Vesna Bukovec

Vesna Bukovec: In če se motim? / And if I am wrong?

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec: In če se motim? / And if I am wrong? (pregledna razstava risb / survey exhibition of drawings )
Location: Hiša kulture v Pivki, Snežniška cesta 2, Pivka, SI
Date: February 13 – 27, 2015
Opening: Friday, February 13, 2015 at 7 pm

Curated by: Mojca Grmek

Vesna Bukovec, from the series I am aware of the possibility to be misunderstood, 2011

O razstavi

Umetnica bo na razstavi predstavila izbor iz aktualne produkcije risb, ki na kritično-humoren način obravnavajo zagate posameznice ali posameznika ob številnih potrošniških, identitetnih, poklicnih in političnih izbirah, ki jih ponuja današnji čas. Njene risbe, vselej povezane v serije, nastajajo po fotografijah, ki jih najde na svetovnem spletu, večkrat pa vanje vključi tudi besedilo, ki je večinoma v ‘univerzalnem’ angleškem jeziku. V ospredju teh konceptualnih risb, ki so kolaž večinoma citiranih podob in izjav, je njihova sporočilnost, s katero umetnica podaja svoj komentar in kritiko sodobne družbene realnosti.

Galerijski list (pdf)

Objave v medijih:
Kritika razstave, avtorica Nina Jesih, tečajnica Svet umetnosti. Šole za kustose in kritike sodobne umetnosti
Prispevek v Osmem dnevu, RTV SLO 1, 12. 3. 2015 (avtorica Andreja Kočar)
RTV SLO 1, Kultura ob 22h, 25. 2. 2015 (od 02:57 do 03:46)
Veronika R. Ženko: S provokacijo nad instant družbo, Primorske novice, 16. 2. 2015
Najava v Mladini, 13. 2. 2015


Dela na razstavi:

• Na čigav račun / At whose expense, 2015
• As if, 2014
• Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical, 2012
• Ni družbe brez spektakla / There is no society without spectacle, 2011–
• Kako se uspešno spopasti z neuspehom / How to fail successfully, 2011
• Obstaja možnost, da boste napačno razumeli / I am aware of the possibility to be misunderstood, 2011
• Obljubim, da bom spremenila svet, ampak le, če bo to storilo tudi 10 drugih / I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same, 2010
• Pozitivna iluzija / Positive Illusion, 2009

Hiša kulture v Pivki
Snežniška cesta 2
6257 Pivka

Galerija je odprta v času prireditev in po dogovoru (031 768 427).

http://hisakulturepivka.com

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About the exhibition

The exhibition brings forward a selection from the current production of drawings by Vesna Bukovec. The drawings, always conected in series, are based on the photos found on the Internet and often include text. They address the dilemma of the individual on a vast number of consumer, identity, professional and political choices offered today. The message of these conceptual drawings, which are collages of mostly quoted images and statements, is the artist’s comment and critique of contemporary social reality.

Works at the exhibition:

• Na čigav račun / At whose expense, 2015
• As if, 2014
• Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical, 2012
• There is no society without spectacle, 2011–
• How to fail successfully, 2011
• I am aware of the possibility to be misunderstood, 2011
• I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same, 2010
• Positive Illusion, 2009

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Opening of the exhibition

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Exhibition view
Photo: Simon Avsec

Open Systems 2-01-04/14

Exhibition: Open Systems 2-01-04/14
Location: WUK Projektraum, Vienna, AT
Date: February 4–12, 2015
Opening: Tuesday, February 3, 7 – 9.30 pm

Artists: Ovidiu Anton / Vesna Bukovec, Bernhard Cella, Giulia Cilla, Yolanda Domínguez, Gani Llalloshi, Swoon, Sašo Sedlaček / Iman Issa, Jelena Jureša, Ruslana Lichtzier, Eduard Freudmann / Cut and Scrape, Schorsch Kamerun

Curators: Marius Ertelt / Vasja Nagy / Sarah Mendelsohn / Christian Egger

About the exhibition

With its award winning background, Open Systems has functioned as an online platform since 2013, whose primary focus is to bring different critical perspectives on art and visual culture to the surface in order to reach a broader audience after five successful years of highly acclaimed international exhibitions and events.

The set-up of the second edition of the annual exhibition Open Systems 2-01-04/14 aims to present the works at the verge of all those flows and spaces of encounters on the paradigm of the potentiality of the space and the structure within an inter-disciplinary creative realm at WUK Projektraum.

