Vesna Bukovec

Perspektive mest / City Perspectives

Exhibition: Perspektive mest / City Perspectives
Location: Photon Gallery, Vienna, AT
Date: April 15 – June 14, 2014
Opening: April 15, 2014 at 7 pm

Artists: Bojan Salaj, Branko Cvetkovič, Tomaž Gregorič, Tanja Lažetić & Dejan Habicht, Zmago Lenardič & Jasna Hribernik, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved

Curated by: Dejan Sluga (photography), Vesna Bukovec & Metka Zupanič (video)

The City Perspectives exhibition presents works by Slovenian artists and deals with specific phenomena of the contemporary urban environment through photography and video. The photographic part of the exhibition includes works of five artists and shows us through different layers of the city of Ljubljana in order to point out on the constant urbanization processes or status modification of individual buildings and public spaces. Whereas, five conceptual video projects by mid-career artists explore the perception of urban realities of the city through their personal stories and intimate experiences.

Invitation (pdf)
Catalogue (pdf)

More:
www.kolektiva.org
www.photongallery.at

FemLink The International Video Collages: Wonder

Event: Video večer / Video Evening #18: FemLink The International Video Collages: Wonder
Location: Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: March 25, 2014 at 8 pm

Video collage composed by: FemLink.org

Participating: Ligia Bouton (BR), Dagmar Kase (EE), Laura García (MX), Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (CU), Zuzanna Janin (PL), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Ayesha Sultana (BD), Maria Papacharalambous (CY), Loes Heebink (NL), Véronique Sapin (FR), Amina Zoubir (DZ), Cagdas Kahriman (TR), Patricija Gilyte (LT), C.M.Judge (US), Carolina Saquel (CL/FR), Angelika Rinnhofer (DE), Alessandra Arnò (IT), Itziar Barrio (ES), Liang Wei (CN), Diana Yun (KZ), Cecilia Vignolo (UY), Jelena Miskovic (RS), Seema Nusrat (PK), Chantal du Pont (CA), Alena Kupcikova (CZ)

Ligia Bouton: Wonder Body, still

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About the collage

Twenty-five FemLink artists were invited to create a video on the topic “Wonder”. As with each new theme that FemLink proposes, artists are entirely free to interpret the theme as they wish. Their only instruction is to answer the question, ‘What does this topic mean for you?’.

“Wonder” presents a re-examination of the word and its possible interpretations from an artistic perspective which can reveal or glorify that which can escape us in the reality. What emerges from the 25 videos of the “collage”, it is that the wonderful fact is not wonderful in itself; rather, it is wonderful as it relates to its context of reality. The videos propose to us a “Wonder” which applies this relation to a reality whatever it is: the most ordinary and the most short-lived.

More info
Več informacij

More about Video Evenings

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

Skrivnostno srce

Razstava: Skrivnostno srce, samostojna razstava KOLEKTIVE (Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič)
Lokacija: Črni kot, Kosovelov dom Sežana
Datum: 15. 1. – 28. 2., 2014
Otvoritev: 15 1.  2014, ob 18.00

Kuratorka: Mojca Grmek

O projektu

Nastal je leta 2010, ko smo prejele povabilo s strani Fundacije za promocijo sodobne umetnosti FPSW, da pripravimo novo edicijo projekta Special Place in the City v Varšavi. Izhodišče večletnega projekta KOLEKTIVE (Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič, Lada Cerar) je zbiranje pripovedi o prostorih različnih mest, ki imajo za nekatere posameznike prav posebno vrednost. Projekt je zasnovan odprto in je usmerjen v mapiranje malih osebnih prostorov in izkustvev, ki tvorijo nov zemljevid mesta kot alternativo uradnim geografskim, historičnim in turističnim zemljevidom. (www.special-place.net)

Navdih za Varšavski projekt Skrivnostno srce (Secret Heart) sva avtorici dobili v članku iz New York Timesa, v katerem sva izvedeli, da je v cerkvi v Varšavi shranjeno srce slavnega poljskega skladatelja Fryderyka Chopina. Med drugo svetovno vojno, ko je bila cerkev in večina mesta porušena, je srce pomagal ohraniti nemški general, ljubitelj Chopinove glasbe. Zdelo se nama je zanimivo, da je nacionalni simbol naroda, ki je bil žrtev nemške okupacije, pomagal ohraniti prav nemški general. Natančna zgodovinska dejstva o tem, kaj se je med vojno dogajalo s srcem, niso znana, zato se zdi, da je prav to skrivališče srca tisti posebni prostor v Varšavi. KOLEKTIVA je objavila mednarodni natečaj za kratko zgodbo o skrivanju in reševanju Chopinovega srca, ki je v osnovi fikcija in je lahko (ali pa tudi ne) prepletena z resničnimi dejstvi. Zgodba o srcu je tudi priložnost, da sodelujoči izrazijo svoje mnenje in občutja v zvezi z bolečim časom Varšavske vstaje in druge svetovne vojne, ki je na mestu in nacionalni identiteti Poljske pustila močan pečat.

Več o Varšavski postavitvi.

Na razstavi v Kosovelovem domu Sežana bova predstavili skulpturo srca in odlomek zmagovalne zgodbe avtorja Thomasa Desija v slovenskem prevodu.

