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The lecture by the internationally known Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan was introduced and accompanied by a debate with the Russianist and semiotician Tomáš Glanc. Nikita Kadan (Нікіта Кадан, 1982) is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Kiev. He works with various media, including installation, sculpture, painting and collage.
Nikita Kadan graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2007 in the department of monumental painting. In 2004-2014 he was active as a member of the artistic group R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space, Р.Е.П.), which arose during the Ukrainian Orange Revolution in Kyiv. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Hudrada(Худрада) curatorial group, and since 2016, a member of the editorial team of Prostory, an online publication of artistic and social criticism. Kadan represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2015. He has also been awarded several prizes, receiving the Special Future Generation Art Prize in 2014, and the Kazimir Malevich Prize in 2016. He was also a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2022.
Tomáš Glanc, born 1969 in Prague, is a professor at Zurich University, Switzerland. Topics of his research include Eastern European culture, modern slavic art and literature, samizdat and unofficial media and cultural practices, performance in Eastern Europe.
