Jorgen Craig Lello & Tobias Arnell, Reverse View, 2009
The 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts is a multifaceted event with a long tradition; it consists of a number of exhibitions as well as other happenings. Once again, the Biennial's central exhibition, The Matrix: An Unstable Reality, on view for two months in Ljubljana galleries, will focus on contemporary graphic art in the broadest sense of the term.
At the invitation of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, which proposed the theme of the main show, this idea was further developed and shaped by Galerija Alkatraz, Galerija Ganes Pratt, Galerija Jakopič, Galerija Kapsula, and Galerija Škuc, which are also serving as venues for the Biennial. Alongside the central exhibition, the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts includes as well the Artist's Book Salon, the traditional exhibition for the winner of the Grand Prize from the previous Biennial, and a number of accompanying exhibitions.
Hungarian Double-Tailed Dog, Punk, 2008, stencil |
|
The Matrix: An Unstable Reality
The exhibition responds to certain vital questions for society and art raised by the cult movie trilogy The Matrix. Does a medium stay the same once it incorporates new technologies in its discourse? Does this increase the audience for art? What is the social power of those who possess the matrix? Is the possession of the matrix enough to also justify exclusive reproduction rights? Can we create a perfect world, whether real or virtual? The exhibition offers a selection of more than eighty internationally established and emerging artists. Their work extends from traditional and contemporary printmaking to artist's books and interventions in the public space, in the mass media, and on computers.
artists:
Afsoon, Vahram Aghasyan, Julieta Aranda, Nika Autor, BAS/Bent, Viktor Bernik, Anita di Bianco, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, BridA (Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica, Tom Kerševan), Chto Delat (Dmitry Vilensky), Lee Chul Soo, Jorgen Craig Lello & Tobias Arnell, Ksenija Čerče, Vuk Ćosić, Vesna Drnovšek, Igor Eškinja, Małgorzata Etber Warlikowska, Jesper Fabricius, Jakup Ferri, Ivan Fijolić, Ye Funa, Fernando García, Samuel Grajfoner, Ivan Grubanov, Dejan Habicht, Bu Hua, Hungarian Double-Tailed Dog, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Space Invader, Justseeds, Dejan Kaludjerović, David Kareyan, Sameera Khan, Taiyo Kimura, Iva Kovač, Jelena Kovačević, Matej Košir, Borut Krajnc, Ana Lozica, Tanja Lažetić, Nicola López, M-City, Ján Mančuška, La Más Bella, Ines Matijević Cakić, Eva & Franco Mattes, Zhang Minjie, Tracey Moffatt, Ivan Moudov, Carlos Motta, Alban Muja, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, Ahmet Ögüt, Juan Perez Agirregoikoa, Cesare Pietroiusti, Nada Prlja, radioCona, Société Réaliste, Betsabeé
Romero, Francesc Ruiz, Adrian Sauer, Klaus Schafler, Nana Shiomi, Jelena Sredanović, Katja Sudec, Therese Sunngren, Swoon, Miha Štrukelj, Marko Tadić, Tomaž Tomažin, Nasan Tur, Ignacio Uriarte, Huiqin Wang, Patrick Ward, Maria Alicia Zamora Noguera, Moises Yagües Fernandez, Katarina Zdjelar
La Más Bella, La Más Bella TÚ, 2003,
wallet containing works
by 50 artists,
edition: 1000 copies
art director: Božidar Zrinski
curators: Gülsen Bal & Alenka Gregorič, Petja Grafenauer, Jadranka Ljubičič, Tadej Pogačar
venues: International Centre of Graphic Arts, Tivoli Mansion, Pod turnom 3; Alkatraz Gallery, Metelkova City, Masarykova 24; Ganes Pratt Gallery, Cankarjeva cesta 7; Jakopič Gallery, Slovenska cesta 9; Kapsula Gallery, Ajdovščina Underpass 1 (Sunday closed); Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, and also Europlakat billboards in Ljubljana, media spaces and the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts catalogue
open: 4 September - 25 October 2009, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Members of the Grand Prize Award Jury of the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts are:
Katia Anguelova, Milano; Jota Castro, Brussels; Bassam El Baroni, Alexandria; Valeriya Ibrayeva, Almaty; Kim Jyeong-Yeon, Seoul; Eha Komissarov, Tallinn; Julia Moritz, Leipzig.
The jury has awarded the Grand Prize to Justseeds, Artists' Cooperative from USA Justseeds.org.