Vabilo (pdf)

www.kosovelovdom.si

www.kolektiva.org

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Fotografije z otvoritve

Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond

Exhibition: Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond
Location: Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TR
Date: January 9 – June 8, 2014
Opening: January 8 2014 at 7 pm

Artists: Abdülcanbaz (Turhan Selçuk), Furat al Jamil, Mounira Al Solh, Maja Bajevic, Sonia Balassanian, Vesna Bukovec, CANAN, Eteri Chkadua, Ana Čigon, Rena Effendi, Nezaket Ekici, Cevdet Erek, Adib Fattal (Installation by: The Museum of Everything), Mona Hatoum, Hamlet Hovsepyan, Gül Ilgaz, Babak Jalali, Lamia Joreige, Hayv Kahraman, Hatice Karadağ, Sevdalina Kochevska, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, One Square Meter (A Festival by ACCEA), Fahrettin Örenli, Adrian Paci, Michail Pirgelis, Younès Rahmoun, Yehudit Sasportas, Wael Shawky, Slavs and Tatars, Aslı Sungu, Nasra Şimmes, Burcu Yağcıoğlu, Nil Yalter, Živadinov::Zupančič::Turšič

Curators: Çelenk Bafra, Paolo Colombo
Assistant Curator and ‘Come Again?’ Program: Birnur Temel

About the exhibition:

Within the scope of its 10th year anniversary celebrations, Istanbul Modern presents Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond, an exhibition that investigates contemporary art practices in Turkey and the surrounding region. The exhibition brings together artists from neighboring geographies that have historical, political, and cultural ties with Turkey including the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, etc.

Neighbours explores practices that relate to social life in the public space, such as spectacles and ceremonies, and the way these have seeped into today’s visual arts. The exhibition focuses on two aspects that are ingrained in the region’s cultural weave: narratives and travel. These dovetail into a number of works tangent to themes such as mobility, nomadism, odysseys, language, and translation, and cultural transmission, etc.

Neighbours features visual artworks, as well as performance and spectacles, including extensions of disciplines that have developed outside the academic circles of art, such as political cartoons and folk art. Paradigms of this wide region’s layered narrative traditions are shadow theater, the aşıks (travelling bards), and the meddahs (public storytellers) of old, whose voice, in a new form, still echoes in the work of artists today.

Istanbul Modern hosts 35 artists from 17 countries and a program of special events– screenings, performances, workshops, talks and panel discussions – dedicated to the region’s art and culture. Come Again? video program is on view in a dedicated room in the exhibition hall as part of Neighbours.

More info: www.istanbulmodern.org

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I am participating with the video It Will Be OK (2009), which will be screened as part of the Come Again? video program.

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Photos from the opening

Črno na belem / Black on White

Exhibition: Black on White. Artists’ magazines and newspapers in Slovenia / Črno na belem. Revije in časopisi umetnikov v Sloveniji
Location: Institute for Contemporary Art @ Gallery Academia Moderna, Zagreb
Date: 18 December 2013 – 7 January 2014
Opening: 18 December 2013 at 7 pm

Artists: Razkolnikof B., Esad Babačić, Jože Barši, Vesna Bukovec, Danilo Celan, Marina Gržinić, Aleš Kermavner, Dušan Mandić, Mario Marzidovšek, OHO Group, I.G. Plamen, Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Marko Pogačnik, Braco Rotar, Tomaž Šalamun, VIKS, Brane Zorman, Franci Zagoričnik

The exhibition Black on White exposes some of the most interesting examples of artists’ periodicals which in recent decades have been published in Slovenia: artists’ collections, newspapers and magazines, fanzines, and other related publications.

The exhibition has been prepared in collaboration of Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana and contribution of the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and UGM Art Gallery in Maribor.

More info:
http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/archives/1330
https://www.facebook.com/events/502362719861388/

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I am participating with a newspaper made as part of the artistic research project Local Issues (2003) made for my first solo exhibition at the P74 Gallery.

S črto čez črko / Line Stroke the Letter

Exhibition: S črto čez črko / Line Stroke the Letter
Location: Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: 5 September – 13 October 2013
Opening: 5th September, 2013 at 8 pm
Accompanying event / Lecture performance: 25 September 2013, 6 pm, Dejan Habicht: 12 Boring Poems

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Zvonko Čoh, Milan Erič, Zvonko Čoh in Milan Erič, Dejan Habicht, Marko A. Kovačič, Damijan Kracina, Amir Muratović, Alenka Pirman, Nataša Prosenc, Zoran Srdič Janežič, Petra Varl, Rajko Vidrih, Jaka Železnikar

Exhibition concept: Barbara Borčić, Dušan Dovč, Ida Hiršenfelder, Saša Nabergoj

Napetosti med jezikovnim in slikovnim omogočajo eksperimentiranje z literarnim in likovnim umetniškim izrazom. Dela na razstavi različnih žanrov (ilustracija, risba, stenska slika, tipografija, video, animacija, instalacija, elektronska knjiga, spletna umetnost) vzpostavljajo drugačne pristope k podobi in črki – tudi zato, da se v današnjem času tehnokratske rabe jezika spodbuja kritično »branje« likovnega ter “gledanje” literarnega in pripovednega.

Več o razstavi
Galerija Vžigalica
Vabilo (pdf)

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Between language and image, there is neither contradiction nor analogy. That is to say, there is no direct relation between them, there is only ambiguity, e.g. obscurity being expressed, hinting at the inability to express a direct translation between the two. Any translation would only discuss another matter, one that the language or the image wish to represent; it would address the numerous levels of social phenomena that are mainly expressed as absurd, nonsensical, humorous, playful, bitter, gruesome or romantic witticisms about life.

More about the exhibition
Vžigalica Gallery
Invitation leaflet (pdf)

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I am participating with a a series of drawings: Kako se uspešno spopasti z neuspehom / How to fail successfully (2011/2013)