Vesna Bukovec

Vojna in mi(r)

Exhibition: Vojna in mi(r) (War and Us/War and Peace)
Venue: Hiša kulture Pivka, Pivka, SI
Date of woodcut workshop: May 30 – June 2, 2016
Date of exhibition: June 3 – 24, 2016
Opening: June 3, 2016, at 7 pm

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Neža Jurman, Simon Kocjančič, Erik Mavrič, Nika Rupnik, Leon Zuodar

Curator: Mojca Grmek, SI

Vojna in mi(r) is a project of Hiša kulture v Pivki (House of culture in Pivka). It includes a graphic workshop, an exhibition of the works and the accompanying program for children. Hiša kulture v Pivki will open its graphic studio for the invited artists. They will participate on a 3-day workshop in woodcut, led by artist Leon Zuodar. The works will be presented in a group exhibition curated by Mojca Grmek. During the exhibition accompanying program for children will be organized under the guidance of painter and teacher Tanja Milharčič.

The title Vojna in mi(r) is a word pun in Slovene language and translates into two meanings that can’t be written together in the same way in English: War and Us/War and Peace. As the title suggests, the idea for the project refers to Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace, which talks about Russian society during the Napoleonic wars. Similarly, the project War and Us/War and Peace addresses the global problems of war and their impact on social life in the local environment, i.e. in Slovenia. The time frame of the project is determined by the impact of wars on the generation of 1975-95. This influence starts with World War II through the lives of our parents and grandparents and extends to the Cold War and the wars that followed the disintegration of Yugoslavia, to the wars in the Middle East today. The main theme of the project is a critical look at the impact of these wars on the social life in our country, from the standpoint of – as in Tolstoy’s novel – opposing to war and advocating of peace.

More
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Vojna in mi(r) poster (pdf)

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At the workshop I made a graphic entitled Vojna je posel/War is Bussiness.

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Photos from the workshop and exhibition
Photo: Hiša kulture v Pivki and Vesna Bukovec
Več fotografij

Vesna Bukovec: Exploanation

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec: Eksploanacija / Exploanation (solo exhibition)
Venue: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: April 22 – May 13, 2016
Opening: April 22, 2016, at 8 pm

Curators: Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk, Jadranka Plut

Vesna Bukovec, Domoljubi / The Patriots, drawing, 2016; Caption on the drawing translates to: We are proud to hate!!!

“The artist received the impulse for the exhibition while observing responses to the migration crisis which has, in the media and the Internet space triggered a surge of negative emotions, often pointed toward the victims of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of the recent years. A spectrum of negative reactions, articulated by the aid of hate speech has settled as a regular companion of press reports, chats in cafés and on social networks. There is an interesting fact about it – the mentioned discourse has emerged in the circles of the self-proclaimed patriots. While following the paradox (as love for the homeland was one of the crucial qualities to catalyze the uprising against the occupancy during the Second World War, as stressed by the author) the artist started to ask herself how it is possible that love for the nation can – in such a short time – turn into acts that bear witness of hatred toward others exactly in the name of patriotism? Is a demonized image of a stranger a necessary condition to establish a national community?”

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“Vesna Bukovec has chosen resistance. Even the title of the exhibition, Exploanation, composed of the words exploitation and nation, provokes the thought that through the aid of the nation, intolerance and hatred towards Others are fomented.”

Excerpts from the exhibition text

More:
Full exhibition text
Invitation card (pdf)
Alkatraz Gallery

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Sunčan Stone

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Exhibition view
Photo: Sunčan Stone

V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity. Nika Autor, Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec

Exhibition: V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity. Nika Autor, Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec
Venue: II. gimnazija Maribor/DrugaGalerija, Maribor, SI
Date: April 12 – May 12, 2016
Opening event: April 12, 2016, at 6 pm

Curator: Petra Čeh, SI

Exhibition of photographs by Nika Autor and stories by Widad Tamimi with drawings of Vesna Bukovec.

Opening event by students of II. gimnazija Maribor: Neža Kokol, Vita Krump, Gašpar Marinič and Nik Osmančević, with the screening of video Obzornik 62 by Obzorniška fronta.

Talk with artists, curator and musician and columnist N’toko will address the topics of work in refugee camps, art and current social problems.

