Quiet artist

For "Ukrainian Magazine" (Український журнал.) - 2009. - № 4. - P. 52-53.

The article is about Alevtina Kakhidze, Ukrainian artist who got Malevich Art Prize last year. I analize the strategy of very prize, why it was given to Alevtina and conceptualize her main projects.

More in Ukrainian + discussion: http://zumka.livejournal.com/275423.html

More about Alevtina in English:
http://zumka.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-alevtina-kakhidzes-shopping-is.html

Translations from her KRAM (critique of actual art) on-line project: http://www.indexfoundation.se/upload/pdf_uselessreading.pdf

Place and form

Tamara Zlobina for PROstory.net.ua

I wrote about Lada Nakonechna "Place" action in Kyiv CCA at March 3.
As for me, artist didn't fulfil well her interesting idea about value of work/artistic work and interconnections between work of art and it's context.

more in Ukrainian: http://prostory.net.ua/ua/art/7-art/197-2009-04-15-20-08-40