Lada Nakonechna will present her recent artworks and approaches in dealing with the artefacts and archival materials. Works such as “Socialist realism discourse trap or how to gaze at self-confident man from DDR” or “Travelling head” were conceived as a tool to reveal the structural features of art production, preservation, representation, and other interesting or neglected stories reflected in museum collections. Lada Nakonechna will talk about her idea of “Disciplined Vision,” which is embedded in two exhibitions about the imagination, elaborated by the socialist realist method and its pedagogical approaches. In addition, Lada will share her recent findings from the avant-garde legacy of artist pedagogues developed at the Kyiv Art Institute for a discussion on modern ways of approaching the viewer.
Artist’s bio
Lada Nakonechna is an artist, researcher, who besides personal practice has been working within several artistic, curatorial and editorial groups since 2005. She is a member of R.E.P. group, curatorial union Hudrada, and in 2015—co-founded the Method Fund, an independent organization aimed at supporting and developing contemporary art and culture in Ukraine by initiating scientific, educational and exhibition projects. In 2022, Nakonechna was a guest lecturer at the University of
Fine Arts Hamburg, and in 2023 joined the documenta Institute as a research fellow. She works in Kyiv and Kassel.
In her artistic practice, Nakonechna consistently analyzes her position as an artist and researcher. The aim of this problematization is the recognition of perspectives that are established through artistic methods and reproduced by the art education system. Her work crosses disciplines, and calls attention to methods of perception, revealing the internal aspects of visual and verbal structures.
Lada Nakonechna presented her work at numerous exhibitions including solo at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and group at Albertinum—Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, GfZK Leipzig, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Malmö Kunstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and other. She is a laureate of the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award 2014, founded by the Polish Institute in Kyiv. Her works are in the public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Malmö Kunstmuseum, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Universitätsbibliothek Albertina in Leipzig, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Arsenał Gallery, Poznan, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi.
Osoba prowadząca
Anna Łazar
Anna Łazar
Autorka tekstów, tłumaczka (między innymi Dlaczego w sztuce ukraińskiej są wielkie artystki, 2020; Oksana Zabużko, Planeta Piołun, 2022; Ilia Kamiński, Republika Głuchych, 2023), członkini redakcji „Nowej Europy Wschodniej”. Kuratorka projektu Wolne Słowo, programu międzynarodowej współpracy artystycznej w ramach projektu Gdańsk Miasto Literatury. Pracowała w dziedzinie dyplomacji publicznej w Ministerstwie Spraw Zagranicznych jako wicedyrektorka i p.o. dyrektora w Instytucie Polskim w Kijowie (2008–2014) i w Sankt Petersburgu (2015–2018) oraz jako kuratorka w Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi (2021–2022).
