Link: Online installation view
Collaborating artists:
Marina Abramović | Miroslav Bałka | Borghesia (Neven Korda Andrič) | Geta Brătescu | BridA/Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica | Chronology of (New) Tendences (Darko Fritz) | Vuk Ćosić | Vlasta Delimar | Vadim Fishkin | György Galántai | Olja Grubić | Ištvan Išt Huzjan | IRWIN | Sanja Iveković | Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša | Zofia Kulik | Katalin Ladik | The Lives of Monuments (Art for Collective Use) | David Maljković | Neue Slowenische Kunst (IRWIN, Laibach, Gledališče sester Scipion Nasice and Novi kolektivizem) | OHO Group (Marko Pogačnik, Miljenko Matanovič, David Nez, Andraž Šalamun) | Marko Peljhan | The Portrait of Yugoslavia in the Style of Art & Language (Sezgin Boynik) | Arjan Pregl | Maja Smrekar | Temporary Slovene Dance Archive (Rok Vevar) | TV Gallery (Dunja Blažević) | Edvard Zajec | Dunja Zupančič::Miha Turšič::Dragan Živadinov
Chapters:
Monuments | Women | Art and Science | NSK | OHO | Archival projects
This online exhibition is an online version of the exhibition Selection of works from the national collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Arteast 2000+, on view between 19 November 2019 and 3 December 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova and curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Ana Mizerit, Bojana Piškur, and Igor Španjol.
From 2011 on, several exhibitions of works from Moderna galerija’s collections have been staged at the +MSUM, with special emphasis on the Arteast 2000+ collection. The first exhibition staged at +MSUM, The Present and Presence, dealt with various kinds of time. It was followed by nine partial variations on the first show, all in the conceptual framework of “repetition” devised as yet another dimension of time, and titled according to the different focuses of the shows – The Street, Micropolitical Situations, Install Yourself!, The Time of Intimate Decisions, and so on. By 2019, two new exhibitions of the collection had been staged: Low Budget Utopias at the +MSUM in 2016, and Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin as part of the Hello World – Revisions of a Collection exhibition in 2018.
The exhibition of works from the collection that was formerly staged on the first floor of the +MSUM and is now presented online revolves around four chapters broadly defined as monuments, women, art-science and pavilions. A display of works of art in a museum differs fundamentally from a display inhabiting online topographies. An online exhibition must replace the physical experience of moving about a place as part of the perceptual experience with an understanding of its own architectural parameters. The latter appear to be rather more like clear cuts in editing than the smooth transition of strolling from one exhibition room to another. For this reason, the sections of the exhibition on the online stroll through it seem to be quite strictly separated from one another, while the works that used to inhabit the spaces of transition can hardly avoid rigid categorization. Online presentations have the potential to become a research tool without limitations of time and space and exist as a growing, open, and accessible archive presenting the possibilities of displaying and interpreting museum collections.
Also forming part of the exhibition as a special chapter are some archival and research projects.
The online version of the exhibition has been prepared by Urška Savič and Adela Železnik, based on the original concept curated by Ida Hiršenfelder, and in collaboration with curators Ana Mizerit and Bojana Piškur.
Cover photo: from the installation of Mirosław Bałka, Winterhilfsverein, 1994
