24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts

10 June–16 September 2005

The 24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts was marked by certain changes, with emphasis placed on the substance of the 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 Škrjanec 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, Sašo Vrabič, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool.

Fundamina

The exhibition represented 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 Mušič (the selection was made by Zoran Kržišnik and Boštjan 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. Photo: Igor Lapajne.

Imaging Ulysses: Richard Hamilton’s Illustrations to James Joyce

The work of Richard Hamilton, the Grand Prix winner of the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, was presented in Cankarjev Dom Gallery. The exhibition was organized in co-operation with the British Council and curated by Stephen Coppel.

Information – Misinformation, Off-Biennial Section
Individual projects were presented in Delo newspaper, on TV Slovenija, Radio Študent, and on 100 Proreklam-Europlakat billboards around Slovenia. In co-operation with the 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 Šušteršič & Jože Barši.

The Catalogue of the 24th Biennial of Graphic Arts

The 24th International Biennial of Graphic Arts was accompanied by a catalogue, which has completely sold out.

Producer: International Centre of Graphic Arts

Primary sponsor: Mobitel
Other sponsors: Autocommerce, Droga, Gorenje, Petrol
The Print World Exhibition sponsor: Lek
The Andy Warhol – Fundamina Exhibition received support from Philip Morris Ljubljana
Media sponsors: Delo, Der Standard, Proreklam-Europlakat, Radio Študent, TV Slovenija

 

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A note to visitors of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Crack Up – Crack Down

We notify you that the exhibition of work by Hinko Smrekar The Seven Deadly Sins was on view at the National Gallery of Slovenia until the end of August. The works were exhibited as part of the Biennial and announced a major retrospective of the artist's works next year.

Photo: Jaka Babnik. Archive: MGLC.

Alicja Rogalska: Citizens of Nowhere, Artist talk

25th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women

Friday, 13. 9.
18.00, Švicarija

Alicja Rogalska is this year’s City of Women’s artist-in-residence at Švicarija, commissioned by the curatorial duo osborn&møller. During the one-month residency programme, Rogalska will address the issue of The Erased, the around twenty thousand people, who were left without citizenship shortly after Slovenia declared independence in 1991. The newly founded state (Republic of Slovenia) stripped The Erased of a social existence, prompting the artist to question how this identity which was taken away could even begin to be represented. The artist will share some possible answers and performative actions that will ensue from the residency programme with audiences at the artist talk taking place at Švicarija (13 September), as well as in the screening and conversation at Škuc Gallery as part of the solo exhibition Kinds of Pressure (2–18 October).

Alicja Rogalska mostly works in specific contexts, making situations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with other people to collectively search for emancipatory ideas for the future. She is currently artist-in-residence at the Stuart Hall Library/INIVA in London and is working on a commission for Art Exchange in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University and Focal Point Gallery. She has recently presented her work at Biennale Warszawa, Kyoto Art Centre, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka and MuseumsQuartier in Vienna.

Artist talk will be delivered in English!

Free entry!

Local research assistant: Olga Michalik; Alicja Rogalska assistant: Linnea Hansander; produced by: City of Women; co-produced by: MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Kunstencentrum Vooruit; supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana.