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Ksenia Pedan

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Employing painting, sculpture and installation, Pedan’s exhibitions create a neutral environment for displaced objects and feelings.

Ksenia Pedan b. 1986 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Stockholm. Ksenia graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Solo shows include Ksenia Pedan, Skene, Malmö (2025); Forming the culture of a dormant brain, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2024); Habits of People, ISSUES, Stockholm (2023), and Reversion, Cell Project Space, London (2023). She has previously exhibited extensively as part of an artist duo with Ben Burgis. Selected shows include Fen Glut, Forde, Geneva (2019); Baltic Triennial 13, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2018); Golf Musk, Dortmunder Kunstverein (2017); Victoria Deepwater Terminal Estate, Jerwood Space, London (2017); Oikos, Union Pacific, London (2015).

Selected group exhibitions include BLINK, Trond Mohn Art Collection, Stavanger Art Museum (2023); Downtown Issues II, ISSUES, Stockholm (2023); Playworlds, 2018-2022 at CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2022); framför vid under, Varberg Konsthall, Varberg (2021); Downtown Issues, ISSUES, Stockholm (2021); Doors of Paradise, Union Pacific, London (2018); Original Character, Drei, Cologne (2018); Friend of a Friend, Wschód Gallery, Warsaw (2018); 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London (2017); Exercises in Style, Suprainfinit, Bucharest (2016), and Lanzarote, Union Pacific (2015).

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A Counterculture to the Dormant Brain, Brulin, Emet (review), SITE, Nov 2024

Konst som sorgearbete för ukrainskfödda Ksenia Pedan, Wadström, Fredrik (interview), Kulturnytt, Sveriges Radio, 04/09/2024

Bzz bzz, Strömbäck Eklund, Jesper (review), Kunstkritikk, 09/04/2024

Drömska Ockupationer, Antaya, Christine (review), Kunstkritikk, 17/02/2022

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Installation view of solo show at Skene, Malmö, 2025
Forming the culture of a dormant brain, Bonniers Konsthall, installation view by Viktor Fordell
Forming the culture of a dormant brain, Bonniers Konsthall, installation view by Viktor Fordell
Untitled (spotlights), Columns / Chapters 2 and Columns / Chapters 3, Bonniers Konsthall, photo by Viktor Fordell
Installation view from Habits of People, at ISSUES, 2024
Ksenia Pedan, untitled, 2023, oil pastel on board, 50 x 61cm
Installation view from Reversion, Cell Projects, London, 2023

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Downtown Issues 3 21/08/2025–27/09/2025

Vattugatan 13, 111 52 Stockholm
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Habits of People 14/03/2024–27/04/2024

Vattugatan 13, 111 52 Stockholm
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Downtown Issues II 17/08/2023–23/09/2023

Vattugatan 13, 111 52 Stockholm
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Downtown Issues 20/08/2021–26/09/2021

Vattugatan 13, 111 52 Stockholm
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A Counterculture to the Dormant Brain, Brulin, Emet (review), SITE, Nov 2024
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Interview in Kulturnytt on Swedish Public Radio, 04/09/2024
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Bzz bzz, Strömbäck Eklund, Jesper (review), Kunstkritikk, 09/04/2024
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Drömska Ockupationer, Antaya, Christine (review), Kunstkritikk, 17/02/2022
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