R.E.P. (revolutionary experimental space) group was found in 2004. Since 2006 members of R.E.P. group are Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Lesia Khomenko, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Ksenia Hnylytska, Lada Nakonechna, all live and work in Kyiv, Ukraine
In 2006 group started own curatorial program
named “Shtab” (“Hadquarters”)
In 2008
initiated HUDRADA (http://hudrada.tumblr.com/), the curatorial
union based on interdisciplinary communication
Selected exhibitions
2022
Ein Brief von der Front, Haus der Kunst München, Germany
2021
Ukraine: A different Angle on Neighborhood, The International Cultural Centre in Krakow, Poland
2019
11/944 — from the Collection of Galeria Labirynt, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
The Influencing Machine, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest
The Missing Planet, Visions and Re-visions of “Soviet Times” from the Pecci Centre’s and Other Collections, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
2018
The Opposing Shore, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
2017
Attention! Border! Galeria Arsenał elektrownia, Białystok,Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
2016
After theRally, Studio Gallery, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
Universal hospitality, Alte Post, Wien
Meanwhile, what about socialism?, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Dependence degree, BWA Wrocław - Gallery of Contemporary Art
2015
R.E.P. – On method, 10 years, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi/ Georgian State Art Museum, Tbilisi
Limited liability pavilion, apartment exhibition during56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Demonstrating Minds: Disagreements in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA/The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Art has no alternative (An Archive of Artists in Action),tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014
The Wall, Art Face to Face with Borders, Careof DOCVA, Milan
Referendum on withdrawal from the human race,Teatr Powszechny im. Zygmunta Hübnera, Warsaw, Poland/Closer art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
R.E.P. – On method, 10 years, Labirynt gallery, Lublin, Poland
Through maidan and beyond, Architekturzentrum Wien in MuseumsQuartier,
Vienna, Ausria
Deprivation, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok, Poland
The Ukrainians, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Imaginary archive, Les Kurbas centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Disobedience Archive (The park), SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Piazza dell’imaginario, Prato, Italy
The stairs, project organized by Polish Institute on Ivana Franka st, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2013
Whisper down the lane, Gallery 400, Chicago, USA
global aCtIVISm, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Self-government:
cultural evolution vs. Revolution, Odessa,Ukraine
Ukrainian news, CSW Zamek Ujazdowsky, Warsaw, Poland
Union of Hovels, First congress, Lido, Venice
“The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013” Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Disobedience Archive (The Republic), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Court Experiment, SIZ gallery, Rijeka
Showing its colours. What makes art, MARTa Herford, DE
Sun of the Poor, Ya Gallery Art Center,Dnipropetrovsk
2012
Cantastoria, UMOCA (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art), Salt Lake City, USA
It isn’t important, it’s only art…, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Disputed Territory is the 4th exhibition of the Ukrainian Curatorial Collective HUDRADA, Sevastopol Art Museum in Crimea, Ukraine
“THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES – REBIRTH
AND APOCALYPSE IN CONTEMPORARY ART”, main project of First Kyiv biennale
of contemporary art ARSENALE 2012, Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv, UA
“Myth “Ukrainian baroque”, National Art Museum, Kyiv
Who told you so?!#1 Truth vs. Government, Onomatopee
projectspace, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Atlas critique,Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art
contemporain, France
2011
Labor show, CCA at National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Visual Culture Research
Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Between Ideology and Identity. Budapest Version, in Labor,
Budapest, Hungary
Impossible community, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
LIFE IN THE FOREST, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
ATLANTIS 11, The alternative Bulgarian pavilion, **54th
Venice Biennial, Italy
**Independent, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
A complicated relation, part 2, KALMAR KONSTMUSEUM, Kalmar, Sweden
Making and art, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Austria
Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2010
PROTESTS, SUBVERSIONS, COMMUNITIES,
MARKETS: PUBLIC SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN ART,
public screening, FLAT SPACE, Chisinau
Art-Kyiv Contemporary, parallel exhibition, Art Arsenal,Kyiv, Ukraine
Those, who came at the start of 2000, M17 Contemporary art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Annex 6. The Politics of the Invisible Hand, ART IST KUKU NU UT 2010, Y-Gallery, Tartu,Estonia
Videozone 5, The 5 International Video Art Biennial in Israel, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
Minimal Differences, White Box, New York, USA
ЯКЩО/ ЕСЛИ/ IF. Ukrainian Art in Transition, PERMM museum, Perm, Russia
When One Has to Say “We”: Art as the Practice of Solidarity, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Over the Counter, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Rain Of Down, Culturehouse Telakka, Tampere, Finland
Euro renovation in Europe, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
Great surprise, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
SUPERMARKET - the artist-run art fair, Stockholm, Sweden
Let’s talk about nationalism! Between ideology and identity, Kumu Art
Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
Revolutionary moments, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kiev Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
Communism Never Happened, Feinkost gallery, Berlin, Germany
FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY. Self organized artistic practices from Ukraine, Gallery SC + Gallery PM/HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Old Cold War. Pols Socialist Countries Experience, 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Views, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kiev Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
(Re)Socialisation of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine
Open city, Festival of art in public space,Lublin, Poland
2. Katowice Biennale, Katowice, Poland
No More Reality. Crowd and performance, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
Land of Human Rights: Being Responsible for Resources, < rotor > - art association in Graz, Austria
2008
Art as a present, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Alphabetical order, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden;
Gyumry biennial, Gyumry, Armenia
EPAF – European festival of performances, Warsaw, Poland
Another city. Another life, Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland
No more reality, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, Holland
Pro Это,“Qui vive?” Biennale of young artists, State Centre for contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
Transit, curatorial projeсt of R.E.P. group, “Ya gallery”, Kyiv,Ukraine
Common Space, curatorial projeсt of R.E.P. group supported by “Eidos” foundation, public environment, Kyiv, Ukraine
New Ukrainian Language, curatorial projeсt of R.E.P. group, “Karas gallery”, Kyiv,
Ukraine
Checkpoint, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, Poland
Satellite Tunes, National University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Shengen, Feinkost gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007
Consequences and Proposals, Biennale of young artists,Tallinn, Estonia
Contemporary art Norwich, Norwich, England
Ukrainian pavilion. Berlin, Bereznitsky gallery, Berlin, Germany
Patriotism”, Capsula gallery, Rome, Italy
Ginnungagap/Pavilion of Belief, Presentation of “Im Regierungsviertel” gallery in time of 52 VeniceBiennale, Venice, Italy
We are Ukrainians, In collaboration with Mark Titchner, Ukrainian pavilion on 52 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Critically in between, Special project of “Art-Athina 2007” art 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
Comunities. Young artists from Ukraine, curatorial
project of R.E.P. group, “Arsenal” gallery, Bialostok, Poland
Communities project, curatorial project of R.E.P. group, Center for Contemporary Art at National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
Petroliana. Oil patriotism, Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2006
Testing station, “Skulpturens Hus”, Stockholm, Sweden
Hot / Cool Ukraine, Moscow, Russia
Patriotism tomorrow, Wyspa institute for contemporary art, Gdansk
Festival of Contemporary Art in Shargorod, Ukraine
Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA
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, project of R.E.P. group, Festival of Performances in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Postorange, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Team Colors, F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, Poland
2005
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
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
Residencies
2005 – Year residence of R.E.P. group in Centre for Contemporary Art at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
2008 – Residence in LIA – Leipzig International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany
Artworks in Public Collections
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo d’árte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Labirynt gallery, Lublin, Poland
FRAC Bretagne, France
National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Galeria Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
Kontact Collection, Vienna, Austria