Dante Buu: Three Hearts & Five Vipers*
Series of performances reenacting works by artists featured in the Arteast 2000+ exhibition How to Go On?
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM
3–14 December 2024 | 5–7 p.m., free entry
Dante Buu’s solo show Three Hearts & Five Vipers at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) is driven by the question: If we imagine the Five Vipers as Gender, Sexuality, Race, Religion, and Geography, endlessly sinking their venomous teeth into the Three Hearts—each belonging to the Artist, the Artwork, and the Audience—is it possible for us to truly see the art in the artwork?
In an attempt to find an answer, Buu will turn to performances.
Over 11 consecutive days, Dante will reenact artworks by artists from the Moderna galerija’s Arteast 2000+ collection, currently on view at the +MSUM: Marina Abramović, Maja Bajević, Vlasta Delimar, Alla Georgieva, Jenny Holzer, Sanja Iveković, KwieKulik (Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek), Katalin Ladik, Natalia LL, Goranka Matić and Milica Tomić.
The final performance will be Dante Buu’s and you—do you die happy? reenacted by the artist Anita Wach.
03. 12. 2024 Marina Abramović, Nude with Skeleton, 2002/2005
04. 12. 2024 Maja Bajević, I'm Eating Somebody Else's Bread, 2006
05. 12. 2024 Jenny Holzer, Truisms (Toronto), 1982**
06. 12. 2024 Sanja Iveković, Practice Makes a Master, 1982
07. 12. 2024 Vlasta Delimar, Attempt at Identification, 1979/2019
08. 12. 2024 Katalin Ladik, Blackshave, 1978
09. 12. 2024 Goranka Matić, Portraits of Women, 1978
10.12.2024 Zofia Kulik, KwieKulik: Activities for the Head, 1987
11. 12. 2024 Alla Georgieva, Alla’s Secret / Collection 2000, 2000
12. 12. 2024 Milica Tomić, One Day, Instead of One Night, a Burst of Machine-Gun Fire Will Flash, If Light Cannot Come Otherwise, 2009**
13.12. 2024 Natalia LL, Dreaming, 1987
14.12. 2024 Dante Buu, and you—do you die happy?, 2021
After the final reenactment, on 14 December, at 7 p.m. and at the seminar in the +MSUM, Dante Buu will give a talk and reflect on his experience with reenactments and performance art.
Dante Buu is a performance artist from Montenegro, living and working between Rožaje and Berlin. His practice is one of love, disobedience, intimacy and freedom, and how these are affected and altered through the past, present and the future. Using his body and its emotional and physical transformations as the main medium, Buu’s extensive durational performances take the form of sculptures, installations, drawings, photography, prose poetry and hand embroidery. In Dante Buu’s works the bodily act of creation, as a form of continued action, breaks artistic and societal norms such as: private vs. public, being good vs. being bad and breathing vs. suffocating.
Buu represented Montenegro at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and his works have been shown at numerous international exhibitions and festivals, including the Bangkok Art Biennial (2024), Exercises in a Collection (+MSUM, 2023), No Intermission (Marina Abramović Institute, Royal Theatre Carré, 2022), Young & Restful (MeetFactory, 2022), “thigh high” (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2021), and NEXUS 1 (TBA Festival, PICA, 2019).
Team
Kristjan Sedej and Bojana Piškur (curators)
Adela Železnik
Sanja Kuveljić Bandić
Dejan Habicht
Urša Rahne
Simona Škorja
Ana Sterle
* The title is borrowed from the kilim weaving pattern, which the artist’s mother brought with her as a dowry when she got married.
** Performative statement.
*** All reenactments are performed with the permission of the artists, ZW Foundation and Kulik-KwieKulik Foundation.
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Photo: Lekuona
