MAINTENANCE. From Kiev, the Ukrainian artist recounts his daily life in a city at war, where he wants to “stay as long as possible to testify”.
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Interview by Valérie Marin La Meslée
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Rtaking refuge in the Voloshyn contemporary art gallery and its reserves, in the basement, in the very center of Kiev, the artist Nikita Kadan has no intention of leaving the city where he was born in 1982. His parents live also in the Ukrainian capital. He should have gone to Vienna, to an artists’ residence in Austria, when Vladimir Putin attacked his country, which he cannot leave and where he wants to stay. To testify. It must be said that Nikita Kadan has always been a committed artist, since the Orange Revolution, in the collective REP, Revolutionary Experimental Space.
We can approach his work these days, via his Parisian gallery Poggi, which devotes a space to Ukraine, in view of the terrible news, and will share the benefit of Kadan’s works between the artist and associations.
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