ARTISTS:
Vanja Babić, Jasna Čagalj, Luana Lojić, Maja Rivić
CURATOR:
Martina Kontošić
Gallery Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb
performances by Maja Rivić:
30/06, 07/07 and 14/07 at 7 pm
gallery working hours:
Tue– Fri 12–8 pm
Saturday: 11 am–7 pm
Vanja Babić (1984, Zagreb) graduated at the New media department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Before studying at the Academy he graduated from the Polytechnic University in Zagreb. His works are often based on the principle of social practice, questioning everyday boundaries that affect the lives of individuals. His main inspiration and motive for intervening in everyday situations is his personal experience. For him, labour is a sincere reaction to the environment in which he lives and through it he tries to point out systematic issues of the society.
Jasna Čagalj (1989, Split) completed her undergraduate studies in film and video at the Academy of Arts in Split. In 2015, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she received her master’s degree in animation and new media. She operates under various pseudonyms.
Luana Lojić (1991, Pula) graduated from the Animation and New Media department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She deals with applied biophilia. From poetry for stones to live installations, videos, films and live art that thematize human’s relationship with the systems, perception and materialities that surround him, in his work she seeks to understand natural processes outside and within the concept of the senses. She is an 1/6 of Ljubavnice – an art collective for the interdisciplinary work of science and art, as well as a part of the M28 collective.
Maja Rivić, Vibrate in Sympathy, 2020
Performative recording and sound installation
Maja Rivić (1982, Zagreb) graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Zagreb, graduated from jazz and contemporary singing / arranging at Middlesex University in London, and is currently in her final year of graduate studies at the New Media department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She participated in performances by Loupo Abramovici and Tomaž Grom, and co-authored performances with dancer Silvija Dogan and editor Iva Gavrilović. She is a vocalist in the jazz orchestra Mimika, free impro quartet MILK, collective Živa Voda, Maja Rivić Septet, and collaborates with the Jazz Orchestra of HRT and Darko Rundek.
Martina Kontošić (1981, Zagreb) graduated Art History and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb and specialized in Tourism Management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. She is a curator and project manager in culture. She works as a collaborator on projects with WHW and Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society.
The exhibition takes place within the program of the Gallery Nova and the project Coexistence: Spaces of Sound developed and coordinated by curator Martina Kontošić. Exploring the role of art and culture through the contextualization of experiences in the field of sound art, we seek to create a space for collaboration as well as knowledge and experience exchange by evading the logic of competitiveness of contemporary society. In 2020 the program will be realized through several production and discursive events in physical space and online. The next event within the project, a panel called “Conversation on Sound Curating”, which was postponed out of a sense of responsibility for the health of our visitors, will be held in early October.