Andreja Kulunčić | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Photo: Andreja Kulunčić "You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It", in situ artistic intervention, Goli Otok, 2021 Photo: Ivo Martinović

• Biography
• The Project
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• Andreja Kulunčić

  Andreja Kulunčić's art practice is characterised by the exploration of new models of social and communication relations, as well as an interest in socially involved topics. Kulunčić makes her own interdisciplinary networks, perceiving art as an investigation, a process of collaboration and self-organisation. She launches collaborative and collective projects, confronting with diverse audience, whose active participation she often pleads for in order to "complete" her works. Some of Andreja Kulunčić's frequent subjects are correlations between economy, transition, feminism and racism.

  Her work has been presented at international exhibitions, including: Documenta 11 (Kassel), Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt/Main), 8. Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul), Liverpool Biennial04 (Liverpool), 3. Tirana biennial (Tirana), 10. Triennial-India (New Delhi) among others. At collective shows in museums, including: Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), PS1 (New York), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Museum MUAC (Mexico City), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Garage Museum (Moskva), Kumu Art Museum (Tallin), Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), Museum of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warshaw), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rijeka), Lentos kunstmuseum (Linz), Museum of Modern Art (Saint-Etienne), Ludwig Museum (Budapest).

• You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It

  10.-28.02.2022.

  Andreja Kulunčić’s research project, You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It is a rhizomatic approach that aims to ponder upon the transformation of the body subjected to self-colonization in order to survive in a traumatic environment, and to present methods of activating a symbolic location deprived of modern forms of public acknowledgement. In 2019 Andreja Kulunčić, together with Renata Jambrešić Kirin and Dubravka Stijačić started to research the apparatus of constraint behind the oppression of women in the political camps from Goli Otok and Sveti Grgur, two islands situated in the Adriatic Sea. The forced labour camp was created in 1949, as the Yugoslav Communist Party’s answer to the break between Tito and Stalin, with the intention of “re-educating” those members who were politically disloyal; it operated until 1956. More than 850 women were interned there at one time or another, accused of connections to the Cominform. The regime in the camp threatened their reproductive health, sense of ethical responsibility and care for others, and excluded their sexual specificities. The convicts were forced to punish, supervise and interrogate each other, which, along with hard work, resulted in deep trauma and long silence of the women.

  The Workshop 850 Women for 850 Women coordinated by Andreja Kulunčić is held every week: Wednesday and Friday at 4pm CET; Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 12pm CET.
  Through the making of the figurines, the female participants contribute to the creation of a movable monument of 850 terracotta sculptures that will be exhibited in the future as a complete work.

  https://mmsu.hr/en/event/andreja-kuluncic-you-betrayed-the-party-just-when-you-should-have-helped-it/

• Museum of modern and contemporary art

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  Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (HR) - MMSU

   

  MMSU in Rijeka founded in 1948, in its long tradition offers a committed support to innovative ways of approaching, producing and presenting art. From its very beginning the Museum has been building reputation of one of the most prominent visual art institutions in Croatia, entrusted with presentation of Croatian artists at prestigious international art events such as: Venice Biennial 1962, 1997, 2007, 2010, Sao Paolo Biennial 1967, 2004 etc. 

  The Museum rounds its programming around visual art education, parallel to different modes of exhibition concepts that address new discursive possibilities and transform it into a place of inspiration, idea exchange and active participation. Under the motto openness, creativity & engagement, together with artistic, cultural and community organizations, Museum furthers visual arts research, collaboration and exchange within the region and internationally, while aspiring to reach increasingly diverse audiences and to work in a close relationship with the community.

  Museum’s collection offers a diverse range of artistic visions with over 8,000 artworks dated from the end of the 19^th century to the present day. From 2017 Museum is located at new address, Krešimirova 26c, in ex-industrial complex Rikard Benčić. Since then, some important exhibitions were organized at MMSU in the framework of the pre-program and program of Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture, i.e. Tomislav Gotovac: Crisis Anticipator - Don't Ask Where We're Going (2017), Vlado Martek: Exhibition with Many Titles and Goran Petercol: Don't Worry About Poetics, They Will Arrive on Their Own in 2019 and David Maljković: With the Collection in 2020..