ARTSLAB, Illusion and Exodus
Project curator: Marius Ertelt
Artist: Ovidiu Anton

ARTSLAB, What if… and beyond

Project curator: Vasja Nagy
Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Bernhard Cella, Giulia Cilla, Gani Llalloshi, Swoon, Sašo Sedlaček

ARTSLAB, Memorial and Revision
Project curator: Sarah Mendelsohn
Artists: Iman Issa, Jelena Jureša, Ruslana Lichtzier, Eduard Freudmann

ARTSLAB, Gocce nella città di sole degli Spettri
Project curator: Christian Egger
Artists: Cut and Scrape, Schorsch Kamerun

The main focal point of this engagement within the year exhibition Open Systems 2-01-04/14 centres on the different creative practices concerned with building an inter-disciplinary network.

The team of Open Systems: Gülsen Bal (Director, Head of Development of Projects and Programmes), Mira Turba (Executive Assistant), Dörte Eliass (Translation, managing editor), Tom Waibel (Additionary Translation), tresdelinquentes (Graphic Design)

The Open Systems programme is supported by: BKA, ERSTE Foundation, Allianz Kulturstiftung / Allianz Cultural FoundationKunstverein, Stadt Wien – Kulturabteilung MA 7, MA 7 – Interkulturelle und Internationale Aktivitäten, Kulturfonds der Stadt Freising, Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, SKICA – Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum

In kind support by: WUK, Istanbul Bilgi University, Freisinger Mohr e.V, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, monochrom

Venue:
WUK Projektraum
Währinger Straße 59
1090 Vienna
Opening hours: Mo – Fr. 12:00 – 18:00

More info:
Open Systems 2-01-04/14
Open Systems flyer 2015 (pdf)
WUK
ARTSLAB, What if… and beyond (on-line exhibition)
Vesna Bukovec at ARTSLAB, What if… and beyond (on-line exhibition)

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I am participating with the work As if (2014).

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Exhibition view and opening
Photo: Vasja Nagy, Mira Turba

TRANS.form 5

Exhibition: TRANS.form 5
Location: Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt / Dom umetnikov Celovec, AT
Date: Januar 15 – February 26, 2015
Opening: Thursday, January 15, at 7 pm

Artists: Johann Fruhmann / Michael Punz, Josef Gabler / Andrea Knezović, Wilhelm Götzl / Veronika Oberlojer, Kiki Kogelnik / Chriss Hall, Heinz Peter Maya / Edith Bergmann, Karl Stark / Andrew Mezwinsky, Ludwig Willroider / Roswitha Schuller & Markus Hanakam, Albert Zahlbruckner / Vesna Bukovec

Curator: Andres Klimbacher

Supported by: Skica

Invitation card (pdf)
www.kunstvereinkaernten.at

O razstavi

Koncept razstavnega ciklusa TRANS.form temelji na vzpostavitvi dialoga med deli pokojnih članov Koroškega društva likovnih umetnikov (Künstverein Kärenten) in mlajšimi ustvarjalci iz regije in okolice.

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Sodelujem s serijo risb Ni družbe brez spektakla (There is no society without spectacle) (2011–). Projekt se ukvarja s percepcijo množice in gledalčeve lastne pozicije ter primerja raznolike kolektivne izkušnje iz specifičnih okolij današnjega časa in preteklosti. Njihova primerjava odpira vprašanja specifike družbenih in zgodovinskih okoliščin ter globalne geografske in socialne (de)privilegiranosti.

Umetniška izjava:

Fascinacija s kolektivno izkušnjo

Vesna Bukovec

About the exhibition

TRANS.form 5 presents the newest edition of a project which has been conducted with acclaim for several years now. The basic concept is the juxtaposition of old and young:

Young artists are invited to set their current work into dialogue with selected works by former members of the Carithian Artists’ Association who are no longer alive. This dialoogue is conducted through formal criteria as well as isuues of artistic content.

The young artists’ works make reference to specific original works by the deceased artists, not as any kind of hommage, but as an intrinsic part of their current practice. This sparks off an exciting communication between the past and the present, a one-to-one conversation which is conducted purely through the medium of the works themselves.

The works in the exhibition are presented as pairings, spanning a wide arc from the past into the present, from tradition to the avant-garde, from classical technique all the way to conceptual installation.

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I am participating with the drawing series There is no society without spectacle (2011–).