Justseeds, Jesse Purcell, A Gift from
the People of the USA, serigraphy, 2007
Artist's Book Salon
Saturday, 5 September 2009, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m., fair and talks
Sunday, 6 September 2009, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., fair
The Biennial of Graphic Arts devotes a special event to the artist's book, a form of artistic expression that is appearing with increasing frequency in Slovenia and abroad. The Artist's Book Salon offers a selection of contemporary works from independent international publishers and individual artists. Along with a fair where visitors may buy artist's books, the event also includes a series of talks.
fair exhibitors:
Bas/BENT (Turkey), Eloisa Cartonera (Argentina), Chto Delat (Dmitry Vilensky) (Russia), Jesper Fabricius (Space Poetry) (Denmark), Maja Franković (Croatia), Tadej Pogačar (Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.) (Slovenia), István Szirányi (Hungarian Artist's Books Association), Škuc Gallery (Slovenia)
talks program: Saturday, 5 September,
4:00 p.m.
Darko Šimičić: The Artists' Magazines Gorgonaand Maj 75
4:30 p.m.
the art group Chto Delat (Dmitry Vilensky), (from Russia)
5:00 p.m. the art group Bas/BENT (from Turkey)
5:30 p.m. Jan Voss: the online bookstore Boekie Woekie
co-ordinator: Breda Škrjanec
location: International Centre of Graphic Arts
admission is free
 Ksenija Čerče, Library of Water, 2008-09, mapping |
|
After Gogo: A New Era of Korean Art
Based on a proposal by Jeon Joonho, the winner of the Grand Prize of the 2007 Biennial, the exhibition presents the "post-gogo" generation of South Korean artists. Their work re-examines various issues in contemporary Korean society - a society divided between North and South in which the Cold War is still very much alive. These artists were born in the 1960s, when their parents were working hard to rebuild the country after the Korean War. They grew up in the 1970s, when American soldiers brought "gogo" music to Korea and the country was inundated with mass dance parties in "gogo clubs" (also known as "chicken coops") and gogo became a synonym for the pleasure culture of the younger generation. They began making art in the 1980s. What especially distinguishes them from the previous generation is the fact that they are well aware of the world outside the chicken coop.
artists: Kim Kira, Jang Minseung & Kim Check, Jeon Joonho, Lee Yongbaek, MOON Kyungwon, Lee Sea Hyun, Moon Hyungmin, Ligyung
curator: Kim Jyeong-Yeon
venue: Cankarjev dom Gallery
open: 4 September - 25 October 2009, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
 MOON Kyungwon, Passage: Sungnyemun, 2008, media installation, 2 LCD projectors, computer, custom software |
|
ACCOMPANYING EXHIBITIONS:
Impressions
an accompanying exhibition by Pionirski dom
The two displays present art prints created by children over the past fifty years; these prints are part of the vast art archives of Pionirski dom in Ljubljana.
Tonček Dežman, monotype
The display on the large panels along Jakopič Promenade presents sixty color photographic enlargements of children's art prints. They were created under the mentorship of respected printmakers such as Alenka Gerlovič, Bogdan Borčić, Tinca Stegovec, and many others, who introduced children and young people to the magical world of printmaking in the art workshops of Pionirski dom. The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Ljubljana Tourist Board.
curator: Tina Pleško
venue: Jakopič Promenade, Tivoli Park, 4 September - 29 November 2009
The display at the Art Center presents nearly all the works by children in the Pionirski dom archives - more than a hundred prints and matrices. Pionirski dom has reprinted many of the works for the present exhibition. A special selection is arranged in groups so as to present a chronological survey of the archives, showing both classical printmaking processes and contemporary approaches to graphic art.
curator: Iztok Amon
venue: Pionirski dom - Art Center, Komenskega ulica 9, 8 September - 29 November 2009, Monday-Thursday, 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.; Friday, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
admission is free
Motivation, Creativity and Innovation in Prints by Children and Youth
an accompanying educational exhibition by Žalec Elementary School
The exhibition is part of the international conference Motivation for Creativity and Innovation in Youth, organized by the education section of the Alliance of Slovene Fine Artists Societies in collaboration with the National Education Institute of Slovenia, the Department of Art and Music Education of the Pedagogical Faculty (University of Ljubljana), and
and InSEA- www.insea.org (the International Society for Education through Art). It presents a selection of the finest award-winning art prints from the collection of Žalec Elementary School No. 1, which has presented theBiennial of Children's Prints since 1981. The works show the process of making a print from the creation of a matrix to the impression; at the same time, the exhibition takes account of children's developmental levels and printmaking techniques adapted to their abilities. On view are both large prints, demanding a great deal of patience and persistence in their execution, and smaller ones, which although less demanding are more intimate works. The prints reveal the rich and magical world of children's motifs, from realistic to fantastic images relating to ecology, folk customs, sports, school life, and the world of animals and plants.
