INBETWEENESS Balcani: metafore di cambiamento

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1 INBETWEENESS Balcani: metafore di cambiamento

2 INBETWEENESS Balcani: metafore di cambiamento 22 maggio - 15 giugno Antica Casa di Correzione di Carlo Fontana, Sala Clementina Complesso di San Michele a Ripa Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e per il Paesaggio per il Comune di Roma mostra a cura di Ludovico Pratesi e Dobrila Denegri organizzazione generale Olimpia Eberspacher ufficio stampa Novella Mirri allestimento Meloni Fabrizio s.r.l. Prato Verde s.n.c. Space Italia s.r.l. si ringraziano Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Galerie Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana Galerie Michel Rein, Paris Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano Galleria Yvon Lambert, Paris Galleria Lia Rumma, Napoli Galleria T293, Napoli Magazzino d'arte Moderna, Roma Orsola Mileti Stefano e Raffaella Sciarretta Walueurope s.r.l. La mostra, patrocinata dalla Banca Mondiale con il sostegno del Ministero degli Affari Esteri Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, si inserisce all'interno della conferenza internazionale Young People in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: From Policy to Action. assicurazioni Arte Assicurazioni s.r.l. catalogo hopefulmonster editore, Torino a cura di Dobrila Denegri ISBN hopefulmonster editore, Torino per le opere gli artisti, per le foto i fotografi, per i testi gli autori testi Ludovico Pratesi e Dobrila Denegri traduzioni Alex Martin fotolito FB, Torino stampa Grabello Artegrafica, San Mauro Torinese hopefulmonster editore Coordinamento grafico Grazia Gennari Redazione Luisa Borio Cristina Cioppa Ufficio stampa Cristina Cioppa Si ringrazia UniCredit Group per l'impegno nella promozione delle espressioni culturali e dei giovani talenti nella UE. Responsabile commerciale Dario Salani

3 Le ragioni di una mostra Ludovico Pratesi Questa mostra nasce dalla volontà di presentare una campionatura della condizione vissuta dagli artisti delle ultime generazioni nell area dei Balcani, che abbiamo definito con il termine inglese Inbetweeness. I Balcani sono un ponte tra Oriente e Occidente e questo ponte è costantemente battuto dai venti ecco perché la sua storia è così tempestosa Marina Abramović Uno status che indica una condizione di perenne transito, un identità indefinita in continua oscillazione tra luoghi, tempi e spazi differenti, e spesso contraddittori. Una situazione di perenne transitorietà vissuta dagli artisti sulla propria pelle, che li ha portati ad abbandonare tradizioni millenarie per abbracciare modalità espressive più attuali, come l installazione, la fotografia, il video o il web, in grado di esprimere urgenze che non potevano più essere imprigionate nella condizione statica di un dipinto o di una scultura. L esigenza di interpretare i cambiamenti politici, economici, sociali e culturali di società che vivono una continua trasformazione iniziata alla fine degli anni Ottanta e ancora in atto ha portato gli artisti a rivolgersi naturalmente verso esperienze in grado di esprimere, in maniera diretta o metaforica, il loro vissuto nomadico e transculturale. I Balcani sono una terra di confine, dove da secoli si incontrano Oriente e Occidente, impegnati in un confronto troppo spesso tinto di sangue. Oggi, nell era della globalizzazione, i Balcani sono diventati la metafora di un cambiamento verso la definizione di un territorio ideale dove questi due mondi possano convivere in maniera pacifica. Per questa ragione le ex Carceri del Complesso di San Michele a Ripa costituiscono il luogo ideale per esprimere questo cambiamento. Così, le opere dei ventiquattro artisti presenti in mostra, collocate simbolicamente all interno delle celle, costituiscono un insieme di idee, concetti, messaggi e denunce in grado di annullare i confini fisici e simbolici dello spazio per comporre un nuovo territorio, all insegna della libertà dell arte. Un territorio che ha cominciato a delinearsi sulla scena internazionale con artisti come Marina Abramović e Sislej Xhafa, per rivelarsi poi in tutta la sua drammatica e contraddittoria complessità nell ultimo decennio, grazie alle ricerche di artisti che hanno fatto della condizione di transitorietà la loro bandiera. Sono loro i protagonisti di questa mostra, ideali messaggeri di una terra che, come ha dichiarato Winston Churchill, produce più storia di quanta non ne possa digerire. 5

4 The reasons for an exhibition Ludovico Pratesi The Balkans represent a bridge between East and West, a wind-swept bridge that explains the region s tempestuous past Marina Abramović This exhibition wants to give you an idea of the situation experienced by recent generations of artists in the Balkan regions; we have called it Inbetweeness. This word represents a condition of perennial transit, an undefined identity in continuous movement from one place to another, in different time frames and different spaces, often in contradiction to each other. This ongoing condition of transience is something that the artists have experienced in person. It has prompted them to abandon their millenary traditions in order to embrace more modern forms of expression, such as the installation, photography, video, or the Net, all of which are instruments that can express pressing needs which could no longer be conveyed by the static nature of a painting or sculpture. The need to interpret the political, economic, social, and cultural upheavals in societies that have undergone transformations since the late 1980s, and which are still underway today, has naturally prompted the artists to turn towards experiences that can express, directly or metaphorically, their nomadic and transcultural experiences. The Balkans are a border region that has represented the meeting of East and West for centuries, all too often in the form of bloody conflicts. Today, in the era of globalisation, the Balkans actually stand for change and the definition of an ideal territory in which these two worlds can live in peace. For this reason the San Michele a Ripa former prison complex is the ideal venue for expressing this change. And so the works of the twenty-four exhibiting artists, symbolically placed inside the cells, form a melting pot of ideas, concepts, messages, and declarations that are able to annul the physical and symbolic confines of their space in order to create a new territory, one in which art can be freely expressed. This territory began to make its mark on the international stage with artists such as Marina Abramović and Sislej Xhafa. Over the last decade its dramatic and contradictory complexity has become manifest thanks to research by artists who have used this condition of transience as their banner. They are the protagonists of this exhibition, the ideal messengers from a land which, in the words of Winston Churchill, "produces more history than it can consume". 7

5 INBETWEENESS Dobrila Denegri Essere tra un punto di partenza e un punto d arrivo tra un luogo che si lascia e un altro a cui approdare è come essere al contempo in movimento e in sospensione in una condizione densa di sensazioni contrastanti, fluttuando tra il senso di vulnerabilità e di acutezza, tra incertezza e aspettativa, scostati da pattern comportamentali abituali e soggetti all imprevedibilità del caso. È la condizione che sperimenta il viaggiatore; più che fisico è uno stato psicologico e mentale, che lo fa sentire non più cittadino di un luogo specifico, ma di una dimensione in divenire in cui l unica costante è il cambiamento. Secondo Eraclito il divenire significa il continuo mutare e trasformarsi delle cose da uno stato all altro. Se si segue invece l etimologia latina del termine, il significato assume sfumature diverse: la provenienza è legata al verbo devenire, composto da venire ( arrivare ) e de- ( giù ) e quindi equivale a provenire da. Anche se indicano strade diverse, entrambi i significati ci riportano al punto di partenza: il desiderio di afferrare, almeno in parte, cosa vuol dire sentirsi tra, dimorare in uno spazio in-between, e come si rispecchia, attraverso queste riflessioni metaforiche, quel processo che fa ridisegnare i contorni della nozione d identità. Lasciare il luogo d origine e andare incontro a un altra realtà fisica e culturale, inevitabilmente mette in moto un processo di elaborazione della nozione d identità, fa scattare una sorta di editing in tempo reale, in cui come nelle dissolvenze incrociate, si susseguono e contrappongono il passato e il presente, la memoria e il vissuto, il bagaglio che si porta da casa e che talvolta bisogna alleggerire per fare carico di ciò che viene raccolto strada facendo. Più tempo si trascorre su questo percorso, più ci si avvicina all idea d identità come qualcosa di disancorato, complesso e poliedrico, ci si accosta alla nozione d identità ibrida e molteplice che fa confluire, coniugare o scindere codici culturali diversi. Trovarsi in questo particolare spazio in-between, in mezzo, può essere vissuto come un esperienza individuale, ma anche collettiva, implica non solo spostamento tra luoghi, ma anche essere tesi tra diverse dimensioni temporali. Può essere come trovarsi a fluttuare in un vuoto che si crea quando la Storia si interrompe, quando un sistema politico e sociale si disfa e tutto quello su cui si reggeva il senso d appartenenza cessa d avere rilevanza. Quando il senso di discontinuità tra il passato e il presente è tale da far sembrare tutto fuori asse. Questo accade nei momenti di rottura, come quella che ha seguito il crollo del muro di Berlino: collasso dei sistemi socialisti, avvio dei processi di democratizzazione in alcune parti dell Est europeo ed esplosione dei conflitti etnici nelle altre. Sono state le fratture che hanno segnato il passaggio al nuovo millennio cogliendo in pieno la generazione degli artisti emersi nella prima metà degli anni Novanta toccando 9

6 poi di riflesso anche quelli più giovani. Per alcuni di loro l impulso iniziale era l apertura dei confini, per altri invece eventi drammatici e sanguinosi, ma qualsiasi fosse la molla, durante gli anni Novanta molti artisti provenienti dai paesi ex-comunisti hanno intrapreso una strada di nomadismo, talvolta forzato, approdando nelle capitali culturali dell Europa occidentale carichi di storie e testimonianze, sensazioni ed esperienze che hanno segnato fortemente il loro modo di fare e intendere l arte. Interrogativi sulla Storia e la decostruzione di essa, sull incertezza del presente o sulla mancanza di futuro, interrogativi che toccavano il piano etico ed esistenziale, che hanno dato spinta alle opere nelle quali, come in un caleidoscopio, si sono fuse storie personali con quelle di risonanza universale. In uno dei suoi film d esordio, Intervista Finding the Words, Anri Sala ci conduceva in un indagine che svelava aspetti terrorizzanti di una dittatura, quella albanese, e allo stesso tempo narrava una storia personale carica di toni intimi e toccanti che si può trovare solo in quel rapporto che esiste tra madre e figlio. Quest opera è come un escursione nel passato attraverso immagini mute di un filmato trovato per caso, che si trasformava in un confronto tra due tempi: quello svanito insieme ai credi ideologici che condivideva la generazione della madre e quello presente in cui si mescolavano la melanconia e la voglia di ricominciare. È stato uno dei lavori emblematici di quel momento iniziale, come lo è stato anche il video Women at Work Washing up di Maja Bajević che riprendeva le donne in un hammam di Istanbul, mentre lavavano sottili stoffe sulle quali l artista aveva cucito le parole riprese dalla fraseologia di Tito, slogan come Viva la fratellanza e l unità armata dei nostri popoli e simili, che già svuotate dal loro significato si perdevano totalmente nelle pieghe dei tessuti consunti. Attraverso gesti simbolici, immagini poetiche, contenuti drammatici e pungenti, opere come queste hanno dato forma a quel senso di perdita che si sente quando una realtà si sgretola, quando si dissolve in frammenti non ricomponibili. Nei primi anni Novanta lavori come questi sono stati la testimonianza di un senso di crisi d identità, e ora, a più di un decennio di distanza, vediamo che la riflessione si è spostata in un altra direzione, elaborando una condizione in fieri, capace di assimilare elementi e codici culturali diversi e allo stesso tempo di mantenere un acuto senso critico che rimette tutto in discussione. Essere tra è allora come essere in un continuo stato di attraversamento, irrequieto ma anche dinamico, incerto e allo stesso tempo risoluto. Significa relazionarsi con interrogativi che riguardano il senso di appartenenza e valicare lo spazio tra le domande da dove si viene e in cosa ci si riconosce. Non a caso si sceglie allora di riposizionare il punto di osservazione: David Maljković colloca il suo lavoro in una ipotetica dimensione futura, dichiarando: Il futuro diventa come un buco nero liberato dai fatti storici, che permette di creare nuove possibilità. La sua trilogia Scene for New Heritage è ambientata nel 2045, e da una dimensione che aumenta la distanza temporale, guarda indietro, percorre luoghi fortemente connotati, come i monumenti costruiti nel territorio croato nell epoca del comunismo, architetture utopiche che restano come l eco di una realtà assente. Tobijas Putrih prende spunto dagli utopici progetti di uno tra i più visionari architetti e inventori del Ventesimo secolo, Buckminster Fuller, in particolare dal suo Cloud Nine che prevedeva costruzioni abitative che fluttuavano nell aria, ricreando strutture geodetiche malleabili e soggette alle trasformazioni che ciascuno individualmente può provocare. Proiettandosi nelle dimensioni utopiche e futuribili, questi artisti varcano un gap temporale dando la possibilità d intendere lo spazio in mezzo come uno spazio di ricostruzione e reinvenzione. Ma sarebbe mai possibile demarcare questo spazio? Sarebbe possibile palpare i suoi bordi? Queste domande ci portano verso un altro aspetto che Anri Sala con il video Missing Landscape coglie in pieno: quello dei confini invisibili. Un inquadratura statica, una composizione perfettamente simmetrica, un gruppo di ragazzi che giocano a calcio in un campo racchiuso tra le montagne. A prima vista sembrerebbe una situazione innocua. Ma il paesaggio rappresentato allude a una dimensione di sospensione, a una realtà resa astratta nella quale i giovani attori si muovono come in un set, tra barriere invisibili. Sono gli indizi di quegli ostacoli che ritagliano una realtà fuori dal resto del mondo; ma i confini invisibili sono anche quelli che si contrappongono tra contesti culturali diversi e le mentalità di coloro che le abitano. A questo si riferisce Daniela Kostova con il video Made In, facendo capire come la realtà delle cose cambia in relazione alla prospettiva di colui che la guarda, e come si viene facilmente intrappolati dai condizionamenti politici miopi; sia quelli in cui riecheggiano mitologie nazionalistiche sia quelli che rispecchiano l ideologia imperialista dell economia globale. Lasciare il contesto d origine per molti artisti è stata un esigenza esistenziale, ma implicitamente è stata anche una posizione di distacco rispetto alle pulsazioni nazionalistiche e ottusamente tradizionaliste. Assumere una posizione di distacco, però, non equivale al disimpegno, ma anzi, sottolinea la necessità di operare con maggiore consapevolezza critica verso le contraddizioni che si incontrano quasi a ogni passo. Non mangio la carne di maiale. Non bevo per Ramadan. Ma prendo ecstasy. O Vado in chiesa. Violento le donne. Sono le frasi che pronuncia Maja Bajević agendo da attrice, impersonando diversi personaggi, nel suo video Double Bubble; parole di denuncia verso i meccanismi manipolatori e 11

