Vesna Bukovec

Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012

Exhibition: Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012
Location: Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: April 25 – May 13, 2012
Exhibition opening and winner announcement: April 25 at 8 pm

The OHO Award was established in 2005 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in collaboration with the Foundation for a Civil Society and with the support of the New York based Trust for Mutual Understanding. The aim of the OHO Award is to support young visual artists and to take them from a marginal social position to a more central role in society, with an emphasis on a positive context based on openness and creativity.
The OHO Award is a major international fellowship award program for young visual artists till 35 year, including media of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video, new media and performance.

The jury for the 2012 OHO Award: Katerina Mirović (curator, Ljubljana), Jože Barši (ALUO, Ljubljana), Dalibor Martinis (artist, Zagreb), and Miran Mohar (artist, Ljubljana).

Nominees for the 2012 OHO Award:

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is collaborating with the group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona and Venice. She used different media like drawing, video, photography, installation and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony.

Alja Piry (1982) gained BA in Art history studies from Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana in 2007 and in 2010 a MA in Fine arts from University of applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 she is self-employed as artist/cultural worker. Alja Piry is concerned with the idea of artworks as generators of intersubjective impulse. In her practice she uses various mediums, including drawing/text, voice-based installation, painting, video and book.

Tina Smrekar (1978) has completed her Photography MA in 2005 at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig after graduating in design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works in photography, video, installation and research projects as well as occasionally performance. Her works have been exhibited in Slovenia, Croatia and Germany .

Tomaž Furlan (1978) graduated on Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In his staged works he used video and installation. He exhibited in Maribor, Padova, Ljubljana. He lives and works in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka.

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Vžigalica gallery

Bring In Take Out Living Archive - Ljubljana

Exhibition:The Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA) - Ljubljana, Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition
Location: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: LA Lab: March 7-10, 2012, 4 p.m. - midnight, LA Exhibition: March 7-23, 2012

Ljubljana edition features: Vesna Bukovec (Ljubljana), Ida Hiršenfelder (Ljubljana), Biljana Kašić (Zagreb), Margareta Kern (London), Tanja Marković (Belgrade), Karen Mirza (London), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade) and Aviv Kruglansky (Barcelona), Ana Vilenica (Pančevo) and many others.

The project is organized by: Red Min(e)d (Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović)

The Red Min(e)d in collaboration with the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (Ljubljana) and the Center for Women Studies (Zagreb) is organizing the second edtion of The Bring In Take Out Living Archive.

The second edition of LA consists of two exhibitions as live events. The artworks are emphasizing the archive as a paradigm for generating public space and new forms of sociality. In Alkatraz gallery the art works and screenings will co-create the laboratory for different exchange of information where anyone can join for documenting reality, live interviews, artist’s talks, and digitalizing or uploading on the spot. Kapelica gallery will host an interactive art project and public discussion on feminist strategies for the creation of an archive as a living knowledge. Beside reversing the traditional representations of women and re-questioning invisible histories (of women migrant workers), we tend to weave – in accordance with Rosi Braidotti’s concept of ‘becoming’ – the linkage across present and past in the act of constructing and actualizing possible futures.

With guerrilla action on the International Women’s Day 8th of March we are calling for resistance movements against all forms of social repression and economic exploitation by remembering the famous slogan of the textile women workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts on 8th of March, 1912: we want bread, and roses too.

Program (pdf)
More about projects (pdf)
Več o projektih (pdf)
Bring In Take Out Living Archive - Ljubljana
www.rdecezore.org
www.galerijalkatraz.org

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I am participating with two series of drawings: How to fail successfully (2011) and Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012).

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In the series of drawings How To Fail Successfully, Vesna Bukovec deals with the failure of individuals in society that implies indirect violence with absolute values such as success, health and happiness in the fashion of a Do-It-Yourself manual. In the new series of drawings (Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical), through the cliché images of women taken from Web “stock-image” files used by media and advertisers, she depicts social marginalisation. Even if it is all about stereotypes, the presented situations are still so real. This series was inspired by the Tinza comics by Marko Pogačnik, published in the journal Problems in 1969.

Text from the catalogue Bring In Take Out - Living Archive (LA), Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ljubljana

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Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series How to fail successfully, 2011

Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical, 2012

My video Endless Game (2006) is also included in the Perpetuum Mobile Video Screenings (part of LA exhibtion).

Exhibition view

Oslo Screen Festival 2012

Festival: Oslo Screen Festival 2012
Location: Filmens Hus, Ny Musikk, UKS, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, NO
Date: March 9-11, 2012

Contextual Face, curated by Evelin Stermitz (A)
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12.00
UKS, Lakkegata 55D, Oslo

About the festival
Oslo Screen Festival is an international festival for video art happening in Oslo every two years. This is a non-profit initiative started in 2008 by visual artist Margarida Paiva and producer Rune Sandnes.
The aim of the festival is to establish a platform for video art in Norway for both Norwegian and international artists. Our wish is to break boundaries in the selection of video art and visualize a wider cultural diversity of expressions and forms. The purpose of the festival is to inspire the artistic and cultural environments in Norway and to stimulate the audiences’ consciousness of the world around.

