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MgA. Pavla Nikitina
*1997, Kyiv, Ukraine
Lives and works in Brno, Czech Republic
EDUCATION
2023 – now
PhD.
Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Advisor: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Medek
2016 – 2023
BcA. / MgA.
Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Sculpture Studio 1
head of studio: prof. ak. soch. Michal Gabriel, assistant: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Medek
2013 – 2017
Secondary Technical School of Stonework and Sculpture in Hořice, Czech Republic
specialization: stone-sculpting
2010 – 2013
Taras Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2022
Finalist of PinchukArtCentre Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021
Grand Prix, MUHi (Young Ukrainian Artists), Kyiv, Ukraine
RESIDENCIES
2019
Exodus. Biruchiy 019. Montenegro, International Symposium of Contemporary Art BIRUCHIY, organized by: EXODUS Social Club, Montenegro.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Temporality of Silence, Ferdinand Baumann Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
2022
Drei Horizonte/23.02.2022, with Jiří David, (as part of the festival Czech Season in Dresden), Stallhof, Dresden.
2022
5 minutes, MAGNA Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2022
2022
2022
2021
2021
2021
2021
2019
2019
2019
War Diaries: Unheard voices of Ukrainian Children, Amsterdam City Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ukrainian Collage, The Kyiv National Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Records of Resistance, D-Mitte, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Echo Chamber Lexicon, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno, Czech Republic.
Records of Resistance – Zeugnisse des Widerstands, Unterhaus Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany.
United. PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
In Progress: MUHI-2021 prize winners, Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Paris, France.
ART WAR, Dom Innowacji Społecznych, Warsaw, Poland.
The Garden Party, Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
MUHi 2021, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Prototyp Festival 2021, Brno Exhibition Centre: pavilion A, Brno, Czech Republic.
Kъniga, Golden Gate Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Na rozhraní, curated by: Crashtest 2021, Museum of Art and Design Benesov, Benešov, Czech Republic.
Prototyp Festival 2019, Brno Exhibition Centre: pavilion A, Brno, Czech Republic.
Exodus, curated by: Kostiantyn Doroshenko, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Exodus. Biruchiy 019. Montenegro, curated by: Kostiantyn Doroshenko, Art Gallery of Miodrag Dado Djuric, Cetinje, Montenegro.
2019
Exodus. Biruchiy 019. Montenegro, curated by: Kostiantyn Doroshenko, Spomen Dom, Gornji Morinj, Montenegro.
2018
2018
2018
2016
2016
2016
2015
Outside These Walls, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, USA.
AS1 Among the Flowers, Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Digital Exchange 3, curated by: Natálie Chalcarzová, FaVU Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
Analog versus Digital, City Gallery Trutnov, Trutnov, Czech Republic.
Stones Are Rolling, U Přívozu Gallery, Research Library in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Šutrárna, Architecture Days at Mastný Factory, Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czech Republic.
Mystics, Spirits and Muses, curated by: Robert Carrithers, Art Prague 2016, Kafka House, Prague, Czech Republic.
130 years of the School of Sculpture, U Přívozu Gallery, Research Library in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
2022
2019
MAGNA Gallery (Czech Republic)
National Museum of Montenegro (Cetinje)
private collections in Ukraine and Czech Republic
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023
curator of the exhibition “The Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy”, Ateliéry Hybešova, Brno, Czech Republic.
2013
curator of the young artists exhibition “Ourselves” (САМИ) as a part of the project Yunost in Andriyivskyi in Kyiv, Ukraine.
LECTURES
2019
I Tried to Stop the War for 5 Minutes, Prototyp Festival 2019, Brno Exhibition Centre: pavilion A, Czech Republic.
2019
3D Technologies As a Tool in Contemporary Art, Art Residency Biruchiy, Exodus Social Club, Montenegro.