ZHANNA KADYROVA

Born in 1981 in Brovary, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. Education T. Shevchenko National Art High School (sculpture department), Kyiv, Ukraine. Represented by GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano/ Beijing/Le Moulin/Habana. The winner of few prestigious awards. In 2012, Kadyrova represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale. Painter, sculptor, member of the "R.E.S.". Lives and works in Kyiv.

Personal web-site: https://www.kadyrova.com

Resident of BIRUCHIY since 2012.

Awards and Special Prizes:

2014	Special Prize – Future Generation Art Prize
2013	Main prize PinchukArtCentre Prize
2012	Kazimir Malevich Artist Award
	Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award (Public Art)
	Grand Prix – Kyiv Sculpture Project
2011	Special Prize – PinchukArtCentre Prize

Selected exhibitions and art-projects:

- solo:

2018	Permanent revolution, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
	Colorings, special project by BIRUCHIY in the framework of Kyiv Art Week, Toronto center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017	Market, site specific project-performance, art fair Art Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
	Zhilmassiv, Apartment 14, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016	Mia casa, mia fortezza, galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
	Perfomance V, Kulturni Centar Nikola Đurković, Kotor, Montenegro.
	Hohulyа with Denys Ruban, Detenpula gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
	Crypsis with Alice Nikitinova, PLATO – platform (for contemporary art) Ostrava City Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
	Yours/Mine, Бükü – Bureau for Cultural Translations, Leipzig, Germany.
2015	Yours/Mine, Small Gallery Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Experiments with Lada Nakonechna, BWA gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
	Perfomance IV, Old cinema, Voss, Norway.
	Performance III, The School of Kyiv - Kyiv Biennial 2015 National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Perfomance II, Cinema Russia, Vinnitsa, Ukraine.
	Perfomance I, Cinema O. Dovzhenko, Shishaky, Poltava region, Ukraine.
	Alteration, kunstraum Innsbruk, Austria.
	Second hand, Art Zavod Platforma, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014	Street collection, Baro galeria, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
2013	Data Extraction, Galleria Continua/San Gimignano, Italy.
2012	Crowd, PinchukArtCenter, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Asphalt, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
2011	City Project, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA.
	Invisible Forms, Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010	The Guide, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009	Calculation, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	Calculation, Рор-up project, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007	Prace with Alice Nikitinova, Nod Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
	Work with Alice Nikitinova, Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Fillings, Gallery L-Art, Kyiv, Ukrainе.
2006	Diamonds, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	Diamonds with Andriy Sagaidakovsky, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005	ORANGE SUMMER II with Lesia Khomenko, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

- group:

