Vesna Bukovec

Interview in Oslobođenje

Sarajevo based newspaper Oslobođenje published an interview with me at the occasion of my solo exhibition I am not bothered with the end of the world at Simulaker Gallery.

Author of the interview is Đorđe Krajišnik.

https://www.oslobodjenje.ba/dosjei/intervjui/vesna-bukovec-svijet-nam-se-raspada-pred-nosom-370702

The world is obliged to live you II and DIVA Station in Zagreb

Screening: The world is obliged to live you II and presentation of DIVA Station archive
Venue: MM Centar Zagreb, Savska cesta 25, Zagreb, HR
Date: Friday, 11 May 2018, at 8pm

Postaja DIVA is a physical and web archive of video art which is being developed since 2005 at SCCA-Ljubljana with the intent to research, document, present and archive video/media art. Within the program Klubvizija SC in Zagreb, DIVA Station will present a video curated program by Anita Budimir entitled The world is obliged to live you II. Video art selection presents works which displays broad possibilities of video appropriation practices, technique of finding new concepts by selecting, combining and manipulating old audiovisual materials – the so called archival, appropriated or found footages.

The screening will be followed with the discussion with archive co-workers: Barbara Borčić, head of video programs and video archive DIVA Station, Vesna Bukovec, artist and co-worker of DIVA Station, and Dušan Dovč, co-worker of DIVA Station, who will present strategies of archiving, disseminating and promoting archival material.

The world is obliged to live you II
Curator: Anita Budimir
Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Neven Korda, Damijan Kracina, Gorazd Krnc, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Mirko Simić and Borghesia

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I am participating with the video Why Do I Do This? (2001)

Let’s Roll Our Sleeves Up

Group exhibition

8 May – 10 June 2018
Likovni salon Gallery, Trg celjskih knezov 9, Celje

Participating: Ana Čigon / Saša Spačal / Ida Hiršenfelder, Lenka Đorojević / Matej Stupica, Tomaž Furlan, IvAn (Iva Tratnik in Andreja Džakušič), Neža Knez, Polonca Lovšin, Sašo Sedlaček.

Curators: Vesna Bukovec (DIVA Station co-worker) and Maja Hodošček (curator at Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje).

The artworks at the multimedia group exhibition, in different ways and in a mutual dialogue, point to the structural asymmetry within the social division of work. They activate the possibilities for change with an emphasis on self-organisation, offering means of empowerment through humorous suggestions.

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Vesna Bukovec: I am not bothered with the end of the world

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec: Briga me za konec sveta / I am not bothered with the end of the world
Venue: Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, SI
Date: 9 – 31 March 2018
Opening: Friday, 9 March 2018 at 7 pm

Curator: Anja Zver

Vesna Bukovec, Briga me … / I am not bothered …, drawings on a paper roll, detail 2018

I am not bothered with the end of the world (Briga me za konec sveta) is the title of the exhibition featuring works by Vesna Bukovec. In the selected works to be seen at the Simulaker Gallery, the author presents a critical view of the militant attitude of political systems to migrants, the tragic attitude of the individual to the fellow human in need of help, the populism, i.e. “Fake-news” and hate speech. Some graphic prints and drawings at the exhibition are a clear response to the current developments in the Western world, linked to the refugee crisis and political and social protests over the past two years (In search of freedom (Ecce homo), Exploination, Not im my name etc.) and to recent election of the president of the United States (Democracy Today).

Already with the title I am not bothered with the end of the world, the exhibition addresses us individuals who create a modern society, and through the selection of past and new works of art Vesna Bukovec raises questions about the visions of contemporary society: questions about (non)humanity, harmony, empathy, acceptance of the other, diligence, questions about one’s own political role, hatred, poverty, despair, disparities.

Excerpt from the text by curator Anja Zver

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Solo survey exhibition with works about refugees.
Exhibited works:

• In search of Freedom (Ecce homo), 2016
• Not in my Name, 2016
• Okrožnica / Circular, 2016
• Zlorabljeni pojmi / Abused Terms, 2016
• Šenčur 1 & 2, 2016
• Democracy Today, 2016

Two new works are presented: Briga me … / I am not bothered …, 19 drawings on a roll of paper and Sweet Oblivion, handmade chocolate bonbons with messages.

