Vesna Bukovec

House on the Hill 2020

Exhibition: House on the Hill 2020 – In the Lap of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Venue: Žlebe 40, Medvode (Sv. Marjeta)
Date: 28 August – 20 September 2020
Opening: Friday, 28 August 2020, 8 pm

Participants: Zvonka T Simčič, Franc Cegnar, Mojca Sfiligoj, Aljaž Celarc, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Eva Pavlič – Seifert, Lada Cerar, Mojca Senegačnik, Metka Zupanič, Nevenka S Pečlin, Vesna Bukovec

About the project

With the project In the Lap of Cultural and Natural Heritage the CCC Institute together with its partners (Sotočje Medvode public institute, BB BIO.Si and Pr’ Lenart Homestead) won the LAS za mesto in vas tender co-funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
The House on the Hill presents a small part of the In the Lap of Cultural and Natural Heritage project. The House on the Hill has been carried out for the sixth year now. Our goal is dissemination in time and space of modern art which not only makes part of cultural heritage, but also of natural beauties in the surroundings of Ljubljana.

The exhibition’s goal is to allow for both, the intertwining of the works of artists complementing each other, and independent exhibition of their works. The exhibition will develop over two years. In 2020, the exhibition will present works of individual artists and the model of the table that will be built over the next year as the communal artistic work, which will link artists with people from our village, our municipality, the Ljubljana region as well as from Slovenia, Europe, and our planet Earth to reach That beyond, which is Common to all of us.

The word MIZA consists of two parts: of the syllable MI, which means US – group of people, and the syllable ZA, meaning that we stand together FOR a common cause; that we are FOR something; that we stand for a cause. So, MIZA (TABLE) is a symbol denoting an object at which most different groups, big and small communities get together. In our case artists decided to engage in common creative work, while being aware that it is a risky path to take, because we live in times, when partnerships tend to break up quickly, and times that are not favourable of the deepening of links, but force upon us speed and instant effects gone wild, bringing disintegration rather than enabling connections. While WE are FOR (MI smo ZA) the realisation of the emphatic co-existence of sensitive individuals.

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zavod-ccc.org
facebook.com/zavodccc

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I am participating with series of drawings Na čigav račun / At whose expense

KOLEKTIVA (Metka Zupanič, Lada Cerar, Vesna Bukovec) participated with the installation of metal pipes Lost in Communication

VideoGarden.2

Screening, talk and socializing
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 9 pm
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana

The second edition of the new programme of screenings and talks on art, video, and film – VideoGarden (VideoDvorišče) in the inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, brings a curated selection of new acquisitions of the DIVA Station, Video, Film and New Media Art Archive. In recent months, SCCA-Ljubljana has been intensively acquiring new works and enriching the archive by about 100 new units. Only a sample from numerous and diverse artistic productions created in recent years will be screened.

PROGRAM

Beyond the visible
New acquisitions of DIVA Station
Participants: Uršula Berlot, Sara Bezovšek, Peter Cerovšek, Neža Grum, Matevž Jerman, Lealudvik, Emil Memon, Niko Novak, P L A T E AU R E S I D U E, Small but dangers
Curators: Vesna Bukovec and Peter Cerovšek (SCCA-Ljubljana)
Duration: 58’

The selection is compiled out of the archive’s new acquisitions and represents an insight into the diverse contents and approaches by authors of several generations with unique visual and conceptual styles. What they all have in common are expressions of varying degrees of discomfort and anxiety that pervades the present time.

