Vesna Bukovec

Secret Heart / Skrivnostno srce

Exhibition: Secret Heart / Skrivnostno srce, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič)
Location: Črni kot, Kosovelov dom Sežana, SI
Date: January 15 – February 28, 2014
Opening: January 15 2014 at 6 pm

Curator: Mojca Grmek

About the project

The project was made in 2010 when KOLKETIVA was invited to create a new edition of the Special Place in the City project in Warsaw. Special Place in the City is an ongoing project by KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič, Lada Cerar) which comprises elements of sociological research about specific places with intimate values to the inhabitants of various cities. The initial project evolved over the years and become a platform for larger amount of individual projects concerning people, stories and places (more info).

The idea for the Warsaw project Secret Heart was inspired by an article Searching for Chopin, Finding Poland’s Past by Michael Kikmmelman published in New York Times on October 3, 2009. We learned that preserved Chopin’s heart is placed in a church in Warsaw. We think the fact that it stayed preserved even when everything around it was destroyed in the WWII is a great example and a symbol of survival and resistance. The absurd situation that a German general helped to save a national symbol of the very nation they wanted to destroy brings in an interesting twist. Since the heart’s whereabouts during the hiding are not known we find this secret place of hiding an actual special place of the city of Warsaw. KOLEKTIVA published international open call for a short story. By inviting people to write a story about the hiding place of the heart we were actually asking them for fiction stories about the course of events during the hiding of a heart which might be or might be not intertwined with real facts. In writing the story about the heart we see an opportunity for people to express their opinion and emotions in regards to the painful time of Warsaw Uprising and the WWII which has had a strong impact on the city and national identity.

More about the Secret Heart project

Invitation card (pdf) (Slovene only)

www.kosovelovdom.si

www.kolektiva.org

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Photos from the opening

Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond

Exhibition: Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond
Location: Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TR
Date: January 9 – June 8, 2014
Opening: January 8 2014 at 7 pm

Artists: Abdülcanbaz (Turhan Selçuk), Furat al Jamil, Mounira Al Solh, Maja Bajevic, Sonia Balassanian, Vesna Bukovec, CANAN, Eteri Chkadua, Ana Čigon, Rena Effendi, Nezaket Ekici, Cevdet Erek, Adib Fattal (Installation by: The Museum of Everything), Mona Hatoum, Hamlet Hovsepyan, Gül Ilgaz, Babak Jalali, Lamia Joreige, Hayv Kahraman, Hatice Karadağ, Sevdalina Kochevska, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, One Square Meter (A Festival by ACCEA), Fahrettin Örenli, Adrian Paci, Michail Pirgelis, Younès Rahmoun, Yehudit Sasportas, Wael Shawky, Slavs and Tatars, Aslı Sungu, Nasra Şimmes, Burcu Yağcıoğlu, Nil Yalter, Živadinov::Zupančič::Turšič

Curators: Çelenk Bafra, Paolo Colombo
Assistant Curator and ‘Come Again?’ Program: Birnur Temel

About the exhibition:

Within the scope of its 10th year anniversary celebrations, Istanbul Modern presents Neighbours – Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond, an exhibition that investigates contemporary art practices in Turkey and the surrounding region. The exhibition brings together artists from neighboring geographies that have historical, political, and cultural ties with Turkey including the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, etc.

Neighbours explores practices that relate to social life in the public space, such as spectacles and ceremonies, and the way these have seeped into today’s visual arts. The exhibition focuses on two aspects that are ingrained in the region’s cultural weave: narratives and travel. These dovetail into a number of works tangent to themes such as mobility, nomadism, odysseys, language, and translation, and cultural transmission, etc.

Neighbours features visual artworks, as well as performance and spectacles, including extensions of disciplines that have developed outside the academic circles of art, such as political cartoons and folk art. Paradigms of this wide region’s layered narrative traditions are shadow theater, the aşıks (travelling bards), and the meddahs (public storytellers) of old, whose voice, in a new form, still echoes in the work of artists today.

Istanbul Modern hosts 35 artists from 17 countries and a program of special events– screenings, performances, workshops, talks and panel discussions – dedicated to the region’s art and culture. Come Again? video program is on view in a dedicated room in the exhibition hall as part of Neighbours.

