R.E.P. group from Kiev, Ukraine. R.E.P. stands for REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIMENTAL SPACE. Although the group has been working together for quite a while, they are not known that much in Germany. Through their actions and performances they critize the (international) art buisness.
Nikita Kadan
Born 26.11.1982
Education:
1998 – 2001 – Taras Shevchenko State Art School.
2001 – 2007 – National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, painting
Olesya Khomenko
Born 26.11.1980
Education:
1991 – 1998 – Taras Shevchenko State Art School.
1998 – 2004 – National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, painting
Volodymyr Kuznetsov
Born 18.09.1976
Education:
1999 – 2005 – Lviv Academy of Art, art textile
Zhanna Kadyrova
Born 07. 07. 1981
Education:
1992 – 1999 – Taras Shevchenko State Art School.
Ksenia Gnylitska
Born 18. 06.1984
Education:
1999 – 2002 – Taras Shevchenko State Art School.
2003 – present time – National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, painting
Lada Nakonechna
Born 19. 03. 1981
Education:
1996 – 2000 – Dnipropetrovsk State Art college,
2000 – 2006 – National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, free graphic
PROJECTS
2008
“Alphabetical Order”, Index, Stockholm, Sweden
“No
More Reality – Crowd and Performance: demonstration, public space, use
of body”, De Apple Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“International Biennale of Young Art”, Moscow, Russia
“Checkpoint”, F.A.I.T. Gallery, Cracow, Poland
Satellite Tunes”, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2007
“The Art World” , Feinkost gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Communities: ukrainian young artists”, Arsenal gallery, Bialostok, Poland
“Consequences and Proposals”, Biennale of young artists, Tallinn, Estonia
“Contemporary art Norwich”, Norwich, England
“Ukrainian pavilion. Berlin” Bereznitsky gallery, Berlin
“Patriotism”, Capsula gallery, Rome, Italy
“Ginnungagap/Pavilion of Belief” Presentation of “Im Regierungsviertel” gallery in time of 52 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“A poem about an inland sea” In collaboration with Mark Titchner. Ukrainian pavilion on 52 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Critically in between”, Special project of “Art-Athina” fair, Athens, Greece
“Progressive nostalgia” Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
“From Kosovo to Kaliningrad” Third Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
“Return of memory”, KUMU museum, Tallinn, Estonia
“Communities project”, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kyiv Mohya Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Petroliana. Oil patriotism”, Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2006
“Testing station”, Ukrainian contemporary art, projekt of R.E.P. group, “Skulpturens Hus”, Stockholm, Sweden
“Hot / Cool Ukraine”, project of young Ukrainian artists + project of R.E.P. group, Moscow Center of Art, Moscow, Russia
“Patriotism tomorrow” Wyspa institute for contemporary art, Gdansk, Poland
Festival of Contemporary Art in Shargorod; Ukraine
“R.E.P. party”, performance in public space, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art”, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA
“R.E.P. gallery”, performance in public space, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Intervention”, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
“Terytoria”, Center of culture in Lublin, Poland
“New communities” Caucasian biennale, Tbilisi
“Do You?!”, Zeh gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Lirnyk”, projekt of R.E.P. group, Festival of Performances in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Postorange”, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
“Team Colours”, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, Poland
“Ukrainian Hermitage” , Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kiev Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Open laboratory”, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kiev Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Fast art”, performance in public space. Coctebel, Crimea, Ukraine.
“Control”, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
“We will R.E.P. you”, performance in public space, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Mr. President”, perfomance, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kiev Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Only here! Only now!”, performance in public space, Kyiv, Ukraine, political action in field, performance, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Broading of Mind”, performance in public space, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Ukrainian Art and the Orange Revolution”, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago. U.S.A.
“Intervention”, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004
“Revolutionary Experimental Space”, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