In Uršula Berlot’s Inverse Space (Inverzni prostor, 2017) microscopic visualizations of chemical and physical processes not visible to the naked eye sharpens the view of a parallel microworld. This invisible world can greatly affect our everyday reality, which we are especially familiar with in times of coronavirus pandemic. Irresponsible human action affects the environment and has far-reaching consequences for the planet. The picture of our future is hazy, which is shown in the two-channel video Alma Mater (2018) shot with a lens made of melting ice from the Ice Cave by the artist duo P L A T E AU R E S I D U E (Eva Pavlič Seifert and Aljaž Celarc). Inertia and unresponsiveness are portrayed as an ethical problem by Matevž Jerman and Niko Novak in the poetic short experimental film She Blinks and Flowers Tremble (Ona ​​mežika, cvetje drhti, 2017). An unusual experience of a group of friends, reflecting the fear of the unknown is presented in the short feature film We have all been here since forever (Vsi smo tu že od nekdaj, 2016) by Neža Grum, Peter Cerovšek and Matevž Jerman. The existential fear and feeling of entrapment in the illusion of freedom is addressed with the use of glitches – codec errors that unpredictably distorts the image – in the two-channel video I would go poof! (2017) by artist duo Lealudvik (Lea Jelenko and Matjaž Komel). The artist duo Small but dangers (Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin) also take a humorous approach to the manipulation of the digital image. In the video Celavi_3.ppsx (Baldie_3.ppsx, 2013), which is actually a Powerpoint animation, they make fun of the popularization of yoga as a widespread form of self-help therapy. Collaging visual quotes from popular culture and the web is a feature of Sara Bezovšek’s artworks. In Sextortion (2019), part of the wwwiolenc=3 trilogy, she puts together a story about the pleasures and consequences of irresponsible use of the Internet and digital technologies. In the music video On the Run, an American song (2018), Emil Memon blocks the movement he sings about with an almost static image and illustrates the entrapment in a world from which we cannot escape.

Vesna Bukovec

Organization: SCCA-Ljubljana / DIVA Station, Kraken Society, Škuc Gallery
VideoGarden events are organised with the support of Ministry of Public Administration.
The program of SCCA-Ljubljana is supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana.

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Photo: Škuc Gallery archive and Qëndresë Deda

Drawing ‘Tribute to Antifa’ at benefit auction supporting the ACC Metelkova City

At the Square without Historical Memory Alkatraz Gallery and Ljubljana Street Art Festival organized benefit auction of works by artists who will contribute their works to the common (well-being). Half of the funds received will go directly to the creators, and the other half in support of ACC Metelkova City.

The auction at Metelkova has a long tradition – bold callers with their improvised inserts, witty comments and passing and interpretation of the unique characteristics of the participating artists provoke and entertain several generations of visitors to Metelkova. This time, we will be taken through the auction for the first time by the already established ❤ Janez Blond ❤, one of the alter egos of the versatile performative artist Danijela Zajc.

Participating artists: Beli sladoled, Vesna Bukovec, Ana Čigon, Edvin Dobrilović, Boštjan Drinovec, Damjana Gotar (Woohoo Jewlery), Grejpfrut, Meta Kastelic, Anka Kočevar, Neven Korda, Borut Krajnc, David Krančan, Mirko Malle, Črt Mate, Silvo Metelko, Rok Mohar, Boštjan Novak, Katja Oblak, Arjan Pregl, Maja Pučl, Zoran Srdić Janežič.

More (in Slovene)

Ljubljana Street Art Festival

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I’ve participated in the auction with a drawing  Tribute to Antifa. The motif of a heart in hand comes from the visual identity of the 24th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women.
Black and red are the color of the anarchist anti-fascist movement Antifa, which is actively fighting against fascisms and oppression of all kinds and has in recent months been the target of media attacks by far-rightists around the world and in the local environment. With the drawing, I express my support and tribute to the Antifa movement and the values ​​it upholds.

Vesna Bukovec, Tribute to Antifa, 15 x 20 cm, 2020

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Photo: Alkatraz Gallery archive

Drawing What is feminism? in the publication City of Women: Reflecting 2019/2020

The City of Women: Reflecting 2019/2020 anthology, containing reflections on the key highlights of last year’s festival and season, has been published. The publication was drafted in the period of the pandemic that took over one third of the world and as such addresses the necessity for social change – first of all, for fundamental universal justice, as the editor Tea Hvala suggests in her introduction. She has divided the anthology into three thematic scopes: recognition, representation and redistribution.