7 ipocriti che si celano dietro i diversi credi religiosi in nome dei quali sono state commesse le più brutali atrocità in ogni periodo storico. Scontrarsi e contrapporsi a quello che si manifesta come confini invisibili è un lato di questa condizione inbetween, oltrepassare quelli reali e fisici è l altra. Intraprendere un esistenza nomade, migrante, vuol dire vivere quotidianamente, sulla propria pelle, tutto quello che possa significare, non in senso metaforico o trasposto, ma reale, trovarsi tra luoghi diversi. Adrian Paci nel video Klodi raccoglie la testimonianza di un uomo che narra i suoi avventurosi spostamenti, da una città all altra, da un paese all altro, da un continente all altro: un vero e proprio passaggio tra le stazioni, in cui la dimensione di dislocamento è tale che nessun posto possa essere considerato casa. Šejla Kamerić invece, ci porta in una zona onirica con la sua videoinstallazione Dream House: si tratta di una ripresa di una casa, o più che altro un rifugio, che sembra attraversi tempo e intemperie rimanendo sempre come uno stabile riparo sempre lì, ferma sul paesaggio in sottofondo che cambia, quasi come un sogno per coloro che conoscono la condizione dell esilio involontario. I temi che vengono affrontati in queste opere, narrazioni impregnate di un senso di displacement in cui si intersecano storie di emarginazione e d invisibilità sociale, di proiezioni e di delusioni nel primo mondo, posizioni di critica e denuncia, riflettono attitudini di quella generazione che si è trovata sotto l urto della prima onda che ha completamente travolto le loro realtà e i loro contesti d origine. Le generazioni degli artisti un po più giovani hanno vissuto i processi di transizione come una condizione data, crescendo e formandosi in quello spazio in-between che equivale a ciò che si potrebbe definire una democrazia in divenire (becoming democracy), una realtà che sembra avere lo stesso peso specifico di elio e di piombo, incerta e contraddittoria, spiazzante ma nonostante tutto piena di potenzialità. Scrutano questa realtà con leggerezza e con un senso di humour piuttosto nero ma raramente cinico, agilmente attraversano abissi ideologici con un attitudine ludica mai banale, che non rinnega il passato a priori, ma lo osserva rivalutandone aspetti positivi. Essere tra, più che una condizione, sembra un imperativo, una filosofia comportamentale, un attitudine verso la realtà. Whose Is on the Way Is Already There dichiara Maja Beganović attraverso una serie di opere, trasformando questo pensiero in uno slogan enigmatico da stampare su grandi cartelloni pubblicitari che regnano nel paesaggio urbano, o semplicemente da utilizzare come titolo delle sue opere pittoriche, oppure come indicazione per il pubblico che interagisce con l installazione ambientale realizzata con strisce di erba composte come un collage di diversi percorsi da intraprendere: indica che fare il primo passo significa aver già raggiunto l obiettivo finale, in quanto ciò che più conta è proprio decidere di andare avanti, vivere una condizione dinamica e attiva, e soprattutto percorrere una strada con la consapevolezza che il processo di attraversamento, il mezzo che si usa, deve essere coerente con la fine. Questo lavoro allude alla moltitudine di strade da prendere, proprio come il significato di essere tra apre una moltitudine di interpretazioni che abbiamo voluto esaminare in una sorta di intervista aperta, che potenzialmente potrebbe irradiarsi all'infinito, chiedendo agli artisti che partecipano alla mostra di rispondere a cosa vuol dire per loro inbetweeness e poi, a loro volta, inoltrare la stessa domanda a qualcuno di loro scelta iniziando così a comporre una rete di attitudini e d'idee, una sorta di malleabile e dinamica architettura di significati in divenire. 13

8 Artisti / Artists Maja Maja Pavel Mircea Cantor & Nemanja Nezaket Nicu Pravdoljub Sejla Daniela David Ebru Adrian Tobijas Anri Erzen son : Mića Jelena Slavica Nikola Vesna Natalija Bajević Beganović Braila Gabriela Vanga Cvijanović Ekici Ilfoveanu Ivanov Kamerić Kostova Maljković Özseçen Paci Putrih Sala Shkololli DA Staicić Tomasević Tosevska Uzunovski Vesić Vujosević

9 Maja Bajević Double Bubble, video courtesy Galerie Michel Rein, Paris Sarajevo (Bosnia-Erzegovina), Vive e lavora a Parigi. Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), She lives and works in Paris. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Women at work The Observers, (performance), Château Voltaire, Ferney Voltaire, France La vie est belle, a cura di curated by J. Hadzifejzovic, Sarajevska Zima, Sarajevo Women at work Washing up, (performance), VII Biennale Istanbul, a cura di curated by Y. Hasegawa, Istanbul En attendant, (performance), a cura di curated by A. Demeester, Watou, Belgium Maja Bajević, a cura di curated by A. Schindler, Plug in, Basel Avanti popolo, a cura di curated by G. Scardi, Viafarini, Milano Green, green grass of home, a cura di curated by E. Muka, Artopia, Milano Chambre avec vue, (performance), a cura di curated by M. Gili, Aussillon, France The prayer, (performance), a cura di curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Certosa di Padula (Salerno) Sewing my wedding dress while waiting, (performance), a cura di curated by F. Pasini, G. Verzotti, MART Museo d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto Step by step, a cura di curated by J. Blazquez Abascal, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Timemachine, (performance), a cura di curated by M. Hochmuth, organizzazione organized by Tanzquartier Wien, Centre culturel français, Wien Good morning Belgrade, a cura di curated by B. Andjelkovic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Home is what you make of it, (performance), a cura di curated by R. Buergel, La Mina, MACBA, Barcelona Terrains vagues, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris Sarajevo and London, The Foundation for Women s Art, London Stockholm revisited with a haiku, a cura di curated by M. Af Petersens, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Be nice or leave, Peter Kilchman Gallery, Zürich Avanti popolo, Tanzquartier, Wien Home Again, a cura di curated by M. Bobar, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ars Aevi Contemporary Art Museum, Sarajevo Après le film, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Manifesta 3, a cura di curated by K. Rhomberg, M. Hlavojeva, F. Bonami, Ljubljana East +, a cura di curated by C. Bertola, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia Rumor city, Mutations, a cura di curated by H. U. Obrist, Tokyo Ego fugal, selection of the VII Biennale Istanbul, a cura di curated by Y. Hasegawa, S. Oshima, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo Le Tribù dell Arte, a cura di curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Galleria Comunale d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma Bienal de Valencia, a cura di curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Valencia Central, a cura di curated by L. Hegy, Museums- Quartier, Wien Maja Bajević 17

10 Maja Bajević Milano Europa 2000, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, Triennale di Milano, Milano Steirischer Herbst (con with Emanuel Licha), a cura di curated by M. Damianovic, Graz Printemps de Septembre, a cura di curated by M. Gili, Toulouse Fluxus und die Folgen, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden The Big Social Game, Biennale di Torino, a cura di curated by G. Di Pietrantonio, Torino Paradise Lost, a cura di curated by A. Stazzone, Rimini Home, a cura di curated by D. Blazevic, SCCA, Sarajevo Fuori uso Anomalie, a cura di curated by T. Macrì, Ferrotel, Pescara Looking Awry, a cura di curated by WHW, ApexArt, New York Printemps de Septembre, a cura di curated by M. Gili, Toulouse In den Schluchten des Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel The Tale of The Thread: Embroidery and Sewing in Contemporary Art, a cura di curated by F. Pasini, G. Verzotti, MART Museo d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto Tirana Biennale, a cura di curated by A. Paci, Tirana Construction of Situations, a cura di curated by S. Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck In Progress, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Locarno Film Festival, Locarno Fables de l identité, a cura di curated by R. Durand, CNP, Paris La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Bosnia, a cura di curated by A. Mandic, Venezia Blut & Honig Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg-Wien Don t Touch the White Woman - Contemporary between diversity and liberation, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino Lodz Biennale, a cura di curated by A. Rottenberg, Lodz, Poland The Joy of My Dreams, 1 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (I BIACS), a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Sevilla How do we want to be governed?, a cura di curated by R. Buergel, Miami Art Central, Miami Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro Delay, a cura di curated by W. Suto, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Channel Zero, a cura di curated by K. Gregos, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam The government, a cura di curated by R. Buergel, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg; a cura di curated by L. Hegyi, Musée de St. Etienne, St. Etienne The Happy Worker, a cura di curated by Y. Raymond, CCS Museum Bard College, USA Imagine Limerick, EV + A, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland In movement - UNESCO salutes women video artists of the world, a cura di curated by K. Airyung, Paris New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walker, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA; Tate Modern, London Soft Target, a cura di curated by B. van der Sande, BAK Basis Actuele Kunst, Utrecht Eindhoven Istanbul, a cura di curated by E. Meyer- Hermann, C. Esche, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven In/Security, International Festival of Contemporary Arts City of Women, Ljubljana About Disappearing, a cura di curated by I. Arns, U. Vorkoeper, Phoenix Halle Dortmund, Dortmund The Government, a cura di curated by R. Noack, R. M. Buergel, Secession, Wien Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, a cura di curated by R. Noack, R. M. Buergel, Witte De With, Rotterdam 7 th Sharjah Biennal, a cura di curated by J. Persekian, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Biennale of Urgency, a cura di curated by E. Jouanno, J. Castro, Grozny, Tchethcenia Don t Touch the White Woman - Contemporary between diversity and liberation, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, Castel dell Ovo, Napoli La Actualidad Revisida, a cura di curated by A. Pujo, Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walker, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Next door, The Barents Art Triennial, a cura di curated by J.-E. Lundström, Kirkenes, Norway Sweet Taboos, Tirana Biennale 3, a cura di curated by R. Pinto, Tirana Borders, a cura di curated by S. Cincinelli, C. Collu, R. Pinto, MAN, Nuoro Art, Life & Confusion, October-Art Salon, a cura di curated by R. Block, Belgrade Wherever we go, a cura di curated by G. Scardi, H. Hanru, Spazio Oberdan, Milano 7.Werkleitz Biennale - Happy Believers, a cura di curated by A. Hoffman, Halle, Germany Of the One and the Many, a cura di curated by V. Kortun, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Verstehst Du das? Neue-Medien-Kunst aus Südosteuropa, Austellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster Paranoia, a cura di curated by P. Pajdic, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Witnesses / Testigos, a cura di curated by J. Blazquez, Fundación NMAC, Cádiz La Force de l Art, a cura di curated by L. Hegyi, H. Hanru, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris Voiler dévoiler, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walker, The Kitchen Art Gallery, New York Archéologie, le jour d après, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon Metropolitanscape, a cura di curated by M. Di Capua, G. Iovane, L. Mattarella, Palazzo Cavour, Torino Smile Machines, a cura di curated by A.-M. Duguet, Akademie der Kunste Hanseatenweg, Berlin Last & Lost - Bilder eines verschwindenen Europa, Literaturhaus, München A Picture of War is Not War, Wilkinson Gallery, London Documenta 12, a cura di curated by R. Buergel, R. Noack, Kassel In Focus, a cura di curated by P. Pajdic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Airs de Paris, a cura di curated by C. Macel, D. Birmbaum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris I Moscow Biennial, a cura di curated by I. Boubnova, H.-U. Obrist, N. Bourriaud, Moscow Paranoia, a cura di curated by P. Pajdic, The Freud Museum, London Frei, a cura di curated by R. Block, Susanne Ottesen Galerie, Copenhagen Maja Bajević 19

