hell, Positive Propaganda projectspace, Munich
2013
global aCtIVISm, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
New Acquisitions of Contemporary Art in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe Since 1945, MOCAK, Krakow
Spaces of Exception, special project of 5th Moscow biennale, Artplay
RENDEZ-VOUS 13, within the Lyon Biennial, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon
Love of the space, 10 Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Museum centre, Krasnoyarsk
Self-government: cultural evolution vs. revolution, Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of modern art, Odessa
Union of Hovels, island of Lido, Venice
The Future Generation Art Prize. Venice 2013, Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice
Disobedience Archive (The Republic), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Ukrainian news, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM. Arte in Europa dal 1945., Palazzo Reale di Milano, Milan
Court Experiment, SIZ gallery, Rijeka
Showing its colours. What makes art, MARTa museum, Herford
Sun of the Poor, Ya Gallery Art Center, Dnipropetrovsk
2012
21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945, German Historical Museum, Berlin
Disputed Territory, Sevastopol Art Museum named by M. Kroshitsky, Sevastopol
Newtopia, Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen
Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City
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
WHO TOLD YOU SO?! #1 Truth vs. Government, Onomatopee projectspace, Eindhoven
Atlas Critique. Une carte blanche au peuple qui manque, Parc Saint Léger
Myth of Ukrainan baroque, National Art Museum, Kyiv
Picture covers the landscape, National Art Museum, Kyiv
Ukrainian body, VCRC at NaUKMA, Kyiv
SOUND OF SILENCE: ART DURING DICTATORSHIP, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
2011
Cut paper, Ya gallery, Kyiv
Labour show, Centre of visual culture research at National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA), Kyiv
20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Life in the forest , Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
Newspeak, Art Arsenal gallery, Kyiv
A complicated relation, part 2, KALMAR KONSTMUSEUM, Kalmar
Making and art , Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Public Folklore , Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
CONTRA MATER, Special project of 4 Moscow biennale, Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts, Moscow
Unreliable life , Special project of 4 Moscow biennale, Art House Squat Forum, Moscow
Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit , MSL museum, Lodz
Art Training in frame of European cultural congress, project in city space, Wroclaw
Six and three, Cheremushki gallery, Moscow
Impossible community , Moscow Museum of modern art, Moscow
The independent, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
ATLANTIS 11 , at 54 Venice biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice
ArtVienna 2011 fair special project, Wien
The trick, work in city space, Gorlitz
prosto.art, National Art Museum, Kyiv
Abstract vision test, Ya gallery, Dnipropetrovsk
Space Odyssey 2011, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Let’s talk about nationalism. Between ideology and identity , LABOR projectspace, Budapest
2010
Court experiment, Special projects of ViennaFair, Vienna
Court experiment, Centre of visual culture research at National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA), Kyiv
10.10.10, Les Kurbas Centre, Kyiv
Videozone 5 , Tel-Aviv
Those who came at 2000th, М17 Centre of contemporary art, Kyiv
Minimal differences, organized by Arsenal gallery (Bialystok, Poland) in White box gallery,
New York
LIA artists on Rundgang, LIA – Leipzig international artist’s program, Spinnerei cultural centre, Leipzig
Shock-workers of mobile images , 1 Ural industrial biennale, Ekaterinburg
IF. Ukrainian art in transition , PERMM museum, Perm
Over the counter , Kunsthalle Budapest
From town to town, Music theatre, Kyiv
Great surprise , National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Euro-renovation in Europe , Kunstraum Munich
Motherland shop, Supermarket art fair 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Let’s talk about nationalism. Between ideology and identity, KUMU museum, Tallinn
2009
Revolutionary moments, CCA at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Future was yesterday, HDLU gallery in Mestrovic pavillion and SC gallery, Zagreb
20 Ukrainian artists. Shortlist of PinchukArtCentre prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Another City, Another Life - from the Archives , Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Communism Never Happened, Feinkost gallery, Berlin
