Mar 15, 2026

Voloshyn Gallery

WHO'S THERE, OLD QUESTION, WHO'S HERE

Jan 17, 2026 - Feb 28, 2026

Voloshyn Gallery is pleased to present “Who’s there, old question, who’s here”, a group exhibition curated by Harold Mendez. The exhibition includes works by Nikita Kadan, Ronny Quevedo, José de Jesús Rodriguez, and Rodrigo Valenzuela, which examine how evolving narratives and boundaries intersect with questions of inheritance, embodiment, and trace. The exhibition proposes new perspectives while forming a network of philosophical and poetic inquiries.

The title “Who’s there, old question, who’s here” foregrounds questions of presence and address, asking how identities are recognized and positioned in relation to history autonomy. It suggests a shift from inherited narratives toward living, and/or lived experiences. Each work emphasizes the immediacy of the present while remaining attentive to what persists or lingers.




Serving as an anchor for the exhibition, Rodrigo Valenzuela’s Devil’s Union #6 establishes the entry point into the encounter that recurs throughout the presentation. The photograph stages two devil-like figures in a moment of concentrated exchange, their gestures oscillating between collaboration and uncertainty. In this way, Valenzuela’s image not only stages a moment of collective action, but also implicates the viewer as a potential third presence, drawing them into a negotiation of engagement  vs. complicity.

José de Jesús Rodríguez creates a moment of demand through richly painted and detailed vignettes in which violent histories collide with contemporary narratives, probing the inheritance and identity that shape them. The laborer’s pitchforks in Nikita Kadan’s sculptures are recontextualized into charged, weaponized forms. His drawings of winged sirens extend this notion, exploring dissonance, death, and loss into mythical motifs. In Quevedo’s abstraction of the body, he traces movement and the marks of experience across the Americas, extending the exhibition’s meditation on experiencing and living through the inherited. By offering us alternative modes of mapping, Quevedo’s mixed-media works are positioned as conduits where re-imagined selves and localities are continuously being re-interpreted.

About Voloshyn Gallery

Founded in October 2016 by Max and Julia Voloshyn, Voloshyn Gallery specializes in contemporary art. It showcases a broad range of media in contemporary art, hosting solo and group exhibitions and participating in leading contemporary art fairs. In 2015, the Voloshyns made it to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Voloshyn Gallery is a member of The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). Voloshyn Gallery fosters the integration of Ukrainian art into global cultural processes. It presents an exciting and diverse exhibition programme, as well as working in partnership with institutions, independent curators in realising both on and off-site projects. Voloshyn Gallery participates in leading contemporary art fairs. Over the course of the last two years, the gallery has participated in The Armory Show, ARCOmadrid, Liste Basel, Art Cologne, Vienna Contemporary, Dallas Art Fair, Nada Miami, Untitled Art, Art Athina, Expo Chicago etc. Zhanna Kadyrova’s solo presentation from Voloshyn Gallery was awarded the Pulse Prize (2018) at the Pulse Art Fair. The project was also noted by the curators of the Perez Art Museum Miami. Voloshyn Gallery is a cutting-edge exhibition space located in Kyiv’s cultural and historical center, on Tereshchenkivska Street, in a historic 1913 building formerly owned by a renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist N.A. Tereshchenko.
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