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Arteast 2000+ Collection / Selection of Works from the National Collection / Museum of Affects
26.11.2011 - 29.01.2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Moderna galerija keeps the national collection of 20th and 21st century Slovene art and the international collection Arteast 2000+. The national collection presents the basic stages in the development of the Slovene tradition of modern and contemporary art from the beginning of the 20th century onwards. The international collection Arteast 2000+ is based on dialogue between the East and the West, and presents a series of important artists from Eastern Europe who had been unknown or overlooked for a long time. The Arteast 2000+ Collection is primarily concerned with the Eastern European conceptual tradition; founded in 2000, this was generally the first-ever collection of Eastern European neo-avant-garde art. The works for exchange, which will make part of the three major exhibitions will include (among others): Marina Abramović, Jury Albert, Jury Avvakumov, Miroslav Bałka, Jerzy Bereś, Geta Brătescu, Alexander Brenner, Carlfriedrich Claus, Braco Dimitrijević, Stanisław Dróżdż, Róza El-Hassan, Miklós Erdély, Stano Filko, Vadim Fishkin, Gorgona, Tomislav Gotovac (Antonio LAUER), Dmitry Gutov, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Tibor Hajas, Sanja Iveković, Ilya Kabakov, Julije Knifer, Milan Knížák, Alexandr Kosolapov, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ivan Kožarić, Zofia Kulik, Vladimir Kuprijanov, KwieKulik (Przemysław Kwiek & Zofia Kulik), Yuri Leiderman, Via Lewandowsky, Natalia LL, Kazimir Malevich, Mangelos, Vlado Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Karel Miler, Jan Mlčoch, Alex Mlynárčik, Andrey Monastyrski, Oliver Musovik, Paul Neagu, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Adrian Paci, Dan Perjovschi, Amalia Perjovschi, Goran Petercol, Dmitry Prigov, Guia Rigvava, Józef Robakowski, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinović, subREAL, Miloš Šejn, Nebojša Šerić-Šoba, Ilja Šoškić, Petr Štembera, Raša Todosijević, Slaven Tolj, Milica Tomić, Endre Tót, Goran Trbuljak, Josip Vaništa, Konstantin Zvezdochiotov.
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Work of Milos Sejn: Touched The Grass..., 30.7.1967
The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova is opening Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 8 p.m.
Starting in the end of this November, Moderna galerija will operate at two separate locations: the Museum of Modern Art will carry on in the existing building in the city center of Ljubljana and the Museum of Contemporary Art in the renovated army barracks building in the new cultural quarter in Metelkova Street.
The new Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova will house the pioneering collection of Eastern European art Arteast 2000+, devoted to postwar avant-gardes from the 1960s to the present, and a selection of works from Moderna galerija’s national collection.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova derives its specificity not only from its geopolitical and cultural position, but also from its orientation which questions hegemonic history through a multiplicity of narratives, heterogeneous approaches to historicizing, resonance between the urgencies of different localities, and reciprocal methods of learning.
In addition to the new permanent display of works from the Arteast 2000+ and national collections, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova will open with the exhibition Museum of Affects, which is part of a long-term research project of the network L’Internationale*. This exhibition attempts to rethink formal methodologies of academic art history and proposes instead to interpret a selection of artworks from the period between 1956 and 1986 from the collections of Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, M HKA, Antwerp, MACBA, Barcelona, and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven as intensities or affects, emphasizing their performative rather than representational character.
The first L’Internationale exhibition Museum of Parallel Narratives is on view until 2 October 2011 in MACBA Barcelona, www.macba.cat; the third one Spirits of Internationalism, in M HKA Antwerp and Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, will be staged in January 2012.
The founding partners of L’Internationale are the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, the Július Koller Society, Bratislava, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (M HKA), Antwerp.
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