New old Cold war , Red October factory, special project of 3 Moscow biennale, Moscow
(Re)socialization of art, Museum of modern art, Odessa
European constitution. What creates Europe?, 2 biennale in Katowice
Pohliady (Views), Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Martian field – Collaboration, M’ARS Centre of contemporary art, Moscow
No more reality. Crowd and performance , DEPO Centre of contemporary art, Istanbul,
Land of human rights ,
2008
Fresh blood , Volker Deihl + Gallery one, Moscow
Patriotism. Art as a present , PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Salon of revolution, HDLU gallery in Mestrovic pavillion , Zagreb
Alphabetical Order : John Baldessari, R.E.P., Ahmet Ögüt, Index Foundation, Stockholm
Schengen, Feinkost gallery, Berlin
Another city. Another life , Zacheta gallery, Warsaw
No more reality De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam
10 Gyumri biennale
New Ukrainian painting , Marat Guelman gallery together with White Box gallery,
New York
Transit, Ya-gallery art centre, Kyiv
Common space, project in public space supported by “Eidos” foundation, Kiev
Cheсkpoint, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow
Satellite Tunes, National Univestity of Fine Art, Budapest
The Art World, Feinkost gallery, Berlin
2007
Return of memory KUMU museum, Tallinn
Progressive nostalgia Luigi Pecci centre of contemporary art, Prato
Petroliana Second Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow museum of contemporary art, Moscow
Prague biennale 2007, Prague
Generations UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Communities project, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kiev, Ukraine; “Arsenal” gallery, Bialystok
2006
Barwy clubowe, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow
Testing station, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
Postorange , Kunsthalle, project space Karlsplatz, Vienna
Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York
Intervention, Zamek Ujazdovski centre of contemporary art, Warsaw
2005
Intervention, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Control, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Ukrainian Hermitage, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
The Disappointed, Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
2004
R.E.P., Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Selected solo exhibitions:
2026
A New Integrity, Ribbon International and Pavilion of Culture, Kyiv
2025
Rubble Flower, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris
Siren Sickle Satellite, National Art Museum of Ukrainie, Kyiv
2024
The Radial Bone, Voloshyn Gallery, Miami
Dancers and Explosions, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
Shadow, Flag, Satellite, Passage, MonET museum, Tokamachi
The Siren's Song, Transit galley, Mechelen
The Ray Penetrates the Soil, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
Universal Home, Jerome Poggi gallery project space, Paris
2023
Tryvoha [the Sirens and the Mast], Begijnhofkerk, Mechelen
The Crime of the Light, Christine König Galerie - KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna
The Veil of Irpin/Tryvoha, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres
Skin and Shell, Lewben Foundation, Vilnius
2022
The Pit Sings, KKKC - Centre for Cultural Communications, Klaipeda
The Resistance Movement Museum, Sorry no rooms available residence, Zakarpattya hotel, Uzhgorod
Дети. Люди (Children. People) - special project at Art Basel Miami Beach, Jerome Poggi gallery, Miami
The Fire and the Ashes, MSL museum, Lodz
Victory Over the Sun, Francois Ghebaly gallery, New York
Repeating Speech (Fuck War), public project on the facade of Secession, Vienna
War Works. Jules de Bruycker and Nikita Kadan, Sandro Parrotta gallery, Bonn-Cologne
2021
The Revisionist Syndrome, Town Hall, Ivano-Frankivsk
The Wound Man, National Art Gallery, Lviv
Children Are Surrounded by Art, Nikita Kadan and Yevgen Nikiforov, Transit gallery, Mechelen
Stone Hits Stone, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Mutilated Myth, The Naked Room, Kyiv
2020
The Day of Blood, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris
Mutilated Myth, Palace of Arts, Drohobych
The Sweetest Song of Sorrow, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv
The Beautiful Coloniser, Transit gallery, Mechelen
2019
Project of Ruins, mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna
2018
The Spectacle of Unorganized Masses, House of Arts, Usti nad Labem
The body of Attis will not decay, Nikita Kadan - Anastasia Potemkina, Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan
(un)named, Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Odessa
