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Alenka Pirman/Juan de Nieves

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Alenka Pirman was born in 1964. in Ljubljana. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1989). She was editor-in-chief of the magazines Likovne besede and M’zin (1991-92), artistic director of the Škuc Gallery (1990-96), assistant director of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts Ljubljana (1997-99), vice-president of the Management Board of the International Contemporary Art Network (ICAN, 1998-99) and co-founder and mentor of the Svet umetnosti (World of Art) educational programme for contemporary art curators (1996-98). She was editor and head of the artservis Internet service (2001-04), and a taxi driver (2007-08). In the 1990s, her work was predominantly related to three fictitious institutions: the SK8 Museum (1991-93), the RIGUSRS - Research Institute for Geo Art Statistics of the Republic of Slovenia (1997, with Vuk Ćosić and Irena Woelle), and the Domestic Research Institute (1994-98). She then collaborated with artistic collectives/platforms like Luther Blissett/01.org (1998) and The Bughouse (2002-03). She has carried out several methodological exhibition projects, e.g. with a German loanword collection (Arcticae horulae, 1995), with a deposited collection of the Museum of the Bodies for Internal Affairs (The Case. Art and Criminality, 2005, with Biserka Debeljak). She is a founding member of the Domestic Research Society (2004), where she develops collaborative exhibition and Internet projects (The Cabinet, 2005-; Unleashed Tongue, 2004-; Indija.si, 2007-). Contact info: Šarhova 34, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Turn on JavaScript!, http://www2.arnes.si/~apirma1/, http://www.ddr.si/.

Selected solo exhibitions: 2009 – Ninth Coromandel, SCCA-Ljubljana Project Room, Ljubljana, 2006 – On Profession II. The Rog Lesson, The Cabinet, Ljubljana - Shut Your Eyes and Watch, Kibela Gallery, Maribor, 2005 - The Case. Art and Crime: Methodological exhibition (with B. Debeljak), Mala galerija, Ljubljana, 2002 - Clementine Deliss, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Alenka Pirman, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, 1995 - Arcticae Horulae (Urbanaria), National and University Library, Ljubljana, 1993 - SK8 Museum, Likovni salon, Celje; Ivan Grohar Gallery, Škofja Loka, 1990 - Une Chaise Électrique, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana

Selected group exhibitions: 2007 - Caminhos Excêntricos, Museu Collecção Berardo, Lisbon, Cultural Hero, 2nd Biennial of Quadrilateral, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Rijeka, Digitars, Galerija SKC, Belgrade (curated by Aleksandra Kostič); 2006 - Interrupted Histories, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; 2005 - Territories, Identities, Nets. Slovene Art 1995-2005, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; 2004  - Seven Sins, Ljubljana – Moscow, Moderna galerija Ljubljana - Extramoenia 5, Comune di Monfalcone, Monfalcone - Art in Expanded Spaces: Slovene Art 1985-1995, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; 2001 - Vulgata - Kunst aus Slowenien, NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; 2000  - Vulgata - U3, 3rd Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Art, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; 1997 - U3, 2nd Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Art, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; 1990 - Paintings?, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana

Juan Antonio de Nieves Lamas was born in Coruña (Spain) in 1964.  He graduated in Modern and Contemporary Art History. Faculty of Geography and History, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1987.

• Recipient of a grant from the Department of Historical and Documentary Heritage. Museums Section of the Galicia Government, 1989 -1991

• Recipient of a grant to elaborate a research project centred on the possible establishment of a Contemporary art documentation center in Galicia. Culture Ministry of the Galicia Government, 1990
• Curator of the  Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) 1994-1998
• Exhibition’s Coordinator of the Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana 1998-1999
• Head of the Exhibitions Department in the Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC) 1999 -2004
• Artistic Director of the Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC) 2005 -2008
• Honorary member of ADACE, Asociación de Directores de Centros de Arte Contemporáneo en España
• Member of IKT, International Association of curators of contemporary art

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Institutions: 2005-2008 - ESPAI D’ART CONTEMPORANI DE CASTELLÓ, Castelló, Artistic Director: Curator of  “Atención! Algunas vueltas más para llegar…”. A project by Angel Vergara, Curator of  “Cantos Cívicos. A project by NILC/Miguel Ventura”, Curator of  “Daniel Buren. Les cabanyes de ceramica i espill”, Curator of the exhibition “Contemporane@ 05. Interferencias en la ciudad y sus paisajes asociados”., Director of the project PROTESIS INSTITUCIONAL, by Santiago Cirugeda; ESPAI D’ART CONTEMPORANI DE CASTELLÓ, Castelló - Exhibition’s Coordinator, Director of the project CONTEMPORANE@ 03. CS_SOUND, Co-Director of the project CAMBIO DE VALORES (ARCO Foundation Collection), Director of the project CONTEMPORANE@ 02. Plataforma de proyectos, Coordination of the Exhibition Series “Siete propuestas y un epílogo para el final del milenio”, 1999-2001., Coordination and Production of exhibitions: Jeff Wall / Pepe Espaliú. Tiempo suspendido; Carles Santos; Hypertronix. Algunas figuras de la cultura juvenil; A sangre y fuego. Imágenes de la violencia en el arte contemporáneo, Zona F. Una exploración por los espacios habitados por los discursos feministas; Contra la arquitectura. La urgencia de (re)pensar la ciudad; El poder de narrar. Cartografiando historias, Movimiento aparente; El instante eterno. Arte y espiritualidad en el cambio del milenio; Lugares de la memoria; Otras naturalezas Urbanas: Arquitectura es (ahora) geografía, Un móvil en la patera. Diseñando el siglo XXI; Asianvibe. Arte Contemporáneo asiático; Heroes caídos. Masculinidad y representación; Arquitecturas para el acontecimiento; En el lado de la televisión; Micropolíticas. Arte y Cotidianeidad (1968-2001). 1998-1999 - CONSORCI DE MUSEOS DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA, Exhibition Coordinator: Christian Boltanski, L’Almudi, Valencia; Jesús Martínez Oliva, La Gallera, Valencia; Pedro Ortuño, La Gallera, Valencia; Elena Cabello/Ana Carceller, La Gallera, Valencia; Activities Coordinator: Conference Series: Intertextos y Contaminaciones, Contemporaneidad y clasicismo en el arte; CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Santiago de Compostela: Direction and coordination of exhibitons in the Project’s space Doble Espacio: Anish Kapoor At the edge of the world; Jorge Barbi Casa de Juegos; Nacho Criado En tiempo furtivo (…piezas desde la mesita de noche); Anxel Huete Man de Cal; Antón Lamazares; Gracias do Lugar; Juan Muñoz; Isaac Pérez Vicente La luz en la Sombra. Coordination and production of exhibitions: Dan Graham; Alberto Datas; Arnulf Rainer; Vito Acconci; Christian Boltanski; Imágenes y Visiones. Arte mexicano entre la vanguardia y la actualidad; Giovanni Anselmo. Other exhibitions and Activities 2012 - GALERÍA A+A, Venice; Curator exhibition “Single”. A project by Jasa Mrevlje; ECOLE BEAUX ARTS  DE PERPIGNAN, France; Workshop Professor: Desacord amoreux; 2011/2012 - MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE VIGO, Spain; Director and professor of “Cultural and artistisc practices betw 1968 and nowadays”; 2011 -  FUNDACIÓN BOTÍN, Santander; Member of the jury Premio Internacional de artes plásticas

• CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE CELJE, SLOVENIA - Curator of “Narratives in progress”
• Guest Professor in the Master de arte, museología y crítica contempo University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• 2010 - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER CELJE, SLOVENIA, Guest Curator
• CENTRO CULTURAL DE ESPAÑA, Montevideo, Uruguay - Curator of “Dentro del Tiempo”, a project of Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Lecturer: Spanish Conceptual Art; Workshop Professor: Curator as mediator
• CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, Lisbon, Portugal - Curator of “41º 52’ 59” latitude N/8º 51´12” lonxitude O”, a retrospective exhibition of Jorge Barbi
• Guest Professor in the Master de arte, museología y crítica contempo, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• VIGO CITY COUNCIL, Spain, Lecturer in the Conference’s Series “Vigo: un espacio para a cultura e a arte contemporánea. Criterios de actuación”
• CAIXA GALICIA, A Coruña/Lugo/Vigo, Spain, Curator exhibition of 3 BOLSEIROS EN ARTES PLÁSTICAS DA FUNDACIÓN CAIXA GALICIA. Works of Almudena Fernández Fariña, Pablo Orza and Elena Prado
• CASA DE LA PARRA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Curator exhibition INCIDENTES. Works of Miroslaw Balka, Michael Biberstein, Sophie Calle, Hannah Collins, Juan Muñoz, Xesús Vázquez
• PALACIO DE FONSECA, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Curator exhibition SIDA. PRONUNCIAMIENTO Y ACCIÓN. Works of Javier Codesal, The Carrying Society, Pepe Espaliú, Jesús Martínez Oliva, Pepe Miralles and Alejandra Orejas.
• CONSELLO DA CULTURA GALEGA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Coordinator Conference’s Series “O lugar da pintura nos 90”
• AUDITORIO DE GALICIA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Curator exhibition O PROCESO ABSTRACTO. ARTISTAS GALEGOS, 1950-1979

