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Everything we do today will look heroic in the future

Jasmina Cibic — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:22:42 +0000

Everything We Do Today Will Look Heroic in the Future, draws inspiration from a proposed flag representing Europe’s first experiment in trans-nationalism. This edition reimagines the original design, incorporating words taken from political debates on art and culture within the context of transnational solidarity in becoming.

Stagecraft

Jasmina Cibic — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:16:49 +0000

French/English, 192 pages, hardcover, 2023. macLyon and Bernard Chaveaux, Paris – Lyon.

For Jasmina Cibic, artist-researcher, each film project is an opportunity to delve into the archives, into their testimonies as well as their silences, in order to reveal the relationship that all forms of power, whether state, governmental, partisan or diplomatic, have with the arts. For the exhibition “Stagecraft – a staging of power”, presented at macLYON from 15 September 2021 to 2 January 2022, Jasmina Cibic has brought together several years of research devoted to the notion of gift in the diplomatic context. The Gift (2019-2021), shown for the first time in its full version, is a cinematic journey that explores the use of culture as a political gift at a time of European identity crises. The nation is broken and in order for it to heal, a perfect gift must be given to those who make it up, a gift that will overcome deep divisions in times of political and ideological crisis.

The exhibition catalogue includes essays by Matthieu Lelièvre, curator of the exhibition, and by iLiana Fokianaki, curator, art critic and educator based in Athens and Rotterdam, as well as a synopsis of the film The Gift and a presentation of the characters and locations. A rich iconography, consisting of views of the exhibition at macLYON and a large selection of archives on which Jasmina Cibic based her conception of The Gift, completes the book.

Most Favoured Nation

Jasmina Cibic — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:11:58 +0000

Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic belongs to a young generation of artists who are engaging critically with the legacy of the former Yugoslavia. Set against this background, her exhibition Most Favored Nation questions the validity of the concept of international relationships that extends the same privileges of bilateral treaties to multilateral relationships. Cibic critically examines the mechanisms of nation-building and soft power as an indirect form of exercising power through cultural dominance. Decoding the complex entanglement of political concerns and cultural production, the London-based artist translates the political mechanisms influencing artists into room-filling installations, performances, and intricate films. This catalogue traces the immersive spatial architecture in the tradition of the debating salon.

JASMINA CIBIC EDITIONS

Jasmina Cibic — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:37:08 +0000

Jasmina Cibic, Europa I, three-color screen silk on Sumerset Velvet paper, 56 x 76 cm, 2022

Jasmina Cibic, Europa II, three-color screen silk on Sumerset Velvet paper, 56 x 76 cm, 2022

Jasmina Cibic, Europa III, three-color screen silk on Sumerset Velvet paper, 56 x 76 cm, 2022

Jasmina Cibic, Europa IV, three-color screen silk on Sumerset Velvet paper, 56 x 76 cm, 2022

Spielraum

Jasmina Cibic — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:53:12 +0000

London based Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic is one of the leading voices in contemporary art dealing with the relationship between art and architecture with ideologies and nationhood. Cibic’s projects depart from deep engagement with archives and historical traces, which the artist embeds in immersive film installations and performative works.

Spielraum is an extensive publication about Cibic’s three-part film and exhibition project she developed with the Ludwig Museum, Budapest; the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. The title is drawn from an essay by Karl Kraus, in which he vehemently opposes the use of decoration in both language and architecture. In this multidisciplinary work, Cibic takes Kraus’s concept of ‘Spielraum’ as a lens through which to examine soft power and strategies of nation building by political figures and establishments via the use of linguistic and visual decoration, with particular focus on the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, in 1961.

This title includes commissioned curatorial texts by Anna Gritz, Rona Kopeczky, Una Popović, Dubravka Sekulić, Jelena Vesić, Alessandro Vincentelli, Giovanna Zapperi and WHW.

Born in 1979 in Ljubljana, Jasmina Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project For Our Economy and Culture. Her recent solo shows include BALTIC Gateshead, Museum Haus Esters–Krefeld, Aarhus 2017, MSU Zagreb, MOCA Belgrade, MGLC Ljubljana, Ludwig Museum Budapest and Esker Foundation Calgary and group exhibitions at Hessel Museum New York, City Gallery Wellington, MSUM Ljubljana, MNHA Luxembourg and Guangdong Museum of Art, China. She was the recipient of the MAC International Ulster Bank Prize and Best International Artist Charlottenborg Fonden Award.

The publication is co-published with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead and in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade and Esker Foundation, Calgary.

NADA

Jasmina Cibic — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:40:07 +0000

With her works, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic (*1979) brings together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects which explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the name of the nation. The publication presents the artist’s latest film trilogy that was developed in cooperation with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, BALTIC Gateshead, Aarhus, the European Capital of Culture 2017, and MSU Zagreb. Within the three films Cibic examines the socio-political interconnections of the cultural sector and scrutinizes mechanisms of soft-power that play a role in the development of national identities. The trilogy culminates in the artist’s site-specific exhibition The Spirit of Our Needs in Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld. NADA is a fully illustrated reader comprising archival material, specially commissioned essays by Erika Balsom and Vladimir Kulić and an interview between the artist, Katia Baudin (Director of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld) and Constanze Zawadsky. It is the first German-language publication (German/English) about the artist.