Vesna Bukovec

(Ne)vidne sledi II / (In)Visible Traces II

Exhibition: (Ne)vidne sledi II / (In)Visible Traces II, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA
Location: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: October 10–November 2, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 8 p.m.

Curators: Jadranka Plut, Sebastian Krawczyk

And what kind of object would you preserve?
Send to KOLEKTIVA your suggestions and photos. E-mail kolektiva@gmail.com.

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Objava na spletni strani galerije Alkatraz

More about the exhibition at Alkatraz gallery’s website

www.kolektiva.org

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Vesna Bukovec, Sunčan Stone (Alkatraz gallery archive)

Between the real and reality (topography of private/public space)

Exhibition: Between the real and reality (topography of private/public space)
Location: Gallery Third Belgrade, Serbia
Date: October 5–20, 2012

Curator: Jelena Veljković (SRB)

Artists: Dušica Drazić (SRB), Irena Kelečević (SRB), Ivan Petrović (SRB), Mladen Bundalo (BiH), Mirjana Boba Stojadinovic (SRB), Lia Lapithi (CYP), Hristina Ivanoska (MKD), Raeda Saadeh (ISR), Saša Tkačenko (SRB), Slobodan Stošić (SRB), Vesna Zarev (SRB), Žolt Kovač (SRB), Ministarstvo prostora (SRB), KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) (SLO), Anja Medved (SLO), Polonca Lovšin (SLO), Jasna Hribernik & Zmago Lenardič (SLO), Tanja Lažetić & Dejan Habicht (SLO)

About the exhibition

“Personal and cultural identity is bound up with place; a topo-analysis is one exploring the creation of self- identity through place. Geographical experience begins in places, reaches out to others through spaces, and creates landscapes or regions for human existence.”
Christopher Tilley, A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments

The exhibition aims in conditions of wider understanding of the gallery space of Third Belgrade to bring together works of local, regional and international artists with a focus on the work related to geographic experience, specific mechanisms and strategies that could reinterpret, restore, question or emphasize the unique character of a particular space.
In establishing a broader framework of the exhibition I used the dialectical theory of space based on the analysis of urban phenomena by introducing the principle of polarity. The first in a series of pairs of contrarieties is already listed in the subtitle of the exhibition (private/public) around which the other bipolar relationships are in radial positioning: the relationship between nature and culture, the natural and artificial environment, the relationship between center and periphery; correlation between reality and possibilities of democratic action in public space, subject and object in the field of spatial relationships and visual habits; then about determinism and freedom, collective and individual perceptions of urban and natural toponyms.
In the constellations of irreversible changes in character and structure of cities and natural resources as the primary places for democracy, satisfaction and safety, the uprising question is: How individuals or groups can manage to find place of persisting the processes of neo-liberal economy in the situation of various daily pressures – a place that can offer shelter/distance from the new system of ideology, economic and social limitations?
By conducting research of this type and moving through different spaces artists and cultural workers constitute through the medium of street and guerrilla art, paintings, photographs, installations, documentations and video work, the capacity and flexibility of the existing system, as well as different ways of delivering within a given cultural milieu. In the frame of the exhibition a current phenomena within the context of finding a private-public space through kinesthetic relationship between the observer, place and environment are located with a unique artistic topoanalysis. In the space between the real and specific realities, the viewer is offered the possibility of moving in various routes. This kind of stratification and dynamization of gazes initiates an active position in the process of reviewing the collective and intimate experience, through the mental and spatial summaries of certain factors, either in the shoes of tourists or regular urban walkers.

Jelena Veljković

www.trecibeograd.com

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KOLEKTIVA art group (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) participates with the video Special Place in the City – Graz (2006). Curator Jelena Veljković included in her exhibition the entire program Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, curated by Metka Zupanič and Vesna Bukovec.

16. Slovenska kiparska razstava / 16th Slovene sculpture exhibition

Exhibition: Slovenska kiparska razstava / 16th Slovene sculpture exhibition
Location: Ljubljana Town Hall, Mestni trg 1, Ljubljana, SI
Date: September 6–Ocotber 27, 2012

Selector: Petja Grafenauer
Organiser: Sculpture Association

Artists: 3kolektiv (Maša Gala, Eva Kastelic, Katja Felle), Jiŕi Bezlaj, Rok Bogataj, Anže Gallus Petelin, Saška Gruden, Anže Jurkovšek, Meta Kastelic, Boštjan Kavčič, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Nina Koželj, Taja Lojk, Metoda Maj, Jernej Mali, Erik Mavrič, Loris Morosini, Boštjan Novak, Adrijan Praznik, Primož Pugelj, Kristina Rutar, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Nika Špan, Maruša Šuštar, Urška Toman and Dušan Turšič

From the fifty received works the exhibition selector and curator dr. Petja Grafenauer selected twenty four artists. The economic conditions influenced the selection as well as the concept of the exhibition, for in the “current unfavourable situation in which culture has found itself, it would be even more restricting than usual to demand from the artists to create a work on a narrowly defined theme in these poor production conditions. The tender therefore included all works that deal with or include sculptures, sculpting, sculptors, Slovene sculpture, sculpture in Slovenia, exhibition, sculpture exhibition or Slovene sculpture exhibition.”

This open concept accepted works by artists with a critical stance towards the position in which their field has found itself and who are aware and critical of the unfavourable situation of the little people. The exhibition will also present works that show development or persistence in personal artistic positions. The exhibited works indicate a lively and diverse sculpting practice, its context, persistence of the middle generation and encouraging activities of the younger generation.