curator: Neli Šuler
venue: International Center of Graphic Arts, Tivoli Mansion, Pod turnom 3
13-18 October 2009, Wednesday-Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
admission is free
|
|
Greetings from Cartoonia
an accompanying exhibition by Stripburger
Greetings from Cartoonia is an international comic-strip project produced by Forum Ljubljana, Stripburger magazine, and a number of associated Slovene and foreign organizations. The works, which were created for the exhibition in the print workshops of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, are the result of a lively intercultural dialogue. Artists from abroad were given the task of creating a portrait of Slovenia, while artists living in Slovenia were asked to make a portrait of the countries their foreign colleagues come from. The comics present us with an unconventional look at the countries of Europe and their inhabitants, which transcends national stereotypes and cultural differences in its fantastic interpretations and humor. To coincide with the exhibition, a special edition of Stripburger magazine will be released - Greetings from Cartoonia (Pozdravi iz Striponije) - and a diverse program of events is also planned, including a poetry reading, a discussion, a jam session, and animated films.
artists:
Filipe Abranches, Kaja Avberšek, Matei Branea, Andrea Bruno, Jyrki Heikkinen, Bendik Kaltenborn, Jakob Klemenčič, Marko Kociper, Matej Lavrenčič, Gašper Rus, Mateusz Skutnik, Matej Stupica
curator: Stripburger
venue: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Metelkova ulica 2
22 October - 29 November 2009, Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Jyrki Heikkinen: Kiitosvirret
an accompanying exhibition for Stripburger's Greetings from Cartoonia
venue: Café Kinodvor, Kolodvorska 13
23 October - 8 November 2009, Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 12 midnight, Thursday,
10 a.m. - 1 a.m., Friday, 10 a.m. - 2 a.m., Saturday, 12 noon - 2 a.m., Sunday, 10 a.m. - 12 midnight
admission is free
In the exhibition, the Finnish artist Jyrki Heikkinen, who has won him a number of awards for his work, will present a selection of his poetry, which he has turned into comics.
THE CATALOGUE
This large illustrated catalogue, in Slovene and English, is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Zoran Kržišnik, the founder of the Biennial and for many years its director. The catalogue offers a complete overview of the exhibiting artists with essays by the curators of the Biennial exhibitions. In addition, the catalogue is itself one of the venues for the show The Matrix: An Unstable Reality.
price: 32.90 ?
to order by telephone: 01 2413 808; by e-mail: petra.klucar@mglc-lj.si
Producer. International Centre of Graphic Arts
Co-producers: Cankarjev dom, Gallery Alkatraz, Gallery Ganes Pratt, Gallery Kapsula, Gallery Škuc, Museums and Galleries of Ljubljana, Pionirski dom - Art center, Stripburger/Forum Ljubljana, The National Education Institute
Main sponsor:
Lek, a Sandoz company
Sponsors: Gorenje d.d.; Hyundai d.o.o.; Mercator d.d.; Petrol d.d.; Vileda
Media sponsors: Delo d.d., Europlakat d.o.o., Radio Center, Radio Študent
Supported by: Arts Council Korea; Austrian Culture Forum of the Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Ljubljana; Culture, Italian Culture Centre in Ljubljana, México 2010, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, Mondriaan Foundation; Embassy of the Republic of Turkey; Embassy of the United States of America; Statens Kunstraad - Denmark; Ljubljana Tourist Board
Board
27th Biennial of Graphic Arts
6 September - 28 October 2007
The 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts takes as its point of departure and theme for reflection that turning point in the history of art when the ease of technical reproduction made reproducibility a new quality in the work of art and transformed the very concept of art in essential ways. At the same time, it makes reference to the theses of the renowned philosopher Walter Benjamin and their subsequent development in contemporary art theory. The reproducibility of art has changed the way we understand the notions of the copy and the original. It has influenced new meanings of authorship, the roles of the artist and the technician, the link between technology and art, and so on. Reproducibility has led to multiple production, wider accessibility, and an artwork's ability to be simultaneously present in different situations and socio-political environments. Artists have welcomed reproducibility as something that gives them new and diverse possibilities for expression and content.
The exhibitions of reproducible art at the 27th Graphic Arts Biennial present a variety of art forms, from traditional printmaking to printed matter, video, photography, and computer- and Web-based art.
Jeon Joonho, The White House, 2005?2006, computer animation, 32' 16"
Grand Prix of the 27 th Biennial of Graphic Arts
The Unbound Eyes of Anxiousness
The main exhibition of the Biennial presents artists from various generations and stylistic orientations who have, in the past years and decades, marked both Slovene and international art and society. The title of the exhibition speaks of a key moment in artistic creation - i.e. when a given idea gains a visual form: the creative anxiousness present in the mind of artist thus becomes unbound, freed of >chaos<, and is transformed in to a visible work of art.
Curated by Lilijana Stepančič, Breda Škrjanec, Božidar Zrinski.