CONSELLO DA CULTURA GALEGA, Santiago de Compostela - Coordinator of the Jornadas de Trabajo “Galicia: Un Centro de Arte contemporánea a debate” organised by the Consellería de Cultura e Xuventude de la Xunta de Galicia y el Consello da Cultura Galega. Ponentes: Alvaro Siza, J.M. Montaner, Manolo Gallego, Pedro de Llano, Santiago Seara, Martín Chirino, Tomás Lloréns, Rosa Olivares, X.A. Castro, Gloria Moure, Vicente Todolí, Carlos Batzán, Simón Marchán, Mª Luisa Sobrino, Félix de la Fuente, Antón Patiño, Xosé Freixanes, Xabier Seoane.

MUSEO DEL PRADO, Madrid, Spain - Direction and Design of the exhibition LOS SONIDOS DEL PÓRTICO, celebrated with the motive of the construction of the musical instruments of the Pórtico de la Gloria de la Catedral de Santiago, under the patronage of the Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza. Subsequently itinerant in the Auditorio de Galicia (Santiago de Compostela) and Museo do Pobo Galego (Santiago de Compostela).     

FUNDACIÓN CAMILO JOSÉ CELA, Iria Flavia, Spain - Head of cataloguing contemporary painting in the Pinacoteca de la Fundación Camilo José Cela de Iria Flavia (A Coruña)

UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - Co-director and coordinator of the Apreciación de Arte Contemporáneo course “Ambitos para la Creación Contemporánea: Principio y Futuro de una nueva dialéctica”, organised by the Asociación Amigos de Arco y patrocinado por Unión Fenosa and the University de Santiago de Compostela. Speakers: Carmen Alborch, Angel González, Cecile Bourne, Javier Maderuelo, Juan Bordes, Aurora García, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Rosa Queralt, Soledad Sevilla, José Jimenez, Juan Muñoz, Mar Villaespesa.

CASA DE LA PARRA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Curator of exhibiton PRESENCIAS Y PROCESOS. SOBRE LAS ÚLTIMAS TENDENCIAS DEL ARTE. Works by Juan Muñoz, Cristina Iglesias, Anna Mauri, Pedro G. Romero, Jorge Barbi, Joan Brossa, Din Matamoro.

Coordinator of the seminar of the same name. Speakers: José Luis Brea, Pedro G. Romero, María Corral, Anna Mauri, Marga Paz, Din Matamoro, Rosina Gómez Baeza, Joan Brossa, Jorge Barbi, Daniel Giralt-Miracle.

DIPUTACIÓN PROVINCIAL DE A CORUÑA, Spain - Part of a team that, under bajo the direction of Dr Maria Luisa Sobrino Manzanares, put together a Catalogue and Inventory of goods of artistic interest belonging to the Diputación Provincial de La Coruña, during the months of september 1988 to April 1989, y constituted by works of art deposited in museums and institutions Duch as the Museo do Pobo Galego, Museo de Bellas Artes de A Coruña, Ayuntamiento de A Coruña, Palacio Provincial de la Diputación de A Coruña, Pazo de Mariñán, etc; created about 280 entries in which que exhaustive data was collected on each work.

