Vesna Bukovec

Contextual Face

Exhibition: Video večer / Video Evening #03: Contextual Face
Location: Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: February 22, 2011 at 7 p.m.

Curator: Evelin Stermitz (A/SI)

Artists: Dominique Buchtala (DE), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Ana Grobler (SI), Guerrilla Girls (US), Michelle Handelman (US), Kika Nicolela (BR), Grace Graupe Pillard (US), Angelika Rinnhofer (DE/US), Duba Sambolec (SI/NO), Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI), Alison Williams (ZA), Liana Zanfrisco (IT)

Duba Sambolec, NoHomeVideos© Code II, 2000, still

Kolektiva Institute is organizing Video Evenings every month in Photon Gallery. Video Evening is a an event in which we screen video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, associations and festivals.
For the third Video Evening KOLEKTIVA invited artist and curator Evelin Stermitz to prepare a curated selection from ArtFem.TV, her online television programming presenting art and feminism.

More info:
www.kolektiva.org/producing/video-vecer-video-evening/contextual-face
Descriptions & images of videos & artists’ CVs
www.artfem.tv

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I am participating with the video Endless Game, 2006.

Another Marriage?

Exhibition: Another Marriage? Between the Narrative and the Abstract
Location: Private View – app-platform for contemporary arts and experiments, Berlin
Date: February 4 - 14, 2011 (by appointmet)
Opening view: Friday, February 4th 2011, between 6 and 10 p.m.

Curator: Maja Škerbot (SI/D)

Artists: Nándor Angstenberger (D), Claudia Barthoi (D), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Peter Tomaž Dobrila (SI), Barbara Caveng (D/CH), Mitja Ficko (SI), Jule Ja (D/SI), Ilona Kálnoky (AT/D), Matej Košir (SI), Dieter Lutsch (D), Iztok Maroh (SI), Arjan Pregl (SI), Iris Schieferstein (D), Konstantin Schneider (D), Katja Sudec (SI), Kei Takemura (JP), Lotta Weigl (D), Sinta Werner (D), Markus Wüste (D)

To think relations constituting contemporary art (system) and to experience the story about the attraction, obstacles and tensions, and definitely about the existence of the real love.

Private View – app-platform for contemporary arts and experiments
Joachimstr. 11a/a1, HH, 3.OG, 10119 Berlin-Mitte
www.privateview.org

Invititation (pdf)

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I am participating with two videos: I trust in the Process of Life, 2010 and Personal Advice, 2010.

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Images from the opening

More photos

Video from www.berlinerkunstkontakter.de

Lost in Communication

Exhibition: Lost in Communication, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič
Location: A+A Gallery, San Marco, Venice
Date: January 18 - February 8, 2011

Curator: Aurora Fonda

Artists: KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič

KOLEKTIVA, Lost in Communication, 2010, installation view

Lost in Communication is an exhibition that assembles three Slovenian artists born in the seventies and belonging to the same generation – three artists who individually pursue their own practice while working together in the group KOLEKTIVA.

A collective project of KOLEKTIVA, Lost in Communication (2010) features interweaving coloured tubes that chaotically invade their surrounding environment. Using modular drainpipes that can be reconstructed depending on the exhibition site, the structure can change from day to day, and in some contexts presents an audible component that emanates into the outer space from within the tubes. The drainpipe’s grey, metal surface is covered up with vibrant and cheerful colours. The installation is often accompanied by wall pieces that offer thumbnail views of alternate configurations for the drainpipes, always highlighted by their bright colours. KOLEKTIVA’s projects vary in nature, ranging from artistic production to curatorial endeavours, organizing art events characterized by their great inventiveness and realized through simple means. Initiatives have involved a vast number of artists and other participants, who have directly collaborated on projects such as Visions (2006), Special Place in the City (2004–) and Secret Heart (2010). Additionally, se¬veral projects began with open calls for proposals and submissions, allowing general public and artists to actively participate. The group has been very productive, particularly in the past year. Numerous projects have been developed contemporarily in various exhibition venues, giving rise to a widespread and networking presence that is constantly evolving.