 Nancy Spero, Israeli Women Soldiers, 1993, handprinting on paper |
 son:DA, wall Nr_027.psd, 2007, wall-paper |
Mikael Kihlman, Paradise Lost, 1999, drypoint |
Dan Perjovschi, The First Half Year Big Book, 2007, art project in the catalogue |
Exhibition spaces and participating artists:
Ljubljana municipal bus service, Park Tivoli, Porodnišnica, Ribji trg: Anamarija Šmajdek Billboards, Ljubljana (Bežigrad, Center): Zora Stančič
The catalogue of the 27 th Biennial of Graphic Arts: Metka Krašovec, Dan Perjovschi, Dušan Pirih Hup, Boštjan Pucelj, Andrej Štular
International Centre of Graphic Arts: Paweł Althamer & Artur Żmijewski, Christiane Baumgartner, Goran Bertok, Günter Brus, Peter Fuss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Peter Halley, Jeon Joonho, William Kentridge, Mikael Kihlman, Vladimir Makuc, Ivan Picelj, son:DA, Nancy Spero
Modna hiša, Ljubljana, Mercator Center Maribor, Mercator Center Celje: Marija Mojca Pungerčar
Maximarket, Ljubljana: Beli sladoled
Poster sites, Ljubljana (Železniška postaja - Trg OF, Borštnikov trg - Ferant): Arjan Pregl
Website www.indija.si: Društvo za domače raziskave
Website www.jaka.org/2007/razorganizator: Jaka Železnikar
Private apartments, Ljubljana: Danilo Jejčič, Kim Seung Yeong, Živko I. Marušič, Anamarija Šmajdek, Ben, Sašo Vrabič
Stigma
Galerija Cankarjevega doma / Cankarjev Dom Gallery
It is a tradition of the Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennial to present a solo exhibition of work by the artist who won the Grand Prize at the previous Biennial. Stigma, an exhibition of art from Puerto Rico, presents contemporary political art from Latin America and the Caribbean. The artworks on display arose out of the need to create images of the troubles facing our times and global society: war, colonialism, prejudice, technology, tourism, and unbridled violence. These problems are like stigmata - they are the bodily pain and wounds out of which artists from Puerto Rico draw their inspiration.
Curated by Marimar Benítez.
Garvin Sierra, Invasive Capitalism - Iraq, 2007,
digital print on banknotes
Participating artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Papo Colo, Miguel Luciano, Antonio Martorell, Omar Obdulio Pena Forty, Raquel Quijano, Carlos Reyes, Arnaldo Roche, Garvin Sierra, Rafael Trelles, Carlos Ruiz Valarino
FROM THE STERNENS TO THE COMIC STRIP / Accompanying Exhibitions
Thomas Nozkowski:
Works on Paper
13. 8.-9. 9. 2007,
Prostori zbirke Mestne galerije Ljubljana /
City Art Museum Ljubljana, Permanent Collection Gallery
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled, 2007, oil on paper
Thomas Nozkowski's paintings on paper map the terrain of the mind: its memories, delights, and histories. They are often larger than his canvases yet they are not studies; they are finished, articulate, and raw. In an increasingly isolated and digitally rootless world, Nozkowski's quirky works reassure the viewer that art can still be hand-made, touching, smart, and personal. Curated by Aleksander Bassin.
The Artist's Book:
New Acquisitions by the P74 Center and Gallery
3. 9.-20. 9. 2007, Center in Galerija P74 / P74 Center and Gallery
Zora Stančič, Nothing Special, 2007, artist's book
An artist's book is an idea of a book that is entirely conceived by an artist, and is a work of art. P74 Center and Gallery acquired the first artists books in 2003. The exhibition accompanying the 27 th Biennial of Graphic Arts present works gathered through public calls in 2004, 2005, and 2006, as well as other new acquisitions of the P74 Center and Gallery. Curated by Urška Jurman.
Participating artists: Andrejka Čufer, Dejan Habicht, Jure Engelsberger, Wiebke Loeper, Katerine Seda, Zora Stančič, Mladen Stilinović, Matej Stupica, Jaka Železnikar, Temporary Services, Goran Trbuljak idr.
First Impressions:
The Beginnings of the Modern Art Print in Slovenia
4. 9.-14. 10. 2007, Narodna galerija - Galerija Narodni dom /
National Gallery of Slovenia - National House Gallery
Rozalija Klein - Sternen, Making an Etching, 1920, etching
Between 1900 and 1920, we witness sporadic and spontaneous attempts in the field of art prints and printmaking in Slovenia. These were conceived by some Slovene artists who, under the influence of living through the problematics of painting, and the rise increasingly intensive visual communications, sought new possibilities for their creativity in graphic arts and printmaking. Their work had the quality of research and experimentation; it has also remained predominantly unknown to the public.
Curated by Andrej Smrekar.
Participating artists: Božidar Jakac, Rozalija Klein-Sternen, Tone Kralj, Veno Pilon, Hinko Smrekar, Matej Sternen, Saša Šantel, Helena Vurnik
Musée Ferraille
4. 9.-16. 9. 2007, Galerija Kapelica / Kapelica Gallery
Les Requins Marteaux, Mr. Ferraille, from the museum's archives
The iron robot Mr. Ferraille made his first appearance in the newspapers in 1924, and praised the elixir of eternal youth. As so began the story of his success. The Musée Ferraille is a museum type exhibition that introduces us to the history of comics character Mr. Ferraille, his rise and fall, his mutations through time as well as those of his makers - Waltshluss and Gonz.
