Marjetica Potrc

Marjetica Potrc

October 27, 2003

Marjetica Potrc
Next Stop, Kiosk

29/10/2003 - 30/11/2003

Moderna galerija Ljubljana
Tomièeva 14
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: (+386-1) 2416800 Fax: (+386-1) 2514120
info@mg-lj.si

www.mg-lj.si

Image/photo: Sasa J. Maechtig

Opening reception at 8.00 p.m., Wednesday, 29 October

Press conference: Wednesday, 29 October 2003, at 1 p.m.

Opening view: Wednesday, 29 October 2003, at 8 p.m.

Marjetica Potrc is lately focusing on the phenomenon of growing cities (e.g. cities in East Asia). In 2003 she was part of the Caracas Case Project team, who spent six months exploring unregulated and rapidly growing urban structures in Caracas, Venezuela. In museums and galleries Potrc often presents case studies (buildings) which are based on specific examples taken from contemporary cities (e.g. the activities of Rural Studio in Alabama, USA, Barefoot College in India, and Leidsche Rijn in Utrecht, the Netherlands). Most of her case studies underscore the role of individual initiative and self-sustainability in solving the problems of energy, communication and utility infrastructure in the global city.

The basic element of the exhibition in Moderna galerija is a kiosk, originally designed by a Slovenian designer and architect Saa J. Mächtig in the late 1960s. The installation combines these kiosks with a temporary building structure modeled on the South American palafita, at the same time making reference to building strategies from Rural Studio in Alabama, USA, and the illegal rooftop houses of Belgrade. With this latest hybrid, Marjetica Potrc offers us a kind of breathing place, as she calls it, a place where we are invited not only to ponder a new approach to planning and creativity but also to reconsider the transitory and mobile character of todays urban spaces, both in regard to questions of power, (self-) perception, cultural representation, and the imagination, and also in terms of the contemporary citys relationship to the values and legacies of modernism.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, co-published by Moderna galerija Ljubljana and Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, which presents an overview of the artists work over the past five years and includes essays by the curator of the exhibition, Zdenka Badovinac, Goran Tomcic, writings of Marjetica Potrc and her interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist and is edited by Lívia Páldi..

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday Sunday: 10 a.m. 6 p.m.

INFORMATION: www.mg-lj.si

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