Odessa’s contemporary art scene is set to showcase two thought-provoking exhibitions that explore the intersection of human perception, social structures, and material experience. Opening December 5 at the Museum of Odesa Modern Art, the exhibitions “Global Adaptation” by Viktor Kolosov and “NAKYP” by KIT invite viewers to reflect on the pressures, traces, and transformations of modern life.
Viktor Kolosov’s project “Global Adaptation” examines how globalization and modern systems are reshaping human thought. The artist’s works use the visual language of instructions, diagrams, and tables to illustrate an environment where empathy and individuality are increasingly replaced by automation and standardized behavior. Kolosov works with precise, technical forms—images resembling checklists and protocols—that mirror the external algorithms guiding everyday life.
“Global Adaptation does not provide ready-made answers. It invites the viewer to pause, feel themselves in the flow of external signals, and ask questions that have long needed to be asked,” notes the exhibition’s curator. The project resonates especially during wartime, highlighting the tension between maintaining sensitivity and navigating a world dominated by social and informational pressures.
Kolosov, a Ukrainian artist working at the crossroads of graphics, conceptual art, and visual research, has previously exhibited across Ukraine and internationally. His work investigates how technical formats influence thought and human behavior in a digitally structured environment. “Global Adaptation” continues this exploration, reflecting on the ways external systems shape our daily lives.
In contrast, KIT’s “NAKYP” offers a more tactile and material-focused investigation of human experience. The exhibition centers on the accumulation of layers—physical, emotional, and social—that form new surfaces of perception. Drawing inspiration from limescale, a natural byproduct of heat and water, KIT uses silicone as a medium to explore the traces left by time, movement, and tension. The material’s flexibility and responsiveness underscore the mutable nature of reality, allowing works to evolve with each gesture.
“I am interested in multilayeredness—both visual and conceptual. I work with abstract form, where the surface becomes a carrier of time: the silicone coating simultaneously protects and preserves traces of gesture, creating a sense of frozen dynamics. My works are a dialogue between control and chance, silence and tension, surface and depth,” KIT explains.
The exhibition space mirrors the artist’s studio, with works arranged organically rather than according to traditional exhibition standards. Some pieces lie on the floor, others are suspended, and the central studio wall forms a dense, chaotic composition of layered gestures and materials.
Both exhibitions emphasize reflection and engagement with contemporary realities—one through analytical, conceptual exploration, the other through material experimentation and sensory experience.
The vernissage will take place on December 5 at 17:00 at the Museum of Odesa Modern Art (31/33 Yevropeyska Street). Entry is free.
Both exhibitions will remain on view until March 20, 2026.
Curator: Anna Marokhovska
