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With her exhibition Alterations, the Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova (b. 1981) presents her first solo exhibition in the German-speaking world. The works on show deal with her native country’s political present resp. with the ideologically and aesthetically charged heritage of the Soviet era and the failure of democratic reforms. The principal focus of her artistic work is sculpture for public spaces, and in the process she has concentrated on three core themes: the choice of materials, the understanding of volume, crowd and space, and the interaction with the observer. For many of her …