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Love, Actually…Talks, Actually…
Symposium & Performance
26 November @ 3 – 7pm
The Symposium is part of the Exhibition
Love, Actually…
At MOMENTUM
9 October – 27 November 2016
PARTICIPANTS:
David Elliott, curator of The Pleasure of Love, the 56th October Salon
Bojana Pejić, curator of the 49th October Salon
Jasmina Petković, producer of the October Salon
Rachel Rits-Volloch, director of Momentum Worldwide
Artists:
Andreas Blank, Mariana Hahn, Leiko Ikemura, Aleksandar Jestrović, David Krippendorff,
Franziska Klotz, Johanna Kandl, Via Lewandowsky, Sarah Lüdemann,
Milovan Destil Marković, Bjørn Melhus, Kirsten Palz, Mariana Vassileva
SCHEDULE
Performance: 15:00 – 15:30
Sarah Lüdemann, Return of the chthonian – This Is My Land
PANELS:
Panel 1: 16:00-16:45
The October Salon: History of the Salon and The Pleasure of Love
Speakers: David Elliott, Bojana Pejić, Jasmina Petković
Panel 2: 16:45-15:30
From Salons to Biennales to Belgrade.
Moderator: David Elliott. Speakers: Leiko Ikemura, David Krippendorff, Franziska Klotz, Johanna Kandl, Via Lewandowsky, Milovan Destil Marković, Bjørn Melhus
Panel 3: 17:30-18:15
Building Collections out of Exhibitions. Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and the October Salon Collection in dialogue with their curators.
Moderator: Rachel Rits-Volloch. Speakers: Andreas Blank, Aleksander Jestrović, Mariana Hahn, Sarah Lüdemann, Kirsten Palz, Mariana Vassileva
Exhibition Viewing: 18:15-19:00
Title: Return of the Chthonian – This Is My Land
Artist: Sarah luedemann
Recording Date: 26/11/2016
Duration: 02 min 34 sec
Part of Love, Actually… Exhibition
PERFORMANCE @ 3:00 – 3:30pm
Return of the chthonian – This Is My Land
i am an anthropologist, an awkward surrealist, poetic road kill. i am the naked hunter, an Amazonian goddess, an oozing bitch. i am a magician, i am Alice. i am no feminist, my darlings!
let me make a mark, scratch the surface, scratch myself,
do not dislocate your body, dig in your brain for your animal ancestry – in order to sense the storm.
dynamite me! rip me apart and put me back together. blow my bones, sing for my flesh. make it all vibrate at higher frequencies, so I can reach for the stars.
that which built the cosmos was androgyne – total sex – without the bang there would have been no planet earth.
– Sarah Lüdemann
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The October Salon: History of the Salon and The Pleasure of Love
Speakers: David Elliott, Bojana Pejić, Jasmina Petković
From Salons to Biennales to Belgrade
Moderator: David Elliott. Speakers: Leiko Ikemura, David Krippendorff, Franziska Klotz, Johanna Kandl, Via Lewandowsky, Milovan Destil Marković, Bjørn Melhus
Building Collections out of Exhibitions.
Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and the October Salon Collection in dialogue with their curators
Moderator: Rachel Rits-Volloch. Speakers: Andreas Blank, Aleksander Jestrović, Mariana Hahn, Sarah Lüdemann, Kirsten Palz, Mariana Vassileva
SPEAKERS
David Elliott
David Elliott is an English born curator and writer. He was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England (1976-1996); Director of Moderna Museet [The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art] in Stockholm, Sweden (1996-2001); Founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2001-2006); the first Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art [Istanbul Modern] (2007); Artistic Director of The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival for a Precarious Age, the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2008–2010); in 2012 he was Artistic Director of The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, the 1st International Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011-12); he was Artistic Director of A Time for Dreams, the IV International Moscow Biennale of Young Art (2014). David Elliott was the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor in Art History at the Humboldt University, Berlin (2008) and Visiting Professor in Museum Studies at the Chinese University in Hong Kong (2008/11/13). From 1998 until 2004 he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern Art). He is Hon President of the Board of Triangle Art Network/Gasworks in London. A specialist in Soviet and Russian avant-garde, as well as in modern and contemporary Asian art, he has published widely in these fields as well as on many other aspects of contemporary art. In 1996 he was co-curator of Kunst und Macht im Europa der Diktatoren 1930 bis 1945 at the Hayward Gallery, London and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin and in 2000-2001 was Artistic Director of the exhibition After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Ludwig Museum, Budapest and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. In 2011 he curated Between Heaven and Earth. Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia at Calvert 22, London. He is the Chief Curator of BALAGAN: Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, organized by MOMENTUM.
