Vesna Bukovec

Video in Progress 6: We Are All People After All

Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2016 festival

Video in Progress 6: We Are All People After All
June 14 – 15, 2016
Alkatraz Gallery, AKC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Participating: Adel Abidin (IQ/FI), Selda Asal (TR), Zanny Begg (AU) & Oliver Ressler (AT), Jelena Ilić Todorović (BA), Maryam Kashkoolinia (IR), Toni Poljanec & Tina Glavič Novak (SI), Oliver Ressler (AT), Marko Tadić (HR), Undrawing the Line (Mona Moradveisi, Safdar Ahmed, Zanny Begg, Murtaza Ali Jafari) (AU)

Curators: Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič

The sixth edition of the international selection Video in Progress was made under influence of large migrations, which took place on our territory last year. Masses of traumatized people fleeing war, violence and poverty were crossing our national border along their Balkan route. European countries have responded with repression and closing of borders. Throughout this time, the prevailing political and media discourse was based on issues of safety for local inhabitants, whereas the safety and human rights of the incomers were being repeatedly and systematically breached. Hyped fear mongering by media and politicians is responsible for the extreme growth of xenophobia and hate speech in the local public discourse over the past year.

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DSU (Decentralisation of contemporary art) at ROG Factory

Exhibition: DSU (Decentralisation of contemporary art) at ROG Factory
Venue: ROG Factory, Zelenica gallery, 1st floor right, Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana
Date: June 9 – 24, 2016

Video: Komunal.org
 

Participating: Mojca Pungerčar, Tobias Putrih, Nika Autor, Živa Drvarič, son:DA, Vadim Fiškin, Staš Kleindienst, Uršula Berlot, Zora Stančič, Alenka Pirman in Luciano Pavarotti, Tibor Bolha, Jasmina Grudnik, Aleksij Kobal, Viktor Bernik, Sašo Sedlaček, Lada Cerar, Zdenka Badovinac in MSUM+, Elena Fajt, Urša Halilovič, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Ana Čigon, Vesna Bukovec, Peter Rauch, Jože Barši, Alen Ožbolt, Žiga Kariž, Marjan Gumilar, Beli Sladoled, Tatiana Kocmur, Nejc Franetič, Neža Knez, Nina Pivk, Nika Rupnik, Ana Legčević, Uroš Vnuk, Anže Sever, Mihael Novak, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, IRWIN, Bojana Piškur in ŠKART, Jerca Oblak, Maja Burja, Staš Vrenko, Urška Aplinc, Mina Fina, Danilo Milovanović, Damian Vega Velasco, Francisco Tomsich, Otto Urpelainen, Gal Košnik, Brina Ivanetič, Urška Savič, Andrej Škufca, Tjaša Pogačar, Lenka Đorojević, Matej Stupica, Tadej Vaukman, Žiga Pilih, Uroš Weinberger, Evgen Čopi Gorišek, Tisa Neža Herlec, Ksenija Čerče, Zoran Pungerčar, Neža Jurman, Sanela Jahić, Nina Čelhar, Adrijan Praznik, Uroš Abram, Vid Avdič Batista, Sanja Vatić, Yulia Molina, Ana Žerjal, Andrej Brumen Čop, Matej Tomažin, Oliver Pilić, Lea Culetto, Dejan Knez, Tanja Lazetić, Novi Kolektivizem, Tanja Milharčič, Dejan Habicht, Borut Kranjc, Ivana Armanini, Boštjan Čadež, Lina Rica, Tanja Sabol, Gašper Capuder, Blaž Miklavčič, Barbara Čeferin, Mito Gegič, Tina Dobrajc, Arjan Pregl, PH 15, Peter Koštrun, V. Cunja in N. Batista, Nika Vučko, Olja Grubić, Jaka Vatovec, Milan Erič, Jaša, bridA, Nina Slejko Blom, Conny Blom, Tilen Mihelič Kurent, Teresa Neppi, Zavetišče za zavržene rastline, Breda Pivk, Duša Jesih, Andreja Knezović, ZEK, Miha Erjavec, Metka Zupanič, Jelena Sokić

Uncurated exhibition as a protest against the planned demolition of Tovarna Rog (Rog Factory).

Saturday 25th of March 2006 marked the start of the initiative to open the abandoned bicycle factory Rog for temporary use, with the intent to carry out non-profit, non-established activities on its premises. It is not a classic occupation of space, but a temporary alteration of its purposes. The 7000 square meter large factory – owned by the City of Ljubljana (MOL) – has already been left to decay for 15 years. As long as MOL doesn’t develop and begin implementing a clear strategy to solve the problem of these empty premises, we self-initiatively wish to open it to all individuals and groups engaged in the non-profit sector, for the realization of independent production of cultural and social content.

