Vesna Bukovec

KOLEKTIVA: Izbrana video dela / Selected videos

Exhibition: Izbrana video dela / Selected videos, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA
Location: Centralna postaja, Koroška cesta 5, Maribor, SI
Date: July 12 – August 8, 2012, every night from 9 p.m. onwards
Opening view: Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 9 p.m.

Selector of Centralna postaja’s Video module: Aleksandra Saška Gruden

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Art group KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) is exhibiting selected videos within the Video module of Centralna postaja (Central Station) in Maribor.

List of videos:

• First Impression, July 12–21, 2012
• Hiteti ali biti temeljit?, July 22–31, 2012
• Special Place in the City – Graz, August 1–8, 2012

KOLEKTIVA, Special Place in the City – Graz, 2006, still

More about the exhibition
www.centralnapostaja.si

Women CIRCUS Museum_Phase 03

Exhibition: Women CIRCUS Museum_Phase 03
Location: Pavelhaus, Laafeld/Potrna 30, Bad Radkersburg, AT
Date:July 7 – August 18, 2012

Curated by: ACRYL (AT)

Artists: Saša Bezjak (SI), Sarah Bildstein (AT), Cym (NL), Gertraud Enzinger (AT), KOLEKTIVA: Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič (SI), Renate Krammer (AT), Erika Lässer-Rotter (AT), Polona Maher (SLO), Barbara Predin (SI), Daniela Riedl (AT), Rene Rusjan (SI), Linda Maria Schwarz (AT), Johanna Serdinschek (AT), Edith Temmel (AT), Petra Varl (SI), Uta Weber (DE), Daphna Weinstein (IL)

ACRYL’s festival is called “Museum Frauen Circus”, in English “Women’s Circus Museum”, that moves around like a circus and changes their annual show. With containers filled with works of art it establishes contacts in cultural locations enlarging the presentation platform for feminine contemporary art and simultaneously uses the cultural infrastructure location. The name “Museum” stresses that it is a serious work and is serious in what is presented in the exhibitions.
Invitation and program (pdf)
www.pavelhaus.at

About ACRYL
The ACRYL group (founded in 2009 by artists Angelika Thon, Cym, Renate Krammer and Linda Maria Schwarz) represents a collection of artists whose aims are primarily the presentation of female artists and women in general in rural Styria, a region of Austria. The group interconnects women in the region and also from outside and thus promotes important artistic contacts at national and international level (intercultural competence). Team, communication skills and the promotion of self-confidence through social and personal contacts are the foundation of their association and its work.
acryl.weblog.mur.at

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KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) is participating with the project Hiteti ali biti temeljit? (digital print, video (3′25″), 2004).

The work is a result of a public action of KOLEKTIVA performed on a residency in Nottingham, UK in 2004. The title is a Slovene sentence, which was publicly displayed in the centre of Nottingham city. Each word has its English translation and phonetic transcription, taken directly from a Slovene-English dictionary. Each word has several translations, which generate subtle differences in meaning. The phrase cannot be translated exactly, leaving space for people to compose their own sentence. The video shows random people trying to pronounce these Slovene words. The structure of power held by native speakers of dominant world languages (such as English) is subverted, as we ask them to pronounce Slovene words.

It’s All Right, Slovenia Play_01, video umetnost

Festival: 13th Maremetraggio, International Short Film and Debut Works Festival
Location: Trieste, IT
Date: July 1-7, 2012

Exhibition:
It’s All Right, Slovenia Play_01, video umetnost
July 1-3, 2012
Opening reception: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 at 7.30 p.m.
Foyer of Teatro Verdi, Riva III Novembre 1, 34121 Trieste, IT

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Ana Čigon, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Maša Jazbec, Zmago Lenárdič, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, Špela Pavli, Mark Požlep, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Pila Rusjan, Robertina Šebjanič & Suzana Grau

Curated by: Manuel Fanni Canelles (IT)

The festival Maremetraggio won’t be only cinema, but it will open for the first time to another artistic language based on the creation and reproduction of images moving inside a screen: the video art. This particular form of expression will be explored through a dedicated event, ironically titled “It’s all right”. The curator of the event will be Manuel Fanni Canelles and the exibition will be realized thanks to the collaboration of Verdi Theatre and the Artistic and Cultural Association Coreofficina. The neighboring Slovenia with its artists will be the protagonist of the works that will be host inside the foyer of the Theatre from the 1st to the 3rd of July in an installation composed by a series of screens, that will proposed in loop several art videos. The contrast between the perfect aesthetics of the Lirical Theatre and the videos presented, that communicate the uneasyness of contemporary man, is a choice that amplifies the strenght of works in exposition.