The Museum was established in 2003 by the French society Les Requins Marteaux. It first went on public display at the international comics festival Angouleme 2003.
Production: Stripburger/Forum Ljubljana
Supported by Institut Francais Charles Nodier
More on
www.ljudmila.org/stripcore/mf/
3500 cm2:
Art Poster Project
5. 9.-20. 9. 2007, Galerija Alkatraz / Alkatraz Gallery
Vadim Fiškin, poster, 2007
The point of departure of this project is a poster from which the artist creates an artwork. Thus, and on the one hand, the poster is a mass object that disseminates images. On the other hand, however, the poster is also an author's print. As such it represents an alternative cultural platform that broadens the communicative possibilities of art. It is a modular project that can be adapted to, and developed in, different circumstances. The single most important aim of the project is to constantly create dialogue with the public. Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti.
Participating artists: Carla Accardi, Nicoletta Agostini, Maria Thereza Alves, Mark Bain, Kuba Bakowski, Massimo Bartolini, Elisabetta Benassi, Wolfgang Berkowski, Dafne Boggeri, Sarra Brill & Chiara Graziani, Alessandro Bulgini, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Chiara, Paolo Chiasera, Marco Fedele di Catrano, Jimmie Durham, Davide D'elia, Vadim Fikin, Parastou Forouhar, Stefania Galegati, Rainer Ganahl, Mario Garcia Torres, Christoph Girardet, Stanislao Di Giugno, Globalgroove, Luis Gonzales Palma, Laurent Grasso, Heidrun Holzfeind, Silvia Iorio, Yun-Fei Ji, Rob Johannesma, Marco Klefisch, Gabriel Lester, Chi Wo Leung, Alon Levin, Robert Lippok, Giuliano Lombardo, Flavio de Marco, Jeannette Montgomery Barron, Liliana Moro, Vlan Nanca, Elena Nemkova, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Dennis Oppenheim, Laura Palmieri, Mikael Paananen & Linda Tallroth, Jorge Peris, Alessandro Piangiamore, Federico Pietrella, Giuseppe Pietroniro, Cesare Pietroiusti, Ph.on (Dario D'aronco & Roberto Gammone), Riccardo Previdi, Emilio Prini, Rä di Martino, Philippe Rahm, Marco Raparelli, Annie Ratti, Max Renkel, Luigi Rizzo, Guendalina Salini, Andrea Salvino, Corrado Sassi, Maurizio Savini, Donatella Spaziani, Paolo William Tamburella, Luca Trevisani, Costa Vece, Luca Vitone, Emiliano Zelada, Italo Zuffi
Supported by
Foto Tivoli d.o.o.
Printed at MGLC
5. 9.-21. 9. 2007, Galerija Kresija / Kresija Gallery
Karel Zelenko, The Hermit, 1988, etching
From its beginnings in 1986, the International Centre of Graphic Arts has hosted, published and printed in its printing studios the works of many artists. Quite a few among them have given their graphic opus to the Centre itself, and quite a lot of prints made through such cooperation have received various international prizes. This exhibition presents a selection of works printed in the techniques of aqua forte, etching, dry-point and whetstone. The artworks on display are on sale. Supported by Vinska klet Berce. Coordinator: Petra Klučar.
Participating artists: Getulio Alviani, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Janez Bernik, Bogdan Borčić, Andreas Christen, Jože Ciuha, Vesna Črnivec, Anthony Hill, Drago Hrvacki, Andrej Jemec, Janusz Kapusta, Julije Knifer, Metka Krašovec, Laibach, Edoardo Landi, Lojze Logar, Peter Lowe, Vladimir Makuc, Manfredo Massironi, Almir Mavignier, Kiar Meško, François Morellet, Klavdij Palčič, Ivan Picelj, Zora Stančič, Jeffrey Steele, Joël Stein, Miha Štrukelj, Petar Waldegg, Huiqin Wang, Ryszard Winiarski, Karel Zelenko
EVENTS AS PARTS OF ART PROJECTS
Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Socialdress
Wednesday, Friday, 26 th, 27 th and 28 th September, 4 pm, 7 pm, Modna hiša, Ljubljana; Saturday, 13 th October, 11 am, 6 pm, Mercator Center Celje;
Saturday, 20 th October, 11 am, 6 pm, Mercator Center Maribor
Marija Mojca Pungerčar's art project transforms sewing into a pleasurable and useful social activity. Participants of the Socialdress workshops create witty and functional clothes that work to integrate community spirit. More on www.3via.org/socialdress. To register from 1 st September, contact: 00386 (0)41 882 593, mojca.pungercar@guest.arnes.si. Supported by Tekstina d.d. Ajdovščina
Jaka Železnikar, Install Party
Friday, 12 th October, 8 pm, MGLC
The www.jaka.org/2007/razorganizator website presents the work Razorganizator / Disorganizer. You are invited to the presentation of the contents of the work, the installation, set-up, and trial of the programme. This get together will also be enhanced with a party.
