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Dana Kavelina (b. 1995 in Melitopol, based in Berlin and Lviv) works primarily with animation and video, but also installation, painting and graphics. She graduated from the Department of Graphics at the National Technical University of Ukraine. Her works often address military violence and war with regard to the position of a victim as a political subject—as well as the distance between historical and individual trauma, memory and misrepresentation.
Her 2020 film Letter to a Turtledove was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art in New York and featured in the exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World. Her works were featured in The Kyiv Perennial in Vienna, 60th Venice Biennale, MHKA Antwerp, festival steirischer herbst 2022 and 2023 etc. She is the Main Prize winner of the 7th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
2018 - «One Can Not Be Too Careful», Lock in Gallery, Brighton, Great Britain
2019 – «The Cave of Golden Rose», Closer, Kyiv
2019 – «War in Museum», Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art, Kmytiv, Ukraine
2020 – «Introspection», Voloshyn Art Gallery, Kyiv
2020 – «The Room of Lyolya Yefremova», exhibition in private appartment, Kyiv
2021 – «Dedication. Traces and Tactics», Kristianstad Kunsthalle, Kristianstad, Sweden
2022 – “Points of Resistence IV” Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany
2022 – «Chain Reaction», MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
2022 – “Visions of Ukraine”, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
2022 – “Loss Report”, DAADgalerie, Germany
2022 – ‘Imagine Ukraine”, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
2022 – War at a Distance, steirischer herbst 2022, Graz, Austria
2022 – “Women at War” at Fridman Gallery, New York
2023 - "Signals", MoMA New York
2023 - "Humans and Demons", steirischer herbst 2023, Graz, Austria
2023 - Kyiv Perennial, Vienna
2024 - "Dare to Dream" on 60th Venice Biennale
2024 - "Two stories half-true", Frauen Museum Wiesbaden
FILM SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS
2018 – “Krok” animation festival, Kyiv, Ukraine. Grand-Prix for the best animation film
2019 – Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa, Ukraine. Special Jury Mention in National competition
2021 – E-flux “War and Cinema” film program
2022 – MoMA Museum of Modern Art online program “Notes from the ground”
2022 – “Peace is War” program in ICA LA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
2022 – “Letters from Ukraine” program in HKW, Berlin, Germany
2022 – “Letter from the Front” program, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin
2022 – conference “Decolonizing Russia’s War on Ukraine”, London, UK
2022 - conference “Collective Body Dismembered: Histories, Identities and War in Ukraine”, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2022 – FID Marseille festival
2023 - BFF London Film Festival
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