Lada Nakonechna
1981
born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine
currently in Kassel, Germany, scientific research at the documenta Institute and doctoral candidate at the University of Kassel
Education
1996 - 2000
Dnipropetrovsk State Art College
2000 - 2006
National Academy of Fine art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 - 2009
National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Post graduate course, Kyiv, Ukraine
since 2004
member "Revolutionary Experimental Space" (R.E.P.)
2008
Co-founder of Curatorial Group Hudrada, eine selbstorganisierte Gemeinschaft, self-organized community based on interdisciplinary cooperation.
2012
Co-founder of The Method Fund
from 2012
teaching in Cource of Contemporary Art
http://courseofcontemporaryart.tumblr.com/info
from 2016
Doctoral study, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
since 2023, Doctoral candidate, Universität Kassel, Germany
Awards
2014
Laureate of Malevich Award-2014, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013
Second Special Prize of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013
2012
Finalist Future Generation Art Prize, Short list (R.E.P.)
2011, 2009, 2013
Finalist of Pinchuk Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003
1st award of the 3rd Ukrainian contest for young curators and artists, Centre for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008, 2012
Finalist of Kazimir Malevich Award, Kyiv, Ukraine
Residencies (selection)
2022
Special Scolarship of the Free State of Bavaria in cooperation with the Internationale Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany
2017
Internationales Sommer Atelier Programm der Stadt Aschersleben, Germany
2015
Artists in Residence KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria
Residency in 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, USA
2014
Fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
2012
a-i-r Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland
2010
Residence BINZ39 Foundation, Zurich and Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug, Switzerland
2009
Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany
2008 - 2009
LIA – Leipzig International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany
2005
Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
Monuments
2011
Shortlist Monument for the Unification and Freedon, Leipzig, Germany
2009
Shortlist Memorial for the Victims of the German Military Courts, Cologne, Germany
Projects and Performances (selection)
2017
Rescue Plan, Telekom Art Collection, Bonn, Germany
2014
Homey, Intervention, Krakow Theatrical Reminiscences, Krakow, Poland
2012
While I can see, Performance / performance, Arsenal gallery, Białystok, Poland
Red carpet, LIA – Leipzig International Art Program, Leipzig City Centre, Germany
2011
One More Day, performance, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
While I can see, performance, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010
Perspective, University Library Albertina in Leipzig, incollaboration with LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024
Below Ground Level, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
2022
Studium des Menschen, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Germany
2021
Lada Nakonechna. Disciplined Vision, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Disciplined Vision School, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
2020
BODIES IN THE DISTANCE, Skala gallery, Poznań, Poland
Images from abroad, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
2018
Background mode, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Germany
2016
The exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
The music stops. The guests are embarassed. Pause. Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
2014
TAKE FIVE (mobile portable model), Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
State of things, Cultural Center Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, France
2012
Entfremdungseffekt, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany
Weekdays, CSW Zamek Ujazdowsky, Warsaw, Poland
2011
2 Stories – 3 Worlds. (with Ivan Bazak), BINZ39 Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Sale, Small Gallery of Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
Fashion Ukraine, Kunstraum Reto Ganz, Zurich, Switzerland (R.E.P.)
2010
Euro Renovation in Europe, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany (R.E.P.)
