27.9., 19:00
Eröffnung: NETZ/WERK/KUNST – Laufend wachsender Ausstellungsorganismus
Ausstellungseröffnung mit Ansprache und Rundgang durch Igor F. Petković mit Beteiligung der prekAIRe Künstler:innen Milica Dukić, Valentin Varga und Aleksandar Stanojević (SER), K.ada, Helga Chibidziura, und anderen.
prekARTists:
Milica DUKIĆ
Milica DUKIĆ (b. 1989, Serbia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in painting, as well as a Master’s degree in drawing. Since 2014, she has been a member of The Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina, holding the status of Independent Visual Artist. She subsequently joined the Presidencies of SULUV (2022) and SULUJ (2024). Additionally, as an active member of MMC LED Art / Šok zadruga (2013-2021), Milica has been deeply involved in the local art scene for many years, working as a gallerist and participating in various programs. With a wide artistic practice encompassing embroidery, photography, and textile art, she has showcased her work in 15 solo exhibitions and over 100 collective projects. She has a keen interest in inclusive art practices and volunteer work, having served as an art instructor at the Milan Petrović School for persons with special needs on multiple occasions. Milica spent one year in Switzerland (2017/2018) as an artist-in-residence at the Ecole d’Humanité. During this time, besides working in the studio, she gained experience in teaching art courses such as Drawing, Embroidery, and Textile Art. In November 2021, Milica relocated to Jerusalem to participate in a long-term voluntary program working with children and the elderly with intellectual disabilities at the organization AKIM-Jerusalem. Parallel to this, she developed her art practice as a guest artist at the Art Cube Artists‘ Studios (January-July 2023), focusing on her latest project titled Textile Newspapers. She returned to Serbia in October of the same year and currently resides in Kraljevo and Novi Sad.
Aleksandar Kempa Stanojević
Mummification statement:
„The main focus of my interest is man, a three-dimensional object in human form, as well as a man’s product, that is, an everyday object that he uses and then discards. The very idea of work when making sculptures is based on the use of those discarded, non-artistic, utilitarian objects that are part of our everyday life. With the large consumption and availability of objects that are discarded on a daily basis, I point to consumer society, consumerism, but also the possibility of recycling in order to give new forms and values, changing the environment, purpose and purpose of the discarded. Also, I am based on research in which way the non-artistic becomes artistic. The very approach of the technique is associated with the Egyptian mummification of the human body. The portrait, which is the main motif of this work, represents the cause of waste accumulation and the main consumer. The dimensions of these sculptures rival the responsibilities of an ordinary person on the planet.“
- Aleksandar Kempa Stanojević biography:
Stanojević Aleksandar was born in 1992 in Paraćin, Serbia. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, department – painting, in the class of Professor Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić. He is currently in his master’s studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He stayed in the Summer Academy of Fine Arts residential project in Salzburg in 2015, as well as in the student exchange (ERASMUS PROGRAM) at the Faculdad de Bellas Artes, Alonso Cano, Universidad de Granada, in Spain in 2017. So far, he has had 20 solo exhibitions in the country and abroad. He is the winner of the first prize of the 44th „YOUTH PALETTE“ Art Gallery of the Vrbas Cultural Center. He has been a member of SULUV since 2021. Among the more important exhibitions, he singles out the exhibitions in Trieste, Timisoara and Paris.
Valentin Varga
Valentin Varga wurde 1990 in Novi Sad geboren. Er schloss sein Studium an der Akademie der Schönen Künste in Sarajevo mit dem Schwerpunkt Malerei ab. Abschluss seines Masterstudiums an der Akademie der Künste in Novi Sad. Bisher hat er seine Arbeiten auf zehn unabhängigen und mehreren Gemeinschaftsausstellungen präsentiert (Serbien, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Ungarn, Österreich). Er hat an zahlreichen Künstlerkolonien und Kunstprojekten in Serbien und im Ausland teilgenommen. Einer der Gründer der Künstlergruppe CtrlV Art. Seit 2015 ist er Organisator der Kunstkolonie „TAKT“ (Temerina Art Creator Colony). Seit 2021 ist er Mitglied der Vereinigung bildender Künstler der Vojvodina (SULUV). Er lebt und kreiert in Temerin.
„Vargas Kunst ist nicht konzeptionell, aber da er sich der Grenzen unserer diskursiv-rationalen Möglichkeiten sehr bewusst ist, kann man sagen, dass sie einen transkonzeptuellen oder postkonzeptuellen Charakter hat, und er denkt an unvereinbare Paradoxien im Alltäglichen. Umstände, also Probleme, die mit außerkünstlerischen Mitteln nicht erfasst werden können.“ – Mark Losoncz