Bojana Pejić
Bojana Pejić (born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia), is an art historian and curator, living in Berlin since 1991. Having studied History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Belgrade, from 1977 to 1991 she was curator at the Student Cultural Center of Belgrade University and organized many exhibitions of Yugoslav and international art. She started to write art criticism in 1971 and was editor of art theory journal “Moment, Belgrade” (1984 – 1991). She organized an international symposium “The Body in Communism” at the Literaturhaus in Berlin in 1995. She was Chief Curator of the exhibition After the Wall – Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe organized by David Elliott at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (1999), which was also presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Foundation Ludwig, Budapest (2000), and at HamburgerBahnhof, Berlin (2000-2001). She was one of the co-curators of the exhibition Aspects/Positions held in the Museum of Contemporary Art – Foundation Ludwig, Vienna in 1999. Between 2002 and 2004, she was one of international advisers of the Contemporary Art Museum in Kumamoto (Japan) where she also curated a retrospective of Marina Abramovic (2003), which also toured to Morigame (Japan). In 2003, she had the Rudolf Arnheim guest professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin (history of art). She was adviser of the project De/Construction of Monument organized by the Center for Contemporary Art in Sarajevo where she also held seminars at the Academy of Fine Arts dedicated to the “Communist Body.” (2004-2005) In May 2005 she has defended her Ph.D. “The Communist Body – An Archeology of Images: Politics of Representation and Spatialization of Power the SFR Yugoslavia (1945 -1991)”. She was a Maria Goeppert-Mayer guest professor for International Gender Research at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University in Oldenburg (2006-2007). Bojana Pejić is the chief curator of Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe (2009-2010) at MUMOK, Vienna and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. She is also the editor of the “Gender Check Reader”. Dr. Bojana Pejić teaches at the Bauhuas University in Weimar and works as an independent curator and writer.
JASMINA PETKOVIĆ
Jasmina Petrovic, based in Belgrade, graduated in 2002 from the Department of Serbian Language and Literature at the University of Belgrade. As a producer and organizer at the Belgrade Cultural Center, she curated exhibitions and organised projects since 2008, where she started with the exhibition Exposing\Underline memories in the Sentetjen-Museum of Modern Art. In 2009 she produced the visual program BELEF09, followed by the international project The Culture Lobby (an archive of cultural memory) in 2010. In 2013 Petrovic organized the International Film Artist, curated by Zorana Đaković Minniti, and in 2014, in cooperation with the White Chapel Gallery in London. In 2015 she initiated various projects, such as the Resonate Festival and Grey Matter together with Ivana Šijak in the Museum of Belgrade, as well as the Russian Avangard in the Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade. In 2008 Petrovic began to produce and organize her first October Salon, in cooperation with the curator Bojana Pejic, the 49th October Salon titled Artist-Citizen, a citizen of the artist. Subsequently she also organized the 50th October Salon in 2009, Circumstances, curated by Branilava Andjelkovic, as well as the 52th October Salon in 2011, Time to get acquainted, curated by Alenka Gregorič and Galit Eliat, and the 53th October Salon in 2012, Gud Lajf, curated by Branislav Dimitrijevic and Mika Hanula. Also under her supervision was the 55th October Salon in 2014, Things that disappear, curated by Nikolaus Schaffhausen and Vanessa Miller, in the City Museum Belgrade, and this year’s 56th October Salon, Salon Pleasure of love, curated by David Elliott, took place in the Museum of Belgrade and the Belgrade Cultural Center.
RACHEL RITS-VOLLOCH
Dr. Rachel Rits-Volloch is a graduate of Harvard University with a BA degree in Literature and holds an M.Phil and PhD from the University of Cambridge in Film Studies. She wrote her dissertation on visceral spectatorship in contemporary cinema, focusing on the biological basis of embodiment. Having been a university lecturer in film studies and visual culture, her focus moved to contemporary art after she undertook a residency at A.R.T Tokyo. Rachel Rits-Volloch founded MOMENTUM in 2010 in Sydney, Australia, as a parallel event to the 17th Biennale of Sydney. MOMENTUM moved to Berlin in January 2011, and since that time has evolved into a non-profit global platform for time-based art, with headquarters in Berlin at the thriving art center, Kunstquartier Bethanien. MOMENTUM’s mission is to continuously reassess the growing diversity and relevance of time-based practices, with an aim to support artists and artistic innovation in Berlin and worldwide.