11 Sarajevo (Bosnia-Erzegovina), Vive e lavora a Belgrado. Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), She lives and works in Belgrade. MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Fair of Arts, Atelier 212, Belgrade What is Love, The Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade Maja Beganović Real Presence - Floating Sites, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, Military Museum, Belgrade; IUAV, LI Biennale di Venezia, Venezia White nights, Skopje In the time of invisibility, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, BITEF Belgrade International Theater Festival, Belgrade Bombart, lago di Bomba, Bomba (Chieti) Real Presence, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, House of the Youth Gallery, Belgrade Progressive hopes, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, Gallery Chaos, Belgrade Festival of free culture, House of the Youth Gallery, Belgrade Maja Beganović Who Is on the Way is Already There, -07 erba, intervento nello spazio / grass, intervention in the space 21

12 Pavel Braila Chisinau (Moldavia), Vive e lavora a Chisinau. Chisinau (Moldova), He lives and works in Chisinau. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Performance white or Pale Unfinished Thoughts, Kunstbuero, Wien 33 Revolutions Per Minute, Yvon Lambert, Paris Le Cadeau, Festival de Film Francophone, Namur, Belgium MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Shoes for Europe, Baltic Art Center, Visby Baltic Art Center, Visby Baron s Hill, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands Galerie Im Taxispalais, Innsbruck MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kassel Gedankenaufnahme, Pavel Braila, Kunstbuero, Wien Documenta 11, Kassel Karantena, International Festival of Visual Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia Music in Me 1, GAK, Bremen Video-Zone, Media-video Biennale, Tel-Aviv, Israel Being all things to all people Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, The Netherlands Cine y Casi Cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Biennale of Moving Images, Genève Blut & Honig - Zukunft ist am Balkans, Essl Museum, Wien Kulturelle Territorien #4 / Introducing Sites 2, GFZK, Leipzig Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA LIAF 04, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svedala, Norway Plug in, CCA Futura, Prague Delay, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Yvon Lambert, Paris (EA) Stories, Galerie K&S, Berlin Project Migration, Köln Double vision, Magazzino d Arte Moderna, Roma Beauty Not So Difficult, a cura di curated by M. Robecchi, Palazzo Stelline, Milano La Collection d Enea Richi, Collection Lambert, Musée d Art Contemporain, Avignon Do not Interrumpt your Activities, Royal College of Art Galleries, London Transculture, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków How to do things? I the Middle of (No) Where, Casino Bethanien, Berlin Why Pictures Now, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien I, an exhibition in three acts, Futura, Prague Slow Poetry of Life Performance, Galerie Jan Dhaese, Gent Shoes for Europe, video a colori, sonoro / color video with sound, 26 courtesy l artista / the artist; Yvon Lambert, Paris Pavel Braila 23

13 Mircea Cantor & Gabriela Vanga Another Senseless Fight, 2000 stampa su carta fotografica / print on photo paper 20 x 30 cm Cluj (Romania), Vive e lavora a Parigi e Cluj Napoca. Cluj (Romania), He lives and works in Paris and Cluj Napoca. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) The Right Man at the Right Place, Yvon Lambert, Paris Nulle part ailleurs, Yvon Lambert, Paris Ping Pang Pong, Entre-deux Association, Nantes Corporate identity, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou ( ), Yvon Lambert, Paris In front of my eyes, Trans> Area, New York Preview, Magazzino d Arte Moderna, Roma Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Prix Ricard S.A., Centre Pompidou, Paris Deeparture, Yvon Lambert, New York Si tu marche plus vite, il pleut moins fort, Centro Arte Moderna, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa The landscape is changing, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Jucãrii pentru copii / Toys for childrens (con with Ion Grigorescu), Protokoll Studio, Cluj Napoca, Romania Mircea Cantor: Born to be burnt, GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo The Title Is the Last Thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Reims Museo Tamayo, Mexico City MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Transitioland, MNAC Nacional Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Transferatu, Ifa-Gallery, Berlin Say What?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest One Night Stand, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York Voyages d affaires (con with Gabriela Vanga), ERBAN, Nantes Documents 11 - young photographers, New Gallery, Bucharest Traversées, ARC Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris Heimsuchung, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou Context-network, Padiglione Romania, ILIX Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Art Judgment Show, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Les enfants du paradis, Yvon Lambert, Paris A9 Forum Transeuropa, MuseumsQuartier, Wien Urban Tension, Museum in progress, Brussels; Wien; Frankfurt; Roma Bound/less Borders, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, R. Balaci, I. Boubnova, D. Blazevic, P. Cukovic, J. Krpan, E. Muka, Z. Petkovski, D. Simicic, R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, exhibitiontour Tirana Biennale 2, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana Phalanstère, Centre d art contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny In the Gorges of the Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, N. Ilic, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Poesis. The Everyday Differently, Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest Displaced, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Clandestine, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, L Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Unoccupied Territories, K&S gallery, Berlin International Film Festival, Rotterdam Mircea Cantor 25

14 Mircea Cantor The works I told you about, Yvon Lambert, Paris Stock Zero (OPERA), MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Prosismic, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris I ll be your Mirror, Special project for Frieze Art Fair, City Inn Westminster Hotel, London Publishing Without Limits: New Directions for Art Magazines, Art Forum, Berlin Berlin Talks (with Version), Berlin Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro Nine Points of the Law, NGBK, Berlin Mediterraneans, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, A. Barak, D. Denegri, M. Abu El Dahab, K. Gregos, V. Kortun, G. Maraniello, S. Shapira, D. Torres, MACRO al Mattatoio, Roma Plug in, Futura, Prague Quick-sand, De Appel, Amsterdam Imagine Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland The Happy Worker, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, Renaissance Society, Chicago; Tate Modern, London Global Tour, Art Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam May you live in interesting times, A Picture This Moving Image Project, Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology, Cardiff War is over, The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan, GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo Modern Times, MAN, Nuoro Nach Rokytník - The EVN Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien Generations of art-10 years at F.A.R., Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como On Difference, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Cosmopolis, State Museum for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki TEXT ground, Display, Space for contemporary art, Prague e-flux video rental, Project room of KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin Revolution is on hold, Isola Art Center, Milano Theorema, une collection privée en Italie, Musée d art contemporain, Collection Lambert, Avignon The need to document, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz-Basel Works from the collection, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Irreducible, contemporary short form video, 1995-, CCA Wattis, San Francisco Dada east? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst fremd bin ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds 2 nd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla La force de l art, Grand Palais, Paris Art, Life & Confusion, 47 th October Art Salon, a cura di curated by R. Block, Belgrade Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?, Iasi, Romania Marcher, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc 1 st Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea It is hard to touch the real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz Printemps de septembre, Toulouse Human Game Winner and losers, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze Periferic 7, Iasi, Romania Czeslaw Milosz To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel LESS Strategie alternative dell abitare, PAC Padiglione d Arte Contemporanea, Milano Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris Of Mice and Men, a cura di curated by M. Cattelan, M. Gioni, A. Subothnick, 4. Berlin Biennale, Berlin Notre Histoire une scène artistique française, Palais de Tokyo, Paris New Vidéo New Europe, The Kitchen, New York Anagramme, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium Action, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d Azur, Marseille Cluj Connection, Hauncchof venison, Zürich Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Voices of Silence, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel Paranoia, Freud Museum, London Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio, USA Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris I want to belive, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich Mircea Cantor 27

15 Gabriela Vanga Tgirgu Mures (Romania), Vive e lavora a Parigi. Tgirgu Mures (Romania), She lives and works in Paris. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELECTION) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Beauty Items, Gad Photogallery, Bucharest Keep it unreal, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Project Room, Paris m e s b n p e n u l o i s o d, Galerie Public, Paris Keep it unreal, Miss China, Paris Every word I tell you keeps me alive, Plan B, Cuj Napoca, Romania Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Say what?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest Voyage d affaires (con with Mircea Cantor), Erban, Nantes Free show, Sindan Foundation, Cluj Napoca, Romania Artistpoly - Context network, Padiglione Romania, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia 00 - Une exposition qui grandit par le milieu, Palais de Tokyo, Paris A9 Forum, Transeuropa, MuseumsQuartier, Wien Photographier, Collection Lambert, Avignon Rendez-vous roumain, Espace En Cours, Paris Bound/less Borders, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, R. Balaci, I. Boubnova, D. Blazevic, P. Cukovic, J. Krpan, E. Muka, Z. Petkovski, D. Simicic, R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, exhibitiontour Documents 11 - young photographers, New Gallery, Bucharest In the Gorges of the Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, N. Ilic, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Prague Biennale, Prague Stickers, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Incomprehension, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Preview, Kalinderu Medialab, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Love It or Leave It, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, V Cetinje Biennial, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artist, Vrsac, Serbia Going Public, amaze cultural lab, Modena Modern Times, MAN, Nuoro Open House, IASPIS, Stockholm Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam Text ground, Display Gallery, Prague The Storyteller (con with Mircea Cantor), Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zürich Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?, Iasi, Romania Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris Fairytale, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Albania Growing Wild, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest I

16 Nemanja Cvijanović Natura Morta, vernice su alluminio / paint on aluminium 180 x 200 x 10 cm Rijeka (Croazia), Vive e lavora a Rijeka e Venezia. Rijeka (Croatia), He lives and works in Rijeka and Venice. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Zamnom drugovi ura!, Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia Il volto di uno, l eco di molti, a cura di curated by A. Sigolo, Exhibits Art Gallery, Conegliano One and three chairs, Memorijalni muzej NOB-e, Punat Uno, a cura di curated by B. Cerovac, Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia IQBAL, O.K. Gallery, MMC Palach, Rijeka, Croatia Natura Morta, a cura di curated by A. Sigolo, T293, Napoli The future here begins now, Ersteclub & Art club Gal, Rijeka, Croatia All right, T293, Napoli MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Novi Hrvatski Turizam, MMC Palach, Rijeka, Croatia Novi Hrvatski Turizam, MMC Palach, Rijeka, Croatia 86.ma Collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Emerging Artists Rije?ka situacija, a cura di curated by N. Ivan?evi?, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Mostra di fine corso degli allievi, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, G. Di Pietrantonio, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, ex Chiesa di San Francesco, Como I Care Because You Do, a cura di curated by Interno 3, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre Q 13, a cura di curated by Interno 3, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre Tracce, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, G. Di Pietrantonio, Viafarini; C/O Careof, Milano Space is the place_ 03, a cura di curated by M. Altavilla, A. De Manincor, T.P.O., Bologna Untitled, a cura di curated by A. Ascari, E. Bonaspetti, Ex Faema, Milano Chalupeck? s prize, Finalists exhibition, City Gallery, Prague Gemine Muse, a cura di curated by D.?imi?i?, Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella Thin Line: The Exhibition, The Movie, IJskelds VUB&Nadine VZW, Brussels Operacija: Grad, a cura di curated by WHW, Stara Tvornica Badel, Zagreb Radoslav Putar Award, Gallery Krizic Roban, Zagreb Mars Pavillon, Giardini di Castello, Venezia Foresti a Venezia, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Thin Line 3, a cura di curated by M. Farronato, Viafarini, Milano Nemanja Cvijanović 31

17 Nemanja Cvijanović Potapanje brodova, produzione production Drugo More, Gallery Nova, Zagreb Dis-orders, a cura di curated by M. Barravalle, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia Every Revolution is a Throw of Dice, a cura di curated by E. Vannini, Loggia della mercanzia, Genova The Sweetest Dream - Reunion Project, a cura di curated by B+B, The Space - Triangle Gallery, London The Class of Maja Bajevi_. Dreams and Nightmares, a cura di curated by G. Scardi, Viafarini, Milano Mine Yours Ours - ownership (con with Cesare Pietroiusti, Paul Griffiths, Andreja Kulun_i_), Gallery Kortil, HKD Su_ak, Rijeka, Croatia Pino Deodato - La Torta della Sposa, Galleria Klerkx, Milano Ironia domestica, a cura di curated by L. Ragaglia, Museion, Bolzano Giochi dialettici, a cura di curated by A. Gracco Kopp, Spazio Punctum, Roma Mine Yours Ours - transition, a cura di curated by D. Miskovi_, N. Cvijanovi_, Galery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia N

