Zhanna Gladko, Untitled from the series Inciting Force, 2016

digital print, aluminum, 30 x 20 cm; ed. 9/11 signed, dated and described on the reverse: Zhanna Gladko/from the series-/Inciting Force/2016 9/11; exhibited: 2016, Inciting Force (solo exhibition), Dalan Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia

Zhanna Gladko - Belarusian artist, lives and works in Minsk. From 2003 to 2009 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Minsk.
Through various media, she addresses issues such as gender politics, patriarchy, religion, culture, the art system and society. Aiming to criticize the patriarchal system in Belarus, she creates series of self-portraits that highlight many painful topics.
"Zhanna Gladko started the Incitin Force series in 2011. Self-portraits, or rather simply portraits, are an exercise in decoding and transcoding famous cultural works. In Created at Different Times and in Different Contexts, the artist plays with the ambiguity of various cultural works. By decoding and transcoding, the artist makes them into uncanny simulacra. Zhanna Gladko prints images on metal plates. Thanks to their mirrored surface, the plates reflect the face of the attentive viewer, who can become part of this game between reflections and projections, between Self and Image. This unique property of the plates suggests another possibility of remediating the image, a strategy that the artist repeatedly employs." Excerpted from Harutyun Alpetyan's curatorial text for Zhanna Gladko's solo exhibition in Yerevan in 2016.

BIOGRAM:
Education:
2003 - 2009, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.
1997 - 2003, Republican Higher School of Art, Minsk, Belarus

Selected solo exhibitions:
2016, Inciting Force, Dalan Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia / curated by Harutyun Alpetyan.
2016, Inciting Force, State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia / curated by Nini Palavandishvili
2015, Untitled. Road Records, Supermarket 2015, Stockholm, Sweden / curatorial group: Valentina Kiselyova, Anna Chistoserdova
2012, "Inciting Force", Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus / curator Sergey Shabohin
2010, Ambivalent, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus / curator Sergey Shabohin

Selected group exhibitions:
2022, Secondary Archive project, Manifesta Biennial, Kosovo, Pristina
2022, Hvitsten Salong, art festival, Hvitsten, Norway / curator Jon Lundell
2022, Frau mit Automat, Supermarket 2022, Stockholm, Sweden / curator Lizaveta Michalchuk
2022, Queer Runaways in frames of Not Human Art Week, Halle 60, Aachen, Germany / curator Monika Dorniak
2022, When The Sun Is Low -The Shadows Are Long, GfZK - Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany / сurators group: Anna Karpenko, Sophia Sadovskaya
2022, When The Sun Is Low - The Shadows Are Long, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland / сurators group: Anna Karpenko, Sophia Sadovskaya
2022, Gray Mandorla Manifesto, Gray Mandorla Studio, Poznan, Poland / curator: Sergey Shabohin
2021, Every Night as part of Berlin Art Week, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany / curatorial group: Valentina Kiselyova, Anna Chistoserdova

