Vesna Bukovec

It’s All Right, Slovenia Play_01, video umetnost

Festival: 13th Maremetraggio, International Short Film and Debut Works Festival
Location: Trieste, IT
Date: July 1-7, 2012

Exhibition:
It’s All Right, Slovenia Play_01, video umetnost
July 1-3, 2012
Opening reception: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 at 7.30 p.m.
Foyer of Teatro Verdi, Riva III Novembre 1, 34121 Trieste, IT

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Ana Čigon, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Maša Jazbec, Zmago Lenárdič, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, Špela Pavli, Mark Požlep, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Pila Rusjan, Robertina Šebjanič & Suzana Grau

Curated by: Manuel Fanni Canelles (IT)

The festival Maremetraggio won’t be only cinema, but it will open for the first time to another artistic language based on the creation and reproduction of images moving inside a screen: the video art. This particular form of expression will be explored through a dedicated event, ironically titled “It’s all right”. The curator of the event will be Manuel Fanni Canelles and the exibition will be realized thanks to the collaboration of Verdi Theatre and the Artistic and Cultural Association Coreofficina. The neighboring Slovenia with its artists will be the protagonist of the works that will be host inside the foyer of the Theatre from the 1st to the 3rd of July in an installation composed by a series of screens, that will proposed in loop several art videos. The contrast between the perfect aesthetics of the Lirical Theatre and the videos presented, that communicate the uneasyness of contemporary man, is a choice that amplifies the strenght of works in exposition.

More about the exhibition (in Italian)
www.maremetraggio.com
Invitation card (pdf)

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I am participating with three videos: It Will Be OK (2009), I love myself for who I am (2010), I trust in the process of life (2010).

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Maremetraggio Archive

KOLEKTIVA: V dialogu / Within a dialogue

Exhibition: V dialogu / Within a dialogue, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA
Location: Gallery Mihelič, Ptuj, SI
Date: May 10 – June 17, 2012
Opening view: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Curators: Stanka Gačnik (Mihelič gallery) and Petja Grafenauer (independent curator)

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After ten years of working together in an art group KOLEKTIVA, artists Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar present their first mid-career retrospective.

In their collective work they research various aspects of communication, inter-personal relationships, and everyday life. In their projects they search for all kinds of personal stories and are interested in both storytelling and voyeurism at the same time. As a group they create projects in response to given situations.

They frequently collaborate with the public. They invite different individuals, passersby or specially targeted groups to collaborate and they include them in their projects as a source or co-authors of the work. The artists understand the process of art making as a mixture of imagination, negotiation, exchange and cooperation.

In ten years of collaboration KOLEKTIVA have presented their works in several solo exhibitions and participated in significant international group shows in Slovenia and Europe. KOLEKTIVA is mostly known for different projects within their platform Special Place in the City for which they gain international recognition.
Besides working in KOLEKTIVA all three authors work as successful solo artists. Metka Zupanič and Vesna Bukovec also curate video screenings and exhibitions of international contemporary video art in collaboration with the Photon Gallery.

Exhibition catalogue (pdf)

More about the exhibition

Exhibition photos

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Gallery Mihelič
(Regional museum Ptuj Ormož)
Dravska 4, 2250 Ptuj, Slovenia
Opening hours: Tue – Fri: 10 am – 4 pm,
Sat: 10 am – 1 pm
http://muzej-ptuj-ormoz.si

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The exhibition is part of the program of European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012.
Production: Regional museum Ptuj Ormož and Kolektiva Institute
Sponsors: Albin Promotion d.o.o., Hotel Mitra
Thanks: Tomaž Kučer (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana)

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Boris Farič, Vesna Bukovec

Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012

Exhibition: Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012
Location: Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: April 25 – May 13, 2012
Exhibition opening and winner announcement: April 25 at 8 p.m.

The OHO Award was established in 2005 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in collaboration with the Foundation for a Civil Society and with the support of the New York based Trust for Mutual Understanding. The aim of the OHO Award is to support young visual artists and to take them from a marginal social position to a more central role in society, with an emphasis on a positive context based on openness and creativity.
The OHO Award is a major international fellowship award program for young visual artists till 35 year, including media of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video, new media and performance.

The jury for the 2012 OHO Award: Katerina Mirović (curator, Ljubljana), Jože Barši (ALUO, Ljubljana), Dalibor Martinis (artist, Zagreb), and Miran Mohar (artist, Ljubljana).

Nominees for the 2012 OHO Award:

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is collaborating with the group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona and Venice. She used different media like drawing, video, photography, installation and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony.

Alja Piry (1982) gained BA in Art history studies from Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana in 2007 and in 2010 a MA in Fine arts from University of applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 she is self-employed as artist/cultural worker. Alja Piry is concerned with the idea of artworks as generators of intersubjective impulse. In her practice she uses various mediums, including drawing/text, voice-based installation, painting, video and book.

Tina Smrekar (1978) has completed her Photography MA in 2005 at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig after graduating in design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works in photography, video, installation and research projects as well as occasionally performance. Her works have been exhibited in Slovenia, Croatia and Germany .