18 Nezaket Ekici Turkish Love Words, video courtesy l artista / the artist Kirsehir (Turchia), Vive e lavora a Berlino e Stoccarda. Kirsehir (Turkey), She lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Emotion in Motion, Kissperformance Kaskadenkondensator, Basel Lee(h)rstellen Beauty lies in the eye of the Beholder, Academy Gallery, München Werkschau, Gallery White Elephant, Berlin Emotion in Motion, Galleria Valeria Belvedere, Milano Orientación-Nezaket Ekici, performance, Goethe Institut, Madrid Gözü Kara / Fearless, Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul Double Bind, DNA Gallery, Berlin Emotion in Motion#7, Kunstverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf Self Deversity, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul Blind, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Große Kunstaustellung München, Haus der Kunst, Museum of Contemporary Art, München Corso di Ilya Kabakov, Fondazione Ratti, Chiesa di San Francesco, Como Step by Step, Gallery KHG Leo 11, München Real Presence - Generation, Museum of History of Yugoslavia, Belgrade Marking the territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin A little bit of History Repeated, Kunst-Werke, Berlin Durch die Zeit, Kunstraum 10, Hannover Common ground#1, Landesvertr. Niedersachsen, Berlin No Place, ifa-galerie, Bonn Short Play, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela Braunschweiger Kulturnacht, Braunschweig Pret à perform, Viafarini, Milano Body Power / Power Play, Würtembergisches Kunstverein, Stuttgart Rituale in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 5 th International Women s Art Festival, Aleppo Random-Ize Film and Video festival, Taipei, Taiwan; Malmö As soon as possible, PAC, Milano Recycling the future, LI Biennale di Venezia, Venezia 4 th International Performance Festival Odense, Odense SconfinArt, Expo d Arte Contemporanea, Trento 20. Kasseler Dokumentar Film und Videofest, Kassel Nezaket Ekici 35

19 Nezaket Ekici International Performance Festival, Boston Cleaning the House Project, Fundación NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cádiz Loop Performance, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Der Raum, Die Wand, Das Buch, Galerie der Hochschule, HBK, Braunschweig Rituale der Gesundheit, Galerie im Park, Krankenhaus Museum, Bremen Raumkonzepte, Marta Museum, Herford The Retrospective, Abramovic Class, Gallery der Hochschule, HBK, Braunschweig Auftauchen, Tanz und Performance Festival, Hamburg ebent 04, Festival internacional de performance de Barcelona, Barcelona Eröffnung des Kunstmuseums, Stuttgart 1 st Performance-Festival Schleswig-Holstein auf Schloß Salzau, Kiel Persistent and Gradual Loss of Self-Control, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Gifted Generation, Haus Eins, Hebbel Theater, Berlin Let Love Blossom, Galleria Civica d Arte Contemporanea, Trento Women and Münster, Gallerie Sotodo, Münster MAX5 Show / Film & Video Festival, The Foundry, London Memento Mori, Atelierhaus Panzerhalle Groß Glienicke, Potsdam Vogelfrei 6- Paradiesgärten, Out-Door Biennale, Darmstadt Visibilty Project, Galata Perform, Istanbul 11. Künstlerintage, Museum Mobile im Audi Forum, Ingolstadt e_motion in motion, Kongress der Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung und NDS Tanzkultur, Bern Orientación, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Goethe Institut, Madrid IPG, Gallery Illy, New York Blessed are the Merciful, Galerie Feigen, New York Foi#3, International Performance Festival, Singapore Satu Kali Festival, Malaysia Islam - Die Ringe der Künstler, Pasinger Fabrik, München EHF 2010, Konrad Adenauer stiftung, Berlin Centrifug, Festival of Performance Art, Dansstationen, Malmö Into me, Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Skulpturale Handlungen, Galerie der Künstler, BBK München, München Sinopale, I Sinop Biennale, Sinop Depicting Action, Performance Series Festival, 18 th Street Gallery, Santa Monica Goethe Institut, Los Angeles Das kritische Auge, Neue Aschaffenburger Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum. Integration, Soziale Stadt, Mainz-Bischofsheim, Germany All for one, One for all, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels Paul Delvaux Das Geheimnis der Frau, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld Meltem of Istanbul, Proje 4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul Radikal, Ardindan Degil Karsisina, site specific, Istanbul Into me out of me, a cura di curated by K. Bisenbach, Kunst-Werke Berlin; MACRO al Mattatoio, Roma Nezaket Ekici / Alexander Schikowski, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart Sahibinden Manzarali, Ortaköy, Istanbul Fashion Accidentally, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Body&Eros, Festival of Perofming Arts, LII Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Skulpturale Handlung, Moncys House Museum, Palanga, Lituania B

20 Nicu Ilfoveanu Pitesti (Romania), Vive e lavora a Bucarest. Pitesti (Romania), He lives and works in Bucharest. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Marlene die Trich, Tranzit Foundation, Cluj Fotografii de cas?, ArTei Gallery, Bucharest Daguereotipuri & ace noi de gramofon, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest Tourist You Are the Terrorist, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest Radesti-Stefanesti Arges 1996, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest Chicago-loop, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Popicarie, MAD Foundation, Bucharest Hrana pentru trup si suflet, National History Museum, Bucharest Foto documente, Galeria Noua Gallery, Bucharest Littman & White Galleries, Portland Artphoto no.1, Galeria Noua Gallery, Bucharest La physique se contente de l instantanéité, deinterese Gallery, Bucharest NR. 1, Galeria Noua Gallery, Bucharest Bucuresti - Bucuresti via Beograd, Remont Gallery, Belgrade Roumanie.exe, Esco Found, Paris Young Biennial I, Bucharest Atterissage, Romanian Cultural Centre, Paris Seconds From Disaster, Galeria Ata_, Cluj Sekunden vom der ungluck II, Centrum Gallery, Graz Galeria Posibila, ViennaArtFair, Wien Galeria Posibila, Bologna Arte Fiera, Bologna Galeria Posibila, Bologna Arte Fiera, Bologna Steampunk Autochrome_Poarta, foto / photo 60 x 90 cm courtesy coll. Sciarretta, Roma Nicu Ilfoveanu 39

21 Pravdoljub Ivanov Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Vive e lavora a Sofia. Plovdiv (Bulgaria), He lives and works in Sofia. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Pessimism, No More, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland Existing Objects, ATA Center - Institute for Contemporary Art, Sofia Double Trouble (con with Valio Chenkov), Galerie Steinle, München MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, O. Bouman, M. Hlavajova, K. Rhomberg, Ljubljana Escape, a cura di curated by G. Politi, Tirana Biennale, Tirana Blut & Honig - Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Wien Flipside, a cura di curated by K. Carl, Artists Space Gallery, New York On Reason and Emotion, a cura di curated by I. Carlos, 14 th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Interupted Game, a cura di curated by I. Koralova, M. Kolecek, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Public Dreams, a cura di curated by M. Kolecek, I. Koralova, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière 2, a cura di curated by E. Lunghi, Luxembourg Check-in Europe, a cura di curated by M. Babias, EPO, München Of Mice and Men, a cura di curated by M. Cattelan, M. Gioni, A. Subothnick, 4. Berlin Biennale, Berlin LII Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Bulgaria, a cura di curated by V. Nozharova, Venezia Being Here, a cura di curated by B. Klinkum, P. Huber, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich Pessimism no more, -07 installazione, tavolo, formaggio / installation, table, cheese dimensioni variabili / variable dimensions courtesy l artista / the artist Double Bind, a cura di curated by I. Boubnova, G. Scholhammer, ATA Center Institute for Contemporary Art; Irida Gallery; XXL Gallery, Sofia Radiodumb, a cura di curated by P. Zani, Zero Arte Contemporanea, Piacenza Bound/less Borders, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, Belgrade In the Gorges of the Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, N. Ilic, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Pravdoljub Ivanov 41

22 Šejla Kamerić Dram House, videoinstallazione / video installation photo Wolfgang Günzel courtesy Portikus, Frankfurt am Main Sarajevo (Bosnia-Erzegovina), Vive e lavora a Sarajevo e Berlino. Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), She lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Closing the Border (Welcome to the ancient land of freedom), public intervention, San Marino, exhibitiontour Bosnian Girl, public project WARRANT, public intervention, Schauspielhaus, Wien Others and Dreams, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main FREI, Festival for electronic music and related visual art, club transmediale 0.4 (fly utopia!), Berlin Šejla Kamerić (Another Expo - Beyond the Nation- States), Gallery SOAP, Kitakyushu, Japan Untitled, Gandy Gallery, Prague Closed, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Sorrow, The Kosova Art Gallery Museum Pristina and EXIT Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo The Final Sale, Karver, Podgorica, Montenegro What Do I Know, Crossing Europe - Film Festival, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz Sometime, Never and Maybe, public project, Sarajevo; Berlin Dream House, Literaturhaus, Salzburg MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Tandem Project, DCAC, Signal 66, Washington D.C. MANIFESTA 3, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana One Hundred Years of Contemporary Art of Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo The Real, The Desperate, The Absolute, Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz Rendez Vous, Ars Aevi, Sarajevo Freedom and Violence, Królikarnia Gallery, Warszawa Kunstexpeditionen/Osteuropa, Sony Center and Art Forum, Berlin Bound/less Borders, Belgrade, exhibitiontour HOME, Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo Balkan Konzulat: Sarajevo, <rotor>, Graz The Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale, Prague Cultural Territories, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Cosmopolis1: Microcosmos x Macrocosmos, State Museum of Contemporary Art and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki ONUFRI, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana Passage d Europe, Musée d Art Moderne, Saint- Etienne I am here and you are there, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Šejla Kamerić 43

23 Šejla Kamerić CONFLICT: Perspectives, Positions, Realities in Central European Art, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA TABOO, Tirana Biennale, Tirana Displaced, NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-States, Gallery Level1, Kitakyushu, Japan; Gallery White Box, New York GUARDAMI. Percezioni del video, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena La actualidad revisada (News Revisited), La Tabacalera, San Sebastian Leaps of Faith, Nicosia, Cyprus Norway - Andre/Others, Sørlandets KunstMuseum, Kristiansand, Norway The Giving Person, Palazzo Roccella, Napoli Zones of Contact, 15 th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney 8372 NISU DO_LI, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia Kontakt, The Art Collection of Erste Bank-Group, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien; transit workshops, Bratislava On Difference #2, Württembergischer Stuttgart Kunstverein, Stuttgart This Is Not a Fairy Tale, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana FRAI, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen Between Borders, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo E

24 Daniela Kostova Made In, -05 performance, video a canale singolo / performance, single-channel video, (video still) courtesy l artista / the artist Sofia (Bulgaria), Vive e lavora a New York. Sofia (Bulgaria), She lives and works in New York. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Play Black, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia I See You See, SPACES Gallery, SPACElab, Cleveland (Ohio), USA Fixing Reality, Small Gallery, Tirana Body Without Organs, CEC ArtsLink, New York MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 In & Out, Onufri 2000, National Gallery of Art, Tirana At Room Temperature, Alternative Space, Sofia Transfestival, Labin Art Express, Labin, Croatia Balkan Art Generator, a cura di curated by B. Andjelkovic, Brussels Subjects and Shadows, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia Anti-Feminism/Anti-Machismo, XXL Gallery, Sofia Paranoia Stile, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia Trieste Contemporanea Video Art Presentation, Stazione Marittima, Trieste Looming Up, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien; Aspekte Galerie - Gasteig, München Viafarini, Milano, presentazione di presentation by L. Baldini Split Reality: EAST + East, Small Power Strategies - Video Program, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, MuseumsQartier, Wien Tirana Biennale 1, Tirana Shop Art. Women at (on) the market, The Saint Sofia Underpass, Sofia Trendification. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, <rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz European Perspectives, International Art Fair, Innsbruck WRO 01 9 th International Media Art Biennale, WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland Sculpture Time, Skopje, Macedonia Macrovideo, National Palace of Culture, Sofia Beauty and the East, ISCP, New York Works on Paper, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste MAP. Case Study. 02, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Double Bind, XXL Gallery, Sofia Mirror of the Balkans, National Museum Gallery, Kraljevo, Serbia Girls and See, Varna, Bulgaria Last Minute, Placentia Arte, Piacenza Ostensiv, Moscow; Berlin Side Effects, Irida Art Gallery, Sofia Twice Upon a Time Balkan Video, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, Istituto Svizzero, Roma X Biennale of Moving Image, Genève ABCity, Trafo, Budapest In den Schluchten des Balkan. Kunst aus dem Südosten Europas, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Film Series, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln Video Screening 04, Galerie Martin Janda Aktueller Kunst, Wien slow (e) motion, Tranzit, Prague Blut & Honig Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg-Wien Mythology a Bet on Imagination, a Bet on Art, IX International Cairo Biennial, Cairo Mors Impossibilis, Irida Art Gallery, Sofia Introducing Sites, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig Export Import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Daniela Kostova 47

