Veranstaltungsarchiv Thomas Mann House
28.02.2026
Exhibition "Democracy Will Win!" at University of Nevada
University of Nevada
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Join the Department of World Languages and Cultures at University of Nevada for the traveling exhibition "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!"
The exhibition commemorates the series of lecture tours that the Nobel Laureate conducted throughout the Unites States from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. The first of these tours began at Northwestern University, where more than 4000 people came to hear him speak about the fundamental reasons for liberal democracy. “It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular,” Mann said in a speech at the Library of Congress in 1943, and he drew on his considerable powers of thought and expression to counter the sources of this spectacle through his confident motto: “Democracy will win.”
The like-named exhibit is divided into two parts: the first charts the changes in Mann’s political views, while the second connects Mann’s lectures tours to current political situations in both Europe and the United States.
Partner
Die Wanderausstellung Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win! findet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Department of World Languages and Cultures der Universität in Nevada statt.
"Sliced Realities"- Einzelausstellung der Ukrainischen Künstlerin Zhanna Kadyrova
Thomas Mann House (1550 N San Remo Drive, CA 90272)
Language: English ・ By Invitation Only
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In collaboration with Kyiv to LA, the Thomas Mann House presents Sliced Realities, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian artist-in-residence Zhanna Kadyrova. As part of an ongoing partnership supporting Ukrainian artists through a Los Angeles-based residency, this exhibition marks Kadyrova’s first solo presentation in the United States and coincides with the four-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Sliced Realities brings Kadyrova’s anti-war practice in dialogue with Thomas Mann, whose history of political resistance raises enduring questions about the role of art in times of crisis. Centered around the artist's fundraising project Palianytsia, the exhibition features artworks from her Anxiety, Refugee, and Russian Rocket series, which reveal the surreal experience of encountering the unfamiliar within the familiar. Presented one year after the devastating fires that ravaged the surrounding Pacific Palisades and neighboring Altadena, and four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this exhibition invites viewers to consider how art and resilience are intimately intertwined. Linking Mann’s anti-fascist radio addresses to Kadyrova’s recent bodies of work, Sliced Realities foregrounds the asterisks and annotations that emerge when creative practices are restructured as forms of resistance.
About the Artist & Curator
Zhanna Kadyrova (b.1981, Brovary, Ukraine) is an interdisciplinary artist and member of “R.E.P.” group (Revolution Experimental Space). After graduating from the Taras Shevchenko State Art School in 1999, she received the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award and the Grand Prix of the Kyiv Sculpture Project (both 2012). She was awarded the Special Prize (2011), Main Prize (2013), and Special Prize – Future Generation International (2014), all from PinchukArtCentre.
Kadyrova’s practice engages various disciplines including sculpture, photo, video, and performance. In her work, the issue of context unravels to reveal the rhythm of History on the move - that of a world whose multiple layers disappear behind their immediacy. Often diverting the aesthetic canons of the socialist ideal still present in the heritage of contemporary Ukraine, Kadyrova’s perspective is partially informed by the plastic and symbolic values of urban building materials. Thus ceramics, glass, stone, and concrete enter the spotlight of her work.
Asha Bukojemsky is an independent curator and public programmer based in Los Angeles. Since 2017 she has produced Marathon Screenings, and in 2022 she initiated Kyiv to LA in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She has worked for a range of organisations including the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (formerly DHC/ART), and currently holds the position of Senior Art Program Specialist at LA Metro.
Partner
This exhibition is part of an ongoing collaboration with Kyiv to LA. Kyiv to LA is made possible by a generous grant from Nora McNeely Hurley and the Manitou Fund.
Exhibition Curator: Asha Bukojemsky
Exhibition Assistant: Marina Shishkina
Gallery support managed by Snisarenko Gallery
