A selection of Croatian contemporary art
Belgrade, 10.-18. October 2009
The exhibition 'Reconstructions: private = public = private = public ='
examines the feminist perception from the 1970s: 'the private is the
public' i.e. 'the private is the political' using various positions
selected from Croatian contemporary art since the seventies, and
outside the feminist discourse.
//// Helena Bulaja //// Boris Cvjetanović//// Ivan Faktor //// Sanja Iveković//// Željko Jerman //// Andreja Kulunčić //// Dalibor Martinis /// Edita Pecotić//// Goran Trbuljak //// Slaven Tolj
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The Exhibition EXCEPTION, Contemporary art scene from Prishtina (Kosova) that has been scheduled to open on the February 7th 2008 in Belgrade at KONTEKST Gallery (to be on display until February 15th 2008) was forced to close just before the opening.
The Serbian police that had to intervene just before the opening
estimated that it can not guarantee safety to the artists, curators
and the public, after an organized group of Serbian nationalist
forces attacked the gallery space and even destroyed the work Face to face by Dren Maljici.
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 I Hate Being Fat, Please Eat Me, 2002. Piece of a set of plates in printed porcelain.
Ana Pérez-Quiroga is a Portuguese contemporary artist working and
living in Lisboa. In 2002 she made her first solo exhibition “Tell Me
You Love Me”, at Filomena Soares Gallery and, since then she has been
regularly exhibiting her work in Portugal and Spain.
Ana works with different media such as photography, installations,
knitting or pottery and explores a wide range of subjects from love to
artistic discourses/institutions. At the age of 47, Ana is still
looking for her place in the Portuguese art scene.
Due to her heterogeneous academic background that comprises History,
Design and Sculpture studies, Ana’s work deals with ideological,
formal, aesthetic and ethic problems of artistic production. She
constructs her critical views about these issues by displacing ordinary
or personal objects from the real world into the artistic discourses
and practices.
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 November 1st,
2006
The exhibition of
self-portraits by the painter Alenka Spacal opens with a performance
during which the author prepares a rope on which the laundry is to be
hung out to dry. And through the self-ironising of the palette of
various incarnations of her character, done with oil on kitchen
cloths, the artist uses the domestic atmosphere (achieved through
hanging out the laundry in an art gallery) to bring into focus the
relation between the private domain and the public one, as well as
between the personal and the political.
Alenka Spacal uses a
sort of autobiographical method to establish her sovereignity thus
raising her voice against the turning the cliché role of the
woman as the “other” into an objective one.
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 May 2nd 2007 // by Vedrana Lukačević
With
her new collection of paintings, titled “Young Ladies of the
Catalogues“, the already well-established younger-generation artist
Petra Grozaj continues with her sequence of visual imagery and the
inner laws of the compositions which she uses to interconnect and
further develop the artistic elements that she has been using already
in her line of work.
In other words, in the matters of image and technique she insists upon maintaining the unity of polarity contained within the linear, or to say sketching principles (noticeable in the black outlines), placed in juxtaposition with the features executed in a painterly manner, using transparent as well as rich and thick layers of paint.
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