Alexandra Kadzevich (b. 1992, Odesa, Ukraine) lives and works in Berlin.

Kadzevich’s medium is the physical and historical space she articulates through painting, architecture, sculpture, video, and texts.

For her first presentation with Theta, the artist will show a pair of oil paintings alongside a series of collaged and painted wall sculptures made from salvaged, weathered wood.

Throughout her practice, Kadzevich focuses on disruptions big and small– from barely registrable errors of logic to chaotic transformations. She articulates instabilities that define the visible world, and through which the ripple of real life breaks.

Slices of everyday life are collected, dissected, and resurrected through thoughtful interpretation. The artist resets her wooden wall works’ found features, integrating elemental language and cutout images with painting, sculptural appendage and drawing, all dictated by lived experiences. For Kadzevich, collage combines fragmentary reality into complex, changing rhythms, capturing something both deeply personal—dedicated to the memory of a particular person—and public, projecting distorted echoes of a nation.

Kadzevich’s larger oil paintings function as exercises in reconstructing disappearing spaces. A recent expat from her home country in 2022, the artist was browsing OLx, a Ukrainian online platform for selling used items, when she came across innumerable listings of mirrors for sale–many photographed with visible reflections of their owners’ homes. Kadzevich collects the listing images like remote records, and her paintings operate, with varying degrees of abstraction and washes of color, as portals into a time and place undergoing uncertain deconstruction. Beautiful and contemplative, this archive forms a quiet and domestic portrait of a country at war.

Alexandra Kadzevich (b. 1992, Odesa, Ukraine) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Gorkov Odesa Art School in 2013. She has also studied at De Atelier, Amsterdam; Salzberg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzberg; and Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, Kyiv. Selected solo and two person exhibitions include Theta, New York (forthcoming, 2025); Hoast, Vienna, AT (2024); de Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL (2023); The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, UA (2021); Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, UA (2021); Selected Group exhibitions include PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, UA (2024); Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Scotland (2023); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022); M 17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, UA (2021).

Image captions:

Installation view “Stolen Sun”
Courtesy of Alexandra Kadzevich and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

Installation view “Dilemma of Diorama”
Courtesy Alexandra Kadzevich and De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Installation view “Dilemma of Diorama”
Courtesy Alexandra Kadzevich and De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Untitled, 2024
Oil and collage on wood
4⅛ x 15⅜ x 1½ in / 10 x 39 x 3 cm

The Patterns Of The Hidden Circuits, 2023
Oil on linen
65 x 129⅞ in / 165 x 330 cm