In addition to KOLEKTIVA, each artist partakes in independent practice. For some years, Vesna Bukovec has engaged herself with artistic interventions that directly involve citizens. Her work invites them to express views on issues related to community, demonstrating how the arts can interact with heterogeneous situations. Recent project, Positive Illusion (2009) probes the stock images archives on the web produced by apt designers and marketing professionals, which were conceived to represent our notions of certainty and increase our feelings of security. With a simple, black line Bukovec outlines figures, situations and settings. Details or aspects are isolated to later be transformed into representations incongruent to their original form. The procedure is opposite to the work of designers, who eliminate any traces of ideas that disrupt our notions of comfort. Bukovec, on the other hand, uses this is her point of departure, eroding the positive illusions with which we surround ourselves. These images are juxtaposed with psychological tests, typically found in insipid magazines, which assess levels of satisfaction, happiness and other values sought after by consumer society. Unlike the copy in these magazines, which tend to avoid direct questions, Bukovec poses queries that can only have a single, concrete answer.

Excerpt from the text by Aurora Fonda

• Invitation card (pdf)
• Catalogue (pdf)

Curated by: Aurora Fonda
Artists: KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič
Production: Galeria A+A
Coproduction: Kolektiva Institute
Suported by: Ministry of culture RS, Obalne galerije Piran

Galeria A+A
San Marco, Calle Malipiero 3073
30124 Venezia
tel & fax: +39 041 2770466
www.aplusa.it
info@aplusa.it

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I am participating with the drawing series Positive Illusion, 2009 and video It Will Be OK, 2009.

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Photos of the exhibition

Cinéma Féministe - The Home / La Maison / DOMA

Exhibition: Cinéma Féministe - The Home / La Maison / DOMA
Location: Cinema Zavod Udarnik, Maribor (SI)
Date: January 6 & 20, 2011

Curator: Evelin Stermitz

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Lemeh42, Martha Rosler, Nina Sobell, Evelin Stermitz

From the data base of the video programming online platform ArtFem.TV, a monthly selection of works is screened at the cinema Udarnik in Maribor, Slovenia. The selection of works is chosen each month on an issue of contexts in the feminist field by Evelin Stermitz. During the year 2011 also FemLink is invited to screen their International Video Collages within the Cinéma Féministe screening program.
Cinéma Féministe is a screening program curated by Evelin Stermitz and organized in collaboration with son:DA and Zavod Udarnik.

Program for January 2011
The Home / La Maison / DOMA

From the 1970s onward and in the tradition in video art, circling around the self within a private space, this issue has been expressed by early video artists such as Martha Rosler, Nina Sobell, Suzanne Lacy, Janice Tanaka, and others, through performance pieces in a critical engagement around female subject constructions and definitions. But in which way is a new generation articulating and negotiating the private space within this field of a traditional women’s space? This video selection shows black and white images from the 1970s as well as current video works.

http://zavodudarnik.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/cinema-feministe/

Program Cinéma Féministe, January 2011 (pdf)

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I am participating with several videos:

• Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love
  
• I can create positive change
  
• I love myself for who I am
  
• I trust in the process of life
  
• Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje/The Happiest Apartment in the World
  

Secret Heart

Exhibition: Secret Heart (solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA)
Location: FPSW Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art, Program Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Date: December 18, 2010 - January 8, 2011

About the exhibition
Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art invited KOLEKTIVA to make a new instance of the on-going project Special Place in the City in Warsaw. In this open end project we ask residents of different cities to show us their special place and share with us their personal stories, memories or opinions. The aim of this project is to give a voice to average citizen and to present small personal spaces and experiences as an alternative to official historical narratives that builds up a (tourist) image of a city. › Continue reading