Duba Sambolec
Name: Sambolec, Duba
No. of works: 23
Countries: Slovenia, Norway
Born: 1949

 
Biography
Duba Sambolec studied law and finished her MFA studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1978. She had been teaching contemporary art for 20 years at the Fine Art Academies in Trondheim and Oslo. She realized many solo shows and participated in numerous national and international group shows. She has received several awards and grants. Her art practice includes multimedia installation, sculpture, drawing, collage, video/photo performance and digital photo collage.


Links:
Duba Sambolec at ArtFem.TV
Duba Sambolec at 4art.com
Duba Sambolec: Uneasiness in Time, Sodobna umetnost / Contemporary art Youtube channel (author: Aljoša Abrahamsberg) (for English subtitles clikck CC down right)
Zapeljevanje pogleda: Dubravka Duba Sambolec in Tobias Putrih (author: Amir Muratović)


Photos:
1 and 2 Duba Sambolec at HDLU, Zagreb, 2013, photo: Sandra Vitaljić
3 Duba Sambolec in Martina Bastarda: Umetniški projekt (Art Project), 2006, video still

 
Author's Works
 SCCA-Ljubljana, Duba Sambolec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec SCCA-Ljubljana, Duba Sambolec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec SCCA-Ljubljana, Duba Sambolec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec
SCCA-Ljubljana, Duba Sambolec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec (01:27:52)
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, 2022
Video documentation of the Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec event at the Photon Gallery on May 4, 2022. Vesna Bukovec, expert associate of DIVA Station, talked with the artist about her relationship to video and performance in the conte...
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Duba Sambolec - Airport Revisited (01:19)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2004
Video deals with conjugation of a sentence "I am the center" in a form of animated red text circling over the screen. The animation warns us that repeating paroles are a productive tool for political indoctrination, profit marketing and the seeming satisf...
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Duba Sambolec - Collectors #4 (12:02)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2003/2005
Paralelni sliki sta postavljeni na ozadje vojaškega vzorca. Na vsaki od projekcij je ena izmed performerk. Nataša Skušek skozi celoten video opravlja naporne vaje za telesno moč. Oblečena je v črno opravo, ki spominja na zašč...
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Duba Sambolec - Collectors #3 (30:55)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2002
Video deals with the dynamics in a personal service sector through a series of scenes displaying body care in a satirical manner. Scenes are set in doubles. The woman offering the service is preparing the cosmetic specimens and in the next scene she uses...
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Duba Sambolec - NATO Women Waiting (09:33)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2013
Umetnica je idejo za video dobila v 90-tih, ko je na letališču na Norveškem opazila povečano število vojaškega osebja, ki je bilo namenjeno na vojna območja na Balkanu. Pozornost so ji vzbudile vojakinje in sprožile razmi&s...
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Duba Sambolec - Collectors #2 (15:15)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001/2002
Video work is a research in the field of personal memories, their collected fragments, of the articulation of holes in the memory and missing evidence. The whispering of the author follows the whole line of recordings in a nondramatic, mystical and calmin...
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Duba Sambolec - Tour de Place (13:00)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2001
Video is a performance carried out by one of the artists in front of and the other behind the camera. Pernilla Edholm guides Duba Sambolec and consequentially the viewer around an empty space and together they explore it in an ironic manner. Edholm establ...
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Duba Sambolec - Conversion (24:53)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video performance is set inside an empty space in which the author moves with a blind over her eyes and a gun in her hands. She repeats a sentence "I don't exist" and occasionally shoots her gun. The space goes dark in the middle of the video. Over the vi...
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Duba Sambolec - Code IV (18:31)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is based on a cliché automatized everyday fraises, which are told to each other by the performers. Unfocused close-up stays unchanged and additionally stresses unclearness and dullness of the conversation. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video per...
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Duba Sambolec - Code III (03:49)
Production: Duba Sambolec, 2000
Video is composed of one long static extreme close-up of the author, while she repeats a completely trivial, common and consequently devalued request. Static and unfocused shot stresses the dullness of the sentence. NoHomeVideos© are 14 video perfor...
 
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