The series of self-portraits "To be at Sword's Points" (2016-2019) is part of the "Inciting Force" project. The images printed on metal plates are gestural frames of the author's performance, which has a well-balanced drama, where each previous "frame" is a continuation and development of the next. Important in the series is the symbolism of metal, which the artist repeatedly uses in her works as a matter of conceptual expression. Using a multi-layered structural-semiotic language, Zhanna Gladko in her self-portraits explores and transcodes familiar symbols from works that have appeared in art, literature, cinema, mass media, as well as mythological symbols, superstitions associated with various phenomena, reproduced in society as a stereotype. In the "On Knives" series it is the symbolism of weapons (swords, daggers). In languages all over the world we can find different variations of idioms related to this topic. In Polish, these include: "on knives", "knife in the back", "on the blade of a knife", as well as a number of superstitions revolving around these symbols and objects: for example: "cutting hair with a knife," "knife on the table," "crossed knives," etc.
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:
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