25 Daniela Kostova Ethnic Marketing, Art, Globalization and Intercultural Supply and Demand, Centre d Art Contemporain, Genève Don t Touch The White Woman, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino Time Warp, About the Gander of Time, Paris The Post-Communist Condition, Freedom is for Beginners, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin It is Hard to Touch the Real, Kunstverein, München OOZE, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma Post Mythological Stories, Irida Art Gallery, Sofia FamLink, Women s Caucus for Art International Video Screening at the WCA National Conference, Boston Play Sofia, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien Wearable Futures, Hybrid Culture in the Design and Development of Soft Technology, SCAN, Newport, United Kingdom Donumenta, KunstKnoten e.v. Regensburg, Germany Beograd nekad i sad, Belgrade Serial Cases, Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Alceday Gallery, Brussels 10 Years Video Art in Bulgaria, Odeon, Sofia Boundaries, a cura di curated by S. Cincinelli, C. Collu, R. Pinto, MAN, Nuoro South East Passage, a cura di curated by E. De Cecco, Biennale Donna, Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ferrara PandemixFestival, Pittsburgh (PA), USA Le Noire Blansh Festival, Skopje, Macedonia Made In, Isola Art Center, Milano Dogs of Desire, Albany Orchestra, Albany (NY), USA T

26 David Maljković Rijeka (Croazia), Vive e lavora a Zagabria e Berlino. Rijeka (Croatia), He lives and works in Zagreb and Berlin. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Juraj Klovic Gallery (con with Tomislav Curkovic), Rijeka, Croatia Transplantation, Kordic Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia Three Paintings isn t a Trilogy, Beck Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia Paintings for everyday use, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia Your moment is your heritage, Minimal, Ljubljana Space of painting, Moria, Stari Grad, Croatia Waiting Tomorrow, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam 90s without 90s, MMC Palach, Rijeka, Croatia Scene for New Heritage, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia These days (con with Yael Bartana), Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia It s gonna happen (con with Rosa Barba), Croy Nielsen, Berlin Scene for New Heritage II, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Whitechapel Art Gallery, London CAPC Musée d Art Contemporain, Bordeaux The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 IV International Student Biennial, Skopje, Macedonia SC Gallery, a cura di curated by D. Maljkovic, Zagreb, Croatia New Beginning, a cura di curated by M. Crtalic, SC Club, Zagreb, Croatia Filodrammatica, a cura di curated by D. Maljkovic, Rijeka, Croatia Millenium, a cura di curated by Z. Jerman, Geto Gallery, Split, Croatia Vice - chancel prize, Vladimir Nazor Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia XXVI Salon of Young Artists, a cura di curated by J. Krpan, M. Kolocek, S. Tolj, Zagreb, Croatia II Salon of Young Artists, Sisak, Croatia XXXVI Zagreb Salon, a cura di curated by A. Medved, Zagreb, Croatia Slow Watching, Casal Balaguer, Palma de Mallorca Start, a cura di curated by WHW, Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana Filip Trade Collection of Contemporary Croatian Art, a cura di curated by Z. Makovic, Manes Gallery, Prague Here Tomorrow, a cura di curated by R. Marcoci, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Space and Walls, a cura di curated by B. Franceschi, Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia XVI Blue Salon, Zadar, Croatia Scene for New Heritage - New Possibilities, collage 70 x 100 cm courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam David Maljković 51

27 David Maljković Emerging Artists, a cura di curated by N. Ivancevic, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Dislocation, Town Museum of Zagreb, Croatia Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro Exhibition of Nature and Society, a cura di curated by WHW, Exit Gallery, Peja, Kosovo Normalisation, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia Painting and Object, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia Mixed Pickles, K3 Project Space, Zürich Go Inside, a cura di curated by H. Hanru, Tirana Biennale 3, Tirana Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Snapshot, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia Istanbul Biennale 9, a cura di curated by C. Esche, V. Kortun, Istanbul Present Perfect, T293, Napoli International Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague La Plateau (con with Joan Jonas), a cura di curated by C. Bourgeois, Paris The Imaginary Number, a cura di curated by A. Franke, H. Peleg, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Telegram, Rosa Barba Studio, Amsterdam Linear Structures, Riga Gallery, Riga Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Fin de siecle, End of Painting?, a cura di curated by Z. Rus, The Croatian Fine Arts Centre, Zagreb, Croatia Contemporary Surrealists, a cura di curated by B. Franceschi, Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia New Ghost Entertainment - Entitled, a cura di curated by K. Pesch, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden Art is always somewhere else, II Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest Art, Life & Confusion, 47 th October Art Salon, a cura di curated by R. Block, Belgrade Everywhere, a cura di curated by M. Park, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea Ideal City-Invisible Cities, a cura di curated by S. van der Ley, M. Richter, Potsdam; Zamoch, Poland Downloads from Future, a cura di curated by O. Kielmayer, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Phantom, a cura di curated by S. Andresen, J. Rasmussen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Modern Lovers, a cura di curated by Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Three Colts Gallery, London Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London Interrupted Histories, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinec, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana A Picture of War Is Not War, Wilkinson Gallery, London Wild Man in the Looking Glass, Art 2102, Los Angeles Synergy, 40 th Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, Croatia Magellanic Cloud, a cura di curated by J. Mytkowska, Centre Pompidou, Paris Elephant Cemetery, a cura di curated by C. Rattemeyer, Artist Space, New York Ground Lost, a cura di curated by WHW, Forum Stadtpark, Graz Verbalno vokalno, a cura di curated by L. Rascic, Galerija SC, Zagreb, Croatia Artists in The Wonderland, a cura di curated by A. Rogos, Gdansk, Poland Kapitaler Glanz, a cura di curated by V. Joan Muller, K. Rahn, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf W

28 Ebru Özseçen Presentation, 1996 stampa translucida / pearl print 1/1 courtesy l artista / the artist Izmir (Turchia), Vive e lavora a Monaco. Izmir (Turkey), She lives and works in München. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 City, Science and Technology Museum, Coimbra Sugar Top Girl, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Living The Island, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Ex Lux, Kunsthalle Tirol, Tirol Das Lied von Der Erde, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Strange Home, Kestner Museum, Hannover Springtime, Nikolaj Art Centre, Copenhagen Arguments, Atatürk Cultural Centre, Istanbul Friends and Neighbours, a cura di curated by R. Martínez, Limerick Biennial Ev+A, Limerick Metropolis Now, Borusan Art Center, Istanbul Regrets Reveries Changing Skies, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul Trans Sexual Express, Trienal de Barcelona, Barcelona Graham, Özseçen, Trockel, Milchoff, Nürnberg Locus Focus, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem The Big Blue, Tate Modern, London Unlimited, nl-4, a cura di curated by V. Kortun, De Appel, Amsterdam Les Interieur du Monde, Zaanstad Museum, Zaanstad; Sparnestaad Photo Archieve, Haarlem; Kaman Public Library, Kaman; Stadgalerie, Osnarbruck; Photo Institutes Mutare, Zwickau, Angers Individual Geographies Global Maps, Nisantasi, Istanbul Metropolis Now, a cura di curated by E. Wimmer, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reína Sofia, Madrid Time Light, Whistable Biennale, Whistable Latent Space, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam Time: Nature, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem Iconografias Metropolitanas, a cura di curated by A. Hug, Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo The Armory Show, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York 3 rd Anniversary Show, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York In den Schluchten des Balkan. Eine Reportage, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Golgeler ve Hayaletler, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Les Points du Jour - Refracted Illusion, Pont de Versailles, Paris Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro Fading Lace, Plantage Kerklaan 30, Amsterdam Liste 04, Galerist, Basel o.t. [City IV], Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Meisterwerke der Medienkunst aus der ZKM Sammlung, ZKM, Karlsruhe Interventions in the Landscape: Paradise Revealed, St. Margaret s Bay, Kent, United Kingdom Moderns, Santral Istanbul, Istanbul Ebru Özseçen 55

29 Adrian Paci Klodi, film su DVD / film on DVD, 40 courtesy Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano Shkoder (Albania), Vive e lavora a Milano. Shkoder (Albania), He lives and works in Milan. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Bildmuseet, Umeå Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Firenze Home Sweet Home, Artropia, Milano Sorella Morte, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano Galleria Irida, Sofia GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca A Toll on Rituals, BAC Baltic Art Center, Gotland; Visby, Sweden Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich Slowly, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano Turn on, Viafarini, Milano Adrian Paci, a cura di curated by A. Smith-Stewart, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; MOMA, New York; Yale University, New Haven, USA Perspective 147: Adrian Paci, a cura di curated by P. Morsiani, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; MC projects, Los Angeles Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich First at Moderna, a cura di curated by A.-S. Noring, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Adrian Paci, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena Adrian Paci, a cura di curated by M. Hlavajova, BAK, Utrecht Modern Times, MAN, Nuoro Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Boonier Kunsthalle, Stockholm MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 1999 XLVIII Biennale di Venezia, Venezia 2000 BAN Exhibition, International House, Brussels Manifesta 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana We Love, Loves Us, a cura di curated by E. Muka, Museo Civico d Arte Contemporanea Pinacoteca Cascella, Ortona Arteast Collection 2000+, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinec, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana Coast to Coast, a cura di curated by L. Baldini, Placentia Arte, Piacenza In & Out, National Gallery of Art, Tirana Short Stories, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano I Bienal de Valencia, Valencia Adriatico: le due sponde, 52 edizione Premio Michetti, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, Museo Michetti, Francavilla a Mare (Chieti) Escape, Tirana Biennale 1, a cura di curated by E. Muka, Tirana Generator, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca Beautiful Strangers, a cura di curated by E. Muka, ifa-galerie, Berlin Ostensiv, Kunstraum Leipzig, Leipzig Killing me Softly, Bildmuseet Umeå, Umeå Arteast Collection 2000+, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinec, Innsbruck In Search of Balkania, a cura di curated by R. Conover, E. Cufer, P. Weibel, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Neue Galerie, Graz Adrian Paci 57

30 Adrian Paci EXIT, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino V Werkleitz Biennial, Berlin Nuovo Spazio Italiano, MART Museo d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto The Horse would Know but the Horse can t Speak, Premio Furla, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia It s Ain t Much But It s Home (con with Emanuel Licha), Binz 39, Zürich Bound/less Borders, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, R. Balaci, I. Boubnova, D. Blazevic, P. Cukovic, J. Krpan, E. Muka, Z. Petkovski, D. Simicic, R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, exhibitiontour Looking Awry, a cura di curated by WHW, Apex Art, New York Vacio 9, a cura di curated by P. Kilchmann, Madrid Gestures, a cura di curated by M. Gilli, F. Fulchéri, Printemps de Septembre, Festival of Contemporary Images, Toulouse In den Schluchten des Balkan. Kunst aus dem Südosten Europas, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Draft, a cura di curated by B. Ruf, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich Le Mille e una Notte, Stecca degli Artigiani, Milano Isola (Art) Project Milano, MACMO, Genève Blut & Honig Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg- Wien Moltitudini-Solitudini, a cura di curated by S. Risaliti, Museion, Bolzano Se Bashku, Tirana Biennale 2, Tirana Skin Deep, MART Museo d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto G - Museo delle Ossessioni, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Vira, Svizzera Bitter / Sweet Harmony, a cura di curated by E. Muka, The Israeli Center for Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel Pathos/Gefuhle, a cura di curated by F. Ruhofer, Raumpool Rhein-Main, Frankfurt am Main New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walzer, Renaissance Society, Chicago; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Tate Modern, London Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro The Joy of My Dreams, 1 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (I BIACS), a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Sevilla Dimensione Follia, a cura di curated by R. Pinto, Galleria Civica d Arte Contemporanea di Trento Triennale di Tallin, a cura di curated by S. Helme, Tallin, Estonia On air, a cura di curated by L. Facco, Galleria Comunale di Monfalcone, Monfalcone (Gorizia) I Nuovi Mostri, a cura di curated by M. Gioni, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano Exiting Europe, a cura di curated by A. Ledrer, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, a cura di curated by S. Midzic, J. Vesic, A. Nikitovic, S. Mitrovic, Vrsac, Serbia Empowerment/Cantiere Italia, a cura di curated by M. Scotini, Museo d Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova Z.A.T. Zone Artistiche Temporanee, a cura di curated by E. Zanella, Civica Galleria d Arte Moderna, Gallarate Se Bashku, a cura di curated by E. Muka, Museum of Contempory Art, Upsala Who is Singing Over There, a cura di curated by D. Blazevic, Sarajevo Periplo del Mediterraneo, a cura di curated by M. Calvesi, M. Vescovo, Loggia di Banchi, Genova Sempre un po più lontano, a cura di curated by R. Martinez, LI Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Photography Biennale, a cura di curated by J. Erik Lundström, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin War is over 60 anni di libertà 1945-, GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo More Than This, Biennale Visual Arts, a cura di curated by S. Arrhenius, Göteborg Art Film Biennale, Köln ADAM, Smart project space, Amsterdam Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, Miami Art Central, Miami Going public 05, a cura di curated by C. Zanfi, Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, Greece Per Speculum, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milano Wherever We Go, a cura di curated by G. Scardi, H. Hanru, Spazio Oberdan, Milano Confini, a cura di curated by S. Cincinelli, C. Collu, R. Pinto, MAN, Nuoro Six feet under Autopsy of our Dealing with the Dead, a cura di curated by B. Fibicher, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Exposed Memory, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest Nothing Stands Still, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Bin beschäftigt, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale Köln in Berlin, Kunst-Werke, Berlin On Air: video in onda dall Italia, Galleria Comunale d Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone (Gorizia) The Grand Promenade, a cura di curated by A. Kafetsi, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney, a cura di curated by C. Merewether, Sydney I m Busy. Work or Amusement, a cura di curated by G. Mackert, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen Venice-Istanbul, a cura di curated by R. Martinez, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul Mixed with Pain, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Shoot the Family, a cura di curated by R. Rugoff, USA; Canada, exhibitiontour Painting as a Way of Living, a cura di curated by R. Martinez, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul Ecce Uomo (33+1 artisti contemporanei da collezioni private), Spazio Oberdan, Milano A scuola con gli artisti, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento 60 Minutes Well Spent, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt This Is Not America, Braverman ByArtProject, Tel Aviv Equal and Less Equal, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem Biennale cuvee, a cura di curated by M. Sturm, G. Rückert, World Selection of Contemporary Art, O.K Centrum, Linz ARS 06, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Transculture, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków Adrian Paci 59