In 2016-2017, Rachel Rits-Volloch is currently Visiting Professor at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, lecturing in the MFA program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies” and the PhD program in Artistic Research. Born in Riga, USSR, Rachel Rits-Volloch is currently based in Berlin, having previously lived and worked in the US, UK, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Sydney.
MARIANA HAHN
Born in 1985, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
Mariana Hahn’s work interrogates the universal fallacy of human fate through the use of photography, per- formance and video. Believing that ‘weaving’ can be a metaphor for human autonomy, her practice is based on thinking of the body as a bearer of continuously woven narratives. She o en uses textiles to take the place of the human body, the textile itself becoming the narrative of a living archive. Her work feeds from sociological, mythological, folkloric and anthropologi- cal sources, as well as from experience of everyday life.
Selected solo exhibitions: Freunde von Freunden (Friends of Friends), Space, Berlin; Social Fabric, Mill6 Foundation, Hong Kong (2016); VACANCY, Crone Berlin, Berlin; Works On Paper, MOMENTUM, Berlin; Distant le er, present now, Month of Performance Art, Berlin; Residency program, Mill6 Foundation, Hong Kong (2015); Kolibri, Berlin; Torso no Torso, IV Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow (2014); 24h Ste in, Club Storrady, Szczecin; Burn My Love Burn, Trafo Station, Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin; Works on paper.
Selected group exhibitions:Missing Link, MOMENTUM, Berlin; Burn my love burn, Hayaka Arti, Istanbul (2013).
Selected performances: Social Fabric, Mill6, Hong Kong, AAA, HK, Art Basel HK2016, An Ocean Archive (2016); Distant Le er Present Now, MOMENTUM, Berlin, Performance Lecture, Mill6, Hong Kong (2015).
Selected collections: MILL6 Foundation, Hong Kong and MOMENTUM Worldwide, Berlin.
LEIKO IKEMURA
Born 1951 in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin and Cologne.
www.leiko.info
Leiko Ikemura studied foreign languages at the University of Osaka (1970–72). She moved to Europe 1972 and since that time has lived in Spain, Switzerland and Germany. Since 1991 she has worked as a professor at the Berlin University of Arts.
Selected solo exhibitions: Leiko Ikemura. …und plötzlich dreht der Wind, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2016); Leiko Ikemura. Retrospektive, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Cologne (2015); Leiko Ikemura. Pioon, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Sonderausstellung Preisträger Cologne Fine Art, Cologne (2014); Leiko Ikemura: i-migration, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2013); Korekara oder die Heiterkeit des fragilen Seins, Museum für Asiatische Kunst—Staatliche Museen Berlin (2012); Leiko Ikemura: Trans guration, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu (2011); Leiko Ikemura, August-Macke-Preis Ausstellung, Sauerland-Museum Arnsberg (2010); Leiko Ikemura. Tag, Nacht und Halbmond, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Scha hausen (2008).
Selected group exhibitions:Macht. Wahn. Vision. Rapunzel & Co. Von Türmen und Menschen in der Kunst, Arp Museum, Remagen, Wild Heart: Art Exhibition of German Neo-Expressionism Since the 1960s, China Art Museum Shanghai (2014);Von Japonismus zu Zen. Paul Klee und der Ferne Osten“, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Back to Earth. Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst, Gerisch- Sti ung Neumünster (2013); Beyond Memory, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2012); Fukushima and the consequences, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2011); 100 Jahre Hetjens-Museum. Faszination des Fremden: China-Japan-Europa, Hetjens-Museum. Dusseldorf, Emotional Drawing—SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul (2009).
DAVID KRIPPENDROFF
Born 1967 in Berlin, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin. www.davidkrippendor.com
David Krippendor is a video and experimental lmmaker. He grew up in Rome and studied art at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin where he graduated with a Master’s degree in 1997.
Selected exhibitions and screenings: New Museum (New York), ICA (London), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Museum on the Seam (Jerusalem).He has also participated in three Biennales (Prague Biennial, Mediation Biennial Poznań and the Video Biennial in Tel Aviv).
