Vesna Bukovec

Umetnica – umetnost preživetja / Female Artist – the Art of Survival

Exhibition: Umetnica – umetnost preživetja / Female Artist – the Art of Survival
Location: Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Date: March 4 – 8, 2010

Artists: Martina Bastarda, Vesna Bukovec, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Zvonka Simčič, Nataša Skušek, Hana Repše, Katarina Toman Kracina

Curators: Ana Grobler, Jadranka Ljubičić

About the exhibtion:
Exhibition of contemporary feminist art from Slovenia
Part of the international feminist and queer festival Rdeče Zore / Red Dawns 2010

Criterion of selection of works has been diversified and engaged approach in work and on declarations of authors. Works are results of their personal experiences. Already the fact that there are not many male artists, who would present their position in such a way, speaks that the situation of women artists is not uniform and equal. The women authors in addition to artistic creation, which is a job for more than a full-time, perform many other tasks: the household, childcare, care that their work stays recognized in the art world.

More about the exhibition

I am participating with the project The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life.

Photos by Jasmina Klančar

(Ne)močne / (Un)empowered

Exhibition: (Ne)močne / (Un)empowered
Location: Delavski dom Trbovlje
Date: March 2 – 19, 2010

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Aprilija Lužar, Sladjana Mitrović, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Hana Repše, Duba Sambolec, Zvonka Simčič, Nataša Skušek, Maja Slavec, Alenka Spacal, Evelin Stermitz, Vita Žgur

Curator: Ana Grobler

About the exhibtion:
Socially “prescribed” norms, roles and even laws, impeding activities of women in their daily life, are a reality. Household chores are an obligation taken for granted to be performed by women; care for children, their upbringing and education are informally appointed to women, omnipresent requirements for a young, beautiful and fit female body, laws and regulations depriving women of independent control over one’s reproduction, insurance business distinguishing between genders, overlooked and hushed violenece are all facts, leading to discrimination pushing women to the outskirts of public life.

More about the exhibition (pdf)

I am participating with the video Endless Game.

10 years the One Minutes

Exhibition: 10 years the One Minutes
Location: Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Date: November 28, 2009 – February 14, 2010
Organized by: Sandberg Institute & The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam

My video Important News is selected for the 10 years the One Minutes exhibition as one of the best of the year 2006. It will be also published on accompanying catalogue in the form of a DVD.

More info:
– Invitation (pdf)
– List of participating videos (doc)
– www.kunsthalkade.nl/tentoonstelling.php?item=413
– www.theoneminutes.org/a560…kunsthal-kade
– www.theoneminutes.org/m20060476sr10…world-one-minutes-important-news-vesna-bukovec

The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec, The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life (Edina stvar, ki jo imam pod nadzorom, je moj odnos do življenja)
Location: Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica
Date: October 1 – 31, 2009
Curated by: Urška Jurman

You are cordially invited to attend the opening of the solo exhibition The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life (Edina stvar, ki jo imam pod nadzorom, je moj odnos do življenja) by Vesna Bukovec. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 1st at 6 pm in the Miklova hiša gallery in Ribnica, Slovenia.

This is the fifth exhibition in a series in which selected curators (so far Zdenka Badovinac – Uršula Berlot, Andrej Medved – Mitja Ficko, Simona Vidmar – Sašo Sedlaček, Nevenka Šivavec – Matej Košir and on this ocassion Iztok Hotko – Vesna Bukovec) select one artist for a solo exhibition from the artists who participated at the annual post graduate students exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, 2. M (this time the selection was made from the 2004 exhibition).

At this exhibition Vesna Bukovec presented the video It Will Be OK and a series of drawings. Both works deal with the self-help culture and the dictate of positive thought as two cultural formations that importantly form and express the contemporary subjectivity.

Vesna Bukovec takes a closer look at psychology, which is worked and distributed through the various forms of popular culture. The authoress directs her criticism towards the over simplification of the complexity of our emotions and life circumstances, which – in the context of exaggerated positive orientation (It Will Be OK) and the various psychological tests that she addresses in her drawings – seem as a merely insignificant comment. At this she uses irony, repetition and eclecticism as her artistic strategy, with which she holds a mirror against the absurdity of the narcissistic care of oneself.

Photos from the exibition

DIVA Station_presents at Ars Electronica

Exhibition: DIVA Station_presents, selection of SCCA-Ljubljana’s video archive at Gateway to Archives of Media Art (GAMA) Screening of Selected Works at Ars Electronica
Location: Brucknerhaus, History Lounge, Linz, Austria
Date: September 3-8, 2009

Artists: Zemira Alajbegović,Vesna Bukovec,Neven Korda, Marko Kovačič, Ema Kugler, Andrej Lupinc, Marjan Osole – Max, Sašo Podgoršek, Zvonka Simčič, Mirko Simič, Robertina Šebjanič, Nika Špan, Miha Vipotnik, Tanja Vujinović, ZANK (Zemira Alajbegović and Neven Korda) & Borghesia

Curators: Barbara Borčić, Miha Colner and Ida Hiršenfelder

About the exhibtion:
On the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 the econtentPlus project GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art) is launching a portal to the eight founding European archives with a screening installation of selected works from the collections and a workshop. One of the archives is Slovene archive by SCCA-Ljubljana entitled DIVA Station. It is the physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005, and is one of SCCA projects, which seek to research, document and archive video/media art.
In the History Lounge the eight European media art archives and collections networked within the GAMA portal are screening highlights from their collections. SCCA-Ljubljana will participate with video program DIVA Station_presents, which is a continuation of the project Videospotting. Chronologically selected video program includes 15 videos, which present important shifts in understanding and usage of video as a means of expression from 1983 to 2007.
I am participating with my video Important News.

More information:

• www.scca-ljubljana.si/news-en_09-17.htm
• Ars Electronica – GAMA Screening and Workshop