Horizon of Expectations
May 13–November 26, 2017
Venice
Italy
Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–6pm
Curator: Branka Benčić
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia
Organization: Moderna galerija – National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia announces its participation at the 57th Venice Biennale with a project Horizon of Expectations representing two Croatian artists Tina Gverović and Marko Tadić, curated by Branka Benčić.
The exhibition for the Croatian Pavilion titled Horizon of Expectations brings together two artistic positions that deal with issues of uncertainty, tension or collapse, and how they relate to different conditions and contexts. It will include a complex and multifaceted installation by each artist developed specifically for the pavilion: Phantom Trades: Sea of People by Tina Gverović and Events Meant to be Forgotten by Marko Tadić. Using different media, such as installation, animation, objects, painting, drawings and projections, Tina Gverović and Marko Tadić engage with conceptual procedures and subjective imagination inscribed in spatial and temporal discontinuities. The approach to display and the arrangement of materials in space consider the role of the observer, articulating its fluid, almost performative character of moving through the space.
In Phantom Trades: Sea of People an installation involving paintings, video and objects (developed in collaboration with artist Ben Cain), Tina Gverović explores different processes, history and materiality, bodies in transit, as moving masses or geopolitical entities.
Marko Tadić continues to explore his long-term interest in the legacy of modernism. Based on a series of projected images Events Meant to be Forgotten act as a panorama of achronological time, suspended between history, memory and future projections.
Artists
Tina Gverović graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, completed a postgraduate study at Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and holds a doctorate from Middlesex University in London. She has recently exhibited at Suzhou Documents - Biennial (Suzhou, 2016), Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, 2016) Raum mit Licht Gallery (Vienna, 2015), Tate Modern (London, 2014), MSUB (Beograd, 2014), SE8 Gallery (London, 2013), and The Garden of Learning – Busan Biennial (Busan, 2012). She took part in residency programs in Sweden (Baltic Art Centre, Visby, 2012), Austria (Kultur Kontakt, Vienna, 2011), USA (ISCP, New York, 2006). Lives and works between London and Dubrovnik.
Marko Tadić graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Exhibited at solo and group exhibitions and film festivals in Croatia and internationally, at venues in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Vienna, Kassel, Berlin, Los Angeles and New York. Awards: 28. Youth Salon (Zagreb, 2006) and Radoslav Putar Award for young Croatian artist (Zagreb, 2008). Participated in residencies and study programs: 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2008); KulturKontakt, Vienna (2008); ISCP, New York (2009); Kultur Bunker, Frankfurt (2010) and Helsinki International Artist Program (2011). Born in 1979 in Sisak, Croatia, lives and works in Zagreb.
Curator
Branka Benčić is an independent curator and art historian based in Zagreb, Croatia. Over the past decade she has curated group exhibitions, artiststs solo projects and film screenings in Croatia and internationally, lectured and published on contemporary art in exhibition catalogues, journals and books. Her basic research, writing and curatorial interests are focused on contemporary art, exhibiting film and video, experimental cinema, exhibition histories in former Yugoslavia. She is currently involved with several ongoing projects and initiatives, Artistic director at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art, Founder and Curator at Cinemaniac –Think Film exhibiting and research project at Pula Film Festival and curator of Artists Cinema, screening program series taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
The participation of Croatia at the 57th Venice Biennale is organized by Moderna Galerija – National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb with financial support provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.
Contact
croatian.pavilion.venice [at] gmail.com
and
Lana Šetka, pr and press office, Moderna galerija, Zagreb: info [at] modgal.t-com.hr
A new website will be launched in April: www.croatianpavilion-venicebiennale.hr