FRANZISKA KLOTZ
Born in 1979 in Dresden, Germany. Works and lives in Berlin.
www.franziska-klotz.de
Franziska Klotz’s increasingly abstract paintings still suggest landscapes, scenes, or objects that are derived from photographs or reports she has seen or read about.
Selected solo exhibitions: Franziska Klotz, Galerie Kornfeld Berlin (2016); H3P04 Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin (2014); Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin (2013); Klotz / Die Jagd, Galerie Wolfsen Aalborg (2012); Ka’aguy, Charim Ungar Contemporay Berlin (2011); Franziska Klotz, Charim Wien, Vienna; Nowhere Right Here!, Cerasoli Gallery, Los Angeles (2009); Klotz, Galerie Davide Di Maggio,Berlin (2006); New Painters: part one, Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Milano; Max Ernst Award Exhibition, Galerie am Schloss, Brühl (2005).
Selected group exhibitions: BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin (2015); IV. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow (2014); SALONDERGEGENWART, Hamburg (2013); Tracing Paper, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Berlin/Budapest 20 Virag, Judit Gallery Budapest (2012); Budapest/Berlin 20, Hungarian Embassy Berlin (2011); MAL WAS DEUTSCHES, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Projekt 09, Charim Ungar Contemporary, Berlin, Fairytale of Berlin, Scion Installation, L.A., Culver City (2009)wasistdas, LOFT19, Paris (2008)
JOHANNA KANDL
Born 1954 in Vienna, Austria. Lives in Berlin and Vienna.
www.galerieandreasbinder.de
Johanna Kandl studied painting in Vienna and Belgrade. Although texts and image seems to be mutually exclusive in her work, they contradict each other in ways that are both critical and sardonic.She evokes the ‘blessings’ of the neo-liberal world in slogans, and marks their hollowness and mendacity in sketchily painted scenes that depict situations and people located at the economic and cultural margins of society: beggars, black marketeers, pe y traders, the denizens of spoil heaps and scrap yards.
Selected projects and exhibitions: The Turn, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien (2016), Politischer Populismus, Kunsthalle Wien, Konkrete Kunst, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Turning Points, Buda Palace, Budapest (2015); Zehntausend Täuschungen und hun- der ausend Tricks, 21er Haus, Wien, Glück, Kra werk Wolfsburg, (2014); Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, The Collection as a Character / The Character of a Collection, MUHKA, Antwerpen (2013); You only live twice, Camera Austria, Graz (2012); Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, other possible worlds, NGBK, Berlin, FAQ Serbia, ACF NY,Viel Glück und Erfolg, Kunstverein Nordhorn; Over the Counter, Műcsarnok, Budapest (2011).
BJØRN MELHUS
Born 1966 in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
www.melhus.de
Bjørn Melhus studied photography in Stuttgart from 1985 to 1987 and Fine Arts with a major in Film/Video at the Braunschweig University of Art from 1990 to 1997. In his short films and installations, Melhus focuses critically on mass media and how it represents global ideas and trends. He uses film and television footage as a basis from which, by means of exaggera- tion, to deconstruct stereotypical themes, figures and patterns of perception. At the same time, he disrupts the seemingly fixed relationship between media and audience to open up views on the essential nature of human interaction.
Selected Exhibitions: Bjørn Melhus has participated in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in New York, the 8th International Biennial of Istanbul, the FACT
in Liverpool, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, the Ludwig Museum
in Cologne, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Denver Art Museum, as well as others. Since 2003, he has been a professor of Fine Arts/Virtual Realities at the School of Art and Design, Kassel.
VIA LEWANDOWSKY
Born 1963 in Dresden, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
www.vialewandowsky.de
Via Lewandowsky studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (1982–1987). Since moving from Dresden he travelled extensively and has lived for extended periods in New York (Fellowship at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center—today MoMA PS1,1991– 1992), Beijing (Fellowship Beijing Case, 2005), Los Angeles (Fellowship Villa Aurora, 2009) and Rome (Fellowship Villa Massimo, 2011).
Selected solo exhibitions: Hokuspokus, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2016); Hokuspokus, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Es ist Zeit, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich (2015); ab-surdus, MOMENTUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Korrekturen/Correzioni, Casa di Goethe, Rome (2014); Welternährungs, Galerie Martina De erer, Frankfurt/Main (2013); Termin für eine Pointe, Andrae Kaufmann Gallery, Berlin (2012); e.g. 9, 42 etc., Galerie Charim, Vienna, Archäologie der Ähnlichkeit, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich (2011).