Festival program (pdf)
www.screenfestival.no

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I am participating with my video Endless Game (2006), which is part of the screening program Contextual Face, curated by Evelin Stermitz in the context of her online program www.artfem.tv

20 for 15

Exhibition: 20 za 15 (20 for 15)
Location: Center in Galerija P74, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana
Date: February 3-28, 2012
Opening: Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Artists: Marjetica Potrč, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Small but dangers, Dejan Habicht, Sašo Vrabič, Gorazd Krnc, Žiga Kariž, Marko Pogačnik, Lada Cerar, Tadej Pogačar, Uroš Potočnik, Tanja Lažetić, Vesna Bukovec, Miha Štrukelj, Metka Zupanič, Bojan Salaj, Polonca Lovšin, Tomaž Furlan, Matej Stupica

P74 Center and Gallery is celebrating its 15th anniversary with the opening of the exhibition ‘20 for 15′ in the new gallery space at Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, in Ljubljana’s Šiška District (in the Občina building).

The exhibition presents twenty Slovene artists and art groups, of various generations, whose innovative work has helped to shape the local art scene over the past decade and a half.

More about the exhibition
Več o razstavi

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I am participating with the series of drawings Their True Nature (2010).

Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series Their True Nature, 2010

Under the shade of a palm tree

Exhibition: Pod palmino senco: Eminenca Jože Slak in potenca Vesna Bukovec (Under the shade of a palm tree: Eminence Jože Slak and potence Vesna Bukovec)
Location: Mladinski, kulturni, socialni in multimedijski center (MKSMC), Gregorčičeva 4, Koper, Slovenia
Date: Jaunary 10 – February 7 2012
Opening: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Curated by: Damir De Simone and Vasja Nagy

Vesna Bukovec, Positive Illlusion, 2009, drawing series

v Mladinskem, kulturnem, socialnem in multimedijskem centru (MKSMC) sredi starega mestnega jedra Kopra že dvajset let prizadevamo na “ogled postavljati” likovna dela tistih, ki nočejo in/ali ne morejo ustvarjati mimo sebe. “Pod Palmino senco” je sklop 4 razstav v katerih predstavimo po dva umetnika/umetnici hkrati. Gre za eno eminenco in eno potenco (eno uveljavljeno in eno mlado osebo).

V torek, 10.01.2011 ob 19h vas vabimo na otvoritev tretje razstave tega ciklusa “Eminenca Jože Slak in potenca Vesna Bukovec”. Vstop je prost.
Kustosa galerijske dejavnosti sta Damir De Simone in Vasja Nagy.

Vesna Bukovec – rojena v Ljubljani (1977) je leta 1999 obiskovala semestrski študij na Hogeschool vor de Kunsten, Utrecht, Nizozemska in 2002 diplomirala iz kiparstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje v Ljubljani. Leto kasneje šteje pričetek skupnega delovanja z Lado Cerar in Metko Zupanič, od 2008 se skupina imenuje KOLEKTIVA. 2006 magistrira iz kiparstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje v Ljubljani.

Jože Slak Đoka se je rodil leta 1951 v Jablanu pri Mirni peči na Dolenjskem. Na ALU v Ljubljani je študiral slikarstvo. Diplomiral je leta 1975 pri profesorju Gabrijelu Stupici. Potoval je po Ameriki, odšel na Tahiti in 1985 – 87 preživel na Japonskem v Kyotu na podiplomskem študiju. Nagrado Prešernovega sklada je prejel leta 2007 za razstavo Slike za slepe v Mali galeriji v Ljubljani. Jože Slak Đoka živi in dela na Dolenjskem, poleg slikarstva so njegovi interesi tudi vzhodnjaške veščine aikida ter astronomije (svoj zvezdo-gled je izdelal ročno).

Društvo prijateljev zmernega napredka / Associazione amici del progresso moderato
Mladinski, kulturni, socialni in multimedijski center / Centro giovanile, culturale, sociale e multimediale
Gregorčičeva 4, 6000 Koper-Capodistria
tel/fax: 00386(0)5 6271989, GSM 041 318245
e-mail: drustvo@dpzn.org
spletna stran: www.dodogovor.org
Odprto vsak dan: 12.15-16.15 in 19.00-23.00 ali po dogovoru (tel.: 041 318245)

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In Koper based MKSMC Marko Brecelj and DPZN (Association of the friends of moderate progress) organize an exhibition cycle of four eminences and four potencies entitled “Under the shade of a palm tree”. Four exhibitions will present a couple of artists at once – one eminence and one potence (a recognized and a young artist):

• Eminence Balint Szombaty and potence Matjaž Stražar, November 2011
• Eminence Imre Bukta and Vasja Vidmar Vasko, December 2011
• Eminence Jože Slak and potence Vesna Bukovec, January 2012
• Eminence Marko Jakše and potence Nina Koželj, February 2012

Artists were selected by Bela Mariaš, Vasja Nagy, Matej Kocjan and Marko Brecelj.

www.dodogovor.org

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I will present videoperformaces White Performances/Positive Affirmations (2010) and drawaings from the series Positive Illusion (2009).

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Images from the opening