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The Secret of the Ninth Planet
Queens Nails Projects, 3191 Mission Street and Photo Epicenter, 26 Lilac Street, San Francisco, CA
In association with the Curatorial Practice MA Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Opening reception: 7pm-11pm Friday 24 April
Exhibition runs until 24 May 2009
www.thesecretoftheninthplanet.com
Artists: Raymond Boisjoly, Chu Yun, Jasmina Cibic, Maryam Jafri, Yael Kanarek, Kitty Kraus, Gabriel Lester, Euan Macdonald, Gianni Motti, Kamau Patton, Dario Robleto, Sham Saenz, Tokihiro Sato, Suzanne Treister, Matt Volla and Hillary Wiedemann.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by the theorist and curator Lars Bang Larsen.
Spectators, Tourists and Casual Passers-by
Galeria AdHoc, Vigo, Spain
P.V. 8.00 pm Thursday 12 March 2009
Exhibition runs until 2 May 2009
www.adhocgaleria.com
Cibic’s first solo show in Spain brings together a number of works and projects executed between 2006 and 2008 which all address participatory models of engagement and the contemporary condition with its doubt of the self-reflexive intention of artistic involvement.
All the works on display are a product of delegated execution, either by assigning an active role in the co-production of the artwork to the (primary) participatory audience, or by delegating the execution of the work to a third party (such as police sketchers, craftsmen etc).
By equipollating the viewer of an artwork within a museum alongside a mere passer-by in a transitory space Cibic questions the possible connections of art with social relations, especially those which, due to their context-specific attributes, ask questions of possible formulations of geo-political exoticisms.
Druge mitologije/Other Mythologies
UGM Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
P.V. 7.30 pm Friday 19 December 2008
Exhibition will be opened by Dr. Stojan Pelko
Exhibition runs until 22 February 2009
www.ugm.si
Curator: Simona Vidmar
Complex, communicative and humorous works of Jasmina Cibic continuously point toward the research of the currently pertinent theme of industrialisation of (art) tourism and with it the stereotyping of experience (of specific geopolitical territories). Cibic's latest spatial intervention, depicts a fictional airport signalling system, where instead of its normal functioning and enumeration of airplane arrival and departure destinations, we follow the encyclopaedic entries of fictional cities, lands, states etc. from the Dictionary of Imaginary Places (collected from the history of literature by Alberto Miguel and Gianni Guadalupi).
Within the spatial construction inside the gallery, there are infinitely multiplied drawings of fictional places, created in collaboration of the artist and a police sketcher, where the created space becomes a poetic reconstruction of a transitory space/waiting room/airport terminal, where myths are expropriated and experience impossible – a space of airplane magazines, tourist brochures and advertisements where there is only one thing left to the passenger: wait for the promised destination.
Ideologies of Display
solo exhibition
Galerija Ganes Pratt, Ljubljana
P.V. 7-9 pm Tuesday 2 December 2008
Exhibition runs until 3 January 2009
www.ganes.si, e-mail: info@ganes.si
Cibic's new body of work explores sets of beliefs behind the architecture of displays which culminated in a particularly peculiar ideology in 1930's zoo design when the habitats begun to be designed with the viewer as the central figure.
The series "Ideologies of Display" depicts constructed and theatrical like spaces, which follow the set rules of these methods, and equippolates the aura which is given to an artwork by the museum to the aura which is given to an attraction by the gaze of a tourist.
Shining
DIVUS unit 30, 37 Cremer Street, London E2
P.V. 6-9 pm Thursday 2 October 2008
Exhibition runs until 6 November 2008
www.divus.cz/london
A group exhibition featuring works of photographers from Czech Republic and the UK. Curated by Michaela Freeman.
Artists: Ben Camp, Jasmina Cibic, Jan Cihak, Matt Croghan, William de Labat, Katerina Drzkova, Martin Kamen, Yeon Lee, Dean Leivers, Jan Lesak, Margarita Myrogiaanni, Magda Slezar, Terrence Smith and Ondrej Tkacik.
Museum in the Street
September - October 2008,
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
Project's opening: Tuesday, 23 September
www.mg-lj.si
Curators: Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur
The project presents the specific features of Ljubljana from a different angle by redefining the concept of art in public spaces. The first to focus on art interventions in public spaces in Slovenia was the artists' collective OHO; this still remains to be researched using contemporary methodology, and critically reflected. Museum in the Street project attempts to do this by focusing on the representations of the city, urban identity, exploring / mapping the city, interventions in the city, urban visions.
Natural Relations
international group exhibition
June 24 - July 18 2008, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Artists: Katinka Boch, Jasmina Cibic, Ines Doujak, Regina Jose Galindo, Kinda Hassan, Lamia Joreige, Tea Mäkipää, Ulrike Mohr, Claire Pentecost, Adriana Salazar, Helene Sommer, Nika Špan and Mare Tralla
The exhibition is a collaborative project and the result of rhizomatic relations between the featured artists, Skuc gallery and the City of Women.
www.cityofwomen.org/2008
Upcoming publications and projects:
May 2008:
Portfolio Magazine, issue 47
www.portfoliocatalogue.com
commission by Iukbox
www.iukbox.com
April 2008:
Falter Magazine, issue 2
www.faltermagazine.com