Selected group exhibitions: Gegenstimmen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Ende vom Lied, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Passion.Fan Behaviour and Art, Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Über die Unmöglichkeit des Seins, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2016);Der Raum zwischen den Personen kann die Decke tragen. Sammlung IvoWessel, Weserburg—Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Dresden.?—Arbeiten mit der Stadt, Three art projects in public spaces, Dresden; Kunst für alle, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2015); Outer Space. Faszination Weltraum, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, In Furs—KB OUTSIDE / 40 Jahre Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014); Ausweitung der Kampfzone. 1968–2000. Die Sammlung Teil 3, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, La Grande Magia. Selected Works from the UniCredit Art Collection, MAMbo, Bologna (2013); The Last Analog Revolution. A Memory Box, Galerie8, London, Villa Massimo, Works of the servitors of the year 2011, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2012); Heimatkunde—30 Künstler blicken auf Deutschland, Jewish Museum Berlin, Art On Lake, City Park Lake, Budapest (2011).
SARAH LÜDEMANN
Born 1981,Cologne,Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
www.sarahluedemann.com
Sarah Lüdemann studied Linguistics, Psychology and Fine Art at Cologne University (2001–2005). She was selected for a residency with Mona Hatoum at the Fundación Marcelino Botín in 2010 and later that year received a scholarship to study an MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, which she completed with distinction in 2011.
Selected exhibitions: Sarah Lüdemann’s work has been exhibited widely and internationally,including at Printed Ma er, New York, the Goethe Institute Cairo,Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Hayaka Arti, Istanbul, Trafo, Szczecin, LYON, Biennale de la Danse, La lavoir public, Lyon and HDLU, Zagreb.
Selected collections: MOMENTUM Worldwide, Berlin; Collegium Polonicum collection, Słubic; Mutzen-bacher Restaurant, Berlin; Piracy Book Collection AND Publishing, London; To q House,Sao Paulo and in private collections in England, Germany, Portugal, Israel, Croatia, Hungary and Brazil.
MILOVAN DESTIL MARKOVIĆ
Born 1957 in Čačak, Serbia. Lives and works in Berlin and Belgrade.
www.markovic.org
Milovan DeStil Marković (born 9 November 1957, in Čačak, Yugoslavia, today Serbia) is Serbian visual artist, who began his career in the early 1980s. Active for over two decades, he is recently described as father of Transfigurative Painting and the Text Portrait. Visiting Professor Art in Context at the University of Arts, Berlin.
Selected exhibitions: Drei-Häuser-Kunst-Pfad, Eifel; Daun-Steinborn; At the Bo om of the Poem, Lennox House, Australian National University, Canberra; Roundup, Bundanon Trust, Bundanon, NSW (2016);a rose is a rose, is a rose, Woelkpromenade, Berlin (2015); Lada 2014, Umetnički paviljon “Cvijeta Zuzorić”, Belgrade; 50 umetnika iz zbirke MSUB—Jugoslovenska umetnost od 1951 do 1989 godine, Kuća legata, Belgrade; Conjunction, GreenhouseBerlin, Berlin (2014); BrandSchutz / Mentalität der Intoleranz,Jener Kunstverein, Jena; Drei-HäuserKunst-Pfad, Eifel 2013; Daun-Steinborn, Vent Vidi Vici, Collection Vol.4; Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto (2013); Sichtwechsel, Werke aus der Sammlung des n.b.k. Video-Forums, Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen; Berliner Zimmer, HDLU Meštrović Paviljon, Zagreb (2012).
KIRSTEN PALZ
Kirsten Palz, born Copenhagen 1971. Lives and works in Berlin.
She holds a degree in Computer Science from the IT-University in Copenhagen and a degree of Fine Arts/ Painting from School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 2007, Kirsten Palz initiated her ongoing archive of manuals. The archive is a work in progress consisting today of 317 manuals, including objects, prints on paper and drawings. The manuals engage with various topics, such as dreams, memories, myth, sculpture and social space. Kirsten Palz has shown her works in spaces in Germany and abroad. Recent works were presented in F******* -Towards New Perspectives on Feminism, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (nbk), Berlin and ff /Temporary Autonomous Zone /2/ in Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin. Palz’s performances frequently take place non-officially in the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg – outside the institution’s listed program – and include readings and experimental guided tours for audiences.