Tovarna Rog / Rog factory

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Specifically for this exhibition I’ve made a new version of a drawing from the series Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I am critical:

Text on the drawing: ROG is ours. Do you not want me, because I support independent scene.

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Photos from the opening

Vojna in mi(r)

Exhibition: Vojna in mi(r) (War and Us/War and Peace)
Venue: Hiša kulture Pivka, Pivka, SI
Date of woodcut workshop: May 30 – June 2, 2016
Date of exhibition: June 3 – 24, 2016
Opening: June 3, 2016, at 7 pm

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Neža Jurman, Simon Kocjančič, Erik Mavrič, Nika Rupnik, Leon Zuodar

Curator: Mojca Grmek, SI

Vojna in mi(r) is a project of Hiša kulture v Pivki (House of culture in Pivka). It includes a graphic workshop, an exhibition of the works and the accompanying program for children. Hiša kulture v Pivki will open its graphic studio for the invited artists. They will participate on a 3-day workshop in woodcut, led by artist Leon Zuodar. The works will be presented in a group exhibition curated by Mojca Grmek. During the exhibition accompanying program for children will be organized under the guidance of painter and teacher Tanja Milharčič.

The title Vojna in mi(r) is a word pun in Slovene language and translates into two meanings that can’t be written together in the same way in English: War and Us/War and Peace. As the title suggests, the idea for the project refers to Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace, which talks about Russian society during the Napoleonic wars. Similarly, the project War and Us/War and Peace addresses the global problems of war and their impact on social life in the local environment, i.e. in Slovenia. The time frame of the project is determined by the impact of wars on the generation of 1975-95. This influence starts with World War II through the lives of our parents and grandparents and extends to the Cold War and the wars that followed the disintegration of Yugoslavia, to the wars in the Middle East today. The main theme of the project is a critical look at the impact of these wars on the social life in our country, from the standpoint of – as in Tolstoy’s novel – opposing to war and advocating of peace.

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Vojna in mi(r) poster (pdf)

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At the workshop I made a graphic entitled Vojna je posel/War is Bussiness.

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Photos from the workshop and exhibition
Photo: Hiša kulture v Pivki and Vesna Bukovec
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Vesna Bukovec: Exploanation

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec: Eksploanacija / Exploanation (solo exhibition)
Venue: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: April 22 – May 13, 2016
Opening: April 22, 2016, at 8 pm

Curators: Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk, Jadranka Plut

Vesna Bukovec, Domoljubi / The Patriots, drawing, 2016; Caption on the drawing translates to: We are proud to hate!!!

“The artist received the impulse for the exhibition while observing responses to the migration crisis which has, in the media and the Internet space triggered a surge of negative emotions, often pointed toward the victims of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of the recent years. A spectrum of negative reactions, articulated by the aid of hate speech has settled as a regular companion of press reports, chats in cafés and on social networks. There is an interesting fact about it – the mentioned discourse has emerged in the circles of the self-proclaimed patriots. While following the paradox (as love for the homeland was one of the crucial qualities to catalyze the uprising against the occupancy during the Second World War, as stressed by the author) the artist started to ask herself how it is possible that love for the nation can – in such a short time – turn into acts that bear witness of hatred toward others exactly in the name of patriotism? Is a demonized image of a stranger a necessary condition to establish a national community?”

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“Vesna Bukovec has chosen resistance. Even the title of the exhibition, Exploanation, composed of the words exploitation and nation, provokes the thought that through the aid of the nation, intolerance and hatred towards Others are fomented.”

Excerpts from the exhibition text

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Invitation card (pdf)
Alkatraz Gallery

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Sunčan Stone

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Exhibition view
Photo: Sunčan Stone

V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity. Nika Autor, Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec

Exhibition: V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity. Nika Autor, Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec
Venue: II. gimnazija Maribor/DrugaGalerija, Maribor, SI
Date: April 12 – May 12, 2016
Opening event: April 12, 2016, at 6 pm

Curator: Petra Čeh, SI

Exhibition of photographs by Nika Autor and stories by Widad Tamimi with drawings of Vesna Bukovec.

Opening event by students of II. gimnazija Maribor: Neža Kokol, Vita Krump, Gašpar Marinič and Nik Osmančević, with the screening of video Obzornik 62 by Obzorniška fronta.

Talk with artists, curator and musician and columnist N’toko will address the topics of work in refugee camps, art and current social problems.

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Catalogue (pdf)

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Photo from the opening: Zala Šeško, Matevž Rudl

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Exhibition view: