ZHANNA KADYROVA 'Daily Bread. A first retrospective'

Kunstverein Hannover (est. 1832) presents the first retrospective of artist Zhanna Kadyrova (born 1981 in Brovary, Ukraine). The solo exhibition Daily Bread includes historical as well as new works, all of which were created in Ukraine.

Kadyrova, who has been working locally and internationally for twenty years, understands artistic work as an activity rooted in resilience. She travels at short intervals between exhibition venues worldwide and her hometown Kyiv, working as an artistic ambassador and messenger. In her luggage she carries not only materials and artworks, but also experiences, traumas, and the effects of living and working under siege. Confronted with the omnipresence of war in her home country, the artist finds a practice of resistance through structure and routine—art making as daily bread. Kadyrova, like many of her colleagues and friends, continues to work, through exhaustion and even the mortal danger she regularly confronts, full of drive and determined focus.