NOCH
2018-
artist run space, residency

Noch Gallery is an initiative of the artist Alexandra Kadzevich and the writer and psychoanalyst Harri Kraievets, focused on short-term research and experiments by artists. These studies were about little-explored phenomena, unexpected situations, and consequences that have yet to manifest themselves. The results of these studies were one-day exhibitions in the studio overlooking the Odesa seaport.

The Noch Gallery emerged in Kadzevich’s studio in June 2018 as a place for 24-hour events-situations that could be shared with others. The goal of Noch is to meet and interact with local art scenes, and to revitalize the artistic field of Odesa by creating an intense discussion environment. For almost 3 years of its existence, Noch Gallery has hosted 34 exhibition projects by Ukrainian and foreign artists, and its space has become an influential cultural location in Odesa.

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DACHA KICKS 2017

Childhood is always a period of absolute anonymity, only you can remember something about yourself. Turning personal memory into myth, fairy tale, and nature, we decided to make the main action a game with the dog as a symbolic return to the dacha practices from childhood. Interacting with intimate notes and diaries from childhood is a good method for reflection and reconstruction of memories. Is it possible to not only reconstruct childhood, but also to share the memory of it with someone else?

Project ‘Countryside Practices: Seasonal Proximity’ took place in a special place — a dacha in the village of Lustdorf. The show took place for one day.
In the attic we showed our old diary entries, notes, clippings, photos, books that we made, film scripts, archaeological finds from our childhood. Music from dierent periods was playing on the cd player.

Duo-exhibition in collaboration with Maria Silchenko
Performative act, installation, diaries, photos, CD player, postcards drawings
Special project for the 5th Odesa Biennale of Contemporary Art «Country practices: Seasonal proximity» Curated by Alexandra Tryanova

Photos by Christopher Pugmire

Empty Places And Filled Faces
2019

Installation, Mixed Media, Collage, Acrylic on Cardboard Tubes, Textile, Dimensions Variable

Kalina, Vinogradna, Sadova
2020

Photo documentation of a series of works in a panorama of a deserted field landscape torn from the urban environment (the village of Morozovka), which has not been visited by my relatives for more than 5 years. Intangible components of exposure, such as light and shadow, noise and silence.It was interesting for me to get out of the limitations of my own space of the workshop-gallery, the «Artistic» practice of art presentation. From a passive participant of the exhibition to become an organizer who independently models her field of activity and creates her own context. In this project, I explored the phenomenology of not yet built-up, open spaces, as well as painting in relation to the surrounding space, as an object that can shape the perception of the territory and reveal its new complex meanings.

Installation, paintings, dimensions variables
Morozovka village, Belyaevsky district, Ukraine
Supported by CEC ArtsLink and Open Place

installation view

COASTAL SIGNS, 2019

Installation, paper, cardboard, acrylic, pastel, wood
the Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.
as part of SWAP: UK/Ukraine residency
October, 25

During my residency at the Pier Art Centre, I studied the language of the local communities, where I have tried to unpack visual codes, starting from everyday images, as well as objects seen in museums that attracted me, to merge history and modernity. Some things I saw on the street, these images become decoration in the exhibition space, a layout. I decided to visualise these invisible threads, the relationship of human and nature, the subject and the environment in which it is located. It seems to me in such a bundle, the space around things is ignited. This is an invitation for the viewer to review their own environment, how it is perceived and it is possible to cause that feeling of surprise that makes you see something for which you were not looking.

https://www.pierartscentre.com/

The Way From Eye To Eye
2020

The forms, transparencies and veilings yield to the imagination. Their extreme equilibrium leads us to places where our minds are soothed and comforted.

‘My eye moves slowly. It touches a vague surface hoping to see the whole space. It traces the ambiguity that I desired to return to the image.

It is only the ambiguity that can make it live.

Once walking through a bustling southern city, I saw the paly flickering of crystal curtains wavering in a wind. The cavernous structure of the
folds made a sharp impression on me. They lacked the unnecessary accuracy of a perpendicular shape. Irrational space, infinite fluidity. I wanted to rip the curtain off, allowing the sunbeam to penetrate into the room and fill it with the bright glow – I wanted to let the external inside, as if with x-rays — thereby connecting the interior of the building with the street’..
[Author’s text]

The central subject of Alexandra Kadzevich’s practice is painting. After completing classic art education, she consistently employs painting techniques and tests various materials to explore this medium. In 2018, in her workshop in Odessa, Kadzevich founded the artist-run space

NOCH, which promoted the development of the art environment. Changes in the private space of her workshop have affected the artist’s practice and inspired her to reconceptualize the relations between a work of art, space and architecture — her thinking transformed in the direction of spatially-oriented painting, where the materiality of an object has become crucial, while painting itself has developed ephemerality which is characteristic of an intuitive touch.

[Extract of curator’s text]

Installation, paper and wooden objects, found object, painting, text
Project for ‘Exhibition of the 20 Artists Shortlisted for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020’ Kyiv, UA
curated by Alexandra Tryanova and Bjorn Geldhof
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