Places of Transition
dal 3/12/2005 al 11/3/2005
Segnalato da
3/12/2005
Places of Transition
Umetnostna Galerija, Maribor
7th International Triennial Ecology and Art. In the selection for its exhibition, Maribor Art Gallery followed two principles: on the one hand it focused on active collaboration with the international art happening and invited selectors of the Continental Breakfast network to participate. On the other hand curator Petra Kaps, driven by the wish to place the international art happening into the local environment.
7th International Triennial Ecology and Art
Curated by Breda Kolar Sluga
With exhibition Places of Transition Maribor Art Gallery links its largest
international project, the International Triennial Ecology and Art, together with
the international network Continental Breakfast (CB).
The starting point of the exhibition Spaces of Transition, construed by Art Director
Meta Gabrsek Prosenc, speaks about places: These are places, where the
artist's sensibility always discovers new sources of his creativity. To expose,
reveal, intensify the existential crisis of the lonely, disoriented human in a
globalised world, in which old ideologies, religions and values have lost their
significance, it means that the artist himself must think about searching for the
way out.
In the selection for its exhibition, Maribor Art Gallery followed two principles: on
the one hand it focused on active collaboration with the international art happening
and invited selectors of the CB network to participate and within the starting
points of Places of Transition and identity topics propose artists from their
geo-political environment. On the other hand curator Petra Kaps, driven by the wish
to place the international art happening into the local environment, in the
Slovenian selection derived from the research of the 'local context' in places of
transition. Together with Maribor artists she exposed the individual's
're-evaluation' and self-reflection about the here and now.
CB is an international network connecting about 15 European institutions from
theatre, performance, literature and visual art fields, which dedicated their events
to the theme of identity. The headword is the phenomenon of continental breakfast
that is served all over Europe and seems everywhere the same; and yet with local and
cultural differences it acquires diverse tastes. The network's art and theory events
have already taken and will take place in Warsaw, Belgrade, Trieste, Venice,
Ljubljana, Tallinn, London, Zagreb, Budapest etc. With presentations and research
activities Maribor Art Gallery actively participates in the above-mentioned
happening; the exhibition Places of Transition is its biggest contribution to the
entire CB project.
Artistic director: Meta Gabrsek Prosenc
Artists: AABO (Teja Kovac, Matej Lozar), Ben Cain, Tina Gverovic, Marta
Deskur, Aleksandra Gruden, kitch, Mari Laanemets, Killu Sukmit, Marko Lulic,
Polona Maher, Katja Majer, Iztok Maroh, Hajnal Nemeth, Marko Ornik, Neriman Polat,
Massimo Premuda, Mileta Prodanovic, son:DA, Samuil Stoyanov, Simona Suc.
Selectors: Giuliana Carbi (IT), Anders Harm (EE), Petra Kaps (SI), Beral Madra (TR),
Gerald Matt (AT), Aleksandra Estela Bjelica Mladenovic (CS), Anda Rottenberg (PL),
Katalin Timar (HU), Maria Vassileva (BG), Janka Vukmir (HR).
Opening: Sunday, 4 Dec 2005 at 11:00 am
Umetnostna galerija Maribor
Strossmayerjeva 6 - Maribor