More info

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At the opening of the exhibition KOLEKTIVA received a Spetial mention award by the jury (Petja Grafenauer, Lena Jevnik, Janez Koželj, Blaž Peršin, Zora Stančič). The jury gave the Mayor’s Award to the artist Meta Kastelic and the second Spetial mention award to the artist Erik Mavrič.

KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) participates with the installation Lost in Communication (metal pipes, 2010-, various dimensions).

KOLEKTIVA, Lost in Communication, installation at the exhibition 16th Slovene sculpture exhibition, Town Hall, Ljubljana, 2012

DVD Project @ ART STAYS 2012

Festival: 10th International Festival of Contemporary Art ART STAYS
Location: Ptuj, SI
Date: July 18 – September 1, 2012

The 10th edition of International Festival of Contemporary Art ART STAYS will be held under the slogan DISPLAY (screen/show!). The word display has many meanings, but all of them fit perfectly with the aim of the festival. It is a shopwindow, a space, and a dialogue that we opened with many artists who will come to Ptuj to display their work, carry out a performance, or be a part of our artist in residence programme to get creative in the oldest town in Slovenia.

Program booklet
www.artstays.si

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Exhibition:
DVD Project
International Video Art exhibition from fourteen countries
July 18 – September 1, 2012
Exhibition space Art Stays, Krempljeva ulica 1, Ptuj, SI
Opening screening: Thursday, July 19th, 2012 at 10 p.m. at Art Stays main stage, Slovenski trg, Ptuj

DVD Project is an international video art project organized by the Stichting Idee-fixe foundation (IDFX). The project currently includes young works from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, France, Argentina, Austria, Macedonia, Italy, and Cuba. The Slovenian presentation of domestic artists is organized by KUD Art Stays, and will be seen for the first time at the festival Art Stays 2012 in Ptuj.

Participating artists in Slovenian edition of DVD Project: Nika Autor, BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica), Vesna Bukovec, Dušan Fišer, Maja Hodošček, Matej Modrinjak, son:DA, Sašo Vrabič

www.dvdproject.org

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I am participating with the video When I wake up, I am going to create something beautiful (2011)

KOLEKTIVA: Izbrana video dela / Selected videos

Exhibition: Izbrana video dela / Selected videos, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA
Location: Centralna postaja, Koroška cesta 5, Maribor, SI
Date: July 12 – August 8, 2012, every night from 9 p.m. onwards
Opening view: Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 9 p.m.

Selector of Centralna postaja’s Video module: Aleksandra Saška Gruden

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Art group KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) is exhibiting selected videos within the Video module of Centralna postaja (Central Station) in Maribor.

List of videos:

• First Impression, July 12–21, 2012
• Hiteti ali biti temeljit?, July 22–31, 2012
• Special Place in the City – Graz, August 1–8, 2012

KOLEKTIVA, Special Place in the City – Graz, 2006, still

More about the exhibition
www.centralnapostaja.si

Women CIRCUS Museum_Phase 03

Exhibition: Women CIRCUS Museum_Phase 03
Location: Pavelhaus, Laafeld/Potrna 30, Bad Radkersburg, AT
Date:July 7 – August 18, 2012

Curated by: ACRYL (AT)

Artists: Saša Bezjak (SI), Sarah Bildstein (AT), Cym (NL), Gertraud Enzinger (AT), KOLEKTIVA: Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič (SI), Renate Krammer (AT), Erika Lässer-Rotter (AT), Polona Maher (SLO), Barbara Predin (SI), Daniela Riedl (AT), Rene Rusjan (SI), Linda Maria Schwarz (AT), Johanna Serdinschek (AT), Edith Temmel (AT), Petra Varl (SI), Uta Weber (DE), Daphna Weinstein (IL)

ACRYL’s festival is called “Museum Frauen Circus”, in English “Women’s Circus Museum”, that moves around like a circus and changes their annual show. With containers filled with works of art it establishes contacts in cultural locations enlarging the presentation platform for feminine contemporary art and simultaneously uses the cultural infrastructure location. The name “Museum” stresses that it is a serious work and is serious in what is presented in the exhibitions.
Invitation and program (pdf)
www.pavelhaus.at

About ACRYL
The ACRYL group (founded in 2009 by artists Angelika Thon, Cym, Renate Krammer and Linda Maria Schwarz) represents a collection of artists whose aims are primarily the presentation of female artists and women in general in rural Styria, a region of Austria. The group interconnects women in the region and also from outside and thus promotes important artistic contacts at national and international level (intercultural competence). Team, communication skills and the promotion of self-confidence through social and personal contacts are the foundation of their association and its work.
acryl.weblog.mur.at

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KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) is participating with the project Hiteti ali biti temeljit? (digital print, video (3′25″), 2004).

The work is a result of a public action of KOLEKTIVA performed on a residency in Nottingham, UK in 2004. The title is a Slovene sentence, which was publicly displayed in the centre of Nottingham city. Each word has its English translation and phonetic transcription, taken directly from a Slovene-English dictionary. Each word has several translations, which generate subtle differences in meaning. The phrase cannot be translated exactly, leaving space for people to compose their own sentence. The video shows random people trying to pronounce these Slovene words. The structure of power held by native speakers of dominant world languages (such as English) is subverted, as we ask them to pronounce Slovene words.