Nada Prlja’s exhibition had a heart that was lacking for me in the central pavilion. The works engaged a personal history that also had impact on our current society. The end of socialism was captured formally in the sculptures and photographs, works that combined perfectly with the slightly decayed spaces of the Venetian palazzo….
It’s All in the Reading by Déirdre Kelly
URL / PDF Abstract It seems inherent in the nature of contemporary artist’s book production to continue to question the context for the genre in contemporary art practice, notwithstanding the medium’s potential for dissemination via mass production and an unquestionable advantage of portability for distribution. Artists, curators and editors operating in this sector look to…
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French Wikipedia_National Pavilions
URL Les pavillons nationaux accueillent la représentation officielle de chaque nation participante lors de la Biennale de Venise , une exposition internationale biennale d’art qui se tient à Venise, en Italie . Certains pays possèdent des bâtiments de pavillon dans la Biennale Giardini della tandis que d’autres louent des bâtiments dans toute la ville, mais…
Video Interview with artist Nada Prlja by Stefano Romano for Art House Channel
Spend 40 min with artist of Venice Biennale’s North Macedonian Pavilion presentation Nada Prlja, while she is talking about a number of projects such as Peace Wall, Disaster Diary, Subversion to Red from Venice Biennale, West, The Rights, etc. We thank Art House, Adrian Paci and Stefano Romano for this valuable opportunity.
La belle revue _ Review by Raino Isto
(Counter-)Heritage and Contemporary Art in Tiranaby Raino Isto URL / PDF Global contemporary art is increasingly engaged with the questions raised by architectural heritage in urban spaces, as artists seek to understand how the built environment can both reinforce and undermine legacies of imperial repression, authoritarian regimentation, and neoliberal privatization. Tirana is no exception to this cultural…
frieze _ Review by Juliet Jacques
Two Picasso Murals and the Shifting Perception of Public Art Juliet Jacques examines the political motives behind the removal of works in Oslo, London and the former Yugoslavia frieze / Art Journal / 06.08.2020 / URL /PDF The pending demolition of Oslo’s Y Building, adorned since its construction in 1969 with two concrete murals by Pablo…
Large Glass_Essay by Jovanka Popova
The MoCA’s Pavilion in Venice Biennial 2019 Nada Prlja ‘Subversion to Red’ Text by Jovanka Popova PDF Nada Prlja’s ‘Subversion to Red’ is a project that uses artistic practices and methods to articulate the causes of today’s crisis – the precarious, socio-politically and critically produced discourse and its manifestations, the expansion of capitalism and…
Podcast_in conversation with Juliet Jacques
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK’s cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them…
LUDUS collection SS/2020
There is nothing more beautiful than when art and design merge. Congratulations to Ludus for stunning collection. The view features artwork “Collection: She Does What She Wants II” and ‘The Collection: She does what she wants, III or History of Humankind, XX century’, courtesy of #nadaprlja exhibited at @msuskopje. Ludus new collection “Post-gender Chapter…