Nikita Kadan - Carte Blanche/De More Cry Sea - Babi Badalov, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris
The Possessed Can Witness in the Court, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
2017
High Disease, Transit gallery, Mechelen
(un)named, Center for Urban History of Eastern Central Europe, Lviv
2016
Procedure room, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Above the pedestal the air condenses in a dark cloud, Škuc gallery, Ljubljana
The Bones Mixed Together, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2015
Gazelka. Art and the struggle of ideologies, Transit gallery, Mechelen
"Poland" magazine, Ya gallery art centre, Kyiv
The museum hesitant, Detenpyla gallery, Lviv
Limits of Responsibility, Waterside Contemporary, London
2014
Limits of Responsibility, Campagne Première, Berlin
Everybody wants to live by the sea, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan
Engeneering hope, Art Brussels 2014 SOLO program me, Transit gallery, Brussels
2013
Erasing and overposting, Transit gallery, Mechelen
Kyjev hotel, Bratislava cinema, Gandy gallery, Bratislava
2012
PROJECT, together with Lada Nakonechna, Kyiv Pop-up Galleries, Kyiv
Corrections, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Speech of the silent, SOSka gallery, Kharkiv
2011
Figures on white, Karas gallery, Kyiv
Nesezon (Off-season), Arsenal gallery, Kyiv
2010
Procedure room/Fixing, NORMA gallery, Odessa
On the surface, Collection gallery, Kyiv
Bright perspectives/War in the sky (together with Lesya Khomenko), Karas gallery, Kyiv
Procedure room, Institutskaya gallery, Kyiv
2009
Scene of action, Collection gallery
Awards
Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, 2022
Kazimir Malevich Prize, 2016
Future Generation Prize (special prize), 2014
PinchukArtCentre Prize (main prize), 2011
Shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2009 and for Future Generation Prize in 2012
Residences
2022
In Flanders Fields museum, Ypres
Sorry no rooms available residence, Zakarpattya hotel, Uzhgorod
2020
The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf
2019
BAI - Berlin Art Institute, Berlin
2018
Zamek Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Centre, Warsaw
'Sorry, no room available', Zakarpattya hotel, Uzhorod
Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre, Lubljana
2017
The ART PROSPECT Residency programm, Ў Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk
2016
Gaude Polonia, Bialystok
Q21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2014
Viafarini DOCVA, Milan
KulturKontakt, Vienna
2013
FLACC, Genk
2010
LIA (Leipzig international art programme www.liap.eu ), Spinnerei cultural centre, Leipzig
2008
LIA, Spinnerei cultural centre, Leipzig
2005
Centre for contemporary art at National University 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy', Kyiv
Selected public talks, symposiums, workshops
2022
Regards sur la guerre en Ukraine, at Hors Pistes festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Practitheorizing Counterinstitutions workshop at DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN, WH22 AKA, Kassel
Art, Resistance, and New Narratives in Response to the War in Ukraine, MoMA, New York
Collective Body Dismembered, Histories of Art, Identities and the War in Ukraine, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Feralizing, HKW, Berlin in co-production with Biennale Warszawa; Goethe-Institut Warschau and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw
2018
'Artists&Curators' - Nikita Kadan, Alicia Knock, Maja Ciric, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2017
Nikita Kadan. Difficulties of Profanation. War Museum Gardening. mumok cinema, Vienna
2016
Art in a State of Crisis , Nikita Kadan in conversation with Erich Klein and Hedwig Saxenhuber, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2015
Yesterday, today, today, panel discussion during book presentation, with Larissa Babij, Yevgenia Belorusets and Yekaterina Mischenko, National Art Museum, Kyiv
Artist Activists. Visual Activism, current outlooks in Eastern Europe through the works of three artists and movements, with Gariella Csoszó and Thomas Rafa. Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
2014
Europe At Its Best , New Museum, New York
2012
Pedagogical poem, Presnia historical museum, Moscow
New Didactic Museum and the End of the Epoch of Critical Parasitism
TIME BANK
Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2011
Iron applause
International simposium, National Gallery, Bratislava
Art, social critique and activism. Ten lectures
Сultural project. National Academy of Arts and Architecture, Kyiv
2009
Doubles
Launch of the first issue of the online bi-lingual newspaper on art and theory Zombie.
