Projects of co-workers
Vesna Bukovec's current projects

You are kindly invited to follow the projects of Vesna Bukovec, artist and SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster, who is engaged during summer 2014 in different projects and collaborations.

Don't Be Afraid, You Are The Best
Group exhibition
22 May–14 September, 2014
KIBLA PORTAL, Valvasorjeva 40, Maribor

The exhibition (curated by Petra Varl) or, better yet, project, draws on a medium closest to the author, which is drawing. Hidden behind its seeming simplicity is a minimalistically concise and thus complex method of expression, which is an object of enduring fascination. Don't Be Afraid, You Are The Best is intended as a communicative community project that transforms the extensive KIBLA PORTAL venue into a space of vivacious creative dialog between artists belonging to different generations. Vesna Bukovec is participating at the exhibition with a drawing from the I can make another turn (2012) series.

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ARTSLAB 06, What if… and beyond
Online exhibition
May 2014 –
Open Systems

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Bernhard Cella, Giulia Cilla, Yolanda Domínguez, Gani Llalloshi, Swoon, Sašo Sedlaček
ARTSLAB is a project by Open Systems. The 6th edition is curated by Vasja Nagy and focuses on the trajectory of how we perceive our present now and distinguish it from the past – chaotic vs. ordered, concerning with stimulating a dialogue at its reinvention for alternative thinking on the future of a long-term survival of humanity by taking contemporary art works more as a catalyst for the present.

Vesna Bukovec is participating with the series of videos White Performances / Positive Affirmations (2010).

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KOLEKTIVA’s project is part of the e-flux’s Agency of Unrealized Projects

KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič)’s project Talk to the Other Side from 2006 is included in the online archive Agency of Unrealized Projects by e-flux.

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Die Kinder der Toten_MARIAZELL

DDr. Monika Leisch-Kiesl (Faculty of art science and art history at the Catholic Theological University in Linz/Upper Austria) has published an online article with the title “Die Kinder der Toten_Mariazell” (with references to a text by the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek).

From the base of Jelineks text, Monika Leisch-Kiesl writes about religion, social pressure and connects these topics with contemporary art from Austria, Slovenia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Libanon. The artists mentioned in the text are: Valie Export, Servet Koçyiğit, Mona Hatoum, Nezaket Ekici, Hayv Kahraman, Simin Keramati, Vesna Bukovec. The text (in German language) includes video It Will Be OK (2009) by Vesna Bukovec.

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Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works independently and in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.).
She presented her work in several solo (Centre and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, 2003 and 2005; Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, 2006; Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica, 2009; KAPSULA, Ljubljana, 2010; A+A Gallery, Venice, EX-garage, Maribor, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana 2011; Mihelič Gallery, Ptuj, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, 2012) and group exhibitions (25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana, 2003; Territories, Identities, Networks: Slovenian Art 1995–2005, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 2005; Kunsthaus, Graz, 2006; Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, 2008; U3 - 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Where do we go from here?, Secession, Vienna; Minimal Differences, White Box, New York, 2010; OHO Award Finalists 2012, Vžigalica Gallery, 16th Slovene sculpture exhibition, Town Hall, Ljubljana, 13th Admission Free Festival, Celje, 2012 etc.).

[Published July 17, 2014]