The catalogue of the 27 th Biennial of Graphic Arts
440 pages, 136 colour illustrations,
in Slovene and English, 900 copies,
31,90
A complex overview of the eight exhibitions forming the Biennial; theoretical essays on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and documentation concerning the participating artists and a list of exhibited artworks. The catalogue is also one of the exhibition sites of The Unbound Eyes of Anxiousness. Orders can be made by telephone on + 386 (0)1 2413 808 or e-mail: petra.klucar@mglc-lj.si.
Producer:
International Centre of Graphic Arts
Co-producers: Alkatraz Gallery, Cankarjev dom, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Galerija Kapelica, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, National Gallery of Slovenia,
P74 Center and Gallery, Stripburger/Forum Ljubljana
Main sponsor: Mercator d.d.
Sponsors: ACH d.d., Gorenje d.d., Lek d.d., Petrol d.d., Marand d.o.o.
Media sponsors: Europlakat d.o.o., Radio Center, Delo d.d.
Supported by: Österreichisches Kulturforum Laibach, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lubiana, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana
Thrust
26th Biennial of Graphic Arts
23 June - 2 October 2005
The title of the Biennial, Thrust, speaks to the power of the Biennial, which for fifty years has been one of the engines behind both Slovene culture and international graphic arts.
The artistic director for the 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts is the respected Slovene art historian Jure Miku. The concept for the show underscores the 50th anniversary of the Biennial, the wide diversity of views on contemporary graphic arts, and process as an organizational approach to staging an exhibition. He has invited eighteen prestigious institutions from all over the world to each present an exhibition that attempts to answer the question: What are the graphic arts today? Their answers give form to the artistic criteria of the cultural and geographic settings in which these institutions operate and thus help to constitute a postcolonial perspective on art. This approach underscores the great diversity of art as it exists today in our globalizing world.
The 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts begins with the symposium in December 2004 at the MGLC and ends with the exhibition in June 2005 in Tobačna Ljubljana.
Grand Prix: San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Carribean, Puerto Rico
Foto: Toma Lunder
Participating institutions and artists:
Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennial, Bhopal, India: Raj Mohammad Pathan
curator Yusuf
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France: François Morellet, Paul-Armand Gette, Jean Le Gac, François Bouillon, Gérard Collin-Thiebaut, Jean-Michel Alberola, Yves Chaudouët, Françoise Petrovitch
curator Marie-Cécile Miessner
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain: Paul Coldwell, Jane Dixon, Lucian Freud, Jane Joseph, Peter Kennard & Cat Picton Phillipps, Hughie O'Donoghue, Anne Rook, Colin Self, Ian Tyson, Catherine Yass, Webproductions (Telfer Stokes, Helen Douglas)
curator Tessa Sidey
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA: Devorah Sperber
curator Marilyn Kushner
Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain: Juan Alberto García de Cubas, Mónica Gener, Centro I+D de la Estampa Digital, Calcografía Nacional, Anish Kapoor, Jesús Pastor, Elena Jiménez
curators Javier Blas and María Zozaya
Egyptian International Print Triennial, Giza, Egypt: Amira Ehsan Abdel Malek, Eman Ezzat Elshazli, Moataz Mohamed Abdallah, Mohamed Nabil Abdel Salam, Rania wagdy AbdAlla Mahmoud, Wael A.Sabour A.Kader
curator Medhad Nasr Ali
Graphica Creativa International Print Triennial, Jyväskylä, Finland: Tuija Arminen, Hanna Oinonen
curator Virve Lilja
International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia: son:DA, Marija Starič Jenko & Almira Sadar, Annu Vertanen, Federico Pietrella, Ingrid Ledent
curators Breda krjanec and Boidar Zrinski
International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland: Andrzej Bednarczyk, Ksawery Kaliski
curator Tomasz Gryglewicz
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy: Massimo Bartolini
curator Luigi Ficacci
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan: Shiou-ping Liao, Hsi-chi Li, Yang-che Liu, Yu-hui Chung, Chen-ping Tung, Shyh-twan Hwang, Hsueh-chin Lin, Chin-cheng Chu, Dean-e Mei, Ming-die Yang, Sheng-min Hsieh, Hung-yu Chang, Hsin-chen Chang, Ping-ho Lo, Juo-lan Kao, Ming-feng Hsu, Chao-an Lin, Yung-chin Chen, Yu-tzu Wu, Hsing-hsuen Wu, Hsiang Cheng, Chin-jui Pan, Yu-chi Wang, Hui-Lan Chang