PUBLICATIONS (selection): Catalogues: “Dentro del Tiempo”. Exhibition Catalogue Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo; “41º 52’ 59” latitude N/8º 51´12” lonxitude O”, Exhibition Catalogue Jorge Barbi, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, 2010; “Jota Izquierdo”. Exhibition Catalogue H-E-L-L-O. Consorcio de Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, 2009; “Cantos Cívicos”. Exhibition Catalogue Miguel Ventura. MUAC, México, 2009; “Jorge Barbi”, en Tempo ao tempo. Exhibition Catalogue. MARCO, Vigo, 2007; “La casa a escena”, en Manuel Margalef, Exhibition Catalogue. Tinglado 2, Tarragona, 2006.;  “Elena Prado, Almudena Fernández Fariña y Pablo Orza”. Exhibition Catalogue 3 Bolseiros en artes plásticas da Fundación Caixa Galicia. Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, 1998.; “Entrevista con Isaac Pérez Vicente”. Exhibition Catalogue Isaac Pérez Vicente. La luz en la Sombra. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, 1997.; “Incidentes, universos por construir”. Exhibition catalogue Incidentes. Casa de la Parra, Santiago de Compostela, 1995.; “A Sida como lugar de reflexión”. Exhibition catalogue Sida. Pronunciamento e Acción. Palacio de Fonseca, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1994.; “O Proceso Abstracto”. Exhibition catalogue O Proceso Abstracto. Artistas galegos, 1950-1979. Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, 1993.; “Dramaturxia”. Exhibition catalogue 10 críticos/10 artistas. Estación Marítima de Vigo, Universidade de Vigo e Fundación Caixa Galicia, 1993; “Xurxo Oro Claro”. Exhibition Catalogue. Galería de arte Obelisco, A Coruña, 1993; “Norberto Olmedo”. Exhibition Catalogue. Casa da Parra, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela; “Manolo Ruibal”. Exhibition Catalogue. Diputación Provincial de Jaén, 1990; “Artefactos extramundi”. Exhibition Catalogue. Moncho Amigo. Casa da Parra, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, 1989

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Project HARD FACTS and Domestic Research Society

15.-31.03.2013.

Hard Facts is an interdisciplinary research - presentation partnership project, designed and implemented by the Domestic Research Society (Slovenia), PENSART (Portugal) and SIZ (Croatia), which will explore the differences between the media and science – based history and that generated by the history that we alone construed during our lives. People, during the span of their lives, are observers and/or participants of hundreds of thousands of events that are at the same time of covered by the media. Some of these events we follow voluntarily, some by accident, some of them we organize ourselves and some are organized by government or, for example, our favorite football club ... It is interesting that we have a tendency to bring home souvenirs of such events, keeping them even though we are not keen collectors. These objects remain with us signifying special moments in our lives. Many times these moments are synchronized with a common social and political meanings of events, recorded and broadcast by the media, but there are cases when some events never become history, or maybe the do, but only at a later stage. Domestic Research Society is an association of art historians and visual artists, founded by Damian Kracina, Alenka Pirman and Jani Pirnat, to record, collect, research and present local phenomena. The Society is engaged in collaborative and interdisciplinary research that enables innovative approaches to contemporary culture and visual arts. PENSART is a Spanish non-profit organization that deals with contemporary art, education and cultural mediation, with a view to creating intellectual space for contemporary art practice freed from dictatorship of the market and cultural bureaucracy. The project is realized in the form of one-month program for youth, through research with professional assistance, a workshop with local, national and regional media in the SIZ Gallery space in Rijeka, ending with the presentation of research results and the two-week workshop exhibition in the SIZ Gallery space.

The project is supported by The City of Rijeka, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia and European Cultural Foundation.

Domestic Research Society

Domestic Research Society (DRS) was established by Damijan Kracina, Alenka Pirman and Jani Pirnat in 2004 to record, collect, research and present domestic phenomena. The members have been active in the field of contemporary art since 1991. They strive to conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary research, which enables the development of innovative approaches in contemporary art, actually addressing a broader audience.

PUBLISHING - Razvezani jezik – a free online dictionary of the Slovenian spoken language was among the first notable projects by DRS. Since 2004 the anonymous users have contributed over 3,000 articles and in 2007 the best of them were printed in a book. Razvezani jezik was proclaimed as 'the most entertaining Slovenian dictionary' by the family weekly Jana. The online bookshelf indija.si (name is borrowed from the Slovenian folk expression for the land of the plenty – Indija Koromandija) is another of DRS' publishing projects – the rare texts in public domain make their contribution to dystopia. The bookshelf has been developed in collaboration with Ljudmila, Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, and Ljubljana International graphic centre (MGLC). From 2007 till 2010 they published a series of eleven original analysis of art works in coproduction with Škuc Gallery and Centre for Contemporary Art Celje.

EXHIBITIONS - From 2005 till 2010 DRS installed several thematic exhibitions in their mobile exhibition laboratory Kabinet (The Cabinet) which is currently on an extended winter break. The starting point for the instalments was a black cube that enabled them with any number of variations in different architectural assembly. When getting ready for the winter break they prepared a publication Winter Stock that presented the following exhibitions: La Capilla Atómica, Alternations / Shut Your Eyes and Watch, Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec, On Vocation II. Rog Teachings, Specimen, Distended Cabinet, and Jelenometry. Since then DRS commits to professional partnerships and joint research and exhibition projects.

