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What do Crocodiles Dream About?
July 4–October 29, 2023
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
The exhibition has been envisioned by: Bojana Piškur, Daniela Berger, Riksa Afiaty, Shada Safadi with Akram Al Halabi, May Herbawe, Cristian Inostroza, Essa Grayeb, Hani Zurob, Lab Laba-Laba, Moelyono, Noor Abuarafeh, Papuan Voices, Paraparabuku, Patricia Domínguez, Roy Villevoye, Udeido Collective, Veronika Kusumaryati & Ernst Karel.
The exhibition brings together voices, cosmologies, ecologies, and human and more-than-human beings from diverse parts of the world: Gaza, Jerusalem, Jisr al-Zarqa, Ljubljana, Majdal Shams, Puchuncaví, Ramallah, Santiago, West Papua and elsewhere. It is comprised of three interconnected parts. In the chapter Going with the Tide, Riksa Afiaty presents a selection of films from West Papua and the moving images, artworks, and initiatives of filmmakers, artists, a library, anthropologists, and an educator. Daniela Berger’s chapter Less Condor, More Huemul suggest to follow the example of the humble, peaceful huemul that lives at one with the forest, in the “direction of the affective,” where people heal the scars of the lands and look towards nature to relearn the real power of plants to forge different futures. In Birds, They No Longer Want to Migrate, Shada Safadi has created an installation combining birds from the Golan with stories and myths that have played an important part in the collective memory of the community where she has lived since childhood; also inviting other artists to be part of that habitat.
With the support of: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, The Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology through the Dana Indonesiana travel fund (FBK IB 2023) and Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile
At Your Pleasure: Feminist Positions in Visual Art in Slovenia
October–December 2023
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art
The exhibition will be curated by Martina Vovk.
This group exhibition will offer an overview of the highly varied production of feminist art in (or related to) Slovenia since the late 1970s. The focus is on the production centering on gender, thematizing it as a field characterized by the manifestation of inequality, specifically in terms of issues related to motherhood, race, nationality, class, work and labor, sexuality, LGBT+ identities, sexual violence, and other circumstances that put women in subordinate positions or suppress them. In addition to having a specific genealogy and geopolitical and historical contexts, the pluralistic and highly varied production of feminist art is characterized by its reception in Slovenia and the sensibility of the environment for the question of gender equality. Spanning the period from 1976—when the first declaredly feminist artwork, Duba Sambolec’s Women Are Coming, was produced in Slovenia—to the present, works by approximately 40 artists and art collectives will be grouped in themed chapters, presenting different voices, statements, and positions of artists who consider gender issues in their artistic practices. Along with the exhibition, a discursive program will aim to critically evaluate feminism in visual and performance art in Slovenia.
Aleksandra Vajd: Photography as an Image—Photography as an Object—Photography as an Immersive Spatial Situation (a Timeline of the Medium of Photography)
November 30, 2023–April 7, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
The exhibition will be curated by Ana Mizerit (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana) and Michal Novotny (National Gallery Prague).
“Erasing the ontological separation between the material/natural world and the cultural world forms an agency of anti-representation—a series of patterns as entanglements of the flow of hardly graspable forces—from being to becoming—from entities to relations. Action, reaction, complementarity, fixation, stabilization, crystallization, entropy. All in motion. An archeological dig site.” —Aleksandra Vajd
This survey exhibition will present more than twenty years of work of the internationally recognized Prague-based Slovenian artist Aleksandra Vajd, one of the most prominent creators in the field of contemporary photography. It will focus on the medium itself from the perspective of its evolution and change through time, more specifically from the mid-1990s until today, and the approach that is evident in Vajd’s use of the medium. The exhibition will outline how the medium has changed not only in the time since Vajd started using it, but it will also “fast rewind” back to its first moments of becoming, its ontological event, and today’s archeology of it. An additional character of Vajd’s work is given through occasional expansions into a collaborative dialogue with artists who primarily use other artistic media that push the medium of photography beyond its borders, and establish new hybrid or fused artefacts.
