Lada Nakonechna

Biography

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.)

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