Our Many Europes

• Our Many Europes (OME), 2018-2022. "Programme focusing on the 1990s: the decade contemporary Europe was born." Organised by the museum confederation L'Internationale. [1]

• Glossary of Common Knowledge, eds. Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, and Jesús Carrillo, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2018, 352 pp; Vol. 2, ed. Ida Hiršenfelder, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, Dec 2022, 304 pp. Glossary entries produced through seminars (2014-2022), focusing on selected referential fields: historicisation, subjectivisation, geopolitics, constituencies, commons, other-institutionality, and commons/solidarity. Vol. 1 contains 86 terms from 66 contributors, vol. 2 contains 57 terms proposed from 51 contributors. Curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur and Jesús Carrillo (MNCARS) in collaboration with L’Internationale, et al. Project website (MG), Project website (L'Internationale), Log. [2] [3] [4]

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• Spoznanje! Upor! Reakcija! Performans in politika v devetdesetih letih v pojugoslovanskem kontekstu / Realize! Resist! React! Performance and Politics in the 1990s in the Post-Yugoslav Context, ed. Bojana Piškur, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2021, 257 pp. Explores different trajectories of political performance, especially what it brought to, meant, or changed in the broader field of art of the 1990s post-Yugoslavia, as well as the connections between performances and political and ideological structures from which these performances emerged. Exh. with 120+ artworks, archival materials, and video documents, and is structured around the following topics: war, nationalism, the body, new spaces, demonstrations, states, territories, new borders, the Other, feminism, and media. Texts by Bojana Piškur, Rok Vevar and Jasmina Založnik, Jasna Jakšić, Asja Mandić, Vida Knežević, Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski and Ivana Vaseva, Linda Gusia and Nita Luci, and Zdenka Badovinac. Publisher. Exhibition held at MG+MSUM Metelkova, Ljubljana, 24 Jun-10 Oct 2021. Curator: Bojana Piškur; guest curators: Linda Gusia, Jasna Jakšić, Vida Knežević, Nita Luci, Asja Mandić, Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski, Ivana Vaseva, Rok Vevar, Jasmina Založnik. Exh. photo. Exh. review: Lépold (Artmagazin). Commentary: Kraner (Maska). [5] (Slovenian)/(English)

• Lenin Was a Mushroom – Moving Images in the 1990s, exhibition, Antwerp: M HKA, 2022. Looks at moving images that offered reflections of the era but also new modes and means for image-making through the technological advancements adopted by artists. Exhibition held at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA), 3 Jun-21 Aug 2022; curated by Nav Haq. Artists: AMVK, Aernout Mik, Amar Kanwar, Andrea Fraser, Artūras Raila, David Claerbout, Gianni Motti, Gillian Wearing, Hänzel & Gretzel, Johan Grimonprez, Nedko Solakov, Pipilotti Rist, Rosalind Nashashibi, Rosângela Rennó, Şener Özmen & Erkan Özgen, Sergey Kuryokhin & Sergey Sholokhov, Shilpa Gupta, and Stan Douglas. VIDEO trailer. [6]

• Rewinding Internationalism: Scenes from the 90s, Today, ed. Nick Aikens, Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 2023, 176 pp, EPUB. Contributions by Nick Aikens, Sara Buraya Boned, Pablo Martinez, Bojana Piškur, Grace Samboh, Rachel Surijata. Exh. comprises work by over 35 artists and collectives, including 5 new commissions, 4 collaborative research projects and several loans. Exh. held at Netwerk Aalst, Alost (BE), 19 Feb-1 May 2022; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 19 Nov 2022-30 Apr 2023, [7]; Villa-Arson, Nice, 17 June-28 August 2023. Curated by Nick Aikens. Conference. [8]

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The early 1990s – the time of transition from socialism to capitalism in the territory of the former Yugoslavia – saw some fundamental shifts in the way artists’ work was perceived, as well as structural changes of spaces of art. And more than that: in the post-socialist world, artists’ production time changed as well. [9]

• Umetnost na delu. Na razpotju med utopijo in (ne)odvisnostjo / Art at Work: At the Crossroads between Utopianism and (In)Dependence, ed. Tamara Soban, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2022, 176 pp. Looks at three different segments of the genealogy of the concept of (artistic) work in the region: first, the way work was conceived by the avant-garde artists of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; next, the transformations of the concept of artistic work and art spaces in the 1990s; and lastly, the labour-related political art practices since 2000. Exh. with works by more than 50 artists, art collectives and associations. Texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Sezgin Boynik, Vida Knežević, Bojana Piškur, Tjaša Pureber, Igor Španjol, Jelena Vesić. Publisher. Exhibition held at MG+MSUM Metelkova, Ljubljana, 22 Sep 2022-29 Jan 2023. Curators: Zdenka Badovinac, Ana Mizerit, Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol. Exh. review: Miklič (Koridor), pt. 2, pt. 3. Symposium. [10] (Slovenian)/(English)

• The Legacy of Independent Projects in the 1990s, symposium, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, 19 Nov 2022. Concept: Igor Španjol. Participants: Ana Đikoli, Nikola Gelevski, Davor Mišković, Ana Panić, Vladimir Vidmar, Natalija Vujošević, Miha Zadnikar. VIDEO.

• Preparing to Exit: Art, Interventionism and the 1990s, ed. L'Internationale Online, forew. Nick Aikens and David Crowley, L'Internationale Online, Dec 2022, 203 pp, HTML. Six case studies of activities on the border between artistic practice and activism, sometimes operating as para-institutional organisations, presenting different motivations, forms and strategies for the possibility of ‘preparing to exit’ colonialist-capitalist state structures. Contributors: Nick Aikens, David Crowley, Clémentine Deliss, Fernanda Laguna, Asja Mandić, Leónidas Martín, Alessandra Pomarico, Seda Yıldız. Publisher. Announcement.

• Sahnede 90'lar / The 90s Onstage, exhibition, Salt, Istanbul, 2022. Traces the intersection of a diverse range of performances in Turkey that gained an increasing visibility in parks, bars, historical landmarks, abandoned sites, and off-the-beaten path, exploring unexpected connections that contribute to a broader understanding of the “stage”. Exh. held at Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata, Istanbul, 15 Sep 2022-2 Apr 2023; Kunstverein in Hamburg, 27 Jan-14 Apr 2024. Announcement. Exh. VIDEO (TRT). Exh. review: Genç (Artforum), Yildiz (ArtAsiaPacific), Hattam (Hyperallergic). With web project Research on Performance in Turkey 1984-1999, [11]. Series of talks. [12]