On Thursday, 17 March 2022, the nominees for the OHO Group Award 2022 were selected.
The jury consisting of Lilijana Stepančič (curator and art critic), Tomaž Furlan (contemporary artist, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana), and Jaka Železnikar (contemporary artist, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana), unanimously selected this year’s nominees for the award.
The nominees are:
Sara Bezovšek
Đejmi Hadrović
Danilo Milovanović
Špela Škulj
Twenty-one applications were submitted in response to the public call. The OHO Group Award is the central national award for young visual artists established by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in 2005. The award is a member of the international Young Visual Artist Award network, which brings together NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe. An art residency in New York is organized together with the American partners Trust for Mutual Understanding New York and Residency Unlimited, New York, which organizes and coordinates the residence and work in the United States. After the two-month art residency in New York, the award winner will have a solo show at the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.
Sara Bezovšek (1993) is a visual artist working in the fields of new media, experimental film, and graphic design. In her artistic practice she explores, stores, and collages visual references she comes across browsing the web or watching movies and TV series. While creating new narratives through appropriation, the focus of her interest is on what kind of content people consume, what they share on social networks, how visual material travels the net, and how it changes and impacts users in different contexts. In 2018, Bezovšek received the Prešeren Award for Students of the Academy of Visual Arts and Design for her ZNAM mobile app and had a solo exhibition entitled (◉_◉) at the Aksioma project space in Ljubljana.
Đejmi Hadrović (1988) studied at the University of Primorska and the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has won several international awards, had solo exhibitions in Novo mesto, Ljubljana (9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Moderna galerija, 2019), Trbovlje, and Vienna, and participated in several group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Vienna, Košice, Linz, and Maribor.
Danilo Milovanović (1992) is a visual artist whose practice focuses on reflections about public space and the relationships between its users. He uses a variety of creative principles and media in conceptual and street projects, from public actions and interventions to photography, video, printmaking, and collage. He has shown his work at several solo and group exhibitions in Belgrade, Ljubljana, Maribor, Ribnica, Novo mesto, Prague, Tel Aviv, and Montevideo.
Špela Škulj (1982) is a visual artist working in the field of contemporary photography and video. Her complex art projects come closest to personal documenting. She often broaches the topics of ecology and humanity’s irreversible impact on nature. She has shown her work at several group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad.
The winner of the OHO 2022 Group Award will be selected and announced on 5 May 2022 in Ljubljana, after the jury has seen the exhibition of the nominees’ works and conducted individual interviews with them.