curator Judith Wan-ju Wang
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria: Jörg Schlick
curator Elisabeth Fiedler
Novosibirsk Biennial of Contemporary Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia: Rinat Minnebaev, Svyatoslav Ponomarev, Elena Bertollo, Vladimir Martynov, Ekaterina Rozhkova, Vladimir Nasedkin, Sergey Bryukhanov, Muratbek Djoumaliev, Gulnara Kasmalieva, Almagul Menlibaeva, Ayrat Teregulov
curator Vladimir Nazansky
Proyecto'ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Rimer Cardillo
curator Alicia Candiani
San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico: Allora & Calzadilla (Jennifer Allora, Guillerno Calzadilla), Miguel Luciano, Adál Maldonado, Antonio Martorell, Garvin J. Sierra, Mary Patierno and Natalia Munoz
curator Elvis Fuentes
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan: Mitsuo Kano, Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Fumihiko Nishioka, Nana Shiomi, Keisuke Yamaguchi
curator Sawako Ogiwara
Sofia Graphic Art International Triennial, Bulgaria: Buyan Filchev, Emil Mirazchiev, Mobile Graphic Art Room (Anastasia Panayotova, Alexander Alexov, Atanas Vassilev, Borislav Stoev, Valeri Vasilev, Valeri Chakalov, Vanko Urumov, Vesselin Damyanov, Galina Pavlova, Georgi Lechev, Gredi Assa, Darina Peeva, Dimo Kolibarov, Elena Panayotova, Zafir Yonchev, Ivan Dimov, Ivan Ninov, Kolyo Karamfilov, Kostadinka Miladinova, Maria Duhteva, Milko Pavlov, Mikhail Petkov, Plamen Monev, Plamen Penov, Plamen Solomonski, Ralitsa Nikolova, Roberto Andreev, Rumen Nechev, Rumen Rachev, Rumen Skorchev, Sasho Anastassov, Stefan Bojkov, Tedi Liho, Tihomir Manolov, Tsvetan Kazandzhiev, Yuli Minchev, Yavora Petrova, Hristo Kardzhilov)
curator Plamena Dimitrova-Racheva
Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia: John Smith (Marko Mäetamm and Kaido Ole) and Margareete Fuks; Andres Tali and Anu Kalm, Leonhard Lapin, Silvi Liiva, Enno Ootsing, Vive Tolli, Urmas Viik; Marko Laimre and Theodor Kuul; KIWA (Jaanus Kivaste)and Kaarel Kurismaa; Kai Kaljo and Richard Kaljo; Avangard (Sandra Jogeva, Margus Tamm) and Peeter Allik
curators Anders Härm and Eve Kask
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA / participates in the symposium only
The 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts is accompanied by three exhibitions installed in the galleries of the International Graphic Arts Center:
Raymond Pettibon
American contemporary artist, winner of the Grand Prize of Honor of the 25th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
The Most Beautiful Graphic Artworks
Slovene Graphic Arts over the Past Fifty Years
The First Line
Avant-Garde and Alternative Printers and Presses in Slovenia from Conceptualism to the Present
Co-producers: Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Center, Tobačna Ljubljana
Biennial is supported by:
Autocommerce d.d., Europlakat d.o.o., Gorenje d.d., Imos d.d., Lek d.d., Marand d.o.o., Mobitel d.d., Petrol d.d., RTV Slovenija, SGP Graditelj d.d.
AFAA, British Council, Embajada de Espana, Embassy of Finland Ljubljana, Embassy of the United States of America Ljubljana, Institut français Charles Nodier, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia, Japan Foundation, Kulturforums der Österreichischen Botschaft
Adria Airways d.d., Aerodrom Ljubljana d.d., Hestia pro d.o.o., Prevent Global d.d., Tam - Tam d.o.o.
Donor: Tobačna Ljubljana
25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts
From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings by Damien Hirst
10 June - 28 September 2003
25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts
The 25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts at the Moderna galerija,
installation view
Foto: Bojan Salaj
Christophe Cherix, curator of the Graphic Arts Cabinet of the Museum of Art and History in Geneva, conceived the Biennial as a complex display including an exhibition of contemporary graphic work, a documentary exhibition about the history of the International Biennial of Graphic Arts from 1955 to date, prepared by Breda krjanec, and a symposium entitled "The Producers," led by Lionel Bovier, on the relationship between publishers and artists.
The exhibition of contemporary graphic work is based on the importance of the multiplied image as a means of communication. The common feature of the exhibited works - artists' books, newspapers and magazines, photocopies, posters, newspaper interventions and projects, and prints - is the fact that they document the artists' ideas about their realized or unrealized, past or future projects.