More about the exhibition (in Italian)
www.maremetraggio.com
Invitation card (pdf)

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I am participating with three videos: It Will Be OK (2009), I love myself for who I am (2010), I trust in the process of life (2010).

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Maremetraggio Archive

KOLEKTIVA: V dialogu / Within a dialogue

Exhibition: V dialogu / Within a dialogue, solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA
Location: Gallery Mihelič, Ptuj, SI
Date: May 10 – June 17, 2012
Opening view: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Curators: Stanka Gačnik (Mihelič gallery) and Petja Grafenauer (independent curator)

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After ten years of working together in an art group KOLEKTIVA, artists Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar present their first mid-career retrospective.

In their collective work they research various aspects of communication, inter-personal relationships, and everyday life. In their projects they search for all kinds of personal stories and are interested in both storytelling and voyeurism at the same time. As a group they create projects in response to given situations.

They frequently collaborate with the public. They invite different individuals, passersby or specially targeted groups to collaborate and they include them in their projects as a source or co-authors of the work. The artists understand the process of art making as a mixture of imagination, negotiation, exchange and cooperation.

In ten years of collaboration KOLEKTIVA have presented their works in several solo exhibitions and participated in significant international group shows in Slovenia and Europe. KOLEKTIVA is mostly known for different projects within their platform Special Place in the City for which they gain international recognition.
Besides working in KOLEKTIVA all three authors work as successful solo artists. Metka Zupanič and Vesna Bukovec also curate video screenings and exhibitions of international contemporary video art in collaboration with the Photon Gallery.

Exhibition catalogue (pdf)

More about the exhibition

Exhibition photos

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Gallery Mihelič
(Regional museum Ptuj Ormož)
Dravska 4, 2250 Ptuj, Slovenia
Opening hours: Tue – Fri: 10 am – 4 pm,
Sat: 10 am – 1 pm
http://muzej-ptuj-ormoz.si

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The exhibition is part of the program of European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012.
Production: Regional museum Ptuj Ormož and Kolektiva Institute
Sponsors: Albin Promotion d.o.o., Hotel Mitra
Thanks: Tomaž Kučer (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana)

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Boris Farič, Vesna Bukovec

Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012

Exhibition: Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012
Location: Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: April 25 – May 13, 2012
Exhibition opening and winner announcement: April 25 at 8 p.m.

The OHO Award was established in 2005 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in collaboration with the Foundation for a Civil Society and with the support of the New York based Trust for Mutual Understanding. The aim of the OHO Award is to support young visual artists and to take them from a marginal social position to a more central role in society, with an emphasis on a positive context based on openness and creativity.
The OHO Award is a major international fellowship award program for young visual artists till 35 year, including media of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video, new media and performance.

The jury for the 2012 OHO Award: Katerina Mirović (curator, Ljubljana), Jože Barši (ALUO, Ljubljana), Dalibor Martinis (artist, Zagreb), and Miran Mohar (artist, Ljubljana).

Nominees for the 2012 OHO Award:

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is collaborating with the group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona and Venice. She used different media like drawing, video, photography, installation and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony.

Alja Piry (1982) gained BA in Art history studies from Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana in 2007 and in 2010 a MA in Fine arts from University of applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 she is self-employed as artist/cultural worker. Alja Piry is concerned with the idea of artworks as generators of intersubjective impulse. In her practice she uses various mediums, including drawing/text, voice-based installation, painting, video and book.

Tina Smrekar (1978) has completed her Photography MA in 2005 at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig after graduating in design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works in photography, video, installation and research projects as well as occasionally performance. Her works have been exhibited in Slovenia, Croatia and Germany .

Tomaž Furlan (1978) graduated on Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In his staged works he used video and installation. He exhibited in Maribor, Padova, Ljubljana. He lives and works in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka.

www.zavod-parasite.si
Vžigalica gallery

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I participated with a new series of drawings I can make another turn.