Alexandra Kadzevich (born 1992, Odesa, Ukraine) Is a visual artist. Since January 2022 participant in the De Ateliers, two-year residency program in Amsterdam, NL. Graduated from Odesa Art School, M. B Grekova, and at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. In 2021 studied at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria. In June 2018, founded artist-run space Noch in Odesa, UA. Participant in the fourth program of art residencies SWAP: UK/Ukraine 2019 in Scotland. Nominee for the PinchukArtCentre 2020 Award, Kyiv, UA. In 2021 became a finalist in the MUHI Eight Competition Of Young Ukrainian Artists, Kyiv, UA. Alexandra Kadzevich currently lives and works in Amsterdam
My work evolves around installations of objects and sculptures in which I integrate painting, collage, and drawing. I use various materials, from paper to wood. My works often contain an element of fragility, instability, something that disturbs their balance. Collage for me is a method of combining fragmented realities into complex, changing rhythms investigating the realm of personal and collective memories.
I focus on unpredictable, incoherent, heterogeneous processes and dynamics that manifest themselves in the margins of the everyday world. I am interested in the incompleteness and looseness of the very object, which therefor guarantees its presence in the future, because, unlike death, the process of fading, collapse and completion is practically endless. I want to be extremely sincere in intuitive ways of working.
EDUCATION
2022- De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
2018 Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, direction of contemporary artist
Behind The Scenes, special project of the ‘9th Odessa International Film Festival’ ‘Invogue’ gallery, Odesa
Peace Treaty, final project Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, Educatorium gallery, Kyiv
2017
Special project ‘Countryside Practices: Seasonal Closeness’ Kunsthalle Lustdorf, for ‘5th Odesa Biennale of contemporary Art’
2016
Invisible Borders, Umpuct Hub Odesa, Ukraine
2013
III Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odesa’ Odesa, Ukraine
2010
II Biennale of Contemporary Art Odesa’ Odesa, Ukraine
Took 2nd place of The Competition of young Odesa artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine
SELECTED SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2021
A Souvenir Landscape, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Constellation, with Volodymyr Strelnikov, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Endless Noon, in frames of residency Sorry No Rooms Available, Glass Gallery Beer Factory, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2020
Kalinina, Vinogradna, Sadova, the village of Morozovka, Ukraine
2019
There are other people living here, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Coastal Signs, the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Scotland
A couple of extra steps that way, Artsvit gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
2018
Work with a brush, World Club of Odesa residents, Odesa, Ukraine
2016
Empty threats, Artery gallery, Odesa, Ukraine
2012
Wandering stars, Jewish cultural center ‘Beit Grand’ Odesa, Ukraine
2011
Olesha 10, Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2022
Partner, VILLA MÜLLER, Feldkirch, Austria
Vega de Agua, Ingenio, Gran Canaria
De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Scholarship at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
Sorry No Rooms Available, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2020
Anti-crisis financial support to representatives of the independent cultural sector in Ukraine, from the CEC ArtsLink and OpenPlace
2019
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Scotland….
in frame of the SWAP: UK/Ukraine Residency Programme, supported by British Council
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
— MEMORY OF MEMORY: ALEXANDRA KADZEVICH ABOUT EXHIBITION PROJECTS AND THE STATUS OF A YOUNG ARTIST interviewed by Amina Ahmed → https://supportyourart.com. December 20, 2021