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U3 - 5th TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY SLOVENIAN ART
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
28 December 2006 – 4 March 2007

Exhibition Curator: Jurij Krpan
Assistant Curators: Tomaz Kucer, Sandra Sajovic

Viktor Bernik, BridA, Sreco Dragan, Iztok Holc, Andrej Kamnik & Daan Roosegaarde, Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak in collaboration with Stefan Doepner, Mark Pozlep, Franc Purg & Sara Heitlinger, Saso Sedlacek, Polona Tratnik, Metka Zupanic (in the exhibition)

Art center, Lara Badurina, Martina Bastarda, Petja Grafenauer & Zoran Srdic & Maja Smrekar & Gorazd Krnc, Maja Modrijan, Bostjan Potokar & Rene Rusjan, Tina Smrekar, son:DA (in the proceedings)

The exhibition is divided into four modules: a presentation of good practices; a presentation of art works; an analysis of the 20th century production situation; public presentations, panel discussions, talks, and performances.

As the aim of this year’s U3 is to draw attention to the unexploited possibilities for improving production capacities in the field of visual practices, we wish to present a number of examples of good practices which have attained, each in its own way, a stage where the artist can develop his or her oeuvre in a continuous and planned manner. These examples are not presented as a display of artifacts; their presence in this year’s U3 emphasizes the fact that this way of thinking is possible and, indeed, imperative.

The second module is presenting eleven selected art projects, displayed in separate compartments as eleven solo exhibitions. It is necessary to separate the projects in order to avoid false allusions to any supposedly common features between the chosen projects; they, on the contrary, derive from very distinct, individual poetics.

The central room is dedicated to elements on which the principal topics of this year’s U3 converge: production conditions in the field of visual practices, internationalization, large formats, socially responsible themes … Furthermore, all the fourth-module activities are also held in this room.

Rather than in space, the fourth module is actually situated in time: it will be realized in the course of the exhibition. From January through early March the artists selected for this module (both exhibiting artists and those who will be presented through their contributions to the forthcoming proceedings) are presenting their work. The possibilities of residential programs were presented by foreign guests, panel discussions will be organized by the end of the exhibition, and concerts and performances will all take place within the framework of this module…

Between 24.1.-25.1. and 29.1.-1.2 the representatives of international art institutions, center, organizations and networks, have presented their artist-in-residence programs:
Ignacio R. Somovilla / Hangar, ES; Peter Zorn / EMARE (European Media Artists in Residence Exchange), DE; Anne Nigten / V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, NL; Yeb Wiersma / Trans Artists, NL; Lois Keidan / Live Art Development Agency, UK; Pavel Smetana / Ciant, CZ; Frederique Gobert / Triangle, FR; Horst Hoertner, Christopher Lindinger / Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT; Minna Henriksson / Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, TR; Ieva Auzina / RIXC - Riga Center for New Media Culture, LV; Marta de Menezes / Gulbenkian Institute for Science, PT; Noel Kelly / Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, IR; Nicola Triscott / Arts Catalyst, UK; Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol, SI.

Production and organization: Moderna galerija
Co-produced by: Galerija Kapelica / Zavod K6/4
Partners: Artservis, Kiberpipa / Zavod K6/4
Sponsors: Austrian Cultural Forum, Institut Francais Charles Nodier, Goethe Institut, The Municipality of Ljubljana, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Norwegian Embassy, Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain, Embassy of the Portugal, Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, Post of Slovenia, Pristop, Renderspace

Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

David Maljkovic:
Lost Memories of These Days

Palazzo Querini Stampalia
Area Scarpa
Castello 5252

10 June - 21 Nov. 2007
Commissioner:
Zeljko Kipke
Curator:
Branko Franceschi
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
http://www.mmsu.hr/maljkovic

David Maljkovic represents Croatia at 52. International Art Exhibition of Biennale di Venezia

The Republic of Croatia is proud to present David Maljkovic’s Lost Memories from These Days at this year’s Biennale di Venezia, selected by Zeljko Kipke, organised by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka and curated by Branko Franceschi. Lost Memories from These Days will be set up in an installation consisting of video, sound and a spatial structure, taking over the highly finished ambient of Carlo Scarpa’s ground floor at Palazzo Querini Stampalia.

