son:DA
Gregorčičeva 56, SI-2000 Maribor
Son:DA
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Past Events
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9 May 2019
30 Jun 2019
Pioneer in Video Art from Thailand, Slovenia, Norway since 1980 exhibition featuring also the works from the Video Art Collection of the Maribor Art Gallery, curated by Miha T. Horvat, Son:DA Foundation,
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13 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014
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20 Aug 2012
8 Sep 2012
Maribor <edu> Graz presents the exhibition Lesson 1: A Temporary, Improvised contex of Communication, a joint project by Son:DA and <rotor> (Graz)
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30 Jun 2012
21 Jul 2012
Maribor <edu> Graz presents the exhibition Lesson 1: A Temporary, Improvised contex of Communication, a joint project by Son:DA and < rotor > (Graz)
About
Son:DA creates in various media computer mouse drawings, space installations and mixed digital/analog installations and systems. It uses modern technology both as a theme and a mode of creative production. Their anxious heavy contour lines and deliberately simple flat forms depict the symptoms of an absurdly overwhelmed society struggling with alienation. Topically they speak (and link) new and old technologies, but in a critical and ironical way. Recently Son:DA exploring also the field of (audiovisual) performance. Son:DA widely cooperates and exhibits home and abroad.
Projects and awards
Since 2000 Son:DA have had several solo exhibitions at various venues in Maribor, Ljubljana, Celje, Koper and Ribnica, and have exhibited internationally in Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), the UK (Margate), Italy (Milano), Spain (ARCO, Madrid), Switzerland (Lugano) just to name some. Their work has been exhibited at numerous group exhibitions, in Rome, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Skopje, Belgrade, Graz, Bukarest, Zagreb, etc. Beside the participation on plenty of group exhibitions Son:DA prepared recently solo exhibitions in Maribor Art Gallery (SON:DA print), in Vaska Emanouilova Gallery in Sofia (Items of the Room) and in Mario Mauroner Contemporaray art in Vienna (Last Supper Alias not so Recent Works). In 2007 it exhibited at the 27th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art. In the same year Son:DA received the Golden Bird Award and the OHO Group Award.
In second half of 2010 Son:DA exhibits with Dobrila Denegri, Biljana Tomić and aksioma.org in Beograd, participates Cankar-Kurent at Borštnik Theatre Festival in Maribor and the Macbeth After Shakespeare in Seul (Korea), as well it works with Sanja Neškovič Peršin, Svetlana Makarovič and Robert Waltl in Ljubljana.
Cooperations
Son:DA has collaborated frequently with other artists, including visual artist Janez Janša and Eric Seymen, and participated in various multimedia, sound, animation, video and experimental film and theatre festivals (Prague, Gorica, Hiroshima, Utrecht, Berlin, Florence, Hull, Zagreb).
Son:DA regularly engages also in curatorial practice. They have also organized exhibitions and dialogues in alternative venues including a former Yugoslavian military bakery, now known as the Garage for Art Photography (gUF) in Pekarna. This space for solo exhibitions of photographic work exhibited photographers Primož Bizjak, Miloš Srdić, Nejc Saje, Damjan Kocjančič, Gian-Luca Faccio and Borut Peterlin, and by female photographers Magda Tothova, Christine Tsilidis, Janja Glogovac, ECLIPSE, Manca Juvan and Rita Nowak. In 2006 the Garage published two books entitled 'the male/the female positions at gUF', which presented a photo documentation of the Garage exhibitions and their installation. Curatorial projects since 2004 have also included DI_alog (Maribor Art Gallery), ToX-edition (KIBLA Multimedia Centre, Maribor) and EX-garage (Gregorčičeva 56, Maribor).
Foundation Son:DA
In 2008 Son:DA alliance created a Foundation Son:DA to support new structures of funding contemporary art practice and research in Eastern Europe. In 2009 the painter Uroš Potočnik was granted.
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son:DA is a creative alliance of Metka Golec, who studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, and Miha Horvat, who studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. +
son:DA is a creative alliance of Metka Golec, who studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, and Miha Horvat, who studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. +
Son:DA je mednarodno skupina za sodobno umetnost, ki sodeluje tudi pri scenografskih in kuratorskih projektih. +
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