U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts
About editions
The curator of the first U3 was Slovene the art historian and critic Professor Dr Tomaž Brejc. The second triennial of 1997 was curated by Peter Weibel, a multimedia curator and writer active at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe. Themes were dislocation, discommunication, medialisation and contextualisation, and a critique of the museum institution and art system. The third triennial of 2000 entitled 'Vulgata', was conceived by Slovene gallerist and curator Gregor Podnar (see ŠKUC Gallery and Gregor Podnar Gallery), and took as its theme Slovene national identity based on social constructs. Among others it featured works of Marko Peljhan, Tadej Pogačar, Alenka Pirman, Vuk Čosić, Irene Wölle, Marko Kovačič, Damijan Kracina, Darij Kreuh, and Maja Licul.
The 4th Triennial of 2003 was curated by Christine Van Assche, a new media curator from the Musée national d'art moderne at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. It concentrated on the concept of the museum; based on the supposition museums have been changed tremendously over the last fifty years. The shifting concept of the museums were presented in 20 projects: prints were exhibited on billboards throughout Ljubljana (Saso Vrabic), a video was broadcasted on TV (Davide Grassi, Igor Stromajer and Brane Zorman), the exhibition was including projections on the facade of the museum (Martin Bricelj), a music performance in a theatre (Random Logic), a project on the Internet (Andreja Kuluncic), and a project involving visitors' cell phones (Vuk Cosic). Further artists were: Bojan Brecelj, Tomaž Gregorič, Dejan Habicht and Tanja Lažetić, Janez Janša (formerly and nowdays again known as Žiga Kariž), Borut Peterlin, Franc Purg, Tobias Putrih, Son:DA and Tao Grega Sambolec Vrhovec. The triennial was featured under the title Here and There.
The 2006 U3 curator was Jurij Krpan, artistic director of Ljubljana Kapelica Gallery. Into 4 modules divided presentation showed in the first one only the presentations of works comprehended as good practices to draw attention to the unexploited possibilities for improving production capacities in the field of visual practices. Within the second module was featured the exhibition of 11 selected intermedia art projects by Viktor Bernik, BridA, Srečo Dragan, Iztok Holc, Andrej Kamnik and Daan Roosegaarde, Nika Oblak and Primož Novak in collaboration with Stefan Doepner, Mark Požlep, Franc Purg and Sara Heitlinger, Sašo Sedlaček, Polona Tratnik, and Metka Zupanič. The third module, on the view in the central room of the triennial dealt with the analysis of the 20th-century production situation public presentations. In the time situated the fourth module consisted of panel discussions, talks and performances. Several representatives of international art institutions, centres, organisations and networks presented their artist-in-residence programmes.
Under the reason of the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana the 6th U3 was postponed…
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