MARIANA VASSILEVA
Born 1964, Antonovo, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Berlin.
Vassileva studied pedagogy at Veliko Turnovo University, Theatre Art in Leipzig and Visual Arts at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
Selected solo exhibitions: Balance, So a Art Gallery, So a (2015); M V, Kunstverein Ruhr e.V., Essen, Fold & Break, DNA-Gallery, Berlin (2013); Solo Video 2002–2012, Holbeinhaus, Augsburg, Goethe-Institut, Lyon, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca (2012); The Gentle Brutality of Simultanity, Starkwhite, Auckland (2011); Because I Dream, I Am Not, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney (2010); Just a Play, DNA-Gallery, Berlin (2009).
Selected group exhibitions: Walk the Line, Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg (2015); Inhabiting the World, Busan Biennale 2014 (2014); I see you, Kunsthalle Detroit, Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Painting and Contemporary Media, Paco das Artes, São Paulo (2013); Beyond Time—International Video Art Today, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Good Night, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, East is West, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Hors-pistes 2012, un autre mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (MNAC), XVIII. Rohkunstbau, Berlin (2012); Transitland, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina So a, Madrid, The Beauty of Distance. Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17. Biennaleof Sydney (2010).
Selected collections: La Caixa Caja de Ahorros de El Monte y Fundacion el Monte, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
ALEKSANDAR JESTROVIĆ
Aleksandar Jestrović or Jamesdin was born on the 27th April 1972 in Zagreb, Croatia, ex-Yugoslavia.
jamesdin.wordpress.com
He obtained his master degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2000 in the class of Čedomir Vasić. Besides painting and multimedia art he is occupied in basketball. He has never been convicted and has served the army.In October 2011 in “Art in Kontext“ he did a master program at UDK Berlin with Professor Wolfgang Knapp. Since 2000, he has exhibited at various solo and group exhibitions in Belgrade and abroad. His art works, or rather his concepts, are a brutal social analysis of a society obsessed with its own representation in the contemporary media system. For his work he won the prize of the Veličković Fondation for drawing, the prize of Belgrade Cultural Center for Octobar salon and the Belgrade Faculty of Art ” Big prize for painting Rista i Beta Vukanović “. Lives and works in Berlin and Belgrade.
Solo exhibitions: 2015 –Bulky Luggage/ Sperrgepäck,Theater im Pfalzbau , Ludwigshafen Serbinale & Offene Welt Festivals, Ludwigshafen, Germany; 2014-„ Večiti student” (“Langzeitstudent”) Dom Kulture Studentski Grad, Belgrad, Serbia (curator: Maida Gruden)and “Monkey Bussines” Humboldt Mensa, Berlin, Germany (curator: Veronika Beckh);2012-ŠVERC KOMERC/Smuggle, Trade-City gallery Požega, Serbia and Preslišavanje 6, with Milena Putnik and Dragana Stevanović, Gallery Remont, Belgrade, Serbia; 2011-STOKA SA ISTOKA/ EASTERN HILLBILLIES, Exhibition of the recipient of the award at the 50th October Salon in 2009; -The Art Gallery The Cultural Centre оf Belgrade, Serbia; 2010- KO KOGA JEBE?/ WHO IS FUCKING WHO?, curator Jani Pirnat,Gallery of erotic art Račka, Celje, Slovenia; 2009–HURRY U ARE LATE, The White Tube project, curator Medeleine Park, Oslo, Norway; 2008-NH5-SZ1, gallery Remont, Belgrade, Serbia and Nova slika, Nenad Kostić, Nikola Marković i Jamesdin, gallery Vinko Perčić, Subotica, Serbia; 2007-Tunnel of Love, gallery Studenski grad, Belgrade, Serbia; -Nikola Markovic, Dragan Djordevic and Jamesdin, Nolit warehouses, Belgrade, Serbia; 2005-COLONIA 2001 gallery Remont, Belgrade, Serbia; 2004-CHAKRE/A4 gallery Remont, Belgrade, Serbia; 2002-FLIPER Gallery Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia; 2001-120 pictures in 60 minutes video work with Isidora Ficovic,gallery SKC, Belgrade, Serbia; 2000-IZLOŽBA PASA/ DOG SHOW, gallery SULUJ, Belgrade, Serbia.