Artist statement:

Fascination with the collective experiences

Of the works by Albert Zahlbruckner, I was attracted by the painting ‘Feiertag in Maria Saal’ (1934). Despite the fact that at first sight there are no obvious parallels between this painting and my work, I thought it would be interesting to confront it with my series of drawings ‘There is no society without spectacle’ (2011–). The open ended series of so far nine conceptual drawings which are based on photographs found on the Internet and depict various mass events (protests in New York and in Slovenia, desperate factory workers, spectators at a tennis tournament, customers waiting for the official release of the new i-phone, the audience at a rock concert, school children at prayer, refugees struggling for their package of food and refugees rescued from a shipwreck). All these scenes have in common a crowd of people at a special pleasant or unpleasant event. As the theorist Jean-Luc Nancy would say: there is no society without spectacle; or more precisely, there is no society without the spectacle of society . … There is no society without the spectacle beacause society is the specatacle of itself. One could say that the painting of the pilgrimage in 1934 is presenting the current spectacular event in the local environment of the artist.

Vesna Bukovec

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Photos from the exhibition

Ideja telesa / The Idea of the Body

Exhibition: Ideja telesa / The Idea of the Body
Location: Riko Debenjak Gallery, Kanal ob Soči, SI
Date: November 14 – December 5, 2014
Opening: Friday, November 14, at 6.30 pm

Artists: Brane Širca, Črtomir Frelih, Katja Oblak, Sašo Vrabič, Vesna Bukovec

Curator: Monika Ivančič Fajfar

The new series of thematic exhibitions at the Riko Debenjak’s Gallery explores the relationship of contemporary artists to classical art historical genres such as figure and portrait, landscape, still life and abstract or conceptual art.
The first exhibition in the series will focus on the figure and portrait. The exhibition, entitled The Idea of the Body involves five authors representing different generations, styles and media. By depicting (and using) the human body, selected artists address various artistic and substantive issues such as body-space, human-nature, intimate-social and physical-spiritual dichotomy. They invite the viewer to question the relationship of the individual to him/herself, to others and to the surrounding world.

More info (in Slovene only)

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Ideja telesa

Razstava je zasnovana kot prvi del štiridelnega sklopa in nadaljuje linijo skupinskih tematskih razstav, ki jih v Galeriji Rika Debenjaka pripravljajo od leta 2006. Sklop je namenjen raziskavi in prevetritvi klasičnih umetnostnozgodovinskih pojmov.
V ospredju je zamisel, da se predstavijo slogovno in vsebinsko raznoliki avtorski prijemi. Z njimi se gledalcem ponudi razmislek o različnih konceptih v umetnosti in kulturi, pa tudi razmislek o vprašanjih aktualnega prostora in časa. Brane Širca, Črtomir Frelih, Katja Oblak, Sašo Vrabič in Vesna Bukovec upodabljajo (in uporabljajo) človeško telo za odpiranje številnih likovnih in vsebinskih problematik; odpirajo vprašanja odnosa telesa do prostora, človeka do narave, intimnega do družbenega, telesnega do duhovnega; na gledalca naslavljajo vprašanja o odnosu posameznika do sebe, do drugih in do sveta, ki ga obdaja.

Človeška figura v zgodovini likovne umetnosti uprizarja zgodbe, posreduje metaforične vsebine, pooseblja ideje, beleži portretne podobnosti ali simbolno upodablja družbeni položaj. Lahko je ekspresivna, realistična, abstrahirana ali simbolistična. Sodobni umetniki, ki v svoje delo vključujejo človeško figuro in portret, lahko črpajo iz vseh teh tradicij in vanje vnašajo svoje avtorske vizije. Spajanje tradicionalnega in sodobnega oziroma preizkušenega in inovativnega priča o univerzalnosti govorice umetnosti v prostoru in času.

Več o razstavi

Ideja telesa (zloženka, pdf)

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Iz besedila ob razstavi:

Vesna Bukovec: Od splošnega k posameznemu

Dialog razstavljenih ciklusov There is no society without spectacle* in Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična odpira vprašanja o identiteti posameznika in vlogi posameznika v družbi, hkrati pa poudarja funkcijo umetnosti pri iskanju odgovorov na aktualna družbena vprašanja.

Vesna Bukovec nas s ciklusom osmih risb spomni na delo Družba spektakla (La Société du spectacle, 1967) francoskega marksističnega misleca Guya Deborda.** Niz s spleta vzetih primerov »družbenega spektakla« ilustrira tezo, da spektakel ni skupek podob, ampak medosebni družbeni odnos, katerega posrednik so podobe. Identitetne vloge posameznikov se vselej spreminjajo glede na določeno družbeno situacijo in tako oblikujejo skupno identiteto množic; bodisi so to gledalci teniškega turnirja ali obiskovalci rock koncerta, protestniki na Wall Streetu ali vstajniki na slovenskih cestah, množica, ki čaka na hrano, ali množica, ki čaka novi iPhone, delavci tovarne v stečaju ali šolarji pri molitvi.

