WAR DIARIES

28 May - 18 June, 2022

WAR DIARIES is a multimedia project combining artists and musicians, actors and writers, aiming to spread the word from Ukraine.

In Tbilisi, the program unites the Gallery Week and Live stream at MUTANT Radio with Ukrainian and Georgian Musicians like Nika Machaidze, Tusia Beridze, and Rezo Kiknadze, Anushka Chkheidze, Anton Slepakov & Andrei Sokolov, Oleh Shpudeiko and Junket.

Up to 13 galleries and art institutions are involved in the project such as ARTBEAT, 4710, E.A. Shared space and Danarti magazine, WINDOW PROJECT, PROPAGANDA NETWORK, POSTA DA KONA & LC-QUEISSER, THE WHY NOT gallery, Patara Gallery, JIBU /TASO, MAUDI and Life N Style. Artists to be presented in these galleries are Kinder Album, Taras Bychko, Ksenia Hnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Alevtina Kakhidze, Zhana Kadirova, Ivan Sautkin, Lesia Khomenko, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Danylo Movchan, Mykhailo Skop, Stanislav Ostrous, Daniil Galkin, Vlada Ralko and Oleksandr Shatokhin.

Almost all of the participants in the program remain in Ukraine. Therefore, the event aims to collect funding to support them during these difficult times.

The first edition of WAR Diaries is supported by Creative Europe Desk Georgia, TBC Bank, Adjara Group and Mutant Radio.

Kinder Album (b.1982) is based in Lviv, Ukraine. The artist works in drawing, painting, graphics, street art, photography, video and installation. Kinder Albums most recent exhibitions include The Trap and L á lbatros mon amour in Jujooceanija, Kotor, Montenegro both in 2016, Pinchuk Art Centre ShortList Exhibition, Kyiv and the solo exhibition, Anamnesis, at the Piekno Panie gallery, Lublin, Poland in 2015.

In 2012 the pseudonym, Kinder Album, emerged as part of an ongoing virtual art piece of the same title. The artist describes Kinder Album as “a collection of intentionally primitive drawings, depicting stories as if a child told them to the grown-ups”. Naked bodies are left vulnerable for the viewers eyes, the main subjects being sex and death; the bare essence of life.

Nikita (Mykyta) Kadan was born in Kyiv in 1982. In 2007 graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art (Kyiv) where he studied in the department of monumental painting under professor Mykola Storozhenko. Nikita Kadan works with painting, graphics, and installation, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with architects, sociologists and human rights activists. He is a member of the artist group REP (Revolutionary Experimental Space) and a founding member of Hudrada (Artistic Committee), a curatorial and activist collective.

Among group shows latest are: in 2022 POINTS of RESISTANCE IV: Skills for Peace Zionskirche, Zionskirchplatz, Berlin; This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice, PInchuk Art Centre, La Biennale di Venecia. And in 2021 - Dedication. Traces and Tactics, Konsthall Kristianstad; Botanica, Group Show at FIAC 2021, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris; Das - Dingenen collection, CC Zwanenberg Heist-op-den-Berg; Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change, mumok, Vienna; Aukcja Sztuki Refugees Welcome 2021, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; Ukraine. A Different Angle on Neighbourhood, The International Cultural Centre in Krakow; Garden After the Gods, Jump contemporary art centre and Poltava Grvimetric Obrervatory garden, Poltava; ZW-Art, Transit gallery, Mechelen; Der Katalysator. Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen.

And Solo shows in 2021 - The Revisionist Syndrome, Town Hall, Ivano-Frankivsk; The Wound Man, National Art Gallery, Lviv; Children Are Surrounded by Art, Nikita Kadan and Yevgen Nikiforov, Transit gallery, Mechelen; Stone Hits Stone, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; Mutilated Myth, The Naked Room, Kyiv.

Zhanna Kadyrova was born in 1981 in Brovary, the city in Kyiv region, Ukraine, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from Taras Shevchenko State Art School and received the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award, the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award for Public Art, the Grand Prix of the Kyiv Sculpture Project (all 2012) as well as a Pinchuk Art Centre Special Prize (2011) and Main Prize Winner (2013). Her works have been extensively exhibited worldwide, recently at the M17 Contemporary Art Centre, Kyiv (2021), the Shanghai International Sculpture Project JISP, Shanghai, the Ukrainian Institute in New York (2020). She participated at the 58th, 56th and 55th Venice Biennale, respectively in 2019, 2015 and 2013. Kadyrova's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Bureau for Cultural Translations, Leipzig, the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Museum of Modern Art in Poland and the Pinchuk Art Centre (2012, 2013) in Kyiv, where her first major retrospective will be held in 2023.

Stanislav Ostrous born in 1972 in Zhmerinka, Ukraine. 2001 - Kherson national technical university Kherson, Ukraine. 2016 - О. М. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Started photography in 2012. Member of UPHA – Ukrainian Photographic Alternative. Member of MYPH. Member of the main exposition of festival «Batumi Photodays» (2016-2019). Shortlist of PhotoCULT 2019. Now lives and works in Kherson, Ukraine.

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