2017	The Invisible Cities, National Union of Cuban Architects and Construction Engineers (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba.
	The Festivities Are Cancelled!, Kyiv Biennial 2017, Ukrainian Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Anonymous Society, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Montezuma, Fontana, Mirko La scultura in mosaico dalle origini a oggi, MAR - Museo d’Arte della città, Ravenna, Italy.
	International public art festival art prospect Bishkek: "Breathing new life into green zones", Gareev Botanical Garden, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.
	Reconstruction of memory, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic.
	Continua Spheres ENSEMBLE, Cent quarter 104, Paris, France.
	House of Culture, coworking 4 City, Odesa, Ukraine.
	Stan zagrozenia, Pracownia duzy pokoj, Warsaw, Poland.
	Urbs sacra, Mains d’Œuvres Paris, France.
	Second Hand. Kyiv Cinema Copy Factory, Gogolfest 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Attention border, Arsenal gallery, Belostok, Poland.
	Attention border, Labyrint gallery, Lublin, Poland.
	Spaces, Galerie La Cave, Geneva, Switzerland.
	Nad bogom 2017, Vinnitsa, Ukraine.
	Sci-Fi!, International Kansk Festival, Forest behind the Kansk Drama Theatre, Kansk, Russia.
	BIRUCHIY 017, International symposium of contemporary art, a peninsula of Biryuchyi, Ukraine.
	House of Culture, Izolyatsia. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	The story about certain histories, galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland.
	Museum of the city of Svetlograd, Lisichansk Local History Museum, Lisichansk, Ukraine.
2016	NaViyane, Shishaki Fest, Cinema O. Dovzhenko, Shishaky, Poltava region, Ukraine.
	Social-contract, Izolyatsia. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Кyiv, Ukraine.
	Bud'mo!, BWA Zielona gora, Zielona gora, Poland.
	Museum on/off / Museum (science) fictions, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
	The School of Prosperity. A Class of the School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015, MUSA, Vienna, Austria.
	De ne De, Institute of Scientific-Technical and Economic Information, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015	The School of Kyiv-Leipzig class. Seminar: Politics of Form, The School of Kyiv. Karlsruhe Class, Lecturer: Alexandra Exter, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany.
	Follia Continua!, Cent quatre, Paris, France.
	BIRUCHIY 10×15, 10th International symposium of contemporary art, a peninsula of Biryuchyi, Ukraine.
	Zone of peace and freedom, Shishaki Fest, cinema O.P.Dovzhenko, Shishaki, Poltava region, Ukraine.
	Recreation, Symposium of Contemporary Art, Irshansk, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine.
	Master Art, Vozdvizhenka Art House, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Hope, Ukraine pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy.
	Trotz allem, Polish institut. Dusseldorf, Germany.
	Borderlands, Grad gallery, London, England.
2014	Post Pop. East meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain.
	R.E.P. 10 lat . O metodzie, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland.
	Through Maidan and Beyond, Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria.
	21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2014, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	BIRUCHIY 014, International symposium of contemporary art, a peninsula of Biryuchyi, Ukraine.
	Sister europe, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria.
	Everything and Nothing, Skuc Gallery, Lubljana, Slovenia.
	Open City, Art Festival in Public Spaces, Lublin, Poland.
	The Ukrainians*, DAAD, Zimmerstrabe, Berlin, Germany.
	Occupation art, Artists Union, Ternopil, Ukraine.
	Places, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Fear and Hope, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Upstairs, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
2013	20 Artists Shortlisted for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Sphères 6, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France.
	Miejsca. Laureaci Nagorody im. K. Malewicza, Arsenal Gallery, Bellostok, Poland.
	Lenin: icebreaker, special project of the 5th Moscow Biennale, Lenin Icebreaker, Murmansk, Russia.
	BIRUCHIY 013, International symposium of contemporary art, a peninsula of Biryuchyi, Ukraine.
	Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
	Monument to the Monument, Ukrainian Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy.
	Sopromat [strength of materials, ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia.
	In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art of Warsaw, Poland.
	Ukrainian News, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
	Coordinate System, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2012	Practice, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Spheres 5, Galleria Continua/Le Moulin, France.
	BIRUCHIY 012, International symposium of contemporary art, a peninsula of Biryuchyi, Ukraine.
	Kyiv Sculpture Project, M.M.Gryshko National Botanic Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Contemporary Art Storage, courtyard of Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Double Game, Special Project, First Kyiv International Biennale ARSENALE 2012, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	False Mirrors, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Myth: Ukrainian Baroque, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	GENDER–the Right to Self-construction in Patriarchy, Izolyatsia, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine.
	Apartment Exhibition Days Zero Budget, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
	Angry birds, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland.
	Women’s Guild, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011	Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	On/Off, Art House, Moscow, Russia.
	Art Training: join the urban game!, Wroclaw, Poland.
	Art Training: join the urban game!, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Impossible Community, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
	3+6, apartment exhibition, Moscow, Russia.
	Independent, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Phantom Monuments, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia.
2010	Ukrainian Art Platform, ART Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
	Great Surprise, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Eurorenovation in Europe, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany.
	From City to City, Musical Theatre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	ЯКЩО/ЕСЛИ/IF, Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm, Russia.
	Tape it, Оui Gallery, Grenoble, France.
	Abstract Vision Test, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Those who came in 2000's, CCA М17, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009	The Conquered City, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	New History, Kharkiv Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
	Views, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	On the Wall, LABgarage Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	MoskwApolice, Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm, Russia.
	No More Reality: Crowd and Performance, as a part of R.E.P group, Depo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
2008	Art as a Gift, as a part of R.E.P group, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Transit, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Another city. Another life, as a part of R.E.P group, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
	No more reality, as a part of R.E.P group, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
	Satellite Tunes, as a part of R.E.P group, National University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
	Alphabetical Order, as a part of R.E.P group, Index Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
	The Invisible Difference, Art Strelka Projects Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2007	ArchShargorod Festival, Shargorod, Ukraine.
	XV years, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia.
	Witnesses to the Impossible, as a part of R.E.P group, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Center of Art, Moscow, Russia.
	Communities Project, as a part of R.E.P group, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Generation UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006	Report Project, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Modus R: Russian Formalism Today, The Newton Building, Miami Design District, Miami, USA.
	Testing station, as a part of R.E.P group, Skulpture Hus, Stockholm, Sweden.
	Postorange, as a part of R.E.P group, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria.
	"You?!", as a part of R.E.P group, TSEKH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	8=8, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	Intervention, as a part of R.E.P group, part of the project "24 Hours. Ukraine", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
	Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA.
	Hot Ukraine cool Ukraine, Moscow Center of Art, Moscow, Russia.
2005	Ukrainian Art and the Orange Revolution, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA.
	Intervention, as a part of R.E.P group, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Control, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Do It Yourself, Art Strelka, David Ter-Oganyan’s showcase, Moscow, Russia.
	Do It Yourself, Tomacz Vanek showcase, Prague, Czech Republic.
	Ukrainian Hermitage, as a part of R.E.P group, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Lost, Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2004	"R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space)", Center for Contemporary Art, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Epoch of romanticism, Ukrainian-Polish project, Ukrainian Artists Union, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Playing with archetypes, National Center of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2003	21 Views, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	Art-Klyazma, International Art Festival, Moscow, Russia.
2002	Blue Mud, Guelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
	BiBikov Boulevard, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.