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Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Kevin Finklea (US), Billy Gruner (AU), Peter Holm (DK), Kyle Jenkins (AU) and John Nixon (AU).

Curated by Peter Holm.

Curators note:

As an artist, you often stand alone in crucial moments in the studio, pondering on decisions or roads to take. We discover in the coming together, that, though worlds apart, we develop unseen movements and adjustments, hints and building blocks in a language of artists. In this language we study the grammar and build further small sentences to put new meaning into a new world, but still with regard to the foundation.

Kiev and Malevich play a key role in the defining times in the art of the 20th century and the works from the period of 1913 - 15 in which Suprematism developed and the monochrome works were made. This is still an engine for development and research, maybe today more than ever, as Nonobjective art is gaining new ground and attention.

I am very happy to present these artists and these small works, in this context. It should be an appetizer for further investigations into highly specialized and respected oeuvres.

Thank you to KNO Lab, thank you to the artists and thank you to Billy Gruner for his extensive essay “NONOBJECT – New Work New Language New Modern”.

Peter Holm, Græsted, March 2018.

The “NONOBJECT – New Work New Language New Modern” essay is available for reading in PDF.

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Partners: Mikhail Bulgakov museum.

Media-parnters: InKyiv

Mikhail Bulgakov museum

Andreevskiy Descent, 13

Kyiv, Ukraine.

Opening March 22nd, 7-9 pm, 2018.

On view through April 20th, 2018.

Open hours: 10am–6pm.

Closed - Wednesdays.

All photos ©KNO

Exhibition views.

Kyle Jenkins, John Nixon, Christoph Dahlhausen and Billy Gruner.

John Nixon

Untitled, 2018

enamel on canvas with various woods

John Nixon

Untitled, 2018

enamel on canvas with various woods

Kyle Jenkins and John Nixon

Kyle Jenkins

'Leftover #1', 2018

acrylic on plywood

Kyle Jenkins

'Leftover #1', 2018

acrylic on plywood

Christoph Dahlhausen, Billy Gruner, Kevin Finklea and Peter Holm

Christoph Dahlhausen

the white work (limited options), 2017

white, color matt board, nail

Christoph Dahlhausen

the white work (limited options), 2017

white, color matt board, nail

Christoph Dahlhausen, Billy Gruner and Kevin Finklea

Billy Gruner

Build #9, 2017

mdf, acrylic

Billy Gruner

Build #9, 2017 (fragment)

mdf, acrylic

Kevin Finklea

‘Souvenir for Erwin’

acrylic on laminated poplar and cherry

‘Souvenir for Elena’

acrylic on laminated poplar and oak

2018

Kevin Finklea

‘Souvenir for Erwin’

acrylic on laminated poplar and cherry

‘Souvenir for Elena’

acrylic on laminated poplar and oak

2018

Christoph Dahlhausen, Billy Gruner, Kevin Finklea and Peter Holm

Peter Holm

Triangular Piece, black version. 2014

laquer on MDF

Peter Holm

Triangular Piece, black version. 2014

laquer on MDF

Peter Holm

Triangular Piece, black version. 2014 (fragment)

laquer on MDF