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The PinchukArtCentre has published the book A Stone Is a Stone on the occasion of Nikita Kadan's solo exhibition of the same name, organised in the context of the PinchukArtCentre's Research Platform. It consists of texts by William Blaker, Bjorn Geldhof, Kateryna Mischenko and Kateryna Yakovlenko, which describe Nikita Kadan's artistic practice and the works presented at the exhibition, and also address the topics of history and memory, artistic interpretation of the past and violence, and the actualisation of the avant-garde heritage of the present.

The historical past in the form of ideologies, art and acts of political violence is at the centre of the artist Nikita Kadan's work. He immerses himself in the works of the (Ukrainian) avant-garde and interacts with the history of the last century in Ukraine. With an acute sense of urgency, Kadan speaks of history as an actual present. However, the exhibition goes beyond historical facts, examining the political violence embedded in binary worldviews. And it makes the issue of memory itself the subject of artistic expression, demonstrating and contrasting the political wounds that were caused by it.

The exhibition is open to the public until 15 August 2021 at the PinchukArtCentre. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12.00 to 21.00. Entrance is free.

Nikita (Nikita) Kadan  was born in Kyiv in 1982. In 2007, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, where he studied at the Department of Painting in the Monumental Art Workshop. Nikita Kadan has been a member of the R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space) group of artists since 2004 and a co-founder of the curatorial and activist association Khudrada, which has existed since 2008. He is the recipient of the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2011 and the Future Generation Art Prize in 2014. He has participated in the Venice, Istanbul, Kyiv and Busan Biennales. Nikita Kadan's works are included in the collections of such museums as Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), MUMOK Museum of Modern Art (Vienna), MuHKa Museum of Modern Art (Antwerp), Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (Poland), Museum of Military History (Dresden), National Art Museum (Kyiv).