31 Lubiana (Slovenia), Vive e lavora a Lubiana. Ljubljana (Slovenija), He lives and works in New York and Ljubljana. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Galerija SKUC, Ljubljana Bezigrajska Galerija, Ljubljana Max Protetch Gallery, New York Mala Galerija, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Galerie Almine Rech, Paris Max Protetch Gallery, New York Grazer Kunstverein, Graz Gallery Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana Laumeier Museum, St. Louis, USA MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, O. Bouman, M. Hlavajova, K. Rhomberg, Ljubljana September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Kunstexpeditionen, Forum of Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin ArtUnlimited, Basel In den Schluchten des Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel U3, a cura di curated by C. Van Assche, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Collective Effort, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Mediterraneans, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, A. Barak, D. Denegri, M. Abu El Dahab, K. Gregos, V. Kortun, G. Maraniello, S. Shapira, D. Torres, MACRO al Mattatoio, Roma Den Haag Skulptuur, The Hague, The Netherlands Seven Sins, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Certain Tendencies in Representation, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Greater NY, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Monuments for America, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Tobijas Putrih Tobijas Putrih Eldorado, Mudam, Luxembourg ArtUnlimited, Basel LII Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Slovenia, Venezia Quasi-random, legno, plastica, clips / wood, plastic, clips dimensioni variabili / variable dimensions (110 x 60 x 60 cm) collezione privata / private collection courtesy Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana 61

32 Anri Sala Missing Landscape, video, courtesy Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Johnen + Schöttle, Köln; Hauser & Wirth, Zürich-London Tirana (Albania), Vive e lavora a Berlino e Parigi. Tirana (Albania), He lives and works in Berlin and Paris. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Unlimited nl-4 (con with Christian Jankowski), a cura di curated by V. Kortun, De Appel, Amsterdam Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (con with Torsten Slama), München Galerie Johnen & Schöttle (con with Martin Boyce), Köln Nocturnes, Mamco Musée d art moderne et contemporain, Genève it has been raining here, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (con with Martin Creed), München OPA (artist run space), Guadalajara, Mexico Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Amplified Absorbers, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Missing Landscape and Promises, Trans-area, New York Concentrations, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Naturalmystic (tomahawk #2), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Köln Anri Sala, a cura di curated by G. Matt, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien All Gone, Residence-Project Gallery at CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan Anri Sala, Yeans, Göteborg Anri Sala, Exit Contemporary Art Institute, Pejë, Kosovo Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli Hauser & Wirth London, London Entre chien et loup/when the Night Calls it a Day, ARC Musée d Art Moderne, Paris; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg Now I see, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Long Sorrow, a cura di curated by M. Gioni, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milano Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, a cura di curated by M. Slizinska, Warszawa Anri Sala - Artist in Focus, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Anri Sala - Artist in Focus, The XXXIV International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR, Rotterdam Dammi i Colori, DAAD Galerie, Berlin Anri Sala: Dammi i colori, presented in The Mildred S. Lee Gallery, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Anri Sala, Galeria EXIT (EXIT Contemporary Art Institute), Pejë, Kosovo Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Thinking Architecture # 1 - Anri Sala, Extra City, Antwerpen Air Cushioned Ride, Johnen Galerie, Berlin Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Anri Sala 63

33 Anri Sala MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 1999 After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, a cura di curated by B. Pejic, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Ludwig, Köln XLVII Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Albania, Venezia 2000 Finale Di Partita/Endgame/Fin De Partie, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Firenze Geographies: Darren Almond Graham Gussin Anri Sala, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Media_City Seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea Man muss ganz schön viel lernen um hier zu funktionieren, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main Coast to Coast, Placentia Arte, Piacenza In & Out, National Gallery, Tirana Voilà Le Monde dans la Tête, Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris Biennale Européenne de l Art Contemporain, Manifesta 3, Ljubljana Wie Weg Disappeared, Rotor Association for Contemporary Art, Graz Wider Bild Gegen Wart Positions to a political discourse, Raum aktueller Kunst, Wien Unpacking Europe, a cura di curated by S. Hassan, I. Dadi, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Solos for Video, Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf Passwor(l)ds, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart Manon De Boer Anri Sala Xavier Veilhan, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Wien II Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin believe, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster The Escape, National Gallery, Tirana Tirana Biennale, Tirana d APERTutto, XLVIII Biennale di Venezia, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Venezia Yokohama : International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan Arrêt sur image zeitgenössische Kunst aus Frankreich, Kunst-Werke, Berlin Beautiful Strangers, a cura di curated by E. Muka, ifa-galerie, Berlin The Gift, Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena Trauma, Dundee Contemporary Arts (in collaborazione con in collaboration with Hayward Gallery), Dundee, United Kingdom; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Nocturnes, Delfina Project Space, London Unpacking Europe, Haus der Kultur der Welt, Berlin Uniform: Order and Disorder, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Neue Welt, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (hi)story, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg XXV Bienal de São Paulo, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo The Mind is a Horse (Uomoduomo), Bloomberg Space, London Œel aire es azul-the air is blue, Casa Museo Luis Barragàn, Mexico City Moulène-Sala São Paulo, Programma Art Centre, Mexico City Geographies (#2), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Superstudio, Yvon Lambert, Paris In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Continous Play (Nat. mystic), Luhring Augustine, New York Do It, Online Project, a cura di curated by H.-U. Obrist Slow Motion, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Photographier, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon Protest Respekt, a cura di curated by G. Jetzer, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen des goûts et des couleurs, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lons-Le-Saunier, France Viewmaster, New International Cultural Center, Antwerpen Jean-Luc Moulène et Anri Sala, XXV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo Martin Creed, Martin Boyce, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Köln Un inventaire contemporain, Salle audiovisuelle du Jeu de Paume, Paris Le regard de l autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen Objets de réflexion, Le Plateau, Paris Manifesta 4, Frankfurt Big Social Game, a cura di curated by M. Pistoletto, Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane, Torino Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich C est pas du cinéma, a cura di curated by M. Nuridsany, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France Handlungsanweisungen Kunstpfad am Karlsplatz -, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien Haunted by Detail, De Appel, Amsterdam Appel à témoins. A call for Witnesses, Le Quartier Centre d art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France Categories: Post-Verité, Centro Párraga, Murcia fast forward. Media Art / Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe Remind, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz Moulène-Sala São Paulo, Musée des Beaux- Arts de Nantes, Nantes U-Topos, Tirana Biennale 2, Tirana Poetic Justice, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul In den Schluchten des Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao Balkan Visions, Galerie Museum AR/GE Kunst, Bolzano Writing Identity. Autobiography in Art, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig Utopia Station, a cura di curated by HUO, M. Nesbitt, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Warum! Bilder Diesseits und Jenseits des Menschen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Blut & Honig Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg-Wien Manfred Pernice - Neo Rauch - Francis Alys - Anri Sala. Die Erfindung der Vergangenheit, Pinakothek der Moderne, München Hardcore, Towards a New Activism, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Witness. Contemporary Artists document our time, Barbican Art Gallery - The Curve, London Anri Sala, Carl Johan Erikson, Veli Granö, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm Moltitudini-Solitudini, MUSEION, Bolzano Les 20 ans des FRAC, FRAC - Regionen, Paris Point of view: An Anthology of the Moving Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles The Encounters in the 21 st Century/Polyphony- Emerging Resonances, XX Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Down here, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway Onufri Prize, National Gallery of Art, Tirana 3, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main Taipei Biennial, a cura di curated by E. Lu, E. Filipovic, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Delay, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León Situations construites, Attitudes Espace d arts contemporains, Genève Communauté 2, a cura di curated by D. Snauwaert, Institut d Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Lyon Artists Favorites, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London DAK ART, The Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal Time Zones, a cura di curated by J. Morgan, G. Muir, Tate Modern, London Privatisierungen. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa, (iniziativa del initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in collaborazione con in cooperation with ZKM Karlsruhe), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin In.Progress section, LVII Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno NON-SECT/RADICAL. Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Anri Sala 65

34 Anri Sala A Fripon. Fripon et demi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon ev+a The Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, München Paysages invisibles, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro Mediterraneans, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, A. Barak, D. Denegri, M. Abu El Dahab, K. Gregos, V. Kortun, G. Maraniello, S. Shapira, D. Torres, MACRO al Mattatoio, Roma Point of view: An Anthology of the Moving Image, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York VII Medien und Architektur Biennale, Graz Soft Target: War as a Daily, First Hand Reality and Undercurrents, BAK, Basis for actuele Kunst, Utrecht Irreducible, Miami Art Central, MAC, Miami; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Universalism at Stake, Spacex Gallery, Exeter Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea Something of the Night, Leeds City Gallery, Leeds EindhovenIstanbul, a cura di curated by E. Meyer Hermann, C. Esche, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Projekt Migration Roadmap to Europe, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln Fraktale IV Tod. 25 Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst zum Phänomen Tod, Palast der Republik, Berlin Pursuit of Happiness, Kader van Beyond, Leidsche Rijn, The Netherlands Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Fast Nichts Minimalistische Werke aus der Sammlung Flick, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Nach Rokytnik Die Sammlung der EVN, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien Auf beiden Seiten des Rheins Ambiance, K1 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf No Manifesto, GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris X Wohnungen Suburbs, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin 3, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela Videos in Progress, a series of videos looping continuously during museum hours. Anri Sala: Time After Time () + Gary Hill: Blind Spot 8, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA Colour after Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London Bidibidobidiboo. La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per i dieci anni della Fondazione, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino Point of view: An Anthology of the Moving Image, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (NY), USA Reprocessing Reality, Chateau de Nyon. Filmfestival Vision du Réel, Nyon Faces in the Crowd, a cura di curated by I. Blazwick, C. Christov-Bakargiev, Castello di Rivoli Museo d Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino) Emergency, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León Reykjavik Art Festival, Contemporary Art Center Klink & Bank, Reykjavik Screentests, a cura di curated by E. Carels, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam Situated Self: Confused, Compassionate and Conflictual, a cura di curated by B. Diimitrijevic, M. Hannula, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki New Video, New Europe, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Fast forward. Avance ràpido. Media Art de la Colección Goetz, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Galerie Patrick Seguin invites HAUSER & WIRTH, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris Dedica Vent anni della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Napoli Personal Affairs, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Retour, Paysages d une collection, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France Slow Motion, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Mankind. Story of a Wound, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent L Ombra, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; MAN, Nuoro Intouchable. L idéal transparence, Villa Arson, Nice Point Of View, TKG Editions, Tokyo ZOO Logical Garden, Family Park Harry Malter, Mechelen, Belgium Grenzgänger, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany Vom Pferd erzählen, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany All Hawaii Entrees / Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Fussball goes Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien The Waiting Place, Whitstable Biennial, Whitstable, United Kingdom The Secret Theory of Drawing, The Drawing Room, London NOCTOUR, Contour Mechelen, Mechelen, The Netherlands Reprocessing Reality, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Sensorium Part I, MIT List Visual Art Center, Boston XV Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Em, Eretz, Medina, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Interrupted Histories, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinec, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana Of Mice and Men, IV Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, a cura di curated by M. Cattelan, M. Gioni, A. Subotnik, Berlin Infinite Painting, a cura di curated by F. Bonami, S. Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro d Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine) Raconte-Moi/Tell Me, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Altered States, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Archipeinture, Fonds Régional d Art Contemporain d Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris Painting Ruins, Afghan Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul, Afghanistan Anstoss Berlin Kunst macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee. Ort internationaler Gegenwartskunst, Berlin L oeil écran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris Word, Tale and Motley Narration: A Video Parade From Different Points, Atlas Gallery, Ankara History Started Playing With My Life, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Vokalnoverbalino / Vocal Verbal, Galeriji Studentskog Centra, Zagreb, Croatia War and Discontent, MFA, Boston Between Borders, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain Sensorium Part II, MIT List Visual Art Center, Boston In the Eye of the Storm/Im Auge des Zyklons, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen Anri Sala 67

