Games, Planes and Soft Openings: AUGS collaborates with Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna

Predrag Damjanović,   Aleksandar Dimitrijević,   Uroš Djurić,   Jusuf Hadžifejzović,   Andrea Ivanović Jakšić,   Zdravko Joksimović,   Marina Marković,   Nemanja Nikolić,   Marija Šević,   Joškin Šiljan,   Milorad Stajčić,   Miljan Stevanović,   Ana Vrtačnik,   Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić

Curated by Alexandra Lazar and Hektor Peljak, and produced by AUGS for Galerie Ernst Hilger.

Vaccilating between soft and hard, ferocious and tender, Games, Planes and Soft Openings presents fourteen unique and uncompromising voices of Serbian art, with an overview of their different poetics, politics and considerations of artistic process. 

Cartoon guns in museum displays evoke irreversible imagery of schoolyard shootings (Milorad Stajčić); ghosts of masculinity question structures of power, faith and success (Predrag Damjanović); signifiers of twentieth-century role-models (Uroš Djurić) hide in plain sight beside ambiguous and filmic scenes of intimacy (Marija Šević). Softly folded fabrics create vibrant tactile abstractions (Bosiljka Zirojević) or rhythmic landscapes (Ana Vrtačnik). Skin is cut, marked and put on display like a tailor’s dummy in a defiant reinvention of self-image and power (Marina Marković). The grids and planes of new abstractions hide music, movement and stillness (Nemanja Nikolić), ambiguous games (Aleksandar Dimitrijević), or poetic monumentality (Andrea Ivanović Jakšić). Ethereal spaces void of human presence (Miljan Stevanović) confront endlessly innovative thought-machines for public projections (Joškin Šiljan).  Encapsulating the challenges of contemporary living, with common threads connecting the disruptors and the weavers, this polyvalent mirror of alternate selves reflects love, angst and hope of contemporary life.

In Conversation, a panel discussion with artists and art experts from Serbia and Austria about coworking realities and value of culture work was held on 11.11. from 14:00 - 16:00h.  The exhibition is open from 8.11. to 20.12. 2023.

 

Cover image: Kiss © Marija Šević, 2017.  Marija Šević is represented by gallery RIMA.