Lost Memories from These Days belongs to a group of works created between 2003 and 2006 including the renowned Again for Tomorrow and Scene for New Heritage which always involved various media like collages, video and drawings. Maljkovic’s entire oeuvre of this period poses questions about the existence of vision and insists on the enlightening quality of art in opposition to the present-day tendency to dismiss relevant historical achievements, like the visionary concepts of late modernism. Moreover, it is a personal quest for the meaning of art, an unbiased search for the mysterious, elusive, lost beauty of creation, an escapist flight to a realm of the future. The works evolve around the emblematic architecture of the Memorial Centre for a Partisan Hospital designed by Vojin Bakic in 1981, and Giuseppe Sambito’s Italian Pavilion for the Zagreb Fairgrounds dating from 1962. For Maljkovic, the expressive monumentality and distinct style of these buildings give them a status w
hich surpasses mere representation of mannerisms in late modernism. Instead, they are perceived as time capsules, spaces so intensively charged by their own era, that they become means of transfer for spiritual heritage relevant to both present and future.

David Maljkovic (b.1973) lives and works in Zagreb and Berlin and is one of the most sought after artists of his generation. Recent solo exhibition include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka; Centre de Creation Contemporain, Tours; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam.

Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2007: P.S.1 New York, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; CAPC Musee d’ Art Contemporain, Bordeaux and Kunstverein Hamburg.

Selected Group Exhibitions include: Magellanic Cloud, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Ideal City – Invisible Cities, Zamosc & Potsdam; Downloads from Future, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam; Busan Biennale; Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London; Go Inside Tirana Biennial 3; The Imaginary Number, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and 9. Istanbul Biennale.

For images and further information please contact korana.matetic@mmsu.hr at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka.

For more information go to: http://www.mmsu.hr/maljkovic

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

Anna Oppermann
Re-Visions of “Ensemble Art”

May 17 – August 12, 2007

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2
D – 70173 Stuttgart
Fon: +49 (0)711 - 22 33 70
Fax: +49 (0)711 - 29 36 17
info@wkv-stuttagrt.de
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de

Parallel to Documenta 12, from May 17 to August 12, 2007, Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart is presenting the world wide first comprehensive solo exhibition of the German artist Anna Oppermann (born 1940 in Eutin/Germany) after her death in 1993.

With a total of seven “ensembles”, the exhibition sets out to spotlight the international significance of the artist, who combined process, concept and pictorial art in a unique manner: both in terms of the art of the 1970s and with regard to current artistic practices. While exhibitions in recent years in Sydney, Paris, Odense or New York have evidenced the international interest in Oppermann’s work, what has so far been lacking is a comprehensive revision and redefinition of her complex œuvre and artistic methodology. This is precisely the focus of this exhibition.

Oppermann expert Ute Vorkoeper (Hamburg) has agreed to curate the exhibition. The works she has selected demonstrate both the artistic development and the links within Oppermann’s “ensemble art”.

In the course of the 1970s, Anna Oppermann gained international fame – among other things by featuring at documenta 6 and documenta 8 – with works that she called “ensembles”. Each ensemble frequently developed over a period of several years begins with a small still life consisting of a found object that the artist treated as an allegory of a certain question. She reflected further on the topic under scrutiny in drawings, photographs, pictures, found objects and texts, that she successively added to the original still life. At various stages, the artist recorded this process also on large photo-canvasses which, in turn, became an integral part of the constantly growing ensemble.

With this presentation of seven large ensembles, that the artist varied again and again during her lifetime, each consisting of thousands of individual components, the Kunstverein takes up the challenge of “re-performing” art works that are intimately based on a particular space, process and context.

An extensive catalogue will be published on the exhibition, that will be accompanied by a symposium.

Curator
Ute Vorkoeper
In Cooperation with
Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Herbert Hossmann

Hours
Tue, Thu - Sun: 11 am – 6 pm
Wed: 11 am – 8 pm

Press Conference
16.th May, 2007, 11 am

Opening
16.th May, 2007, 7 pm

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Schlossplatz 2
D – 70173 Stuttgart
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Fax: +49 (0)711 - 29 36 17
info@wkv-stuttagrt.de
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de

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Schlossplatz 2
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