35 Erzen Shkololli White, videoinstallazione / video installation, produzione / production: Virtual Studio courtesy l artista / the artist Pejë (Kosovo), Vive e lavora a Pejë. Pejë (Kosovë), He lives and works in Pejë. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Beautiful Way, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca Hey You, a cura di curated by M. Kolecek, Gallery Raketa, Usti nad Labem MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2000 Coast to Coast, a cura di curated by L. Baldini, Placentia Arte, Piacenza Balkan Art Generator, a cura di curated by B. Andjelkovic, Brussels We Love Italy, Italy Loves Us, a cura di curated by E. Muka, Museo Civico d Arte Contemporanea Pinacoteca Cascella, Ortona Escape, Tirana Biennale 1, a cura di curated by E. Muka, Tirana Beautiful Strangers, a cura di curated by E. Muka, ifa-galerie, Berlin Adriatico: le due sponde, 52 Premio Michetti, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, Museo Michetti, Francavilla a Mare (Chieti) VideoRom, a cura di curated by C. Perrella, I Bienal de Valencia, Valencia Speculations, a cura di curated by V. Kortun, E. Kosova, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul In Search of Balkania, a cura di curated by R. Conover, E. Cufer, P. Weibel, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Neue Galerie, Graz Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, a cura di curated by I. Boubnova, N. Enguita Mayo, S. Moisdon Trembley, Frankfurt am Main Money and Value the Last Taboo, Swiss National Exhibition expo.02, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Biel, Suisse U-topos, Tirana Biennale 02, a cura di curated by B. Andjelkovic, National Gallery of Art, Tirana In Den Schluchten des Balkan, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Blut & Honig Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg-Wien The Tale of The Thread: Embroidery and Sewing in Contemporary Art, a cura di curated by F. Pasini, G. Verzotti, MART Museo d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto Balkan Visions, a cura di curated by E. Cufer, ARGE Kunst, Bolzano Bitter / Sweet Harmony, a cura di curated by E. Muka, The Israeli Center for Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel The Joy of My Dreams, 1 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Sevilla Love It or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, a cura di curated by N. Ilic, R. Block, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro Troubled Times, a cura di curated by M. Campitelli, Civico Museo della Guerra per la Pace, Trieste M vyn ndrim radikal / Treba mi radikalna promjena, a cura di curated by WHW, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Serbia Mobilen / Movables, a cura di curated by S. Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck Sweet Taboos, Tirana Biennale 3, a cura di curated by J. Ljungberg, Tirana Overcoming Past, a cura di curated by D. Blazevic, National Gallery, Sarajevo Double Check The Other Space in Photography, Parallel Histories, a cura di curated by M. Grzinic, Erzen Shkololli 69

36 Erzen Shkololli W. Seidl, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Celje, Slovenija; Camera Austria Galerie, Graz New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walker, Renaissance Society, Chicago; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA; Kitchen Gallery, New York SHAKE - ID Troubles, a cura di curated by Z. Eric, H. Munder, B. Steinbruegge, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Gremany; NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, New York We are what we are. Aspects of Roma Life in Contemporary Art, a cura di curated by M. Makovec, A. Lederer, Graz; Ljubljana; Trnava; Usti nad Labem; Bucharest; Budapest, exhibitiontour Së Bashku-Juntos-Tillsammans, a cura di curated by J. Ljungberg, E. Muka, R. Mallea Lira, Y. Villalonga, National Gallery of Art, Tirana; Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, exhibitiontour People Land State, a cura di curated by G. Eilat, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Interrupted Histories, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana This is not America, a cura di curated by G. Eliat, ByArt Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv E

37 son : DA Metka Golec (Maribor, Slovenija, 1972). Miha Horvat (Maribor, Slovenija, 1976). Vivono e lavorano a Maribor e Vienna. They live and work in Maribor and Vienna. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) hidden reality, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana A2, Porschehof & Kunstverein, Salzburg unit.003, KIBLA, Maribor unit.241, Galerija Meduza, Koper unit.739, KIBLA, Maribor room nr_001.psd, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Wien mouse-computer-drawings, a cura di curated by V. Pomery, Turner Contemporary, Margate unit.1008, a cura di curated by N. Sivavec, Likovni Salon Celje, Celje PLATFORM #1. Semiconductor + son : DA, a cura di curated by C. Agnello, C/O Careof, Milano cityspaces. son : DA + Ziga Kariz, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinec, SKUC gallery, ARCO-06, Madrid son : DA, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Art Brussels, Brussels Situacija slovenska-35, a cura di curated by B. Piskur, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana Art-works, a cura di curated by R. Lisi, AP4-ART, Lugano.psd, a cura di curated by I. Spanjol, Miklova hisa, Ribnica MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) U3, a cura di curated by C. Van Assche, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Blut & Honig Zukunft ist am Balkan, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg-Wien Nove generacij, a cura di curated by P. Lampic, Jakopiceva galerija, Ljubljana Seven sins, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, I. Zabel, V. Misiano, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Cosmopolis1: Microcosmos x Macrocosmos, a cura di curated by M. Carneci, State Museum of Contemporary Art and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki On sale, a cura di curated by N. Petresin, A. Gregoric, Galerija SKUC, Ljubljana Musikprotokoll am Steirische Herbst, Graz Here and now, a cura di curated by K. Stoyanov, Institute for contemporary art, Sofia Mediterraneans, a cura di curated by Z. Badovinac, A. Barak, D. Denegri, M. Abu El Dahab, K. Gregos, V. Kortun, G. Maraniello, S. Shapira, D. Torres, MACRO al Mattatoio, Roma Niemandsland, a cura di curated by H. Liebhart- Ulm, A. Soucek, Kunstlerhaus, Wien New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walker, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Habitat, a cura di curated by M. Lewoc, Szczecin Trienale ekologija in umetnost, UGM, Maribor Versus XI, a cura di curated by L. Tadorni, Velan Center For Contemporary Art, Torino 95_05, a cura di curated by I. Zabel, I. Spanjol, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 26 th Biennale of Graphical Arts, Tobacna tovarna, Ljubljana Eye-Try, a cura di curated by A. Kostic, Cork Vision Center, Cork situation NR_1116.psd, stampa Lambda / Lambda print 115 x 90 cm courtesy l artista / the artist son : DA 73

38 Sonambiente, Berlin Slovenian animation 96-06, a cura di curated by I. Prassel, Likovni salon, Celje Oscilacije-30dni zvoka, a cura di curated by B. Piskur, Mala galerija, Ljubljana New Video, New Europe, a cura di curated by H. Walker, The Kitchen Art Gallery, New York Approaching Reality s Borders, a cura di curated by C. Gioia, ARCOS, Benevento U3, a cura di curated by J. Krpan, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Crazycurators2, Bratislava Viennabiennale, Wien UGM s video collection, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Novi Sad group, Kunstlerhaus, Graz 27 th Biennale of Graphical Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana Contemporary Slovenian Photogaphy, Museum of Art, Lendava son : DA

39 Milorad Mića Staičić Belgrado (Serbia), Vive e lavora a Belgrado. Belgrade (Serbia), He lives and works in Belgrade. MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Annual exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Belgrade Annual exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Belgrade Annual exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Belgrade 34 th exhibition of small drawings and sculptures, FLU, Belgrade Real Presence Generation, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, Museum of City of Belgrade, Belgrade Progressive Hopes, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, Gallery HAOS, Belgrade ++, art group Dez.org, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade Semester exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Belgrade Street-Car, -07 intervento nello spazio pubblico / intervention in the public space Milorad Mića Staičić 77

40 Jelena Tomaš ević Joy of Life, pittura per pareti, acrilico, garza, nastro adesivo su acciaio di 3 mm / masonry paint, acrylic, med-gauze bandage, adhesive tape on 3 mm steel 100 x 80 cm courtesy l'artista / the artist Podgorica (Montenegro), Vive e lavora a Podgorica. Podgorica (Montenegro), She lives and works in Podgorica. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Jelena Tomaš ević, Budva, Montenegro Road on the Wall. Wall as a Road, Plavi dvorac, Cetinje, Montenegro Joy of Life II, Thrust Projects, New York Buero.DC, Köln So-Yeun Lee & Jelena Tomaš ević, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) A Week of Montenegrin Culture, One View, Barcelona Chain of Discoveries, Montenegro International Biennial of Drawings, Rijeka, Croatia IV Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje, Montenegro In the Gorges of the Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Montenegrin Beauty, a cura di curated by S. Racanovic, Budva; Belgrade Bound/Less Borders, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, R. Balaci, I. Boubnova, D. Blazevic, P. Cukovic, J. Krpan, E. Muka, Z. Petkovski, D. Simicic, R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, exhibitiontour 5 th International Biennial of New Art, Vrsac, Serbia Urbanci, a cura di curated by P. Cukovic, Sarajevo Violenta Imaginii, Imagine Violenti, I Tinteret Biennial, Bucharest Distant Neighborhoods - Resting Closeness, a cura di curated by S. Racanovic, Dubrovnik; Mostar; Cetinje, Montenegro AriKuliranje, BELEF, Belgrade Artiade, Olympics of Visual Arts, Athens In the Cities of the Balkans, V Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje, Montenegro Orhide, a cura di curated by P. Cukovic, Cetinje, Montenegro Central - New Art of Central Europe, Belgrade FEM5-Video Festival, Video Drive, Spain The Biennial Portfolios, a cura di curated by R. Block, 9 th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Montenegrin Beauty, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin; Motorenhalle, Dresden The Eros of Slight Offence, Padiglione Serbia e Montenegro, a cura di curated by S. Racanovic, LI Biennale di Venezia, Venezia S1 Salon, Sheffield, United Kingdom Collapsible Monuments, Thrust Projects, New York Art, Life & Confusion, 47 th October Salon, a cura di curated by R. Block, B. Hinrich, Belgrade Scary Tels, Filiale, Berlin Cross the Line, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf East to West, AP4-ART, Genève ENNUI Fact, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool Non places, Roda Stein, Göteborg Off - Center Femininities, a cura di curated by J. Stokic, Windows of Kimmel Center, New York University, New York Lollypop, Body and Consumption, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Vojvodina, Serbia Jelena Tomaš ević 79

41 Skopje (Macedonia), Vive e lavora a Skopje e Atene. Skopje (Macedonia), She lives and works in Skopje and Athens. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) White Widow, Rotterdam Azil, intervento nello spazio pubblico intervention in the public space, Rotterdam Slavica Toš evska Urban Art Guerilla Projects, Skopje, Macedonia Zooropa, Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Arbeit Macht Frei, Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) III International Print Triennial, Istanbul Body Art, Fashion Week, Skopje, Macedonia Slavica Toš evska Youth Graphic Exhibition, Osijek, Croatia Real Presence Generation, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade Real Presence-Floating sites, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, LI Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Biljardana, -07 colori acrilici, uova, erba / acrilic color, eggs, grass 130 x 85 cm courtesy l artista / the artist 81

42 Nikola Uzunovski Belgrado (Serbia), Vive e lavora a Venezia e Helsinki. Belgrade (Serbia), He lives and works in Venice and Helsinki. MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE) SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Drops, a cura di curated by C. Campus, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Napoli Birthday Party, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Drops, Contemporary Art Center, Skopje, Macedonia Dream on, Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Bozicna izlozba, a cura di curated by N. Cvijanovic, Galerija OK, Rijeka, Croatia Talk Show, a cura di curated by S. Boeri, H. U. Obrist, Viafarini, Milano Mappa mundi, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, G. Di Pietrantonio, Chiesa di San Francesco, Como Life is Full of Possibilities, a cura di curated by M. Altavilla, Galleria T293, Napoli 88.ma Collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Play 04, a cura di curated by L. Aiello, C. Casorati, D. Landi, L. Valerio, Galleria Moncada, Roma Q13 Building, a cura di curated by A. Zanchetta, Contemporaneo, Mestre Transmission, a cura di curated by Progettozero(+), J. Kosuth, R. Tiravanija, Bassano del Grappa Real Presence 4, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade QualsiasiTV, progetto di project by R. Tiravanija, Base, Firenze Guardarsi Intorno, a cura di curated by C. Pietroiusti, R. Gabri, Galleria A+A, Venezia Tracce di un seminario, a cura di curated by A. Vettese, G. Di Pietrantonio, Viafarini, Milano Space is the Place_03, a cura di curated by M. Altavilla, A. de Mannincor, T.P.O., Bologna A Change in the Air Changes Everything, movimento in aria, carta, policarbonato / movement in air, paper, Polycarbonate dimensioni variabili / variable dimensions White Noise, a cura di curated by L. Vona, Artlab Studio BK, Torino Untitled, a cura di curated by A. Ascari, E. Bonaspetti, VentraXV, Milano White and other, in any case art, a cura di curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Palazzo Cavour, Torino Multiplo 2, a cura di curated by S. Coletto, NO Gallery, Milano Arhipelag, Nova Gorica; Gorizia Real Presence-Floating sites, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, LI Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Nikola Uzunovski 83

