Talk by Almut Rembges, with discussion

Location: Café “Pablo”, Bul. 8 Septemvri, br.8, vl. 2, lokal 6, Skopje
Opening: 05. 11. 2013, Tuesday / 19:00 h.

“bblackboxx is an independent art space at the border of Switzerland, in the neighborhood of a detention complex, where 300 asylumseekers are kept and sometimes deported. Since 2007, a network of artists and theoreticians around bblackboxx have developed an curriculum of art actions and theoretical work, which stands up against the increasing xenophobic and suppressive migrations politics in the country.”

The initiator Almut Rembges will talk about the specific emancipatory practices of bblackboxx, as a counter model against a context which is otherwise defined by control and charity.  Continue reading →

BALKAN(S) NOW, Status seminar and artistic survey

Venue: Mestna Galerija

Ljubljana, Sovenia, 25-26 October 2013

From the seminar’s announcement:

“BALKAN (S) NOW curated by Gülsen Bal and Marlene Rigler  in cooperation with Open Systems (Vienna), Mestna galerija (Ljubljana) and Remont (Belgrade) aims to actively engage with the current artistic practice in the former Yugoslavia because we believe that a much-needed political artistic practice is being shaped in countries such as Serbia, Macedonia, the Kosovo or Slovenia: a practice that relies on self-empowerment, strong networking across the region and a pro-European, yet critical attitude.Therefore, looking at the artistic landscape anywhere south of the Austrian border, one discovers a vivid, particularly interconnected art scene.”

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Video screening and promotion of a book

Location: University of Tourism and Management in Skopje 
(Blvd "Partizanski odredi" No.99) 
Opening: 22.10.2013 (Tuesday), 20:30 (a one-day event)

OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression)

OPA was founded in 2001 by the visual artists Slobodanka Stevceska (*1971, Skopje, Macedonia) and Denis Saraginovski (*1971, Skopje, Macedonia). Both of them studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and are working on the borderline of art, media and performance.

OPA has had solo exhibitions in Macedonia, Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Germany, USA and the Netherlands and has exhibited widely in group exhibitions and festivals such as Transmediale, Berlin; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Transeuropa – European Theatre- and Performance Festival, Hildesheim; Freewaves’ Biennial of New Media Arts, Los Angeles; I Had a Dream, Kunstraum Baden, Switzerland; Victory Obsessed, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan; etc. OPA received residency fellowships in Estonia, France, Germany and Switzerland.  Continue reading →

Location: ARHITEKTRI, Franklin Roosevelt 68 1/2, Skopje
Opening: 20. 04. 2013 (Saturday), 20.00 hrs
(the exhibition will be open only that evening until 22.00 hrs)

Mirna Arsovska, Ivana Dragsic, Aleksandar Spasoski, Oliver Musovik, Igor Toshevski, Harald Schenker, Ines Efremova, Slavica Toshevska, Dijana Bogdanovska, Tihomir Jancovski, Vladimir Nedelkovski, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Jana Jakimovska, Nikola Uzunovski, Filip Jovanovski, Danilo Mandic, Vladimir Jancevski, Mile Nicevski, Daniel Gontz (Romania), Sinisha Labrovic (Croatia)

“Utopias/Dystopias: Documents” tends to address the question of society’s idealised mega-projections of the future as well as the success/ failure of such constructs. It does so by means of tangible artistic interventions in public space where diverse interests, tendencies and interpretations form a social reality. At the same time, it is an attempt to pose new questions and perhaps offer fresh interpretations and definitions of public space, its potential and function in the wider social context.  Continue reading →