2008
A talk with Sönke Hallmann
Speaking of a gap can cause doubles
CCCK at the Iasi Periferic Biennial 8 - Art as Gift
It was a kitchen, this place, with Inga Zimprich and Ajdin Basic
Designing content, Press To Exit, Skopje, Macedonia
2007
Department of parasitism and symbiosis
FACULTY OF INVISIBILITY
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
Selected publications:
2024
Nikita Kadan. Poetics of Witnessing. Poetics of Evidence, published by Catapult Publications Amntwerp/ In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres/Transit gallery, Mechelen
2023
Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us, the catalogue, Jam Factory, Lviv
2021
Stone Hits Stone, published by Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv
2019
Nikita Kadan. Project of Ruins, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien/ Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln, Vienna
2017
Natural Histories. Traces of the Political, published by mumok | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig , Wien
Postponed Futures, edited by GRAD gallery, London
2016
Bones mixed together, edited by Arsenal gallery, Bialystok
2015
Nikita Kadan. Yesterday, today, tody, Transit gallery, Mechelen-Kyiv
Saltwater: a Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennale
R.E.P., The Green Box, Berlin
EUROPE. The Future of History, Kunsthaus Zürich
Hope!, Ukrainian national pavilion at the 56th Venice biennale
Perfect Match, PIN, Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Shifting Landscapes: Ukrainian Artists between Revolution and War, ed. Nataliya Tchermalykh, Galerie Pangee, Montreal and Rodovid, Kyiv
PRŌTOCOLLUM, artists' journal, Dickersbach Kunstverlag, Berlin
2014
Through Maidan and Beyond, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna
Circling the Square: Maidan & Cultural Insurgency in Ukraine, Cicada Press, New York
Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now
, Saatchi Gallery, London
MEETING POINTS 7: Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks, Institute for African Studies in partnership with the V–A–C Foundation, Moscow
One place next to another, Winzavod centre of contemporary art, Moscow
(Re)construction of friendship, Corner House (The former KGB headquarters), Riga
2013
FLACC yearbook, Genk
global aCtIVISm, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe Since 1945, MOCAK, Krakow
Spaces of Exception, special project of 5th Moscow biennale, Artplay
RENDEZ-VOUS 13, within the Lyon Biennial, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon
Disobedience Archive (The Republic), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM. Arte in Europa dal 1945., Palazzo Reale di Milano, Milan
Showing its colours. What makes art, MARTa museum, Herford
2012
Cantastoria, UMOCA museum, Salt Lake City
ARSENALE 2012, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
2011
History of image. Art of 2000th, Viktoria Burlaka, Kyiv
Life in the forest, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit, MSL museum, Lodz
Independent, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Over the counter, Kunsthalle Budapest
2010
Videozone, Tel-Aviv
Shock-workers of mobile images, Ural industrial biennale, Ekaterinburg
IF. Ukrainian art in transition, PERMM museum Perm
Great surprise, National Art Museum, Kyiv
Revolutionary moments, Polish institute, Kyiv
Agoraphilia. Art and democracy in post-Communist Europe, Piotr Piotrowski, Poznan / London
Supermarket art fair 2010, Stockholm
Let’s talk about nationalism. Between politics and identity, KUMU museum
2009
Younger then Jesus. Artist directory, New Museum, New York City
20 young artists. Shortlist of Pinchuk Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Salon of revolution, catalogue of the exhibition, Zagreb
2008
Progressive nostalgia. Art from Post-Soviet countries, Victor Misiano, WAM, Moscow
Patriotism. Art as a present, newspaper edited for exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Fresh blood, catalogue of the exhibition, Volker Deil + Gallery One, Moscow
Common space, newspaper edited for exhibition, EIDOS foundation, Kyiv
Communities Project, catalogue of the exhibition, Bialystok
2007
Generations UsA, catalogue of the exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Progressive nostalgia, catalogue of the exhibition, Luigi Pecci centre of contemporary art, Prato
24 hours UA, catalogue of art-festival, Zamek Ujazdovski centre of contemporary art, Warsaw
2006
Shargorod, Moscow
Patriotism. Team colours, catalogue of the exhibition, F. A.I.T. gallery, Krakow
Postorange, catalogue of the exhibition, Kunsthalle Vienna
Works in public collections:
Tate Modern, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) - Ludwig Foundation Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
M HKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen) – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Folkwang museum, Essen
Kunstraum Schloss Buchberg
MonET museum, Tokamachi
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
National Museum of Fine Art, Odesa
MSN ( Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej), - Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
MSL (Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź) - Museum of Arts, Łódź
Arsenal Gallery, Białystok
Military History Museum, Dresden
Lidice Memorial Art Collection, Lidice
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
TBA 21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna
Kontakt collection of Erste Foundation, Vienna
The Art Collection Telekom, Bonn
Kadist Foundation, Paris
Lidice Art Collection, Lidice
The Kingdom of Belgium, Ministery of Foreign Affairs
FRAC Bretagne*
Labirynt gallery, Lublin*
Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato*
*works by R.E.P. group