Great Surprise, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
2009
Viewers at Forest. Artist and Manipulation, Weltraum, Munich, Germany
Testimony of Things, Gallery GEDOKmuc, Munich, Germany
Place, Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008
Patriotism. Art as A Present, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024
Observe this moment-how it convulses, Arsenal Gallery Bialystok, Poland
2023
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories: Art from Ukraine, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912–2023, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum, Germany
2022
I Have No Words - There is No Title, Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany
Preserving the Shape | Curated by Olena Newkryta, Anastasiya Yarovenko, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria
Push & Pull – Territorien zwischen Land und Meer, Schloss Plüschow, Germany
Reclaiming Space, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
We No Longer Feel the Future, MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Latvian Collection, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
Ein Brief von der Front, Haus der Kunst München, Germany
2021
Dedication - Traces and Tactics. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Ukraine. Kristianstads Konsthall, Sweden
Embraces, National Art Museum Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019
Gifts for you, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
Tale of Novorossiya, Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
2018
The World on Paper, Prinzessinenpalais, Berlin, Germany
Sedimente, Werkschau, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
Follow the Line. Positionen zeitgenössischer Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Sparkasse Leipzig, Deutschland
2017
Revolte, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
POSTPONED FUTURES, GRAD, London, UK
2016
Semnatic Riots, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
BUD'MO! / BĄDŹMY!, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
2015
Experiments, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
Politik der Form - The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennale 2015, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
Meshes of the Afternoon, The School of Landscape – Department Trondheim, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
Manifest Thought Form, Kuad Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Gute Kunst? Wollen!, auf AEG, Nuremberg, Germany
offen, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
Paradigma Blickwechsel, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany
Best evidence rule, KV Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
Lest The Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Walk the Line. Neue Wege der Zeichnung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2014
R.E.P.: 10 years. On method, Labirint Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Sister Europa, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
Deprivation, Arsenal gallery, Białystok, Poland
Disconsent, Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Postcards from Maidan, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
The Ukrainians, Daad gallery, Berlin, Germany
Gender and diplomacy – the »Ladies’ Programme«, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Through Maidan and Beyond, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Leipzig - Heldenstadt?, Goethe-Institut Paris, France
Open City, Festival of art in pubic space, Lublin, Poland
Imaginary Archive, The Les’ Kurbas State Center for Theatre Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013
on paper, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany
MASSNAHMEN ZUR RETTUNG DER WELT _ TEIL 3, <rotor> Center for contemporary art
Graz, Austria
Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ukraine
Racing with time: The Art of 1960s - The Beginning of 2000s, National Art Museum of
Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Revisiting Footnotes, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Estonia
UKRAINIAN NEWS, Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Economics in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland
Showing its colours – What makes art, MARTa Herford, Germany (R.E.P.)
2012
Disputed territory, Sevastopol Art Museum, Sevastopol, Ukraine
The Ukrainian Body, Visual Culture Research Center of NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine
Double game, special project of Arsenale 2012, Museum Complex "Mystetskyi Arsenal", Kyiv, Ukraine
Landscape shielded by the picture, National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
In bester Form / In best form, Highlights from 14 Leipzig Galleries 2012, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig / Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany
2011
Rewriting worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
Impossible community, State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
October project, Flutgraben e. V., Berlin, Germany
Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (R.E.P.)
The Bulgarian Pavilion, Venice Biennial, Italy (R.E.P.)
A complicated relation, part 2, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
Making and Art, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Austria (R.E.P.)
2010
IF. Ukrainian Art in Transition, PERMM Museum, Perm, Russia
VideoZone V, Fifth International Video Art Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel (R.E.P.)
Minimal differences, White box, New York City, USA (R.E.P.)
Over the counter, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Let's Talk about Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
Revolutionary Moments, Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
Future Was Yesterday. Self-Organized Artistic Practices from Ukraine, Gallery SC + Gallery PM/HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Leipzig calling, LIA project, New York Academy of Art, New York City, USA
No More Reality. Crowd and Performance, Depo, Istanbul (R.E.P.)
Land of Human Rights: Being Responsible for Resources, < rotor > - art association in Graz, Austria (R.E.P.)
2008
Alphabetical Order, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
Another City. Another Life, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (R.E.P.)
No More Reality, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Satellite Tunes, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2007
Exteriors, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
A Poem about an Inland Sea, in collaboration with Mark Titchner, Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy (R.E.P.)
Progressive nostalgia, Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (R.E.P.)
From Kosovo to Kaliningrad, Third Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (R.E.P.)
Return of Memory, KUMU Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (R.E.P.)
2006
Postorange, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (R.E.P.)
Curatorial activities (Selection)
2022 / 2023
Series of encounters Peilung at the daadgalerie (co-curated with Bettina Klein), Berlin, Germany
Distant Tolerable Murder, Polish-Ukrainian exhibition on billboards in the center of Berlin, Germay (co-curated with Anna Lazar)
2017
Festivities Are Cancelled!, The Kyiv International - Kyiv Biennial 2017, Ukraine
2014
Referendum on withdrawal from the human race, Art-centre Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013
Union of Hovels. First congress, Curatorial Union Hudrada, Lido, Venice, Italy
2012
Disputed territory, Curatorial Union Hudrada, Sevastopol Art Museum, Ukraine
2011
Labor show, Curatorial Union Hudrada, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010
Court Experiment, Curatorial Union Hudrada, Visual Culture Research Center, Center of Study of Society together with tranzit.at, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009
Views, Curatorial Union Hudrada, Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008
Transit, Ya gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
Common Space, public environment, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
New Ukrainian Language, Karas gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)
2007
Communities: Ukrainian Young Artists, Arsenal gallery, Białystok, Poland (R.E.P.)
Communities Project, Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine (R.E.P.)