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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
Winner of the MUHi (Young Ukrainian Artists) Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
RESIDENCIES
2019
Exodus. Biruchiy 019. Montenegro, International Symposium of Contemporary Art BIRUCHIY, organized by: EXODUS Social Club, Montenegro.
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.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Neighbourhood Report 2025, NÖDOK, St. Pölten, Austria.
2025
Me and the Ark, Me and the Great Flood, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2024
Algorithms of Defense, Zaporizhzhia Regional Local History Museum, Ukraine.
2024
SCOOTER VI – action of young arts, Koppel villa, Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia.
2023
War Diaries: Unheard voices of Ukrainian Children, ArtHall D12, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023
Thinking about Ukraine, Rubinsteinlaan 37, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2023
War Diaries: Unheard voices of Ukrainian Children, Amsterdam City Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2023
Ukrainian Collage, The Kyiv National Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023
Records of Resistance, D-Mitte, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2023
Echo Chamber Lexicon, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno, Czech Republic.
2023
Records of Resistance – Zeugnisse des Widerstands, Unterhaus Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany.
2022
United. PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022
In Progress: MUHI-2021 prize winners, Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Paris, France.
2022
ART WAR, Dom Innowacji Społecznych, Warsaw, Poland.
2022
The Garden Party, Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
2021
MUHi 2021, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021
Prototyp Festival 2021, Brno Exhibition Centre: pavilion A, Brno, Czech Republic.
2021
Kъniga, Golden Gate Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021
Na rozhraní, curated by: Crashtest 2021, Museum of Art and Design Benesov, Benešov, Czech Republic.
2019
Prototyp Festival 2019, Brno Exhibition Centre: pavilion A, Brno, Czech Republic.
2019
Exodus, curated by: Kostiantyn Doroshenko, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019
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
Outside These Walls, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, USA.
2018
AS1 Among the Flowers, Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
2018
Digital Exchange 3, curated by: Natálie Chalcarzová, FaVU Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
2018
Analog versus Digital, City Gallery Trutnov, Trutnov, Czech Republic.
2016
Stones Are Rolling, U Přívozu Gallery, Research Library in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
2016
Šutrárna, Architecture Days at Mastný Factory, Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czech Republic.
2016
Mystics, Spirits and Muses, curated by: Robert Carrithers, Art Prague 2016, Kafka House, Prague, Czech Republic.
2015
130 years of the School of Sculpture, U Přívozu Gallery, Research Library in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
2025
2024
2022
2019
YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Azerbaijan)
Brno City Museum (Czech Republic)
MAGNA Gallery (Czech Republic)
National Museum of Montenegro (Cetinje)
private collections in Ukraine and Czech Republic
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
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/DISCUSSIONS
2025
How Is It Possible to Create Art in a State of War?, as part of the accompanying program of Johana Merta’s exhibition Over All Possibilities 2, House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
2025
Sculpture and 3D Printing, within the symposium The Story of Sculpture in Public Space, Horácká Gallery, Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic.
2022
The Theme of War and Freedom in Contemporary Art, Technical Art School of Stonework and Sculpture in Hořice, Czech Republic.
2019
2019
I Tried to Stop the War for 5 Minutes, Prototyp Festival 2019, Brno Exhibition Centre: pavilion A, Czech Republic.
3D Technologies As a Tool in Contemporary Art, Art Residency Biruchiy, Exodus Social Club, Montenegro.