REAL PRESENCE - GENERATION 2003

THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR EMERGING GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS

20 - 31 August 2003

Curated by: Biljana Tomic and Dobrila Denegri

Organization: nKA / ICA

Museum 25. May, Belgrade

PARTICIPANTS

Academy of Fine Art Tirana Heldi Prema Academy of Fine Art Gymri Tsolak Topchyan Academy of Fine Art Vienna Prof. Eva Schlegel Prof. Peter Kogler son:DA Katharina Stiglitz Franz Kapfer Heidi Kapfer Academy of Applied Art Vienna Prof. Peter Weibel Borjana Vencislaova Miroslav Nicić Martin Nimmwevoll Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg Prof. Tommy Schneider Eva Heitzinger Severin Weiser Melanie Schiefer Academy of Fine Art Zagreb Andrej Mirčev Prague Art Magazine Umelec Jiri Ptacek Lucie Sokolova Daniel Vlcek Petra Osovska Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen Nina Wengel Tijana Mišković Kunstakademie Berlin Prof. Katharina Sieverding Christine Woditschka Nurnberg Art Academy Markus Freidl Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Prof. David Rabinowich Prof. Daniel Buren Prof. Rita Mcbride Christiane Rasch Lena Willikens Ellen Hutzenlaub Marietta Schwarz Julia Ruther Valerie Krause Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunste Frankfurt Prof.Tobias Rehberger Francesca D. Shaw Hanna Hildebrand Barak Reiser Munchen Fine Art Academy Heike Bollig Academy of Fine Art Helsinki Pilvi Takala Tuulia Susiaho Accademia delle Belle Arti Brera Ivana Falconi IUAV Venice Prof. Giulio Alessandri Anna Paola Passerini Accademie delle Belle Arti Venezia Primož Bizjak Alessandro Mancassola Giorgia Boller Thanos Zakopoulos Riccardo Fabiani Michele Bazzana Alberto Tadiello Filippo Bordignon Bucharest Fine Art Academy Mihaela Kavdanska Marialuiza Mihordescu Raluca Voinea Eduard Costantin Simona Nastac Silvia Costiuc Alexandra Demetriu Alexandra Basa Raluca Davidel Mirona Craciun Alehandru Ion Retegan Alex Retegan Augusta Radosav Lasalle-Sia College of The Arts Singapore Prof. Milenko Prvački Lau Wai Yuen Urlich Sia Joo Hiang Ljubljana Art Academy Prof. Srečo Dragan Jana Baraga Katja Majer Narvika Bovčon Aleš Vaupotič Antea Arizanović Tswhane University of Technology Pretoria Johan Thom Belgrade Fine & Applied Art Academies Bojana Romić Voislav Đorđević Aleksandra Momaković Marijana Škoda Marija Vukosavljević Jelena Pantović Tijana Šćekić Vojislava Čitaković Ana Truinić Davor Džalto Ivana Perić Ema Pajić Jelena Milošević Fine Art Academy Novi Sad Luka Kulić Ivan Sabo Vladimir Čkonjović Monika Sigeti Zorica Čolić Cecilija Haizler Art Faculty Zvečan Vesna Zarev Andrej Čikala Zoran Vranešević Art Highschool Šabac Tamara Stepandić Mate Casni Mladen Pantelić Suzana Zlatarić Jasna Damnjanović Faculty of Arts Cetinje Anka Gardašević Zoran Živković Marko Milin Sepp R. Brudermann Matti Blind Markus Mussinghoff Terry Buchholz Mima Orlović Selman Trtovac Veljkjo Vujačić

Matti Blint

"aaaeerhhh", intervention on the facade of the museum

Giorgia Boller

performance

Exhibition view Museum 25th of May: Mima Orlovic, Selman Trtovac, AENAO Group

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Marcus Friedl

presentation of the work

"Friedelhof Laguna"

