Exhibition with Kovanda | ZVE Bratislava 2020 Solo show | ZVE Prague 2019
Zhanna KADYROVA (1981, Ukraine)
Education
1992—1999 School of Art by T. G. Schevchenko
Awards
2025 Her Art Prize, Paris, France
2024 Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (for the project Trajectory of Flights)
2018 Miami Beach PULSE PRIZE
2013 PinchukArtCentre Prize, Main Prize
2012 Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award (Public Art)
2012 Kazimir Malevich Artist Award
2012 Grand Prix – Kyiv Sculpture Project
2011 PinchukArtCentre Special Prize
Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
The Permanent Collection at the Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Mystetski Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Galleria Arsenal ,Białystok, Poland
Kunsthalle Prague, Czech Rep.
Kontakt collection-ERSTE Stiftung, Vienna, Austria
Albertinum Museum, Dresden, Germany
Izolyatsia Platform of Cultural initiatives. Ukraine
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025/26 Avulsion, curated by Monika Szewczyk, Arsenal Gallery power station, Bialystok, Poland
2025 IHME Helsinki Commission 2025, Steam Power Plant of the Power Station Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2025 Instrument, organized by RIBBON International and Ukrainian Railways, Lviv train station, Ukraine
2025 Strategic locations, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
2024 Unexpected, curated by Björn Geldhof, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Rep.
2024 Border Memory, curated by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Uppsala konstmuseum, Sweden
2023/24 Flying Trajectories, curated by Björn Geldhof, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Out of Home, Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Germany
2023 Daily Bread. A First Retrospective, curated by Christoph Platz-Gallus, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2022 Zhanna Kadyrova, Material Evidence, solo exhibition, Stavanger Museum, Stavanger, Norway
2022 PALIANYTSIA, St.Agnes Chapel, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany
2022 PALIANYTSIA, Castello 2145, Riva San Biasio, Venezia, Italy
2021 Art Cologne, represented by Galleria Continua and Zahorian & Van Espen
2020/21 (Almost) Involuntary Sculptures, with Jiří KOVANDA, curated by Elena Sorokina, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava
2020 It was forbidden to swim in the water area of the plant, Invogue gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2020 Redemption sale, with Davide Volponi, galleria MACCA, Cagliari, Italy
2020 Market site specific project-performance, Armory Show, New York
2019 Permiso para el coctel, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Havana, Cuba
2019 Animalier, Villa Pacchiani Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Pisa, Italy
2019 Resistance of Matter, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France
2019 Resistance of Matter, Zahorian & Van Espen Gallery, Czech Rep.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Echoes of Tumult, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2025 At the Table. Eating and Drinking in Contemporary Art, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2025 And The Wind Will Carry Us Away, Stasys Museum, Panevėžys, Lithuania
2025 Women at War, North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, USA
2025 Burning, k41community.fund, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Silent Games, curated by Nina Moravcová, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 Daring to Dream in a World of Constant Fear, Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Venice, Italy
2023/24 The Permanent Collection at the Museum Ludwig / Collection Presentation, Museum Ludwig Köln, Germany
2022/23 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, curated by Shubigi Rao, India
2023 Kaleidoscope of story(s). Ukrainian Art 1912-2023, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
2023 Chronic Hunger – Chronic Desire, Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture, Timisoara, Romania
2023 Exhibition of 27 world artists, MOT, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 The Pain of Others, DOX, Praha, Czech Rep.
2022 We No Longer Feel the Future, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 Ukraine, Une donation contemporaine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2022 War art, Nikitos, Paris, France
2022 Stolen sun gallery New York, USA
2022 Fire and Hope, group exhibition of Ukrainian artists, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Rep.
2022 Death and the Maiden – Der Tod und das Mädchen, group exhibition, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Austria
2021 Semmering – Land, Besitz und Commons, group exhibition curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber, Semmering, Austria
2020 WHY THERE WILL BE WOMEN ARTISTS IN LVIV, Lviv Municipal Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 WBS70 – 50 years later: Reception of the prefabricated building in contemporary art, Raskolnikow Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
2020 The monument, the toil and the hippocampus, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France
2020 JISP Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2020 Fear, Galeria Arsenał elektrownia, Białystok, Poland
2020 Crack up crack down, Uyazdovski castle, Warsaw, Poland
2020 Still Still Life, Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finnland
2020 Fantastic Utopias, Rocca di Angera, Italy
2019 May you live in interesting times, 58th International Art Exhibition curated by Ralph Rugoff, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy