“Didaktički zid / Didactic Wall” — Mladen Miljanović
15.7. – 3.8.2019.
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Fondacija Revizor i Gradska galerija Bihać predstavljaju:
Mladen Miljanović
Didaktički zid
Kustos: Irfan Hošić
Gradska galerija Bihać 15.7. – 3.8.2019.
Otvaranje izložbe: ponedjeljak 15.7.2019. u 20h
Okrugli sto: utorak 16.7.2019. u 11h (Sudjeluju: Mladen Miljanović, Banjaluka; Claudia Zini, Treviso; Tijana Mišković, Kopenhagen; Živa Kleindienst, Maribor; Uroš Čvoro, Sydney. Moderator: Irfan Hošić)
Izložba Didaktički zid umjetnika Mladena Miljanovića subverzivna je edukativna instalacija koja za fokus uzima problem migranata, izbjeglica, raseljenih i apatrida te njihove poteškoće pri kretanju k željenom geografskom cilju. Radi se o angažovanom setu ilustracija koji direktno adresira one osobe koje na “ilegalan” način kopnom pokušavaju preći državne granice kako bi se domogle svoje “zemlje snova”. Didaktički zid svojevrsno je upustvo o prevazilaženju prirodnih i vještačkih barijera na koje “osoba u pokretu” može eventualno naići. Izložba se premijerno postavlja u Bihaću kao mjestu masovnog zastoja nastalog usljed bukvalnog zatvaranja zelene granice od strane pogranične službe susjedne Hrvatske.
Bihać je za migrante i izbjeglice pritom postao mjesto “na ivici” u pravom smislu te riječi. Lokacija zatočenosti između dvije realnosti – jedne od koje se bezglavo bježi i druge ka kojoj se suludo srlja. Bihać se transformisao u opasno mjesto koje reflektuje tešku i neugodnu poziciju “ljudi u pokretu”. Postao je simbolom porobljavanja ljudske slobode iako se radi o tranzitnoj lokaciji u kojoj se ne želi dugoročno boraviti. Sa ovim radom Miljanović potvrđuje svoje pravilo da umjetnost može, ali i treba biti kritika na račun pogubnih politika, neetičkih pravila i nemoralnih vrijednosti.
Didaktički zid je angažovana akcija koja jasno i glasno zauzima poziciju osjetljive i ranjive populacije koja je igrom slučaja nepravedno zatečena, ne samo u Bihaću i Bosni i Hercegovini, već i na brojnim drugim mjestima na planeti. Kako navodi umjetnik u tekstu izložbenog kataloga “Na teritoriji grada Bihaća projekat/izložba djeluje kao svojevrsna “site specific” intervencija ili umjetnost u kontekstu koja ima za cilj da djeluje kao prostor edukacije i svojevrsne pomoći u prevazilaženju praktičnih prepreka i situacija u kojima se migranti nalaze ili mogu naći.”
Umjetnikova namjera determinirana je motivom da se kreira funkcionalno i učinkovito upustvo za savladavanje prirodnih i vještačkih barijera kao što su vodene prepreke, ozljede u divljini, ograde, infra-crveni zraci, radari, itd. Radi se o utilitarnoj slikovnoj misiji angažovanog predznaka koja je izvedena u mediju didaktičke ilustracije.
Izložbu prati okrugli sto na kojeme će sudjelovati umjetnik Mladen Miljanović, historičari_ke umjetnosti Claudia Zini, Živa Kleindienst, Uroš Čvoro i kustosica Tijana Mišković a koju će moderirati kustos izložbe Irfan Hošić. Namjera okruglog stola je inicirati diskusiju sa fokusom na kulturu i umjetnost u kontekstu migracija, te pokrenuti pitanja učinkovitosti angažovanih umjetničkih projekata ka mogućem ublažavanju određenih problema u pomenutom specifičnom kontekstu.
Uz izložbu su štampane dvije publikacije – prva je zamišljena kao izložbeni katalog i kustoska elaboracija cijeloga projekta, a druga kao knjiga ilustriranih upustava koja su okosnica Miljanovićevog rada.
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Mladen Miljanović je rođen 1981. godine u Zenici. Srednju školu završio je u Doboju. Nakon završene srednje škole odlazi na redovno služenje vojnog roka gdje završava Školu rezervnih oficira i dobija čin vodnika, nakon čega određeni period obučava
mladu vojsku. Nakon kompletiranja vojne službe upisuje Akademiju umjetnosti u Banja Luci na kojoj završava osnovne i magistarske studije. Živi i radi u Banja Luci gdje predaje predmet Intermedijalne umjetnosti na Akademiji umjetnosti (UNIBL). Učestvovao je na više kolektivnih izložbi, a ovdje je selekcija od nekoliko samostalnih izložbi i projekata: Utopijski realizam, Pikuk, Centar za savremenu umjetnost, Aberdeen, Škotska (Velika Britanija) 2019.; Udar, Muzej savremene umjetnosti Vojvodine, Novi sad (Srbija) 2017.; U niskom letu, ACB galerija, Budimpešta (Mađarska) 2017.; Vrt uživanja, 55. Internacionalno venecijansko bijenale, Palata Malipiero, Venecija (Italija) 2013.; Laku noć / Stanje tijela, MC galerija, New York (SAD) 2012.; U službi muzeja, MUMOK, Beč (Austrija) 2010.; Okupaciona terapija, Muzej savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske, Banja Luka (BiH) 2008. Dobitnik je nekoliko nagrada kao što su HenkelArt Award Beč, 2009.; Zvono nagrada, 2007.; Nagrada Muzeja savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske, 2005.
Irfan Hošić je rođen u Bihaću 1977. godine. Doktorirao je na Odsjeku za povijest umjetnosti Sveučiliša u Zagrebu 2011. godine. Područje njegovog interesovanja su moderna i savremena umjetnost, dizajn, moda i arhitektura. Bio je postdoktorski istraživač na Univerzitetu u Gentu 2013/2014.; gostujući predavač na Penny W. Stamps School for Art and Design na University of Michigan 2013., istraživač na Screening Arts and Cultures University of Michigan 2015. i Paderborn Universität 2017. godine. Dobitnik je novinarske Culture Watch nagrade (BIRN, 2012.) i Patterns Lectures nagrade (Erste Stiftung i WUS Austria, 2016.). Autor je knjige Iz/Van konteksta (Connectum Sarajevo, 2013.). Hošić je kustos bh. paviljona na Bijenalu u Veneciji 2013. godine (Mladen Miljanović, Vrt uživanja). Autor je nekoliko izložbi kao što su Šta je to apstrakcija (2007.), Umjetnost i terorizam (2009.), Alem Korkut. Skulpture (2011.), Odjeća kao simbol identiteta (2012.), Spomenko Škrbić. Radovi (2013.) itd. Autor je nomadskog fanzina Revizor (Fondacija Revizor Bihać, 2018.). Osnivač je Fondacije Revizor (2016.) i Centra za savremenu kulturu KRAK u Bihaću. Hošić je nastavnik na Tekstilnom odsjeku Univerziteta u Bihaću gdje predaje Historiju umjetnosti i Modernu umjetnost i dizajn. Aktivan je kao kritičar i slobodni kustos. Dobitnik je Fulbright stipendije (2019.).
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Revizor foundation and City Gallery presenting:
Mladen Miljanović
Didactic Wall
Curator: Irfan Hošić
City Gallery Bihać, July 15 – August 3 2019
Exhibition opening: Monday July 15 2019 at 8pm
Round table: Tuesday July 16 2019 at 11am (Participating: Mladen Miljanović, Banjaluka; Claudia Zini, Treviso; Tijana Mišković, Copenhagen; Živa Kleindienst, Maribor; Uroš Čvoro, Sydney. Moderator: Irfan Hošić)
The exhibition Didactic Wall by the artist Mladen Miljanović is a subversive educational installation that focuses on the issue of migrants, refugees, displaced persons and apatrids, and the difficulties they face when moving towards their desired geographic destination. This is an engaged set of illustrations that address directly those who are trying, in an “illegal” way, to cross national borders to get to their “land of dreams”. The Didactic Wall is a kind of instruction on how to overcome natural and artificial barriers a “person on the move” may possibly come across.
The exhibition will be shown first in Bihać, as the place of massive blockage caused by the fact that the green border was literal closed by the border service of the neighboring Croatia. For the migrants and refugees, Bihać has become a place “on the edge” in the literal meaning of the expression. The place of imprisonment between two realities – one that they are headlessly running away from, and the other – they are madly running to. Essentially, Bihać has turned into a dangerous place that reflects a difficult and unpleasant position of the “people on the move”. It has become a symbol of enslaved human freedom, although it is a transit location, where migrants don’t want to stay for a long time.
It is this artistic context where the Didactic Wall has its place, and Miljanović confirms his own rule that art can, but also should be, a criticism of disastrous policies, unethical rules and immoral values. The Didactic Wall is an engaged action that clearly and vocally takes position of sensitive and vulnerable population that has, by chance, been stuck not only in Bihać and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in numerous other places on this planet. As the artist says in the text of the exhibition catalogue, “In the City of Bihać, this project/exhibition looks like a “site specific” intervention or as the art in context, aimed as acting as the space for education and assistance in overcoming the practical obstacles and situations facing, or threatening to face, migrants.”
His intention is determined by the motive to create a functional and effective instruction for overcoming natural and artificial barriers, such as water bodies, injuries suffered in the wild, fences, infra-red rays, radars, etc. This is a utilitarian pictorial mission with an engaged prefix that is carried out in the medium of didactic illustration.
The exhibition is accompanied by a round table with the artist, Mladen Miljanović, art historians Claudia Zini, Živa Kleindienst, Uroš Čvoro and curator Tijana Mišković, as participants, and the exhibition curator, Irfan Hošić, as moderator. The intention of this round table is to initiate discussion focused on culture and art in the context of migration, as well as on the issue of effectiveness of engaged artistic projects as a potential way of mitigating specific problems in a specific context.
Two publications also accompany the exhibition: the first is envisaged as an exhibition catalogue and curator’s elaboration of the whole project, while the other is produced as the book of illustrated instructions that represent the backbone of Miljanović’s work.
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Mladen Miljanović is born in Zenica in 1981. He completed the secondary school in Doboj. After the secondary school he attended the Reserve Officer School where he earned the rank of sergeant. As a sergeant he trained 30 privates. After completion of the military term he enrolled at the Academy of Arts (Department of Painting, BA- MA) in Banja Luka. He lives and works in Banja Luka were he teaches as professor of Intermedia art at Academy of Arts (UNIBL). He participated in many group exhibitions, and here is selection of some solo projects and exhibitions: Utopian Realism, Peackook center for Contemporary arts, Aberdeen, Scotland (UK) 2019; Strike, Museum of contemporary arts Vojvodina, Novi Sad (Serbia), 2017; In Low Flight, ACB Gallery, Budapest (Hungary), 2017; The Garden of Delights, 55th La Biennale di Venezia, Bosnian Pavilion at Palazzo Malipiero, Venice (Italy), 2013; Good Night / State of Body, MC gallery, New York (USA), 2012; Museum Service, MUMOK, Vienna (Austria), 2010; Ocupational Therapy, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, (BiH) 2008. He is the winner of HenkelArt Award Beč, 2009; Zvono award 2007 and Award of Museum of Contemporary Arts of Republic of Srpska, 2005.
Irfan Hošić iz born in Bihać in 1977. He completed his PhD thesis at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2011. His scope of research is modern and contemporary arts, design, fashion and architecture. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Ghent University in 2013 and 2014, guest lecturer at Penny W. Stamps School for Art and Design University of Michigan in 2013, researcher at the Screening Arts and Cultures University of Michigan in 2015 and Paderborn University in 2017. He holds the Culture Watch Award for journalists (BIRN, 2012) and Patterns Lectures Award (Erste Stiftung and WUS Austria, 2016). He is the author of the book Iz/Van konteksta (Out of Context, Connectum Sarajevo, 2013). Hošić was a curator of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He is also editor-in-chief of nomadic fanzine Revizor. He is also the author of several exhibitions such as What is Abstraction? (2007), Art and Terrorism (2009), Alem Korkut. Sculpture (2011), Clothing as a Symbol of Identity (2012), Spomenko Škrbić. Works (2013) and some others. He is founder and director of the Foundation Revizor (2016) and founder of the Center for contemporary culture KRAK (Bihać, 2019). Irfan is an assistant professor at the Textile Department at the University of Bihać, where he teaches Art History and Modern Art and Design. He works as an art critic and a freelance curator. He won Fulbright fellowship in 2019.