Vesna Bukovec

ARTSLAB 06, What if… and beyond

Exhibition: ARTSLAB 06, What if… and beyond
Location: Open Systems, online exhibition
Date: May 2014 –

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Bernhard Cella, Giulia Cilla, Yolanda Domínguez, Gani Llalloshi, Swoon, Sašo Sedlaček

Curator: Vasja Nagy

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About the project

ARTSLAB is a project by Open Systems. The 6th edition is curated by Vasja Nagy and focuses on the trajectory of how we perceive our present now and distinguish it from the past – chaotic vs. ordered, concerning with stimulating a dialogue at its reinvention for alternative thinking on the future of a long-term survival of humanity by taking contemporary art works more as a catalyst for the present.

More: www.openspace-zkp.org/2013/en/artslab.php?a=6

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I am participating with the series of videos White Performances / Positive Affirmations (2010)

Presentation at the exhibition website:

http://www.openspace-zkp.org/2013/en/artslab.php?a=6&w=49

For the art of Vesna Bukovec generating a critical view on instant spirituality through satirical depictions is characteristic. She uses video and drawings to fake practices based on instructions for making an individual’s life better and positive. As well she criticises the attitudes in society filled with stereotyped views on marginal identities sometimes through enhancing them as caricatures or subtly just make them evident when concealed in every-day life. In 2009 she made a video It will be OK where she already used this clean, white aesthetics and positive affirmative mantra ideology. Such instructions with the goal of a happy and creative life have been popularised since decades ago through books, magazines, video courses and Internet. White performances / Positive Affirmations is a series of four videos that follow a similar course. The one from a year earlier still triggers the emotionality. Melancholic-romantic feelings should calm one’s anxiety with trust in a good outcome. On the other hand the later series is more specific in which way everything in one’s life is changing under the force of thought. The original idea was that the technique should act to tranquillise but the videos are just long enough to become annoying. Try to follow all three at one time.

Vasja Nagy

Zipped Worlds. Photography in Public Domain

Exhibition: Zipped Worlds. Fotografija v javnem prostoru / Photography in Public Domain
Location: Kult 3000 Gallery, Metelkova ulica 2/b, Ljubljana, SI
Date: May 30 – June 18, 2014

Artists: Breda Beban, Emma Ciceri, Fabrizio Giraldi, G.R.A.M., KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Borut Krajnc, Paula Muhr, Adrian Paci

The exhibition is part of the Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2014 festival.

Paula Muhr, On Show, 2007

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About the exhibition

Zipped Worlds is a collaborative project by partner organisations Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography and Trieste Contemporanea, in which a group of curators (Giuliana Carbi, Susanne Gamauf, Brigitte Konyen and Dejan Sluga) explore new concepts of public and private, as communicated through the (present) use of photographic images. The exhibition at Kult 3000 Gallery brings together a selection of works from the larger project involving 15 artists from different European countries.

Photography is entering public space with its physical presence, through digital media and furthermore through the notion that everything around us is constantly being recorded. Photography is de facto the most ubiquitously present visual medium in today’s urban environment. Within this wide spectrum, photography appears in public space (urban exteriors and interiors) in the traditional form of a “picture” as well as through the omnipresence of a network of surveillance cameras that record images non-stop. We are the most photographed and recorded world population ever.

Excerpt from the text by Dejan Sluga

More:
http://www.photonicmoments.net/?p=3651
http://www.triestecontemporanea.it/news.php?id_news=212&l=e&id_m=2
http://www.kolektiva.org/archives/1034

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KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) participates at the exhibition with the video Special Place in the City – Graz

Don’t Be Afraid, You Are The Best

Exhibition: Don’t Be Afraid, You Are The Best
Location: Kibla Portal, Valvasorjeva 40, Maribor, SI
Date: May 22 – September 14, 2014
Opening: May 22, 2014 at 8 pm