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Catalogue (pdf)

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Photo from the opening: Zala Šeško, Matevž Rudl

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Exhibition view:

Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005–2015

Screening: Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005–2015 (Krize in novi začetki: umetnost v Sloveniji 2005–2015)
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana, SI
Date: December 22, 2015 – April 3, 2016

Participating: Nika Autor | Jože Barši | Marko Batista | Viktor Bernik | Goran Bertok | Rok Biček | BridA/Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica | Vesna Bukovec | Jasmina Cibic | Miha Ciglar | Špela Čadež | Ana Čigon | Maja Delak & Luka Prinčič | Delavsko-punkerska univerza | Jon Derganc | Aleksandra Domanović | Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica | Milan Erič | Vadim Fiškin | Tomaž Furlan | Bojan Gorenec | Meta Grgurevič & Urša Vidic | Dejan Habicht | Minna Henriksson | Miha Hočevar | Maja Hodošček | Ištvan Išt Huzjan | IRWIN | Matjaž Ivanišin | Sanela Jahić | Janez Janša & Janez Janša & Janez Janša | Jaša | Sergej Kapus | Staš Kleindienst | Matjaž Klopčič | Marko Kociper | Kaja Kraner (Neteorit) | KSEVT | Andreja Kulunčić & Ibrahim Ćurić & Said Mujić & Osman Pezić | Tomaž Lavrič | Tanja Lažetić | Zmago Lenárdič | Pei-Ying Lin, Špela Petrič, Dimitrios Stamatis, Jasmina Weiss | Polonca Lovšin | Izar Lunaček | Davorin Marc | Luiza Margan | Jurij Meden | Domen Ograjenšek (Neteorit) | Alen Ožbolt | Passaporta (Mara Ambrožič, Jasmina Cibic, Mery Favaretto, Meta Grgurevič) | Marko Peljhan | Borut Peterlin | Alenka Pirman | Anja Planišček & Katarina Čakš | Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. muzej sodobne umetnosti | Tjaša Pogačar (Neteorit) | Marika & Marko Pogačnik | Uroš Potočnik | Marjetica Potrč | Mark Požlep | Arjan Pregl | Luka Prinčič | Marija Mojca Pungerčar | Franc Purg & Sara Heitlinger | Tobias Putrih | Peter Rauch | Viktor & Daria Radić | Maruša Sagadin | Sašo Sedlaček | Iztok Sitar | Jože Slak Đoka | Ana Sluga | Small but dangers | Zoran Smiljanić | Tomo Stanič (Neteorit) | Mladen Stropnik | Vlado Škafar | Andrej Škufca (Neteorit) | Nika Špan | Igor Štromajer | Miha Štrukelj | Andrej Štular | Apolonija Šušteršič & Bojana Kunst | TEMP | Irena Tomažin | Polona Tratnik | Aleksandra Vajd & Hynek Alt | Via Negativa | Veli & Amos | Matej Andraž Vogrinčič | Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec

Curators: Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol, Vladimir Vidmar

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Crises and New Beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005–2015

The exhibition aims to present a selective overview of developments just past or still taking place, and attempts to define the main phenomena and trends in contemporary art in Slovenia over the past decade. Covering a wide range of fields and thus also involving the collaboration of several professionals and experts, it is a sequel to the exhibition trilogy from ten years ago, which presented, over three consecutive years (2003 to 2005) the trends in Slovene art and related fields by decade, since 1975.

More about the exhibition
Exhibition programme

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I am participating with the series of drawings Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012).

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Photo from the opening

Video Festival Natures 12

Exhibition: Video Festival Natures 12 (Videofestival Narave 12)
Location: Bežigrad Gallery 2 (Bežigrajska galerija 2), Vodovodna 3, Ljubljana, SI
Date: April 14 – 18, 2015
Opening: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 7 pm

Artists: Uršula Berlot (SI), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Jessica Gnyp (CA) & Víctor Ballesteros (CL/CA), Izabela Ołdak (PL/NL) & Ruben van Klaveren (NL), Davorin Marc (SI), Amir Muratović (SI), Rok Oblak (SI), , Nejc Saje (SI) & Jeffrey Young CH), GRUPPO SINESTETICO: Matteo Albertin, Antonio Sassu, Gianluca Scordo (IT), Ejti Štih (SI/BO)

Curator: Miloš Bašin

About the festival

Video works presented at the Festival Natures are based on images of nature, or else include images of nature in some of their sequences, or are derived from things found in nature. The Video Festival Natures is marked by people and their natures.

Projections will be present in all 3 Halls in Bežigrad Gallery 2 from Tuesday 14 to Friday 17 from 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday 18 from 10 am to 2 pm.

PROGRAM

Lobby
Ejti Štih, Ojos / Eyes, 2014, 15.25 min

Hall 1
Davorin Marc, ( , 2014, 7.42 min
Nejc Saje, Jeffrey Young, Every true poet, 2014, 11.50 min

Hall 2
Amir Muratović, With the Flow, 2014, 5.40 min
Vesna Bukovec, When I wake up, I am going to create something beautiful, 2011, 4.0 min
Gruppo SINESTETICO, Synaesthetic Wall, 2013, 8.23 min
Izabela Ołdak & Ruben van Klaveren, Uroboros, 2013, 8.23 min

Hall 3
Jessica Gnyp & Víctor Ballesteros, You Fig, 2014, 9.22 min
Uršula Berlot, Fluid topography, 2014, 6.33 min
Rok Oblak, 3600 Fallen trees, 2014–2015, 9.55 min

More info

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I am participating with my video When I wake up, I am going to create something beautiful