We are happy to share some good news: a catalogue by artist Lada Nakonechna, dedicated to the project Disciplined Vision, has recently been published. The presentation of the catalogue is planned for early 2024.
This is a long-term project, within which one of the exhibitions — Disciplined Vision. School — took place at Artsvit in 2021. This exhibition marked the start of the gallery's work in its new space.
In it, Lada Nakonechna focuses on art education. Artists studying at higher art institutions in Ukraine are still heirs to the school formed during the Soviet era. Art education in the Soviet republics was artificially returned to old academic principles and, in the post-war period, taken under the control of the USSR Academy of Arts, which developed its standards. In creating works for the exhibition Disciplined Vision. School, the artist uses tools and materials familiar to the educational process: copying, studying through drawing, using artificial lighting to model the form of objects, scaling, etc. The exhibition is based on the idea of imitation and repetition, but the author reveals the selectivity of what is seen or chosen, guided by partial blindness, which, in turn, leads to form expressions opposite to the original source.
Photo: Stanislav Pyvonos
Lada Nakonechna
Born in 1981, Dnipropetrovsk. Lives and works in Kyiv.
In 2000, she graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Art College.
In 2006, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.
Lada Nakonechna is a member of the R.E.P. art group and the curatorial activist association Khudrada. She is also a co-founder of the Method Foundation and its educational programme Art Course, within which she explores different ways of studying and practising art. Since 2017, she has been co-editor of PROSTORY.net.ua, a publication on art, literature, and politics.
She is a laureate of the Kazimir Malevich Award (2014), the Women in Art 2020 Award, winner of the second PinchukArtCentre Special Prize (2013), and winner of the III Ukrainian Competition for Young Curators and Artists of the Centre for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA (2003).
Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, 2015), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany, 2015), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Leipzig, Germany, 2015), Kunsthalltrondheim (Norway, 2015), Daad gallery (Berlin, Germany, 2014), Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (Poland, 2013), Centre for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA (Kyiv, 2009 and 2003, solo), National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2011, 2012, 2017, and solo in 2021), PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, 2016, solo), Kunstverein Leipzig (Germany, 2015), CSW Zamek Ujazdowsky (Warsaw, Poland, 2012, solo), Espace Croix-Baragnon (Toulouse, France, 2014, solo), Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, Switzerland 2016), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (Croatia, 2018), Palais Populaire (Berlin, Germany, 2018).
Works in public collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main; Kunstsammlung der Sparkasse Leipzig; Art Collection Telekom; Arsenał Gallery, Białystok; Sammlung Westhoff, Bremen; Universitätsbibliothek Albertina, City of Leipzig; National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; SØR Rusche Sammlung, Oelde – Berlin.