2021, Echoes. Voices from Belarus, ECLAT Festival, Karlskaserne Art Center / Music School, Ludwigsburg, Germany / curator Christine Fischer
2021, When forms become attitudes, Krynki gallery, Krynki / curator Ilona Dergach
2021, Genius loci. Genius lost, National Center for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus / curator Dzina Danilovich
2021, Echoes. Voices from Belarus, ECLAT Festival, Stuttgart, Germany / curator Christine Fischer
2021, Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine / curatorial group: Alexei Borisionok, Andrei Dureika, Marina Naprushkina, Sergey Shabohin, Antonina Stebur, Maxim Tyminko
2021, MORA ZMORA, Wladyslaw Orkan Museum, Rabka-Zdroj / curator Paulina Olowska
2021, FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON, Galerie Z22, Berlin, Germany / curated by Ozlem Sariyildiz
2020, Belarus.Protest.Art., 59 Rivoli, Paris, France
2020, Belarus Art of Resistance, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2020, Be a Lady, Conserva space, Month of Photography Festival, Brest, Belarus / curator Marta Szymanska
2020, B.A.R. (Belarus. Art Revolution), Kulturfabrik Moabit, Berlin Germany / curator Sergey Shabohin
2020, We are people, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin / curator Waldemar Tatarczuk
2020, Depersonalized, space KX, Brest, Belarus / curator Lizaveta Michalchuk
2020, Fear, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok / curator group: Monika Szewczyk, Eliza Urwanowicz-Rojecka
2020, Forbidden Zones, KX Space, Minsk, Belarus / curator Lizaveta Michalchuk
2019, Experiential Time, ARTIM Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan / curated by Anna Fech
2019, QueerBiennale, Studio 4413, St. Petersburg, Russia / curated by Boris Konakov
2019, Biography: A Model Kit, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia / curatorial group: Victor Misiano, Anna Zhurba
2019, Where Now, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin / curator Waldemar Tatarczuk
2018, ZBOR, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus / curatorial group: Andrei Dureika, Maxim Tyminko
2018, Four days on the road, Festival Art Prospekt, Kiev, Ukraine
2018, NON-FASHION'3, National Center for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus / curator Dzina Danilovich
2018, Mater Materia, space KX, Brest, Belarus / curator Lizaveta Michalchuk
2018, Los Atravesados, Treize gallery, as part of the Queer Week festival, Paris, France.
2018, Genitive, National Center for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus / curated by Dzina Danilovich
2018, Utopia, a place does not exist, XYZ space canteen, Minsk, Belarus / curated by Ana Loctionova
2017, Hold on / Let go, aff galerie, Berlin, Germany / curated by Franca Wohlt
2017, Shadow of Freedom, Paradzhanov Festival, place Suputnik, Lviv, Ukraine / curated by Victoria Danelyan
2016, NON-FASHION'2, National Center for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus / curator Dzina Danilovich
2016, QAI/BY, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus / curator Karol Radziszewski.
2016, ZBOR, IZOLYATSIA, Kiev, Ukraine / curatorial group: Andrei Dureika, Maxim Tyminko
2015, ZBOR, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2015, Social Grid, MENO NISA gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015, Social Grid, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus
2015, Everything solid dissolves into air, Bogdanovich Museum, Minsk, Belarus
2015, Diploma, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus
2015, A - art F - Dictionary of Feminist Currents, ISS MAG gallery, CИ gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2014, XXY, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus
2014, Feminist criticism (artificial), ЦЕХ, Minsk, Belarus
2014, PRAFOTA, ЦЕХ, Minsk, Belarus
2014, Fear of War, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014, XXY, Y Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2014, Alphabet, Vaschenko Art Gallery, Gomel, Belarus
2012, Hole Mole, Gallery "Aula", Poznan, Poland
2012, Banners and Diaries, parallel program of the "Artisterium'5" festival, Tbilisi Literary Museum, Georgia
2012, Young Belarusian Art, Festival of private collections, Simon Mraz apartment, Moscow, Russia
2012, Palace Complex, Palace and Park Complex, Gomel, Belarus
2011, Free Fall, main program of "Artisterium'4" festival, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2011, Ambivalent, Red October, Moscow, Russia
2011, Can't Say Heaven, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus / "ARTVILNIUS'11", Vilnius, Lithuania
2010, Oil painting, Gallery "Ў", Minsk, Belarus.
2008, Photographic, Victory Theater, Minsk, Belarus

Residencies, open-air workshops and fellowships:
2020, Nida Art Colony (residency), Nida, Lithuania / curated by Skaiste Marciene.
2019, YARAT (residency), Baku, Azerbaijan / curator: Anna Fech
2019, Gaude Polonia (fellowship), Bialystok / curator: Monika Szewczyk
2018, Four days on the road, Art Prosspect Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2017, Shadow of Freedom, as part of the Paradzhanov Festival, Suputnik venue, Lviv, Ukraine / curatorial group: Sarmen Beglarian, Victoria Danelyan
2017, Dukley Summer School, Kotor, Montenegro / curator: Marat Gelman