Ralko Vlada

1969

Biography

Born in 1969 in Kyiv. In 1987, she graduated from the T. G. Shevchenko Republican Art School, in 1994 – the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (workshop of Prof. V. Shatalin). Works with painting, graphics, sculpture, installation. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1994. In 2017, she was recognized as one of the hundred most influential cultural figures in Ukraine, according to HB. Author of research texts, poetry, essays and critical articles about art and its connection with philosophy and politics. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Exhibitions

2023 – Sun, Sun, Illuminate the Shadow, Apartment Exhibition orginized by Shcherbenko Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal; Kaleidoskop der Geschichte(n). Ukrainische Kunst 1912–2023, Albertinum, Dresden; How are you?, UMСA.ART, Kyiv; Unser Krieg Videoart in solidarity with Ukraine Antiwarcoalition.art, Interdisziplinäres Kunstzentrum in Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Bessere Welt, Galerie UDO WÜRTENBERGER, Berlin; Issue of Language, Resi Art, Kulturzentren und Kulturvereine, Berlin; The Time Has Come, Open Society Foundations, Berlin

2022 – Lviv Diary, Shcherbenko Art Centre & Czech Centre in Sofia within Window Gallery project, Sofia, Bulgaria; Give Me Tomorrow, Shcherbenko Art Centre & Conceptica Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Lviv Diary, Lviv National Art Gallery (Pidhirtsi Castle), Pidhirtsi; 21 děl pro-Ukrajinu, Trypolska gallery, Topičově salon, Prague; Pour l`Ukraine, Trypolska gallery, Paris; Coalition, DOMIE, Poznań; Not a Dream, ArtEast gallery, Berlin; A Questioning of the Visible, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok; Women at War, Fridman Gallery, New York City, NY; Time of War, SMAC space, Berlin; War Diaries, Galeria Foto-Gen Ośrodek Kultury I Sztuki, Wrocław; Lviv Diary (Shelter Project), Lviv Municipal Art Center, Lviv; Lviv Diary. Drawings of War, Kahan art space, Budapest; Piazza Ukraina, Venice Biennale, Venice; The Captured House, Alte Münze, Berlin

2021 – Victory - Triumf- Rest, Lviv National Art Gallery (Pidhirtsi Castle), Pidhirtsi; The Garden After the Gods, JUMP Contemporary Art Center, Poltava; Hava Nagila, Melitopol Museum of Local Lore, Melitopol; Time Not Lost, Zaporizhzhia.city Hub, Zaporizhzhia; Ukraine. Different Views of Each Other, International Center of Culture, Kraków

2020 – Fear, Galeria Arsenał, Bialystok; Between Themselves And The Same, Lviv National Art Gallery (Potsky Palace, Lozynsky Palace, I. H. Pinzel Museum), Lviv; Zone Of Silence, Sherbenko Art Center, Kyiv

2019 – Ghost Of Freedom. Version, Galeria Arsenał, Bialystok; Personal Effects, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin; Wedding, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv; Kyiv Diary, I. H. Pinzel Museum, Lviv

2019 — Kyiv Diary, I. G.Pinzel Sculpture Museum, Lviv; Wedding, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv

2018 — Revolutionize!, Art Arsenal, Kyiv; A Space of One’s Own, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv;

Liberty and its Phantom (with Volodymyr Budnikov), Chervonechorne Gallery, Kaniv; Permanent Revolution, Ludvig Museum, Budapest; Reserv, National Museum Kyiv art gallery, Kyiv; Anatomy, OFAM, Odesa; Fashion Show, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv

2017 — Holiday Canceled! – Exhibition of the Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennale 2017, Kyiv; Three Steps (with Volodymyr Budnikov), Central House of Artists, Kyiv; Imminent amongst Forgotten, Voloshyn Gallery, Kiev

2016 — Our national body, National Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv; Art school, National Museum of russian art, Kyiv; Contact line (with Volodymyr Budnikov), Chervonechorne Gallery, Kaniv

2015 — The school of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial 2015, Kyiv; On the board, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv; Our national body, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok; Shelter, Chervonechorne gallery (Art Kyiv, Art arsenal); Fantasies. Reality, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; Lest the two Seas meet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; IV Odesa Biennale of contemporary art, main project «Manifesto», Museum of Odesa Modern Art

2014 — T.H., National Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv; Poet’s refuge (with Volodymyr Budnikov), Chervonechorne Gallery, Kaniv; Referendum on withdrawal from the human race, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw; Premonition: Ukrainian art now, Saatchi Gallery, London; The Ukrainians, DAAD Gallery, Berlin; The Drop in the Ocean,

Kunstlerhouse, Vienna; The Show Within the Show, Art Arsenal, Kyiv; White Pages, Karas Gallery, Kyiv