Christophe Solioz has written a beautiful review about the exhibition. http://www.christophesolioz.ch/papers/2019/prlja_solioz.pdf Christophe Solioz est politologue et philosophe. Il enseigne la philosophie et la littérature allemande au Collège de Genève. Il est à l’origine de MAP – think tank nomade consacré à l’espace urbain. Contacts et informations : http://www.christophesolioz.ch

The Collection: She does what she wants III The focal point of the sculpture The Collection: She does what she wants III, is a ready-made ball of stone, an object Prlja found displaced and neglected on the streets of Skopje, which was once used as a barrier prohibiting the parking of cars on the pedestrian…

Go to original website Chantal Mouffe – ICIA – Institute for Contemporary Ideas PDF In 2014, ICIA – Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art invited Chantal Mouffe in connection with the group exhibition Counterparts taking place just before the Swedish election. Amongst other things she talked about artivism – artistic strategies in the contemporary political…

Go to original link. Segnaliamo e condividiamo con piacere il disegno di Nada Prlja, artista del Padiglione della Macedonia del Nord alla Biennale Arte 2019 di Venezia –  realizzato per la Copertina de “La Lettura” in edicola con il Corriere della Sera fino a sabato 7 Settembre. Nada Prlja – Red Discussionn 2 Chantal Mouffe  – Inchiostro e marker su carta – 35x50cm – 2019…

‘…There is no nicer and bigger challenge than working with the best, like you Nada Prlja. That what I have learned, through this most successful representation of our state in Venice, is that good and valuable people make beautiful things to happen!…’ Angelika Apsis Fundraiser for N. Macedonian Pavilion

Ground floor of the Palazzo, entrance to the pavilion.

‘…The installations and performative project of ‘Subversion to Red’ intend to re-read or adapt Marxist thought and left doctrine to contemporary society, in the name of a renewed enthusiasm for action, for political but also for civil commitment, to ensure that the times return to being really, not sarcastically  “interesting”. The project ‘shakes’ the individual…

  ‘Si sa, May You Live In Interesting Times (Che tu possa vivere tempi interessanti), è l’invito/monito del curatore Ralph Rugoff della Biennale d’Arte di Venezia. Tra tutti gli artisti presenti, se c’è qualcuno che ha voluto concretamente riflettere sui tempi che stiamo abitando, questa è Nada Prlja (Sarajevo, 1971) che ha realizzato per noi, un’opera…

  ‘…This also conceals the fact that in Eastern Europe, these ‘interesting times’ are not new, especially in the former Yugoslavia with its 20th century shifts between empire and monarchy, Nazi occupation and socialism, and catastrophic war during the 1990s. It does, however, provide a useful shorthand for the entrenchment of far-right governments in Poland…

“Department for Conservation and Restoration” Nada Prlja 2016-ongoing 7 Paintings Acrylic, charcoal, plasterboard, 120x220x0.5cm Photo © Raul Betti Courtesy of the artist Work as exhibited at La Biennale di Venezia The seven exhibited paintings were realised with the intention of ‘repairing’ a section of the 125m2 mural by artist Borko Lazeski (1917-1993), entitled “Epic for Freedom” (1981),…