RESEARCH - Most of the Domestic Research Society’s projects, however, start with an unorthodox interdisciplinary research, usually with a help from various collaborators or institutions. In 2010 DRS presented a case of visualised Slovenian idioms to reveal the bare directness of the language at an interdisciplinary exhibition Word for Word, Without Words at Mestna galerija Ljubljana. It juxtaposed over 40 museum, vernacular and artistic artefacts and gained general popularity. DRS has been conducting two ongoing researches: since 2009 the members have been exploring the geographical, technological and design characteristics of metal wall spider, an ornament that has been adorning the walls of Slovenian homes for over 60 years. A documentary was made by the national TV following the members of DRS throughout Slovenia and presenting the craftsmen that still make the spiders. It was shown in the regular programme as well as in the Modern Art Museum. In 2012 DRS kicked off the Hard Facts project exploring the difference between the media- or science- generated history and the one we have been constructing ourselves throughout our lives

NGO SIZ

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SIZ Gallery was founded in 2009, at the initiative of artists and curator Nemanja Cvijanovic. By 2010. the Gallery acts as one of the most important programs of the NGO The Other Sea. Active  participants of the gallery are, artists and designers,: ABS group, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babic, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Focus Group aka Iva Kovac and Elvis Krstulović, Igor Grubic, Janez Jansa, Sinisa Labrovic, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler, SCRAP, Slaven Tolj and associations NGO The Other Sea. SIZ Gallery is designed as an artist run gallery in which all  artists  are actually shareholders of the Gallery, and jointly decide on the program, promotion, guest appearances, etc.

In 2011. members  of the Gallery  established the NGO SIZ, thorugh which annual programme the Gallery continues to exist. In 2013. SIZ  (NGO and the Gallery) starts a collaboration with Museum of modern and contemporary art in Rijeka -  its annual program will be presented in the Mali salon gallery in Rijeka's main street Korzo. SIZ is defined by artistically never more relevant model of functioning of the collective association of equal individuals whose puropse is joint appearances in the art system. SIZ Gallery through a specific approach to artistic system emerged as one of the most interesting programs in Rijeka and beyond. Small, independent, rapidly rotating exhibitions thar connect Croatian contemporary art scene with artists from both the immediate region and other countries. Programme of the Gallery,  through the presentation of some of the most interesting tendencies in contemporary art, which in a  determined way, reflect social reality and its various, specific, dimensions such as politics, culture, ideology, cultural policy, etc., is aimed at informing the public and creating a critical counterbalance to the programs of large institutions.

With the founding of the Gallery and later by founding of the Association SIZ they try to act positively in the exhibition scene in Rijeka, where the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had created  a positive impact on the cultural life of the city, primarily educating audiences for contemporary visual language. Unexpectedly large and encouraging interest in international and regional art scene for SIZ Gallery which annually receives dozens of offers for collaboration, and in a way has become an important center of contemporary visual arts and cultural scene in general.

Through Gallery SIZ to date the following has been achieved ...

2009.: Nemanja Cvijanovic, Sinisa Labrović, Slaven Tolj, Igor Grubic, Sinisa Labrović, Club of Art Lovers and Oliver Ressler; 2010.: exhibitions Tomislav Brajnović, Cesare Pietroiusti, ABS Group, Rodion, Janez Janša, Janša and Janez Jansa, the artist duo Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (also director and advisors one of the most important international exhibitions - Document 13 - Ms. Carolyn Christov Bakargiev); 2011. Vlado Martek, Marijan Crtalić, collective GREY, art group Claire Fontaine, Sasha Huber, Milijana Babic, and Marko Markovic; 2012 and 2013.: Alexi Kukuljevića, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Pasquini, Ciprian Muresan, Ibro Hasanovic, Kristina Norman, Giuliana Racc0, Hudradea Collective and Fokus group.

Summary: NGO  SIZ (SIZ - Self-management community of interests) is running the SIZ gallery. The Gallery started as a programme organized by the NGO Drugo more (The Other Sea) in 2009. During its 3-year long existence the Gallery created a certain recognisable profile of visual content in regional and local cultural community.

It gradually became a significant point of contemporary artistic production and pratice. The content it presents is focused on works of Croatian and foreign artists that reflect various dimensions of social reality and its numerous fine nuances in specific ways.