Vesna Bukovec

10 years the One Minutes

Exhibition: 10 years the One Minutes
Location: Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Date: November 28, 2009 – February 14, 2010
Organized by: Sandberg Institute & The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam

My video Important News is selected for the 10 years the One Minutes exhibition as one of the best of the year 2006. It will be also published on accompanying catalogue in the form of a DVD.

More info:
– Invitation (pdf)
– List of participating videos (doc)
– www.kunsthalkade.nl/tentoonstelling.php?item=413
– www.theoneminutes.org/a560…kunsthal-kade
– www.theoneminutes.org/m20060476sr10…world-one-minutes-important-news-vesna-bukovec

The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec, The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life (Edina stvar, ki jo imam pod nadzorom, je moj odnos do življenja)
Location: Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica
Date: October 1 – 31, 2009
Curated by: Urška Jurman

You are cordially invited to attend the opening of the solo exhibition The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life (Edina stvar, ki jo imam pod nadzorom, je moj odnos do življenja) by Vesna Bukovec. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 1st at 6 pm in the Miklova hiša gallery in Ribnica, Slovenia.

This is the fifth exhibition in a series in which selected curators (so far Zdenka Badovinac – Uršula Berlot, Andrej Medved – Mitja Ficko, Simona Vidmar – Sašo Sedlaček, Nevenka Šivavec – Matej Košir and on this ocassion Iztok Hotko – Vesna Bukovec) select one artist for a solo exhibition from the artists who participated at the annual post graduate students exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, 2. M (this time the selection was made from the 2004 exhibition).

At this exhibition Vesna Bukovec presented the video It Will Be OK and a series of drawings. Both works deal with the self-help culture and the dictate of positive thought as two cultural formations that importantly form and express the contemporary subjectivity.

Vesna Bukovec takes a closer look at psychology, which is worked and distributed through the various forms of popular culture. The authoress directs her criticism towards the over simplification of the complexity of our emotions and life circumstances, which – in the context of exaggerated positive orientation (It Will Be OK) and the various psychological tests that she addresses in her drawings – seem as a merely insignificant comment. At this she uses irony, repetition and eclecticism as her artistic strategy, with which she holds a mirror against the absurdity of the narcissistic care of oneself.

Photos from the exibition

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