43 Nikola Uzunovski Mars Pavilion, a cura di curated by A. Morucchio, M. Baravalle, Venezia Plazamarket, a cura di curated by Progetto 0+, Venezia 8 x 12, a cura di curated by S. Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 7th Youth Biennial: Beyond the Borders, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje 10, Kaiku Gallery, Helsinki Conflitti, progetto di project by Synapser, Villa Serena, Bologna Foresti a Venezia, a cura di curated by S. Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Play 04, a cura di curated by L. Aiello, C. Casorati, D. Landi, L. Valerio, C/O careof, Milano Talk to the city, Fabbrica del vapore, Milano Videoreport Italia _05, Galleria Comunale d Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone Art is Always Somewhere Else, 2 nd International Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest Selected Works, Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano del Grappa The Sun on the Wall, a cura di curated by G. Podnar, Pavelhaus, Laafeld Artist in Discussion, a cura di curated by T. Bundalevska, N. Vilic Kampnagel, Hamburg Progressive Hopes, a cura di curated by B. Tomic, Galleria HAOS, Belgrade Becoming Place, a cura di curated by L. Giovinazzo, Castello di San Terenzo, Lerici Cric, a cura di curated by A. Fourie, R. Gutiérrez, Sierre Tends to Infinity, a cura di curated by S. Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Trajectory 2 - The Sun on the Wall, a cura di curated by G. Podnar, LCCA, Arsenal, Riga The Galleries show, Extracity Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerpen The artist in conversation, a cura di curated by T. Bundalevska, N. Vilic, Cifte amam, Skopje Off, a cura di curated by B. P. Isijanin, M. Denkov, Press to exit gallery, Skopje, Macedonia N

44 Belgrado (Serbia), Vive e lavora a Belgrado. Belgrade (Serbia), She lives and works in Belgrade. MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) Vesna Vesić 1998 III Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrš ac, Serbia 1999 Multimedia Festival Talin, Estonia 40 th October Salon, Belgrade World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam d APERTutto, a cura di curated by H. Szeemann, XLVIII Biennale di Venezia, Venezia Virtual Enclosing, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, B. Tomic, Centre for Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien Dare Luogo, a cura di curated by D. Denegri, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma Contibution for Human Rights, German Embassy, Belgrade 2000 Alpe Adria Festival, Trieste Vesna Vesić Wash Me and I Will Be Whiter than Snow / Lavami e sarò più bianco della neve, 1998 video su DVD / video on DVD produzione / production Vladimir Zaric & CibeREX 87

45 Natalija Vujoš ević Podgorica (Montenegro), Vive e lavora a Podgorica. Podgorica (Montenegro), She lives and works in Podgorica. MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) In the Gorges of the Balkans, a cura di curated by R. Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Love It Or Leave It, V Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje, Montenegro Untitled (As Yet), Bijenale Mladih, Vrsac, Serbia Bienal de Jafre, Girona Montenegrin Beauty, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Mottorenhalle, Dresden European Reflections, Charlottenborg halle, Copenhagen FEM festival, Madrid Go With The Flow, Belgrade Cultural Center Art Gallery, Belgrade Now I Know You Were the One, videoinstallazione / video installation Natalija Vujoš ević 89

46 INBETWEENESS Dobrila Denegri The state of being between a point of departure and a point of arrival, or between a place that you leave behind and another that you arrive at, is like being in movement and held in suspension at the same time. This condition is full of contrasting feelings that range from vulnerability to perspicacity, uncertainty to expectation, all moved by habitual behavioural patterns and subject to the unpredictability of the situation. Such is the condition of the traveller. More than physical, it is a psychological and mental state that removes him from a feeling of citizenship in a given location, and projects him into a dimension of Becoming, in which the only constant is that of change. With Heraclitus Becoming meant the continuous mutation and transformation of things from one state into another. If we take a look at the etymology of the term, we see how it takes on various nuances. The word become comes from Old English becuman, meaning to happen, which comes from the Gothic biquiman, meaning to appear suddenly. Although going down different roads, both meanings take us back to the starting point: the desire to understand, at least in part, what living in a space that is in-between really means, and how this is mirrored, through these metaphorical reflections, by the process that redraws the contours of the notion of identity. Leaving your place of origin for another physical and cultural reality inevitably means starting a process by which you explore the notion of identity. It sets off a sort of real-time editing in which, as with cinematographic cross-fades, past and present, memory and experience follow one another and contrast with each other, as you lighten the load from the store of your background in order to make room for what you pick up along the way. The longer you remain on this journey, the closer you come to the idea that identity is an unanchored, complex, and polyhedral concept that goes with the notion of a hybrid and multiple identity in which different cultural codes converge, combine or break up. Finding yourself in this in-between space can be both an individual and a collective experience, and it not only implies moving from one place to another but also being held in different temporal dimensions. It can be likened to the idea of finding yourself floating in the vacuum that is created when History comes to an end, when a political or social system is undone and everything upon which your sense of belonging was created ceases to have any relevance; when the feeling of discontinuity between past and present is so great that everything seems out of line. This happens when there are ruptures, such as the events that followed the dismantling of the Berlin wall: the collapse of socialist systems, the start of democratization processes in some parts of Eastern Europe and the outbreak of ethnic conflicts in others. It is the rifts that marked 91

47 the start of the new millennium, which the generation of artists coming out of the first half of the 1990s was completely caught up in, and which as a consequence also touched the younger generations. For some, the initial push was the opening of frontiers; for others it meant dramatic and bloody events. But regardless of what the drive may have been, during the 1990s many artists from ex-communist countries took to nomadism (sometimes forced) and moved to the cultural capitals of Western Europe. They arrived there with stories to tell, with feelings, with experiences, and this strongly influenced their way of making and interpreting art. They had questions about history and its deconstruction, about the uncertainty of the present and the absence of future; their questions touched upon the ethical and existential, and were the driving force behind works in which individual stories merged, as if in a kaleidoscope, with those of universal interest. In one of his early films Intervista Finding the Words, Anri Sala reveals terrifying aspects of a dictatorship in Albania; at the same time he tells a personal story full of the intimate and moving tones that can only be found in the rapport that exists between mother and son. This work is like taking a trip down memory lane using the silent images of a film found by chance, which turned into a comparison between two periods: between the period that vanished along with the ideological beliefs that the mother shared with her generation, and the period of the present in which there was a mix of nostalgia and a desire to start again. It is one of the emblematic works of that initial moment, as was the video by Maja Bajević Women at Work / Washing up, which showed women in a hammam of Istanbul washing thin fabrics with the words of some of Tito s slogans sewn onto them by the artist, such as Long live the brotherhood and the united forces of our peoples, and others, which having been drained of all meaning became completely lost in the folds of the threadbare fabrics. Using symbolic gestures, poetic images, dramatic and pungent content, works such as these have given substance to that sense of loss that you feel when a given reality falls apart and crumbles into fragments that will never again be pieced together. In the early 1990s, works such as these pointed to an identity crisis, and now, more than ten years on, we see how the thought process has moved in another direction to develop a new condition that can assimilate different cultural elements and codes and at the same time maintain an acute critical sense that puts everything into question. The state of being in-between is like that of being in continuous passage, restless but also dynamic, uncertain and at the same time resolute. It is a state in which questions are asked about belonging, and the gap is bridged between the questions where do you come from? and what do you identify with? Not surprisingly, the point of observation is repositioned: David Maljković places his work in a hypothetical future dimension, stating that the future becomes like a black hole freed of historical events that allows for the creation of new possibilities. His trilogy Scene for New Heritage is set in 2045, and it gives a dimension that increases temporal distance, looks back, and goes to characteristic places such as monuments built on the Croatian territory during the period of communism Utopian architecture in which you can hear the echo of an absent reality. Tobias Putrih picks up on the Utopian projects of one of the most visionary architects and inventors of the twentieth century, Buckminster Fuller, in particular from his Cloud Nine, which envisaged living units that floated in the air, recreating geodesic structures that were malleable and subject to the transformations that each individual can cause. By projecting themselves into Utopian and futuristic dimensions, these artists bridge a temporal gap so that the space inbetween can be understood as a space of reconstruction and reinvention. But would it ever be possible to demarcate this space? Might it be possible to touch its borders? These questions take us to another aspect that Anri Sala captures in full with the video Missing Landscape: that of invisible borders. The framing is static and the composition perfectly symmetrical while a group of youngsters play football in a field surrounded by mountains. At first glance, the situation seems harmless. But the landscape represented here alludes to a suspended dimension, a reality made abstract in which the young actors move as if on a set, between invisible barriers. Clues that point to these obstacles carve out a reality that is removed from the rest of the world; but invisible borders also include the contrasts that occur between different cultural contexts and the mentality of the people who live in those contexts. This is what Daniela Kostova refers to with the video Made In. She makes us understand how reality changes depending on the viewer, and how easy it is to become conditioned by short-sighted political ideas, be they echoes of nationalistic myths or reflections of the imperialist ideology of the global economy. For many artists, leaving their homeland was an existential necessity, but it was also - by implication - a parting from nationalistic and obtusely traditionalist pulses. This parting did not necessarily mean a lack of commitment; in fact it underlined the need to act with greater critical awareness regarding the contradictions encountered with almost every step. I don t eat pork. I don t drink during Ramadan. But I do take ecstasy. Or I go to church. I rape women. These are the sentences uttered by Maja Bajević, actress, impersonating various characters in her video Double Bubble. They are a condemnation of the manipulative and hypocritical mechanisms that hide behind different religious 93

48 creeds, in the name of which some of the most brutal atrocities in every historical period have been committed. Coming up against and opposing these invisible barriers is one aspect of inbetweeness ; going beyond the real and physical barriers is another. Embarking on a nomadic, migratory existence means experiencing on a daily basis everything that being between different places can represent, not in a metaphorical or transposed sense, but in reality. In the video Klodi, Adrian Paci records the story of a man who talks about his travels from city to city, country to country, and continent to continent. It is a real passage between stations in which the extent of the displacement is such that no place can be called home.?ejla Kamerić, on the other hand, takes us into a dream-like dimension with his video-installation Dream House. It shows a house, or rather a shelter, that travels through time and bad weather yet always provides a safe haven always there, motionless on a changing landscape in the background, almost like a dream for those who understand the condition of involuntary exile. The themes tackled with these works reflect the aptitudes of a generation which found itself under the impact of the first political wave that completely crushed their realities and origins. Stories are imbued with a sense of displacement. They talk about marginalization and social invisibility, and about the projections and delusions of the first world; they criticise and expose. The slightly younger generations of artists lived through the transition processes as a sort of given condition. They grew up and were educated in that in-between space, which could otherwise be called a Becoming democracy, a reality that seems to have the same specific weight as helium and lead, uncertain and contradictory, catching you off guard yet despite everything full of potential. They study this reality with lightness and a rather dark sense of humour, albeit seldom cynical. Nimbly they cross ideological abysses with a playful aptitude that is never banal; and they do not repudiate the past a priori, but they observe it and revalorize its positive aspects. Inbetweeness, more than a condition, seems to be an imperative, a behavioural philosophy and a move towards reality. Who Is on the Way Is Already There declares Maja Beganović in a series of works in which she transforms this thought into an enigmatic slogan plastered on billboards all over the urban landscape, or into a title for her paintings, or else into an instruction for the public that interacts with the ambient installation made with strips of grass put together in the form of a collage of various paths to take. It indicates how making the first step means having already reached the final objective, because what is most important of all is the decision to go on, to live in a dynamic and active condition, and above all to go down a road with an awareness that the process of crossing, the means that you use, has to be coherent with the end. This work alludes to the multitude of roads to take, in the same way that the meaning of 'inbetweeness' generates a multitude of interpretations that we have tried to examine in a sort of open interview that could potentially go on forever. We asked the artists participating in the exhibition to explain what 'inbetweeness' meant to them, and then, in turn, for them to ask the same question to someone of their choosing. In so doing, a network of ideas was formed, a sort of malleable and dynamic architecture of 'Becoming' definitions. 95

49 Indice Le ragioni di una mostra Ludovico Pratesi The reasons for an exhibition Ludovico Pratesi INBETWEENESS Dobrila Denegri 14 Artisti / Artists 86 INBETWEENESS Dobrila Denegri

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51 Finito di stampare nel maggio da Garabello Artegrafica, San Mauro Torinese