More info: www.istanbulmodern.org

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I am participating with the video It Will Be OK (2009), which will be screened as part of the Come Again? video program.

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Photos from the opening

Črno na belem / Black on White

Exhibition: Black on White. Artists’ magazines and newspapers in Slovenia / Črno na belem. Revije in časopisi umetnikov v Sloveniji
Location: Institute for Contemporary Art @ Gallery Academia Moderna, Zagreb
Date: 18 December 2013 – 7 January 2014
Opening: 18 December 2013 at 7 pm

Artists: Razkolnikof B., Esad Babačić, Jože Barši, Vesna Bukovec, Danilo Celan, Marina Gržinić, Aleš Kermavner, Dušan Mandić, Mario Marzidovšek, OHO Group, I.G. Plamen, Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Marko Pogačnik, Braco Rotar, Tomaž Šalamun, VIKS, Brane Zorman, Franci Zagoričnik

The exhibition Black on White exposes some of the most interesting examples of artists’ periodicals which in recent decades have been published in Slovenia: artists’ collections, newspapers and magazines, fanzines, and other related publications.

The exhibition has been prepared in collaboration of Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana and contribution of the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and UGM Art Gallery in Maribor.

More info:
http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/archives/1330
https://www.facebook.com/events/502362719861388/

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I am participating with a newspaper made as part of the artistic research project Local Issues (2003) made for my first solo exhibition at the P74 Gallery.

S črto čez črko / Line Stroke the Letter

Exhibition: S črto čez črko / Line Stroke the Letter
Location: Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: 5 September – 13 October 2013
Opening: 5th September, 2013 at 8 pm
Accompanying event / Lecture performance: 25 September 2013, 6 pm, Dejan Habicht: 12 Boring Poems

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Zvonko Čoh, Milan Erič, Zvonko Čoh in Milan Erič, Dejan Habicht, Marko A. Kovačič, Damijan Kracina, Amir Muratović, Alenka Pirman, Nataša Prosenc, Zoran Srdič Janežič, Petra Varl, Rajko Vidrih, Jaka Železnikar

Exhibition concept: Barbara Borčić, Dušan Dovč, Ida Hiršenfelder, Saša Nabergoj

Napetosti med jezikovnim in slikovnim omogočajo eksperimentiranje z literarnim in likovnim umetniškim izrazom. Dela na razstavi različnih žanrov (ilustracija, risba, stenska slika, tipografija, video, animacija, instalacija, elektronska knjiga, spletna umetnost) vzpostavljajo drugačne pristope k podobi in črki – tudi zato, da se v današnjem času tehnokratske rabe jezika spodbuja kritično »branje« likovnega ter “gledanje” literarnega in pripovednega.

Več o razstavi
Galerija Vžigalica
Vabilo (pdf)

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Between language and image, there is neither contradiction nor analogy. That is to say, there is no direct relation between them, there is only ambiguity, e.g. obscurity being expressed, hinting at the inability to express a direct translation between the two. Any translation would only discuss another matter, one that the language or the image wish to represent; it would address the numerous levels of social phenomena that are mainly expressed as absurd, nonsensical, humorous, playful, bitter, gruesome or romantic witticisms about life.

More about the exhibition
Vžigalica Gallery
Invitation leaflet (pdf)

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I am participating with a a series of drawings: Kako se uspešno spopasti z neuspehom / How to fail successfully (2011/2013)

ArtSite

Exhibition: ArtSite
Location: Castello di Buronzo, Italy
Date: July 14 – October 6, 2013

Curator: Domenico Maria Papa

Artists: Aqua Aura, Viviane Bertrand, Vesna Bukovec, Mario Ciaramella, Leo F. Demetz, Diego Dutton, Jernej Scissors, Stefano Giorgi, Monika Grycko, Asako Hishiki, Marcus Jansen, Matthias Langer, Christoph Luckeneder, Mara Isabella, Sabrina Milazzo, Nelly Monnier, Sabrina Muzi, Irene Pacini, Chiara Paderi, Artsiom Parchynski, Sheila Pepe, Serena Piccinini, Olga Shigal, Marika Vicari, Peter Wehinger, Cyryl Zakrzewski

artsite.biz
www.castellodiburonzo.it

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I am participating with a video: When I wake up, I am going to create something beautiful (2011)