Participating artists and students of the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Education, Maribor: Larisa Adanič, Kaja Avberšek, Boris Beja, Nataša Berk, Saša Bezjak, Saša Bitenc, Vesna Bukovec, Nežka Cestnik, Mina Fina, Anja Gelt, Aleksandra Gruden, Betina Habjanič, Lori Hiti, Sara Hočevar, Tamara Hršak, Nana Irgolič, Tanisa Jahić, Tanja Jakopin, Natalija Juhart, Doroteja Ketiš, Laura Koder, Kaja Konc, Lana Korčulanin, Lara Korošec, Manica Kovač, Anja Kozel, David Kranjčan, Natalija Doris Križman, Kristian Lah, Tadeja Lakič, Tina Lanišek, Nina Logar, Nika Lopert, Ina Lutarič, Polona Maher, Karmen Majerič, Simona Marot, Anja Medved, Matija Medved, Jelena Pavlović, Anja Plemenitaš, Silvester Plotajs – Sicoe, Sanja Pocrnjić, Borut Popenko, Andrej Praznik, Zoran Pungerčar, Leon Ravlan, Rone 84, Urška Sabati, Tajda Martina Senič, Alja Sitar, Klavdija Skrbinjek, Beli Sladoled, Katja Smolar, son:DA, Lucija Stakne, Marička Stakne, Zora Stančič, Vojko Stiplovšek, Sara Strožič, Valentina Škofic, Urška Školnik, Andrej Štular, Žan Valenčak, Petra Varl, Erik Vodenik, Polona Vovk, Sašo Vrabič, Mojca Zlokarnik, Sara Žičkar, Jernej Žumer

Curated by: Petra Varl

The exhibition, or, better yet, project, draws on a medium closest to the author, which is drawing. Hidden behind its seeming simplicity is a minimalistically concise and thus complex method of expression, which is an object of enduring fascination. Don’t Be Afraid, You Are The Best is intended as a communicative community project that transforms the extensive KIBLA PORTAL venue into a space of vivacious creative dialog between artists belonging to different generations.

More info
Več informacij
Vabilo/Invitation card (pdf)

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I am participating with a drawing from the series I can make another turn (2012)

Perspektive mest / City Perspectives

Exhibition: Perspektive mest / City Perspectives
Location: Photon Gallery, Vienna, AT
Date: April 15 – June 14, 2014
Opening: April 15, 2014 at 7 pm

Artists: Bojan Salaj, Branko Cvetkovič, Tomaž Gregorič, Tanja Lažetić & Dejan Habicht, Zmago Lenardič & Jasna Hribernik, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved

Curated by: Dejan Sluga (photography), Vesna Bukovec & Metka Zupanič (video)

The City Perspectives exhibition presents works by Slovenian artists and deals with specific phenomena of the contemporary urban environment through photography and video. The photographic part of the exhibition includes works of five artists and shows us through different layers of the city of Ljubljana in order to point out on the constant urbanization processes or status modification of individual buildings and public spaces. Whereas, five conceptual video projects by mid-career artists explore the perception of urban realities of the city through their personal stories and intimate experiences.

Invitation (pdf)
Catalogue (pdf)

More:
www.kolektiva.org
www.photongallery.at

FemLink The International Video Collages: Wonder

Event: Video večer / Video Evening #18: FemLink The International Video Collages: Wonder
Location: Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: March 25, 2014 at 8 pm

Video collage composed by: FemLink.org

Participating: Ligia Bouton (BR), Dagmar Kase (EE), Laura García (MX), Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (CU), Zuzanna Janin (PL), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Ayesha Sultana (BD), Maria Papacharalambous (CY), Loes Heebink (NL), Véronique Sapin (FR), Amina Zoubir (DZ), Cagdas Kahriman (TR), Patricija Gilyte (LT), C.M.Judge (US), Carolina Saquel (CL/FR), Angelika Rinnhofer (DE), Alessandra Arnò (IT), Itziar Barrio (ES), Liang Wei (CN), Diana Yun (KZ), Cecilia Vignolo (UY), Jelena Miskovic (RS), Seema Nusrat (PK), Chantal du Pont (CA), Alena Kupcikova (CZ)

Ligia Bouton: Wonder Body, still

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About the collage

Twenty-five FemLink artists were invited to create a video on the topic “Wonder”. As with each new theme that FemLink proposes, artists are entirely free to interpret the theme as they wish. Their only instruction is to answer the question, ‘What does this topic mean for you?’.

“Wonder” presents a re-examination of the word and its possible interpretations from an artistic perspective which can reveal or glorify that which can escape us in the reality. What emerges from the 25 videos of the “collage”, it is that the wonderful fact is not wonderful in itself; rather, it is wonderful as it relates to its context of reality. The videos propose to us a “Wonder” which applies this relation to a reality whatever it is: the most ordinary and the most short-lived.

More info
Več informacij

More about Video Evenings

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I am participating with the video You can do it! (2010)