Narvika Bovcan & Ales Vaupotic, presentation of the work

Monika Sigeti

Zorica Čolić

Cecilija Haizler, installation and performance

Antea Arizanovic

"Elixir of Transition"

Severin Weiser

"McDonald's"

intervention on the facade of the museum

Katja Majer &

Jana Baraga

"Sava"

	Voislav Radovanovic "Secret Performance in Munich"
	Valerie Kreuse "Tipically German" Green Market, Belgrade
	AENAO installation in museum
	Lau Wai Yuen Urlich installation in museum
	Lau Wai Yuen Urlich installation of Andrej Cikala
	Giorgia Boller Performance
	workshop and dinner at the museum by night
	Opening of the final show at the Museum 25th of May

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opening of the show at the Museum 25th of May

Two editions of “Real Presence” lead us in a way to the third one, in which we wanted to try out a different approach by asking participants of previous workshops to forward invitation to their colleagues. This created a sort of echo situation that confirmed the necessity for this kind of encounters among young generation of artists and students.

“Real Presence – Generation 2003” gathered about hounded participants from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa and Switzerland as well as from different academies and art schools from Serbia and Montenegro (Belgrade, Cetinje, Novi Sad, Sabac and Zvecani). It structure was quite similar to pervious two editions, and it consisted of presentations of the single artists and groups, that enabled participants to get to know each other through the work and to start up in this way discussion and collaboration. At the same time workshop consisted in the realisation of the works and interventions in the exhibitive space of museum as well as in the various other contexts of the city.

Some of this interventions looked for the direct contact with the social context, with the city and the citizens: German artists Julia Ruther and Valerie Krause realised interactive event entitled “Typically German” at the green market of Belgrade, Markus Fredl interrogated passer-bys about his origin, while shooting a video footage, meanwhile Anglo Italian Francesca D. Show (coming from Rehberger class in Frankfurt) engaged a series of encounters with inhabitants of buildings near museum, with questioner about their wishes to improve their lifes. The final result (chosen by the artist) was a wish to have more “SVIRKE” – more live concerts in the area. At the same time, the fascinating building of ex-Tito’s Museum was going through process of transformation: this was probably a rare – if not unique – moment in which young artists could have on disposal entire museum for them selves – to use it as a live space, as a permanent laboratory, a meeting point, a place to work and stay, have a dinner and late evening discussions.

It had a bar organised by Sepp R. Brudermann and Heldi Prema, a series of environmental and outdoor interventions by Matti Blind, Tsolak Topchyan and Andrej Čikala, Raluca Davidel and Lau Wai Yuen Urlich, Severin Weiser that put into question various aspects of its’ architecture, history and present use; there were also large indoor installations created as intimate spaces, communicational spaces, spaces of memory and of interaction, realised by: Franz and Heidi Kapfer, Andrej Čikala, Melanie Schiefer, Christiane Rasch, Lena Willikens, Ellen Hutzenlaub, Hanna Hildebrand, Heike Bollig, Eduard Costantin, Silvia Costiuc, Augusta Costiuc Radosav, Alexandra Demetriu, Luka Kulić, Ivan Sabo, Vladimir Čkonjović, Zorica Čolić, Monika Sigeti, Cecilija Haizler, Milica Benić, Lau Wai Yuen Urlich, Italian group AENAO created by Alessandro Mancassola, Giorgia Boller, Thanos Zakopoulos and Riccardo Fabiani.

Through performances and symbolical healing and cleaning actions artists like Katja Majer and Jana Baraga, or Ivana Fassoni and Giorgia Boller dealt with the hurt “body” of Belgrade; on the other hand Tuulia Susiaho brought into contact and collision two different cultures through collective performance of singing Finnish karaoke. For Nina Wengel and Tijana Mišković this was a chance to start up interactive web site, Anna Paola Passerini invited participants of Belgrade workshop to make part of a similar initiative in Verona extending the boundaries of the “real presence” and enlarging the network that this project wishes to create.