Artists and projects:
John M Armleder, Art & Project, Vesna Bukovec, Vidya Gastaldon, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Fabrice Gygi, Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno, Irwin, Ivana Keser, Antinomian Press (Ben Kinmont), Kiosk, Ivan Koarić, Polonca Lovin, M/M, Lucy McKenzie, Robert Morris, Gianni Motti, museum in progress, Onestar Press, Raymond Pettibon, Permanent Food (Maurizio Cattelan & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster), Seth Price, Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Allen Ruppersberg, Anamarija majdek, Josh Smith, Erik Steinbrecher, Xavier Veilhan, Dan Walsh
Locations:
International Centre of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, the Gallery at Cankarjev Dom, The National Museum of Slovenia, Park Tivoli, the billboards of Proreklam-Europlakata, the newspapers Dnevnik, Delo and Der Standard
A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.
From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings by Damien Hirst
As the award winner of the 24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts in 2001, Damien Hirst had a personal exhibition at the 25th Biennial. He exhibited a comprehensive volume of his drawings, ranging from the humorous ones made for friends to preparatory sketches for his installations and paintings. Over one hundred works, loaned from public and private collections, as well as the artist himself, were on view. This was the first presentation ever of Hirst's drawings and his first personal exhibition since he took a break in 2000.
A catalogue in the form of a newspaper was published to accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition was organized by the British Council and Science.
Biennial is supported by:
Adria Airways d.d.; AFAA; Autocommerce d.d; British Council; Cultura 2000; Delo d.d.; Dnevnik d.d.; Embajada de Espana; Gorenje d.d.; Institut français Charles Nodier; Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia; Lek d.d.; Ministarstvo za kulturu Republike Hrvatske; Mlinotest d.d.; Mondrian Stiftung; Österreichisches Kulturforum; Petrol d.d., Ljubljana; Prohelvetia; Proreklam-Europlakat d.o.o.; RTV Slovenija; Samex d.o.o.; Schweizerische Botschaft
24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts
The 24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts was marked by certain changes, with emphasis placed on the substance of graphic arts in the context of newly emerging global art and the new internal organizational structure.
The 24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts comprised four exhibition segments:
Print World
The exhibition was set in the premises of the Museum of Modern Art and the Jakopič Gallery. The curator Breda krjanec based her selection on the questions of how the original nature of print, or the multiplication of image and message, is reflected in mass-circulation goods, and what the common points are between art and ruling ideologies.
Participating artists:
Greddy Assa, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Daniele Buetti, Marna Bunnell, Guan Ce, Peter Ciuha, Claude Closky, Maja S. Franković, Adib Fricke, Catherine Gfeller, Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio, Izabella Gustowska, Damien Hirst, Päivikki Kallio, Micha Klein, Jakob Kolding, Ines Krasić, Oldrich Kulhanek, Kurt & Plasto, Claudia-Maria Luenig, Tracey Moffat, Juan Moro, Blanca Munoz, Marjana Pahor, Elena Panayotova, Chen Qi, Juan Carlos Romero, Thomas Ruff, Morten Schelde, Jonathan Seliger, Liina Siib, Zora Stančič, Fatimah Tuggar, Katja Valanne & Jarno Jokinen, Adriana Varella, Sao Vrabič, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool.
Fundamina
The exhibition represents the art-historical ambitions of the Biennial. It was installed on the premises of the International Centre of Graphic Arts and it presented the following artists: Zoran Muič (the selection was made by Zoran Krinik and Botjan Soklič in co-operation with the Regional Museum in Nova Gorica),
Andy Warhol (the selection was made by the curator Mark Francis), and
Mimmo Paladino (the selection was made by Enzo Di Martino).
The exhibition Fundamina at MGLC, installation view, foto: Igor Lapajne
Imaging Ulysses: Richard Hamilton's Illustrations to James Joyce
The work of Richard Hamilton, the Grand Prize winner at the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, was presented in the Cankarjev Dom Gallery. The exhibition was organized in co-operation with British Council and curated by Stephen Coppel.
Information - Misinformation, in the Off-Biennial Section
Individual projects were presented in the Delo newspaper, at TV Slovenia, Radio tudent, and on 100 Proreklam-Europlakat billboards around Slovenia. In co-operation with museum in progress, the works also appeared on 50 large digital info-screens at underground railway stations in Vienna and in Der Standard newspaper.
Curated by Gregor Podnar and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
Participating artists:
Minerva Cuevas, Harun Farocki, Leif Elggren & Thomas Feuerstein, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Rashad Becker, Apolonija uterič & Joe Bari.
A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.
The primary sponsor: Mobitel, d. d.
Other sponsors: Autocommerce, Droga, Gorenje, Petrol
The Print World Exhibition sponsor: Lek, d. d.
The Andy Warhol - Fundamina Exhibition received support from Philip Morris Ljubljana.
Media sponsors: Delo, Der Standard, Proreklam-Europlakat, Radio tudent, TV Slovenija
The History of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts 1955-2000
Grand Prizes 1955-2005