Vesna Bukovec

Vesna Bukovec: In Search of Freedom (Ecce Homo)

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec: In Search of Freedom (Ecce Homo)
Venue: Miklova hiša Gallery, Rokodelski center Ribnica, Ribnica, SI
Date: November 18 – December 12, 2016

Stories: Widad Tamimi
Curator: Petja Grafenauer

One year ago writer Widad Tamimi invited me to draw illustrations to her stories of refugees. With the project we wanted to cast a light on the suffering of people migrating along the Balkan route, which also crosses our country, and help neutralizing the negative image of refugees and xenophobia spreading across local mediascape and social networks.
Stories were published weekly in online and print edition of Delo (newspaper in Slovene language) under the title ‘Begunec sem (I am a refugee)’ from January till April 2016. Since than the stories and illustrations have been presented in various exhibitions.

With the project of fine art portfolio I’ve decided to single out five illustrations (together with stories) and upgrade them to a large format silkscreen art prints.

Portfolio In Search of Freedom (Ecce Homo)
Printed by: Slavko Pavlin, Printmaking Studio (silkscreen and litography), MGLC International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana
Edition: 10
Content of 1 portfolio: 5 fine art prints (silkscreen) + 6 paper sheets with texts (by Widad Tamimi, digital print)
Size of fine art prints: 50 x 70 cm
The portfoilo folder is an original handwork (by Dejan Koban and Vesna Bukovec)

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Photos from the opening
Photo: Mitja Ilc

Art in a Suitcase – Between Image and Mind

Project: Art in a Suitcase – Between Image and Mind. Traveling exhibition and curator’s presentations
Venue: various venues in Mexico
Date: November-December 2016

Curator: Vasja Nagy
Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Gani Llalloshi, Eva Petrič, Günther Selichar, Astrid Sodomka, Franz Wassermann, Tilen Žbona

Curator Vasja Nagy continues with his project s svojim projektom Art in a Suitcase. This time he traveled to Mexico.

Predstavitve:
La Huella Grafica, Oaxaca City, 12 November 2016

Galería Tu Mamá, 4ta Privada de Emiliano Zapata No. 42-1 La Asunción, Xochimilco Centro, 7th December 2016

Casa de La Cultura San Rafael, Rosas Moreno 110, esquina Francisco Diaz Covarruvias, 06470, Ciudad de Mexico, 8th December 2016

Centro de Artes y Oficios Tepito, Rivero 12, Peralvillo, Morelos, 06200 Ciudad de México, 9th December 2016

Exhibition:
Galeria La Sandia, Fundación Fertilizando El Esfuerzo, Mexico City, 17–24 November 2016

About the project:

The exhibition is a selection of 8 established artists from Slovenia and Austria that have already achieved recognition by national and international art critics as well as appreciation by public. The artists belong to different generations and follow different approaches to artistic expression. It is a strong conscience about the bond between (re)presentation and single and collective mind in society that connects work of these artists. They share some kind of an activist attitude which they use in a delicate way; they are never aggressive or rude. They rather express themselves from a personal, sometimes directly from intimate space, and personally address spectator as a member of society or a single element in complexity of the universe.

Art in a Suitcase is a project and attitude of a curator who travels with artworks suitable for presentations in various forms. Sometimes they break rules of traditional aesthetic values but still follow the rules accepted by the contemporary art world in general. Artworks have in the history always been a medium for handing over some kind of message; some kind of containers, physical manifestations of ideas. The form of an artwork fits its content and technique in which it is executed is sometimes merely aesthetic issue, other times is a symbolic expression in a same way like other symbols like colours, shapes or compositions. Content can be sometimes easy to decipher but mostly is fully comprehensible only through a contemplation and study. The position of a curator between an artwork in the audience is to take care that the ideas move in both ways i.e. the artworks reach the audience and audience finds a place for artworks in their lives. A curator can offer a simple or complex explanation or present one possible interpretation that triggers the imagination to search for own way to unpack the artwork like would one unpack a suitcase to reach for its content.

Vasja Nagy

The project is made possible through kind support: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and Embassy of Republic of Slovenia in Washington

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I am participating with series of drawings There is no society without spectacle and At whose expense.

DIVA Station Presents: Fresh Perspective

Screening: DIVA Station Presents: Fresh Perspective (part of the event ‘World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2016’)
Venue: Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva 28, Ljubljana, SI
Date: October 27, 2016, at 7 pm (free entry)

Curator: Vesna Bukovec
Artists: Ana Čigon, Pila Rusjan, Noemi Veberič Levovnik, Valerie Wolf Gang, Katarina Rešek (Kukla), Andrea Knezović, Ana Sluga, Yuliya Molina, Neža Jurman (Nez Pez), Urška Djukić, Nika Autor, Vesna Bukovec, RÁTNEEK (Maja Prelog, Blaž Murn)

The selection from the DIVA Station archive’s new acquisitions presents new production by younger authors. It focuses on technological and stylistic characteristics as well as shifts in contents and concepts in the production compared to older works from the archive. The program pursuits for different artistic approaches to the times of today and intentionally exposes women artists.

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Physical and web archive of video and new media art DIVA Station each year marks the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage – 27th of October, pronounced for the first time in 2005 by UNESCO. Our goal is to emphasize the meaning of archives and audiovisual material as an important part of cultural heritage.

This year we are joined at the celebration by the Slovenian Cinematheque and centre for art and media Argos from Brussels. We dedicate this celebration to a dialogue between newer and older video creations and to connecting DIVA station with the Argos archive from Brussels.

We are inviting you to join us at the screenings on the Thursday of 27th of October from 7 pm at the Slovenian Cinematheque. We will present the new video programme Fresh Perspective (selection by Vesna Bukovec/DIVA station) and host Belgian video art (selection by Sofie Ruysseveldt, Andrea Cinel/Argos). At the screenings the curators will present the selected video works with Q&A at the very end.

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Cover image composed of: Eric Pauwels, Violin Fase, 1986 and Katarina Rešek (Kukla), Napravi mi dete: Napoleon, 2016.

Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec: I am a Refugee

Exhibition: Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec: I am a Refugee
Venue: Slovene Ethnographic Museum (administration building), Metelkova 2, Ljubljana, SI
Date: October 26 – November 11, 2016
Opening and workshop: October 26, 2016, at 2 pm

On the occasion of the international symposium European Memory in the Making, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in cooperation with European Observatory of Memories and University of Perpignan invite to the opening of the exhibition I am Refugee by the artists Widad Tamimi and Vesna Bukovec.

The opening will be followed by a workshop where questions, with exhibition participating artists, will be explored on the future of Europe after the refugee crisis and the role of art in education of new generations for tolerant and humanist society. The workshop will be moderated by prof. dr. Ksenija Vidmar Horvat.

The project A Kurdish tale between Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Greece will be presented at the exhibition as well (Illustrations: Kawa Kawa, Text: Widad Tamimi).

europeanmemories.net
Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Invitation card (pdf)

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Photos from the exhibition

By The Way with Vesna Bukovec

Exhibition: By The Way with Vesna Bukovec (Series of exhibitions in public space)
Venue: TAM-TAM Street Gallery at Vegova Street, Ljubljana, SI
Date: October 25 – November 21, 2016
Opening: October 25, 2016, at 5 pm

Within the framework of the By The Way exhibition series, I will display my current drawings on three billboards to passers-by on Vegova Street, offering my own commentary and critique of modern social reality.

Organised by: TAM-TAM and Kino Šiška.

More:
www.kinosiska.si
TAM-TAM Ulična galerija

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Photos from the opening at Street Gallery
Photo: Urška Boljkovac and Sunčan Stone