KOLEKTIVA

KOLEKTIVA is a group of three contemporary visual artists based in Ljubljana, Slovenia: Vesna Bukovec (1977), Lada Cerar (1974) and Metka Zupanič (1977).

We started to work together as informal group in 2003. In 2008 we decided to forma a group KOLEKTIVA in order to make a bigger division between our individual and our collective work. All of us also work as individual artists. We have all graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2002. Metka Zupanič and Vesna Bukovec received MA in 2005 and 2006 at the same Academy.

In our group projects we are focused into research of inter-personal relationships, everyday life and the art system. Individuals, art public, passerby or specially target groups represent an important role in our work. We invite them to take an active part in the creative process and become co-authors of the work. We understand the process of art making as a means of negotiation, exchange and cooperation.

Selected solo exhibitions of KOLEKTIVA group:

• Lost in Communication (KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), A+A Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2011
• Secret Heart, FSPW, Program Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2010
• Special Place in the City, Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia, 2008
• Special Place in the City, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007
• Special Place in the City - Graz, Galerie Centrum, medien.KUNSTLABOR, Graz, Austria, 2006
• Personal*, Likovni salon Celje, Celje, Slovenia, 2004
• Intimate Images, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2004
• First Impression, (public projection) Nottingham, UK, 2004

Selected group exhibitions of KOLEKTIVA group:

• 18th ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival, Tirgu-Mures, Romania, 2010
• E-motion to cohabit, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy, 2010
• KIPARSTVO DANES. Komponente, stičišča in presečišča. (SCULPTURE TODAY. Components junctions and intersections.), Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia, 2010
• Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, Parakino, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland, 2009
• namaTRE.ba 3, Academy of Fine Arts, Trebinje, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2009
• Berliner Liste 2009, Palais am Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, 2009
• PHOTONIC, LUMINATIC: New Slovenian Photography and Video, Kulturzentrum Korotan, Vienna, Austria; Photoport Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009
• Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008
• PHOTONIC, LUMINATIC: New Slovenian Photography and Video, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir, Turkey, 2008
• Editing projects, Universita Roma 3 Architettura (Ex-Mattatoio), Rome, Italy, 2007
• Some Other City, Sarajevo winter festival, Sarajevo, BIH, 2007
• Art Generator, Urban Arts Festival, Stip, Macedonia, 2007
• Narratives: -35/+65, Two Generations, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria, 2006
• Young Art Europe, MOYA Museum of Young Art, Vienna, Austria, 2005
• Parallel, Empire gallery, Nottingham, UK, 2004
• 11th Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens, Grece, 2003

Residencies and workshops of KOLEKTIVA group:

• Workshop Some Other City, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Sarajevo, BiH, 2007
• Workshop Imagining Common Lands in Gorizia, Italy, 2006; invited by ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana; organized by Zerynthia, Rome
• Resiency in Graz, Austria, 2006; invited by Cultural City Network Graz
• Parallel, residency of artist from twin cities, Nottingham, UK, 2004; invited by Yolkart collective, Nottingham

Curatorial work:

• Video in Progress 4: Feelings of Distress (curated by: Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič), 2011
• Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative (curated by: KOLEKTIVA), 2009
• Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives (curated by: Metka Zupanič, Vesna Bukovec), 2008/2009