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Artists: Sanela Jahić, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Vladimir Logutov, Timofey Radya and Mark Požlep

The perception of the fourth dimension explored by the exhibition Everything and Nothing is not a transcendental, analogue-spatial or temporal dimension, but is rather determined by current social, political and cultural dimensions and uses the avant-garde tradition as a meta-language that progresses from everything to nothing, which equals everything by purifying artistic activity until it becomes a clear, engaged statement, still determined by the restrictive parameters of our actions. Although it is unlikely real change will occur, the fact that we can engage with the idea brings us closer.

When Ilya Kabakov created The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment(1988), he was not concerned with utopia. Individual re-appropriation freed the cosmic dream from being closed within the system and re-established its primary essence – an essence which is not fixed, has no definite form and is not institutionalized, and whose genuineness can only be collective. Based on these parameters, the exhibition presents a collective urge for change, or a possibility of change, in all its vitality, independent of image transfer and original context, which goes beyond imitation and appropriation.

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Guest curator in the annual cycle Local Talk

Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

31 July – 24 August 2014

In collaboration with: Galleria Continua, Garage gallery
Support: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Photos: Dejan Habicht. ŠKUC Archive. Courtesy of the artists Timofey Radya and Vladimir Logutov.

Artist: Regina José Galindo

This retrospective exhibition of the artist recipient of the Grand Prize of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts presents an overview of her work, within which, despite the expanding subject areas and altered mechanisms, the poetic component remains constant. The Anatomy Lesson raises questions of allocation of gender, cultural and social identities.

Regina José Galindo operates in a constant oscillation between the two poles – between poetic language and physical action, individuality and collectivity, between the local and the global. In this way, she highlights the diversification of identities that speak of existential conflict through the metaphorization of historicity.

The performances of Regina José Galindo function as a meticulous process of social diagnosing, an incessant posing of questions, through which the artist invites us to a common experience of opening up new spaces – spaces for change. The flexibility of the circulation of knowledge, which Galindo’s works establish repeatedly, erases the classical scheme of production and reception, extending an invitation to cross one’s own borders, calling for a transformation of one’s field of experience.

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The 30th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Interruption

Exhibition of the Grand Prize Recipient of the 29th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts

Curator: Yasmín Martín Vodopivec

Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

14 September – 14 November 2013

Support: The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Photos: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.

New commissioned work: Common Ground

 

Artist: Miroslav Cukovic

The exhibition Cartography of In-Between Space showcases the work of Miroslav Cukovic, an artist of the younger generation, which has been produced in the last three years. His works are based on the unpredictable possibilities of paper as a medium, fertilised by the interventions of collage and printmaking techniques. By addressing the materiality of form as secondary and ephemeral, he has established a spontaneous but pervasive dialogue in his work with the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs.

The works of Miroslav Cukovica build a narrative by creating in-between spaces in emptiness, within which there is constant transition. The artist sees transition as a transformation that bears within itself the idea of the final destination and the future. His works reject the anti-utopian methods of analyses, in which merely objective indices apply. Cukovic takes a different path, creating his own maps of potentiality beyond the closed horizon of the existing social order. This interstitial geography is made up of different mediums: collage, print, ready-made, artist’s book. The artist uses them to explore the cartography of in-between space as his own art practice, developing concepts of space, identity, as well as the re-contextualisation of the individual.

Miroslav Cukovic composes utopian conceptual maps that represent the landscape of his conscious intimate transition and mappings of the current social context. This triggers the need to consider the present as a common space, which conceals the potential of the development and transformation of the individual and the social status.

Miroslav Cukovic (1982) is an American artist of Yugoslav descent. In 2005 he completed his studies at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (Michigan, USA), where he was also a printmaking lecturer for a time. He also worked as an assistant in the Graphic Arts Department at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He regularly exhibits his prints, drawings, sculptures as well as installations around Europe and in the US, where he has been the recipient of several awards. In 2009, he carried out the intervention Orange Movement in Maribor, and last year, the project The Maribor Milky Way, which was part of the Maribor European Capital of Culture programme.

International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

19 February 2013 –  7 April 2013

Support: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Photos: Jaka Babnik.  MGLC Archive.