Ukraine: Art Society and Power. Talk with Nikita Kadan.

Nikita Kadan is one of Ukraine’s most vocal and articulate contemporary artists in Ukraine. He is part of a collective of six artists known as “REP” which has led a number of artistic interventions, promoted civic activism in the field of arts education, took a critical stance against the policies of "de-communisation" and state censorship of the arts. INikita will reflect on how Ukraine’s arts scene has evolved between the two Maidan Uprisings in 2004 and 2013-14 and beyond. He will reflect on his most recent project, known as “Kmytiv phenomenon” - a project profiling Ukrainian contemporary art in the local art museum in the village of Kmytiv of the Zhytomyr region, one of the few village museums in Ukraine, holding a large collection of the Soviet period.