Press Kit (August 30th/31st, 2012) - Goldmann Public Relations ...

NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights
Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels
01.09. – 10.12.2012
Got To Know Each Other, 52 nd October Salon, Belgrade (2011); The
Jerusalem Show, Jerusalem (2010); London Film Festival, London (2010);
Instant Video Festival, Marseille (2009).
NIKITA KADAN was born in 1982 in Kiev, Ukraine. He lives and works in
Kiev.
Nikita Kadan is an artist, activist, writer, member and co-founder of both the
artists collective R.E.P. (‘Revolutionary Experimental Space’ - since 2004)
and the curatorial/activist group HudRada (Ukranian for ‘artistic committee’ -
since 2008). He works with installation, graphics, painting, mural drawings
and posters in public space and often is involved in interdisciplinary
collaborations with architects, human rights activists and sociologists. In his
practice he reflects, among other things, on the nature of history and
memory but also on human rights questions in the former Soviet Republics,
and particularly the Ukraine, where he comes from.
He is a member of the artists group R.E.P. (Revolutionary experimental
space) and co-founder of the curatorial and activist group HUDRADA. In
2011 he was the recipient of the main prize of the PinchukArtCentre, Kiev.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Figures on white, Karas gallery, Kiev
(2011); Nesezon, Arsenal gallery, Kiev (2011); Procedure room/Fixing,
NORMA gallery, Odessa (2010); Procedure room, Institutskaya gallery,
Kiev (2010); Scene of action, Collection gallery, Kiev (2009). Recent group
exhibitions include: The 1 st Kiev Biennial, Kiev, Sound of silence, Elizabeth
Foundation, New York (2012); Impossible Community, Moscow Museum of
Modern Art, Moscow (2011); Atlantis 11, 54 th Venice Biennale (2011);
Independent, Art Arsenal, Kiev (2011); Shockworkers of Mobile Image, 1 st
Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg (2010); IF. Ukrainian Art in
Transition, PERMM, Perm (2010); No more reality, De Appel, Amsterdam
(2008); New Ukrainian painting, White Box gallery, New York (2007);
Generations UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2007). www.nikitakadan.com
HAYV KAHRAMAN was born in 1981 in Baghdad, Iraq . She lives and
works in San Francisco, USA.
Spanning drawing, painting, and sculpture, the practice of Hayv Kahraman
engages with issues surrounding female identity in her homeland Iraq –
how women are victimised within their own culture, made subservient to
men and often suffer the most from the effects of the war. She is also, by
extent, intensely preoccupied with the questions of migration, displacement,
and identity that are the result of the political situation and recent US-led
occupation of Iraq. Her stylised, figurative works have an exquisite eye for
design and possess a sense of painful immaculate beauty.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Pins and Needles, The Third Line Gallery,
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