World of Art; School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art; 13th year
Daily Life as Public Practice in the Field of Multiplicity
Work and interventions of Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art at the end of the first decade of the new millennium

Retrospective exhibition

15 June–15 July 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia

Curator: Miško Šuvaković

Tadej Pogačar is one of the most important artists and curators in Slovenia in the last twenty years. His artistic and cultural production has developed as an open form of critical art based on appropriations and parasitical approaches, which include specific contemporary artistic practices. Tadej Pogačar has developed numerous projects and conducted extensive research on contemporary ways of life.

The main goal of the current exhibition is to create a “working perspective” of Pogačar’s artistic practice by presenting his major projects of the last twenty years with documents, artifacts, interventions, etc. The exhibition will present about twenty projects developed between 1990 and 2011, occluding photographs, videos, installations, drawings, objects, public space projects and site-specific interventions.

In preparing the exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina Tadej Pogačar has collaborated with a group of young curators completing the World of Art course for curators organized by SCCA-Ljubljana. The course participants dedicated this year’s final show, which was on view in Alkatraz Gallery from 13 April to 6 May to Tadej Pogačar and his work Quarter to Two.

Tadej Pogačar, Quarter to Two, 1994
Installation at the permanent installation of Selected works of Slovenian authors from the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 1994–1995
Photo: Matija Pavlovec, Courtesy of the author and Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

Tadej Pogačar (b. 1960) is an artist and the art director of the Centre and P74 Gallery in Ljubljana. After studying Ethnology and the History of Art at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana he has graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design where he has also completed his postgraduate studies. In the period 1994-1999 he was the chief editor of M'ARS magazine, the main magazine in the field of contemporary art. He is the founder and director of P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., a museum of contemporary Art. He has participated at numerous international exhibitions of contemporary art, e.g. the 10th Istanbul Biennial, San Francisco Art Institute, 49th Sao Paulo Art Biennial, 3rd Tirana Biennial, ZKM Karlsruhe, 49th Venice Biennial, the Stedelijk Museum, the Arte Carillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. For his works Tadej Pogačar has received several awards, including the Franklin Furnace Award in New York (2001), the »Trend« award for exceptional achievements in the field of visual art (2008) and the leading national “Jakopič Award” for fine arts (2009).

The exhibition will be accompanied by rich illustrated bilingual catalogue with texts by Miško Šuvaković and Ana Vilenica, which will be published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina.

The project and the exhibition were organised in collaboration with Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana.

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana and young curators/participants of World of Art; School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art; 13th year.

World of Art; School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art; 13th year
Participants: Ana Grobler, Iva Kovač, Yasmín Martín Vodopivec, Špela Pavli, Lara Plavčak, Vladimir Vidmar, Asta Vrečko, Mojca Založnik
Mentors: Jože Barši, Nevenka Šivavec
Head of the school: Saša Nabergoj
Coordinator of the school: Sonja Zavrtanik

Additional information:

Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
Hruševska 66, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
p74info@volja.net
www.zavod-parasite.si

www.msuv.org

[Published June15, 2011]