Vesna Bukovec

DIVA Station_presents at Ars Electronica

Exhibition: DIVA Station_presents, selection of SCCA-Ljubljana’s video archive at Gateway to Archives of Media Art (GAMA) Screening of Selected Works at Ars Electronica
Location: Brucknerhaus, History Lounge, Linz, Austria
Date: September 3-8, 2009

Artists: Zemira Alajbegović,Vesna Bukovec,Neven Korda, Marko Kovačič, Ema Kugler, Andrej Lupinc, Marjan Osole – Max, Sašo Podgoršek, Zvonka Simčič, Mirko Simič, Robertina Šebjanič, Nika Špan, Miha Vipotnik, Tanja Vujinović, ZANK (Zemira Alajbegović and Neven Korda) & Borghesia

Curators: Barbara Borčić, Miha Colner and Ida Hiršenfelder

About the exhibtion:
On the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 the econtentPlus project GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art) is launching a portal to the eight founding European archives with a screening installation of selected works from the collections and a workshop. One of the archives is Slovene archive by SCCA-Ljubljana entitled DIVA Station. It is the physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005, and is one of SCCA projects, which seek to research, document and archive video/media art.
In the History Lounge the eight European media art archives and collections networked within the GAMA portal are screening highlights from their collections. SCCA-Ljubljana will participate with video program DIVA Station_presents, which is a continuation of the project Videospotting. Chronologically selected video program includes 15 videos, which present important shifts in understanding and usage of video as a means of expression from 1983 to 2007.
I am participating with my video Important News.

More information:

• www.scca-ljubljana.si/news-en_09-17.htm
• Ars Electronica – GAMA Screening and Workshop

Value Point – Siemens_artLab hosted by Hilger Contemporary

Exhibition: Value Point – Siemens_artLab hosted by Hilger Contemporary
Location: Hilger Contemporary, Dorotheergasse 5, Vienna
Date: August 25 – September 24, 2009

Artists: Ana Adamovic, Ervin Babić, Vesna Bukovec, Lies Maculan, Michail Michailov, Sašo Sedlaček, Kosta Tonev, Mathias Winkler, Simon Veres

Curators: Alenka Gregorič, Maria Vassileva

About the exhibtion:
During the hot summer of 2009, in the middle of Europe and the “eye of the storm” of the financial crisis, nine artists from Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia are gathering under the patronage of Siemens_artLab. The perfect time and place to reconsider one’s position in the small Central-Eastern European Community, to check the level of crises in human relationships and to discover each others values.

OHO Award Finalists 2009

Vesna Bukovec, Ana Čigon, Sašo Vrabič, Tanja Vujasinović

May 29 – June 12, 2009
Center and Gallery P74, Prušnikova 74, Ljubljana

Opening and winner announcement on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 7 pm.

http://www.zavod-parasite.si
http://www.yvaa.net

PHOTONIC, LUMINATIC: New Slovenian Photography and Video

Kultur Zentrum Korotan, Vienna May 7 – 12, 2009 | Opening on Thursday, May 7 at 7 pm
Photoport Gallery, Bratislava, May 15 – June 6, 2009

The exhibition was produced by Photon Gallery, Ljubljana in 2008/2009.

Curator of photography: Dejan Sluga
Curators of video: Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič

Participating artists:
Photography: Uroš Acman, Tomo Brejc, Vanja Bučan, Dejan Habicht, Jernej Humar, Nataša Košmerl, Peter Koštrun, Andrej Osterman, Borut Peterlin, Boštjan Pucelj, Bojan Salaj, Damjan Švarc, Bojana Tomše, Špela Volčič
Video: Jasna Hribernik and Zmago Lenardič, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved, Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht

The exhibition was first presented in K2 Contemporary Art Center in Izmir, Turkey in 2008. The video section Video in Progress 2: City Perspetives was also presented in Photon Gallery in Ljubljana in 2008. In 2009 the video section expanded with additional video of Anja Medved.

Updated press release of Video in Progress 2: City Perspetives (pdf)

Anja Medved: EU-foria, video still

Vesna Bukovec is one of 4 finalists for OHO Award 2009

The winner will be announced at the opening of the exhibition of finalists in P74 Center and Gallery in Ljubljana on May 29.

OHO Award for visual artist is established by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute with it’s partners The Foundation for a Civil Society and Trust for Mutal Understanding, New York.

The prize is awarded to artist up to 35 years of age, for works of art in the field of painting, photography, video, new media and performance. The aim of OHO Award is to provide support to young creative artists and facilitate the continuation of their activities by shifting them from the marginal to a central role in the society. By creating a positive context for creativity and innovativeness.

The award was named by an influential Slovene artist group OHO, active in the second hald of the 1960s and early 1970s. The members of the avant-garde group wanted to develop a radically different relationship towards the world: instead of a humanistic position, which implies a world of objects dominated by the subject, they wanted to achieve a world of things, where there would be no hierarchical difference between people and things; the correct relationship towards such a world is not action, but observing. OHO used a number of media (and their in-between forms), drawings, photographs, film, video (the first video works in Slovenia were produced in this context by Nuša and Srečo Dragan), music, texts, but also a way of dressing, living and behaving, to redirect the awareness of people into Reistic observing.

www.zavod-parasite.si/oho/razpis2009.html (slovene only)
www.yvaa.net