Tomaž Furlan (1978) graduated on Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In his staged works he used video and installation. He exhibited in Maribor, Padova, Ljubljana. He lives and works in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka.

www.zavod-parasite.si
Vžigalica gallery

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I participated with a new series of drawings I can make another turn.

Bring In Take Out Living Archive – Ljubljana

Exhibition:The Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA) – Ljubljana, Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition
Location: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: LA Lab: March 7-10, 2012, 4 p.m. – midnight, LA Exhibition: March 7-23, 2012

Ljubljana edition features: Vesna Bukovec (Ljubljana), Ida Hiršenfelder (Ljubljana), Biljana Kašić (Zagreb), Margareta Kern (London), Tanja Marković (Belgrade), Karen Mirza (London), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade) and Aviv Kruglansky (Barcelona), Ana Vilenica (Pančevo) and many others.

The project is organized by: Red Min(e)d (Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović)

The Red Min(e)d in collaboration with the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (Ljubljana) and the Center for Women Studies (Zagreb) is organizing the second edtion of The Bring In Take Out Living Archive.

The second edition of LA consists of two exhibitions as live events. The artworks are emphasizing the archive as a paradigm for generating public space and new forms of sociality. In Alkatraz gallery the art works and screenings will co-create the laboratory for different exchange of information where anyone can join for documenting reality, live interviews, artist’s talks, and digitalizing or uploading on the spot. Kapelica gallery will host an interactive art project and public discussion on feminist strategies for the creation of an archive as a living knowledge. Beside reversing the traditional representations of women and re-questioning invisible histories (of women migrant workers), we tend to weave – in accordance with Rosi Braidotti’s concept of ‘becoming’ – the linkage across present and past in the act of constructing and actualizing possible futures.

With guerrilla action on the International Women’s Day 8th of March we are calling for resistance movements against all forms of social repression and economic exploitation by remembering the famous slogan of the textile women workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts on 8th of March, 1912: we want bread, and roses too.

Program (pdf)
More about projects (pdf)
Več o projektih (pdf)
Bring In Take Out Living Archive – Ljubljana
www.rdecezore.org
www.galerijalkatraz.org

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I am participating with two series of drawings: How to fail successfully (2011) and Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012).

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In the series of drawings How To Fail Successfully, Vesna Bukovec deals with the failure of individuals in society that implies indirect violence with absolute values such as success, health and happiness in the fashion of a Do-It-Yourself manual. In the new series of drawings (Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical), through the cliché images of women taken from Web “stock-image” files used by media and advertisers, she depicts social marginalisation. Even if it is all about stereotypes, the presented situations are still so real. This series was inspired by the Tinza comics by Marko Pogačnik, published in the journal Problems in 1969.

Text from the catalogue Bring In Take Out – Living Archive (LA), Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ljubljana

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Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series How to fail successfully, 2011

Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical, 2012

My video Endless Game (2006) is also included in the Perpetuum Mobile Video Screenings (part of LA exhibtion).

Exhibition view

Oslo Screen Festival 2012

Festival: Oslo Screen Festival 2012
Location: Filmens Hus, Ny Musikk, UKS, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, NO
Date: March 9-11, 2012

Contextual Face, curated by Evelin Stermitz (A)
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12.00
UKS, Lakkegata 55D, Oslo

About the festival
Oslo Screen Festival is an international festival for video art happening in Oslo every two years. This is a non-profit initiative started in 2008 by visual artist Margarida Paiva and producer Rune Sandnes.
The aim of the festival is to establish a platform for video art in Norway for both Norwegian and international artists. Our wish is to break boundaries in the selection of video art and visualize a wider cultural diversity of expressions and forms. The purpose of the festival is to inspire the artistic and cultural environments in Norway and to stimulate the audiences’ consciousness of the world around.

Festival program (pdf)
www.screenfestival.no

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I am participating with my video Endless Game (2006), which is part of the screening program Contextual Face, curated by Evelin Stermitz in the context of her online program www.artfem.tv

20 for 15

Exhibition: 20 za 15 (20 for 15)
Location: Center in Galerija P74, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana
Date:February 3-28, 2012
Opening: Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Artists: Marjetica Potrč, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Small but dangers, Dejan Habicht, Sašo Vrabič, Gorazd Krnc, Žiga Kariž, Marko Pogačnik, Lada Cerar, Tadej Pogačar, Uroš Potočnik, Tanja Lažetić, Vesna Bukovec, Miha Štrukelj, Metka Zupanič, Bojan Salaj, Polonca Lovšin, Tomaž Furlan, Matej Stupica

P74 Center and Gallery is celebrating its 15th anniversary with the opening of the exhibition ’20 for 15′ in the new gallery space at Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, in Ljubljana’s Šiška District (in the Občina building).

The exhibition presents twenty Slovene artists and art groups, of various generations, whose innovative work has helped to shape the local art scene over the past decade and a half.

More about the exhibition
Več o razstavi

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I am participating with the series of drawings Their True Nature (2010).

Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series Their True Nature, 2010