Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Novo mesto, Ribnica, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona... Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony being a frequently used artistic strategy.
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Vesna Bukovec - Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje / The Happiest Apartment in the World (00:04:08) A dream of a woman is shown in long static shots, which are fast-forwarded and thus emphasize the repetitive movements of browsing through home decorating magazines. The fast forwarded shots don't have a humorous effect but a rather neurotic one. The imag... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Why Do I Do This? (0:03:18) Video work is a collage composed of found material to which the author adds graphic inserts. Through the content of the video she poses herself questions which can always be answered with "I don't know". With that she problematizes the state of... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Sodobna umetnost za starše (predavanje) / Contemporary Art for Parents (Lecture) (0:07:52) The video is a documentary recording of an action in which the author lectures her parents about the facts of contemporary art history. The author deals with adapting professionally specific contents to a laic listener. |
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Vesna Bukovec - Important News (0:00:54) Video work marks the moments after the intro of the TV news on one of the Slovene commercial TV stations, when the presenters silently look at each other. Their gesticulation, gazes at the co-presenter or towards the camera are stressed by editing and poi... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Champion (0:00:32) Video work based on an editing manipulation of a found material shows a half-minute video rewind of a weigh lifter's performance on the Eurosport channel. This extremely difficult discipline gets a different context due to skillful editing. |
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Vesna Bukovec - Endless Game (0:01:30) Video work is playing with the cliché motif of TV ads for women. Author is combining the key moments when models smile, touch their skin and fix their shiny hair. She problematizes the endless game of arousing consumers and lateral brain washing. |
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Vesna Bukovec - Consumer Culture (0:01:30) Video work creates a game of logos of the big companies mimicking the game of memory. Inside 30 squares different brands move around. At the end a slogan "Consumer culture makes me anxious!" is written inside the fields. |
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KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - First Impression (0:09:08) Video is a collage of voyeuristic recordings of people in public space in the main square of Ljubljana. Authors make statements about people caught on camera based on their own impressions. Screen is divided into four parts, where we can see the presumpti... |
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KOLEKTIVA, Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič - Hiteti ali biti temeljit (00:03:25) Production: Kolektiva, 2004 A Slovene sentence that translates into "To hurry or to be thorough" is being pronounced by English speaking people of different age. We witness drastically different pronunciations, which remind us about how relative the language is and about i... |
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Vesna Bukovec - It Will Be OK (00:03:34) Production: Bukovec, Vesna, 2009 A woman sitting on a white sofa is petting a stuffed toy and in a slow rhythm convincing it and iherself that "it will be ok". This mantric exhortation works like a parody of the power of suggestive thoughts promoted by popular new age movements. We... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Personal Advice (00:00:59) Production: Bukovec, Vesna, 2010 Personal advice first seems like a secret being revealed by a soft voice, telling us to take its advice. This advice is a completely absurd series of words, which as we soon find out is taken out of astrological forecasts. Visual representation of the vid... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love (00:03:48) Production: Bukovec, Vesna, 2010 Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. The image of the video is clean, with the white color scheme emphasizing immaculateness. We... |
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Vesna Bukovec - I can create positive change (00:02:30) Production: Bukovec, Vesna, 2010 Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman cleaning and chanting a mantra, which is a parody pointing out the absur... |
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Vesna Bukovec - I love myself for who I am (00:03:10) Production: Bukovec, Vesna Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman trying to accent her beauty and her perfect appearance and chanting a mant... |
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Vesna Bukovec - I trust in the process of life (00:03:15) Production: Bukovec, Vesna, 2010 Video is a part of White Performances / Positive Affirmations, a series calling out the deceptiveness of the ostensible happiness and illusions about a perfect life. We see a woman knitting and chanting a mantra, which is supposed to help her accept and... |
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Vesna Bukovec - You can do it! (00:02:46) The video consists of scrolling text and static image in the background. The text is compiled from various advertising slogans of famous international brands. Combined into a body of text these singular statements form new meanings with almost poetic conn... |
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Vesna Bukovec - When I wake up, I am going to create something beautiful (00:04:00) The video poetically explores creative self-censorship and the issues encountered when searching for new ideas. Flickering night shots of blossoming plants in the forest symbolise flashing and passing of thoughts, concepts and images that arise the moment... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Ko se zbudim, bom naredila nekaj lepega (00:04:00) The video is a poetic statement of self-censorship and difficulties encountered in the search for new ideas. |
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Vesna Bukovec - The Unbearable (00:04:05) This world is not a nice place. The video is a personal list of all the things unbearable to me and worth protesting against. Video animation consists of white text on black background with the sound of Slovene uprising protests 2012/2013. (Source: Ves... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Zlorabljeni pojmi (00:02:00) The video was part of solo exhibition Exploanation at Alkatraz Gallery in 2016. The exhibition addressed rising intolerance and hate speech aimed at refugees and migrants. Videoanimation consists of a series of words abused by nationalistic, populist and... |
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Vesna Bukovec - Circular (00:03:40) Video Okrožnica / Circular is a simple animation of spinning circle. A preloader is familiar to all computer and Internet users. The aim of the spinning circle animation is to inform the user that certain process is taking place in the background even th... |