Curatorial text (pdf, in Slovene only)
More about exhibition (in Slovene only)

Thanks: Simona Žvanut, Flopitisk.si, Zavod Projekt Atol

www.simulaker.si

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Media coverage:
Vesna Bukovec: Svijet nam se raspada pred nosom, intervju, Đorđe Krajišnik, Oslobođenje, 12. 6. 2018
Slovenci v Vesninih očeh nismo tako dobri, I. Vidmar, Dolenjski list, 11. 3. 2018

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Adapted version of the exhibition project was also exhibited at:

• artKIT Gallery in Maribor (curator Živa Kleindienst), 2019
• Ravne Gallery (curator Jernej Kožar), 2019

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Photos from the opening

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Exhibition view
Photo: Kaja Gorjup

Alla Ricerca dell’Aura Perduta / In Search of a Lost Aura

Exhibition: Alla Ricerca dell’Aura Perduta / In Search of a Lost Aura
Venue: Galleria Regionale d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Spazzapan, Palazzo Torriani – Via Marziano Ciotti 51, Gradisca d’Isonzo, IT
Date: Side A: 10 March – 4 April 2018, Side B: 7 April – 3 May 2018
Opening: Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 6 pm

Curator: Paolo Toffolutti
Artists: Marina Abramović & Ulay, Diane Arbus, Bruno Baltzer e Leonora Bisagno, Glenn Brown, Vesna Bukovec, Jeff Burton, Diego Caglioni, Larry Clark, Sabine Delafon, Silvia Donini, Luciano Fabro, Ann Hamilton, John Hilliard+Jemima Stehli, Annibal Lopez, Iva Lulashi, Urs Luthi, Francesca Martinelli, Juan Munoz, Joseph Nechvatal, Sini Pelkki, Tadej Pogačar, Koka Ramishvili, Stefano Serretta, Jim Shaw, Davide Skerlj, Laurie Simmons, Jemima Stehli, Cesare Viel, Tanja Vujinović, Andy Warhol, Clemens Wilhelm, Valerie Wolf Gang, Metka Zupanič

The exhibition is part of an international project entitled L’Occhio Irresponsabile / The Irresponsible Eye organized by the cultural association Neo from Udine. The project includes three exhibitions. Besides Alla Ricerca dell’Aura Perduta / In Search of a Lost Aura (curator: Paolo Toffolutti), a solo exhibition Andreja Kulunčič: Different Voices (curator: Antun Maračić) and a group exhibition Omnia ab Uno: l’Artista come Sciamano ed Etnografo / The Artist as Shaman and Etnographer (curator: Josip Zanki).

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About the exhibition

In Search of a Lost Aura is a contemporary art exhibition about the visual injunction we are forced to face in this second modernity we are living in. An exhibition that goes from sixties until now, with 70 works of art of accomplished as much as unknown and emergent artists. Works that analyze the topic of the screen-facade, of the representation and negotiation of the look between subject and other. A mediation that passes through the screen – Alice in Wonderland – of the media, always more intelligent and independent. A device that we used to use to address others, and that now is turned inside out. A screen that, instead of building relations, incarcerates inside a web. A world wide web that bounded the entire planet. Since we live in a present always more rapid, timeless, made of wide spaces and narrow moments, the resetting of time and duration has completely transformed the anthropological meaning of human relations, the surround and other’s perception. The title of the exhibition and its contents ambiguously recall this new proustian or Spilbergian temporality, combined with the concept of aura expressed by Walter Benjamin in its 1936’s essay; its loss and, nowadays, its reconstruction, or new virginity, in the digital era. From Andy Warhol to Alberto Vidissoni, like from everybody to anybody. A mental map inside a cultural and political geography, for many still to be explored.

Paolo Toffolutti

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L’Occhio Irresponsabile / The Irresponsible Eye (pdf)
Press release Alla Ricerca dell’Aura Perduta (pdf, in Italian)
www.neoassociazione.org
www.galleriaspazzapan.it
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I am participating with two series of drawings: I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same and I am aware of the possibility to be misunderstood and video Personal Advice