The Price Of a Spectacle
Vesna Bukovec

The Price Of a Spectacle
video still, single screen version, 22'20", 16:9, 2008

Vesna Bukovec
finalist The OHO Award , 2009
Artist statement / about artist Artist resume News from the artist

www.vesna-bukovec.net

www.kolektiva.org

 

 

Vesna Bukovec  CV

 

  • 1977 born in Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 1995 graduated from the Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana
  • 1995/1996 studied philosophy and sociology of culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 1996/2000 studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 1999 studied at Hogeschool vor de Kunsten, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • 2002 BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 2003 formed an art group with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič, since
    2008 the group is called KOLEKTIVA
  • 2006 MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana

 

Solo Exhibitions

2010

  • Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love; Video večerja (Videodinner), Kulturni inkubator, Mladinski kulturni center, Maribor

2009

  • The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life, Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica

2008

  • Special Place in the City, Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Razstavni salon Rotovž, Maribor (KOLEKTIVA)

2007

  • Special Place in the City, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (KOLEKTIVA)

2006

  • Video Wall: Vesna Bukovec, Meduza Gallery, Obalne galerije Piran, Koper
  • Nakupovanje/Shopping, Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto
  • Special Place in the City - Graz, Galerie Centrum, medien.KUNSTLABOR (Kunsthaus), Graz
    (KOLEKTIVA)

2005

  • TV, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana

2004

  • Personal*, Likovni salon Gallery, Celje (KOLEKTIVA)
  • Intimate Images, Nova Gallery, Zagreb (KOLEKTIVA)
  • First Impression, (public projection) Nottingham (KOLEKTIVA)

2003

  • Local Issues, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
 

Group Exhibitions

2010

  • AT HOME: Architects France and Marta Ivanšek, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
  • Communication Networks, MGML, Mestna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana
  • Female Artist - the Art of Survival, 11th International feminist and queer festival Red Dawns, Project Room SCCA, Ljubljana
  • (Un)empowered, DDT (Delavski dom Trbovlje), Trbovlje

2009

  • videospritz®EST#4, Trieste Contemporanea, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
  • Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, Parakino, Laznia Centre for
    Contemporary Art, Gdansk
  • 10 years the One Minutes, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
  • namaTRE.ba 3, Academy of Fine Arts, Trebinje, Bosnia and Hercegovina
  • Berliner Liste 2009, Palais am Tiergarten, Berlin
  • DIVA Station_presents, GAMA Screening of Selected Works, Ars Electronica 2009, Brucknerhaus, History Lounge, Linz
  • Value Point - Siemens_artLab hosted by Hilger Contemporary, Hilger Contemporary Gallery, Vienna
  • OHO Award Finalists 2009, P74 Center & Gallery, Ljubljana
  • DIVA at Škuc Gallery, Škuc Gallery & SCCA-Ljubljana, Ljubljana
  • Photonic, Luminatic: New Slovenian Photography and Video, Kultur Zentrum Korotan, Vienna; Photoport Gallery, Bratislava; Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

2008

  • Necessary Discourse on Hysteria, The Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec
  • World One Minutes Brussels 2008, The One Minutes foundation, Amsterdam & deBuren, Brussels
  • Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
  • Photonic, Luminatic: New Slovenian Photography and Video, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir
  • Zapping Unit - Les Petites Formes (The Short Forms), Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-Vallée
  • - 5 minutes 2008, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
  • Re:peat, Institute and museum Bitola, Bitola
  • World One Minutes Beijing 2008, The One Minutes foundation, Amsterdam & Today Art Museum, Beijing
  • Videodokument & Eyedentify Yourself, The Foundation & Gallery 3,14, Bergen
  • Fabula 2008: Podobe skritega, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana

2007

  • Festival do Minuto, São Paulo
  • Every man is a curator / Jeder Mensch ist ein Kurator, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
  • Tina B. Festival, Mobile Video Art: The Intimate Life of the Global Village, Prague
  • Outvideo 2007, various cities, Russia
  • Art Generator, Urban Arts Festival, Štip, Macedonia
  • Editing projects, Universita Roma 3 Architettura (Ex-Mattatoio), Rome
  • Some other city, Sarajevo winter festival, ICP Gallery, Sarajevo
  • 2VIDEO, online exhibition

2006

  • Videodokument & Eyedentify Yourself, Sparwasser HQ, Klub Z, Berlin
  • The one minutes festival 2006, Het Ketelhuis, Paradiso, Amsterdam
  • Narratives, -35/+65: Two Generations, Kunsthaus, Graz
  • Fragmented Show, C/O Careof, Milano
  • - 5 minutes, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
  • dat{e-a}006, sonance.artistic.network, medien.KUNSTLABOR, Graz
  • Outvideo 2006, Ekaterinburg
  • Arsenal sztuki, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok

2005

  • Territories, Identities, Nets, Slovene Art 1995-2005, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
  • 26th International biennial of graphic arts, Ljublana; The First Line, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana
  • Outvideo 2005, Ekaterinburg
  • How to speak of contemporary art?, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
  • Young Art Europe, MOYA Museum of Young Art, Vienna

2004

  • Appendix, Ljubljana
  • Parallel, Empire gallery, Nottingham
  • Breakthrough, Grote Kerk, the Hague
  • Outvideo, Ekaterinburg

2003

  • Non-Stop, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
  • Fair-Play, Play Gallery, Berlin
  • 25th International biennial of graphic arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana
  • 11th Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens
  • Festival of computer and video art, Kibla, Maribor
  • Start, Galerija Karas, Zagreb

2002

  • Start, Mestna galerija, Ljubljana
  • Contemporary art from Slovenia, Happy Galery, SKC, Belgrade

2001

  • Scanline, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

1999

  • Entrada, Hogeschool vor de Kunsten, Utrecht
 

Residences and Workshops

2007

  • workshop “Some Other City”, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Sarajevo

2006

  • “Visura Aperta, Momiano 2006″ in Momjan, Croatia; invited by curator Ivana Bago
  • workshop “Advanced Course in Visual Arts” in Como, Italy; invited by ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana; organized by Fundazione Antonio Ratti, Como
  • residency “Imagining Common Lands” in Gorizia, Italy; invited by ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana; organized by Zerynthia, Rome
  • resiency in Graz, Austria; invited by CCN Graz

2004

  • residency “Parallel”, residency of artist from twin cities, Nottingham, UK; invited by YOLK, Nottingham

2002

  • workshop “Zoladkova Gorzka - G.A.R.Ba 2002″ - Giovani Artisti in Residenza in Basilicata, Montescaglioso, Italy; invited by ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana
  • Gasthoff 2002, meeting of artschool students from across the Europe in Frankfurt, Germany

 

 

 

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