Exhibition: Every House is an Island – Tonka Malekovic / Nadija Mustapic

grey) (area . space for contemporary and media art
present

exhibition: Every House is an Island
artists: Tonka Malekovic and Nadija Mustapic
guest curator: Ivana Mestrov / Loose Associations
gallery curator: Darko Fritz

31 | 7 – 12 | 8 | 2013

opening: Wednesday 31th July, 21 – 23 h

Guest curator Ivana Mestrov (Loose Associations) presents two artists who made a new site-specific installation: Tonka Malekovic, a fellow collegue from Loose Associations collective and Nadija Mustapic. Intermedia exhibition dialogue between visual artists exploring spatial potentials and side narratives of a typical old style Korcula city house temporarily set as an exhibition space of grey area.

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Nadija Mustapic (Rijeka, 1976) is an intermedia artist working predominantly in video installation, but her practice includes documentary and experimental film, installation, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and performance. Mustapic has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and internationally. Her artistic practice also includes collaborations. She is one of founding members of The Moving Crew art collective (www.themovingcrew.org). Since 2006, she lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia and where she teaches as Assistant Professor at the Acaemy of Applied Arts,The University of Rijeka. Since 2011 she works on an EU funded program ADRIART (www.adriart.net) creating an international double-degree MA program Media Arts and Practices.

Tonka Malekovic graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2003 exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad, including projects in public space in Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Austria, France, Hungary, Moldova and Macedonia. 2007 the winner of the Essl Award Prize for Central and South-East Europe, 2009 of Zagreb Salon Award, 2010 of HDLU – Young Artist Award, 2010 one of the finalists for the Radoslav Putar Award, SCCA Zagreb. Since 2008 took part in residences: P.A.C.T. Zollverein, Essen, Germany; Temporary City, Pecs, Hungary; CHIOSC, Chisinau, Moldova, KulturKontakt Austria,Vienna; Cite international des Arts, Paris, France, DEFAULT Masterclass in residence, Lecce, Italy etc. A member of the professional artistic associations HZSU and HDLU, and Loose Associations, an association for contemporary art practices. Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Ivana Mestrov is a curator, art critic and researcher. She obtained her MA in art history at Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne University. In 2002-2003 she attended the curatorial programme Ecole du Magasin in Le Magasin Art Centre, Grenoble, France. The outcome of the programme was a book AIDS RIOT, artist collectives against AIDS, New York, 1987-1996. Since 2009, she has been working as an assistant researcher at the Art History Department of the University of Split, Croatia. She is one of the founding members of the organization Loose Associations contemporary art practices (along with Natasa Bodrozic and Tonka Malekovic) dealing with critical research and contemporary art practices.

Loose Associations, Contemporary Art Practices were founded in Zagreb in 2009 by a curator and cultural worker Natasa Bodrozic, visual artist Tonka Malekovic, and curator and art historian Ivana Mestrov. Prior to the associative framework, the Loose Associations programme already existed since 2007, as a sequel of talks and screenings conceived in a tight collaboration with the New Media Department of Zagreb Art Academy and exploring the notions of critical, collective and self-managed art practices, as well as public art. Since then, a several collaborative projects were set up under the forms of exhibitions, panels and residencies. At the present time, the Loose Associations are active in the informal public school project K.R.U.Z.O.K., ARS PUBLICAE- research on the public art in Croatia (1postozaumjetnost.wordpress.com) and SPACES: Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries, collaborative project funded by  EU-Eastern Partnership Culture Program (Armenia, Georgia, R.Moldova, Ukraine).

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grey) (area .  space for contemporary and media art
new / pop-up gallery location: Ulica biskupa Luke Tolentica 13 / Zakrjan, Korcula, Croatia
post: pp. 95 . 20260 Korcula . Croatia

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siva) (zona . prostor medijske i suvremene umjetnosti . Korcula

Svaka je kuca otok
Izlozbeni dijalog Tonke Malekovic i Nadije Mustapic

Kustosica izlozbe: Ivana Mestrov / Slobodne veze, Zagreb

Voditelj galerije: Darko Fritz

31 | 7 – 12 | 8 | 2013

otvaranje: srijeda 31. srpnja, 21 – 23. h

tvorenje izlozbe odrzati ce se u srijedu, 31. 7. 2013. u 21 sat u novom i privremenom (pop-up) izlozbenom prostoru galerije siva) (zona lociranom u starom gradu-Korcula, ulica biskupa Luke Tolentica 6. Izlozba ostaje otvorena  do 12. 8. 2013., a moguce ju je posjetiti svakog dana od 21 do 22 sata. Siva zona nastavlja s praksom pozivanja kustosa koji oblikuju nove izlozbe posebno za specificni kontekst ove galerije, u kojem su do sada sudjelovali Dunja Blazevic / Pro.ba, Sarah Cook, Kontejner, Geoff Lucas / HICA, Ana Peraica i Stefan Rusu, Ovoga puta gosca kustosica Ivana Mestrov iz udruge za suvremene umjetnicke prakse Slobodne veze iz Zagreba predstavlja umjetnice Tonku Malekovic i Nadiju Mustapic.