The publication features English version of my drawing What is feminism?, made for the educational project #VsakDan8Marec (#8MarchEveryDay) by City of Women. It was exhibited at the TAM-TAM’s Street Gallery on Vegova in Ljubljana

City of Women: Reflecting 2019/2020
Edited by: Tea Hvala
Texts by: Tea Hvala, Teja Reba, Alicja Rogalska, kolektiv Socialni center Rog, Katja Praznik, osborn&møller, Kristina Leko, Anja Banko, Nataša Živković, Ivana Maričić, Ana Grobler, Bor Pleteršek, Alja Lobnik, Svetlana Slapšak
Design: Vesna Bukovec
Published by: City of Women – Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture, 2020

FemLink-Art: Aggression and Wonder

Exhibition: FemLink-Art: Aggression and Wonder
Venue: Alkatraz Gallery, ACC Metelkova city, Ljubljana
Date: 27 May – 19 June 2020
Accompanying program: A closing event, where we will discuss the FemLink-Art initiative with Slovenian authors at the exhibition, Vesna Bukovec and Ana Grobler, in an informal atmosphere. The event will take place in front of the Alcatraz Gallery on Thursday, 18 June 2020, from 5.30 pm. We will also present the FemLink-Art publication, which was published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the collective.

Artists: Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia), Vouvoula Skoura (Greece), Luzia Simons (Brazil), Viviana Berco (Argentina), Hiroko Okada (Japan), Sara Malinarich (Chile), Evelin Stermitz (Austria), Ingrida Pičukane (Latvia), Sabine Mooibroek (the Netherlands), Véronique Sapin (France), Maria Rosa Jijon (Ecuador), Tayeba Begum Lipi (Bangladesh), Amaranta Sanchez (Mexico), Eva Koch (Denmark), C. M. Judge (the USA), Alessandra Arno (Italy), Tanja Koistila (Finland), Maria Dominguez Alba (Spain), Ana Grobler (Slovenia), Elaine Frigon (Canada), Alena Kupčikova (Czech Republic), Seema Nusrat (Pakistan), Mesrure Melis Bilgin (Turkey), Anna Titovets (Russia), Ligia Bouton (Brazil), Dagmar Kase (Estonia), Laura García (Mexico), Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (Cuba), Zuzanna Janin (Poland), Vesna Bukovec (Slovenia), Ayesha Sultana (Bangladesh), Maria Papacharalambous (Cyprus), Loes Heebink (the Netherlands), Amina Zoubir (Algeria), Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey), Patricija Gilyte (Latvia), Carolina Saquel (Chile/France), Angelika Rinnhofer (Germany),  Itziar Barrio (Spain), Liang Wei (China), Diana Yun (Kazakhstan), Cecilia Vignolo (Uruguay), Jelena Mišković (Serbia), Chantal du Pont (Canada)

Curator: Veronique Sapin (Francija/Singapur)

Anna Titovets, Self cell aggression

About the exhibition

FemLink-Art is a collective of visual artists, established by C. M. Judge (USA) and Veronique Sapin (France/Canada) in 2005. FemLink explores new forms of artistic networking and transnational collaboration; furthermore, its aim is to help artists with harder working conditions and less exhibiting opportunities. Until now, 145 artists from 63 countries, with over 300 works contributed to the creation of a collective piece of art, composed of video collages, thematising various concepts. The founders of FemLink-Art contend that ‘for a long time, the aesthetic criteria were characterized by forced limitations and dominated by principles of exclusion, legitimacy, and hierarchy;’ the project was founded as a political answer to challenge overlooked female artists and inequalities in the world of art, and to foster networking. It works in the way that the founders invite artists to contribute their own perspectives on a specific collage topic without any limitations, except for the temporal one – the video cannot be longer than two minutes.

The Alkatraz Gallery shall confront two topics of video collages – Aggression and Wonder – created by 44 artists, who were chosen by one of the collective’s founders, the curator Veronique Sapin. Although the themes appear to be diametrically opposite, they – with the help of videos, harrowing and diverse in artistic approaches – question the reality, offer critical thought on the present, and reveal what is ordinarily overlooked. Both videos have already been featured in the Photon Gallery in the context of Video evenings, organized by Kolektiva. Among the authors of the collage Wonder is also a Slovene artist Vesna Bukovec, with her video entitled You Can Do It!, whilst the collage Aggression features a Slovene artist and curator, Ana Grobler, with the video titled Fable.

From the exhibition announcement on Alkatraz Gallery website.

More about the exhibition
femlink.org

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I am participating with the video You can do it! (2010).

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Photo: Nada Žgank