Risbe iz ciklusa Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična so referenca na strip z naslovom Tinza konceptualnega umetnika Marka Pogačnika.*** Petinštirideset let kasneje je družbena vloga ženske še vedno podvržena stereotipom. Vesna Bukovec jo problematizira v seriji šestnajstih podob z napisi, ki na gledalca naslavljajo vprašanja: Ali me nočete, ker … sem ženska, kritična, naivna, depresivna, ker živim v revščini, imam lastno mnenje, pričakujem otroka, ker nisem mlada in lepa, ne jem dovolj zdrave hrane in podobno.

Banalne ilustracije ob vprašanjih poglabljajo nelagodje gledalca. Namesto produkcije novih podob se Vesna Bukovec odloči za recikliranje in prerisovanje iz neskončne zaloge spletnih podob. To so fotografije, ki ilustrirajo raznolike medijske vsebine in pod katerimi v drobnem tisku nemalokrat preberemo »slika je simbolična«. Tako avtorica konceptualna izhodišča, da je umetnost bolj delo duha kot ročne izurjenosti, sooči z aktualnim stališčem o medijski onesnaženosti s podobami.

Recikliranje podob se sklada z recikliranjem družbenih stereotipov. Rutinska, neosebna in tehnicistična risba s tušem na papir formata A4 poudarja osredinjenost na vsebino in kaže na univerzalnost upodobljenega. To gledalcu omogoča poistovetenje. V ozadju na videz nevtralne risbe torej ni le ironija, cinizem in družbena kritičnost, temveč tudi osebno sugestivna sporočilnost.

* Ni družbe brez spektakla. **Guy Debord: Družba spektakla. Komentarji k družbi spektakla. Panegirik, Koda, 1999. ***Marko Pogačnik: Tinza, strip, objavljen v Problemih, št. 83–84, str. 672–702, 1969.

Monika Ivančič Fajfar

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I will participate with two series of drawings: Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012) and
There is no society without spectacle (2011, 2013)

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Photos from the exhibition

Stik/h

Exhibition: Stik/h,
Location: Fürst House, Krempljeva 1, Ptuj, SI
Date: August 27–30, 2014
Opening: Wednesday, August 27, at midnight

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Anja Medved & Patricija Maličev, Petra Varl, Lenka Đorojević, Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc & Simon Hudolin – Salči), Matej Stupica, Maja Burja & Staš Vrenko

Curator: Simona Žvanut

The exhibition entitled “Stik/h” is a multifaceted combination of contemporary visual art and poetry, literature, and books. Works by participating artists (some of which will be created specifically for this exhibition and the Fürst House) will launch a dialogue with the complex festival program, which brings an unmistakable atmosphere to the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival with its numerous, diverse events and with the overall redecoration of the streets of Ptuj. The exhibition will be an indispensable part of the festival, as well as a connection point of the unexpected, a space for reflection on the intersection between various art forms. Participating artists, including Lenka Đorojević, Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin – Salči), Matej Stupica, Maja Burja and Staš Vrenko, will enhance their exhibition on Saturday, 30 August, by a performance Stihija. The exhibition was curated by Simona Žvanut, who will organize guided tours of the exhibition every festival day at 17.00 together with participating artists.

More info

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Razstava Stik/h na večplasten način prepleta sodobno vizualno umetnost in poezijo, literaturo, knjigo. Umetniška dela sodelujočih umetnikov – nekatera bodo ustvarjena posebej za to razstavo in prostore Fürstove hiše – bodo vzpostavljala dialog s kompleksnim festivalskim programom, ki s številnimi in raznolikimi dogodki ter celostno ureditvijo ptujskih ulic ustvarja nezamenljivo atmosfero Dnevov poezije in vina. Razstava bo njen nepogrešljiv del, pa tudi stik nepričakovanega, prostor za razmislek o prepletu umetniških zvrsti. Sodelujoči umetniki Lenka Đorojević, Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc in Simon Hudolin – Salči), Matej Stupica, Maja Burja, Staš Vrenko in Dejan Koban bodo razstavo v soboto, 30. avgusta, nadgradili še s performansom Stihija. Razstavo je pripravila kustosinja Simona Žvanut, ki bo vsak dan festivala ob 17.00 skupaj s sodelujočimi umetniki organizirala vodstvo po razstavi.

Več informacij

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I will participate with a new work As if (2014) and series of drawings I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same (2010)

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Photos from the exhibition