Nakon svake izlozbe, opet smo sami i pocinjemo sve iznova. Slicno vrijedi i za kuce. Obitavamo ih sami i u zajednici. Neprestano mijenjaju oblicja usporedno s nasim kretnjama, navikama, osobnim pricama i preokupacijama. Kuca kao paradigma zivotnog prostora, isto kao i otok, mikrokozmos je jakih individualnih obiljezja.

Izlozba Svaka je kuca otok svojevrsni je eksperiment u kojem jedna tipicna otocka kuca starog dijela grada Korcule postaje prostorom i scenarijem za izlozbenu inscenaciju, van ustaljenih galerijskih parametara. U otockoj izmjestenosti i osamljenosti, ublazenom zivoscu otockog ljetnog ritma, odvija se dijalog dvaju umjetnica, ciji se pogledi dosada nisu ukrstavali u jednom izlozbenom prostoru.

Tonka Malekovic kroz in situ foto/video/instalaciju Rasti na drugu stranu (2013.) problematizira prijelazna stanja, traume promjene, te njezin afirmativan potencijal.

Nadija Mustapic kroz svoje audio i video instalacije Dodatni cin (2011.) i Razliciti poceci (2009.) potcrtava psiho-geografske profile prostora, koje dodatno performira bas kroz svoje osobne geste, te time uvodi druge vizije prostornosti.

Obje autorice u tom procesu koriste naglaseni performativni impuls. I dok jedna propituje i mogucnosti video medija i njegove fenomenoloske i participacijske ucinke na onoga koji gleda, druga se kroz koreografske orkestracije pozicionira naspram određenih prostornoneuralgicnih tocaka, otpocinjuci spontane procese igre i prepoznavanja.

Izlozbeni program galerije siva) (zona 2013. odvija ce se u tri etaze stambene kuce koja je ustupljena udruzi ljubaznoscu Igora Franica.

O autoricama:

Nadija Mustapic rođena je  u Rijeci, gdje trenutno zivi i djeluje. Diplomirala je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Rijeci da bi potom nastavila svoje usavrsavanje u polju grafike i intermedija na University of Iowa. Zaposlena je na Akademiji primjenjenih umjetnosti u Rijeci u zvanju viseg asistenta na Katedri za grafiku,te clanica umjetnickog kolektiva The Moving Crew, oformljenog u Iowi.

Tonka Malekovic diplomirala je 2006. Na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu, u klasi prof. Ante Kuduza. Od 2003. izlaze na samostalnim i skupnim izlozbama u zemlji i inozemstvu. Dobitnica je nekoliko nagrada (1. nagrada Essl CEE, 2007;  Zagrebacki Salon 2009.; HDLU-ove Nagrade mladom umjetniku, 2010., finalistica nagrade za suvremenu umjetnost Radoslav Putar 2010.). Boravila je na nekoliko umjetnickih rezidencijalnih programa (DEFAULT Masterclassinresidence, Lecce; C.I.A. Pariz, Kulturkontakt Austrija, Bec;  Közelítés Art Association, Pecuh; CHIOSC, Kishinev; P.A.C.T. Zollverein, Essen…). Clanica je HDLU-a, HZSU-a i udruge za suvremene umjetnicke prakse, Slobodne veze. 2012. u suradnji s plesnim studiom Liberdance u Zagrebu, pokrenula je Haustor-galeriju LiberSPACE, prostor za provociranje privremene forme. Živi i radi u Zagrebu.

Ivana Mestrov je nezavisna kustosica / znanstvena novakinja-asistentica na Odsjeku za povijest umjetnosti Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu. Jedna je od ko-kustosica Bijenala mladih Mediterana Mediterranea 16/Errors Allowed (6/6-31/8/2013, Ancona, IT). Aktivna je clanica udruge za suvremene umjetnicke prakse Slobodne veze (www.slobodneveze.wordpress.com). Živi i radi između Splita i Zagreba.

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