 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 Olesia 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 “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 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. For further information please see http://www.rep.tinka.cc/ |