Jasmina Cibic Presentation of Publication
Ganes Pratt Gallery, Cankarjeva 7, Ljubljana
presentation: Wednesday, 9 December 2009 at 19:00
Maribor Art Gallery and Ganes Pratt Gallery present a new publication of Jasmina Cibic’s work. Airport Projects presents artwork at airports- spaces without citizenships, where anonymity is provided by the absence of being. In the last three years Jasmina Cibic has intentionally located her performance interventions and space installations in this distinctive non-place – more accurately, airport terminals, waiting rooms, empty planes became spaces of the artist’s staging (from the intervention on Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines airplanes, 2006; the manipulation of the airport departure and arrival board in the Dictionary of Imaginary Places, 2006; a performance on the airport runway with a brass band in the Boutique Airports, 2007; to the seizing of an airport waiting room in the performance/installation Tourists Welcome, 2007; and inverted situation/installation Other Mythologies in Maribor Art Gallery where the ‘non-space’ intervenes into the authoritativeness of the museum, 2008). Airport Projects is a long running process and it is presented in the new publication of 35 reproductions and texts by Michele Deignan (GB), Blaž Križnik (SI, South Korea), Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (SI, FR) and Simona Vidmar (SI). Book will be available at Ganes Pratt Gallery and Maribor Art Gallery. Alongside the promotion of the publication Jasmina Cibic is exhibiting her artworks in Ganes Prat Gallery, with which she works since 2006. The artworks are presented in Slovenia for the first time.
Jasmina Cibic (b. 1979) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (2003) and gained an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London (2006). She has exhibited her work in various group exhibitions and solo shows (among others at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2009; Modern Art Gallery, Ljubljana, 2008; Maribor Art Gallery, 2008; International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women, Ljubljana, 2008; Künstlerhaus Graz, 2007; Goldsmith College, London, 2006; Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 2004). She regularly cooperates with the galleries Ganes Pratt in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and AdHoc in Vigo (Spain). She lives and works in both Ljubljana and London.
Publication data: Authors of the texts: Michele Deignan, artist and lecturer at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford; Blaž Križnik, architect and sociologist, professor of Urban Sociology at the University Seul in South Korea; Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, critic and curator at the museum Centre Pompidou in Paris; Simona Vidmar, senior curator at Maribor Art Gallery. Design: Matej Koren; published by: Maribor Art Gallery; pages: 80.
Further information:
Ganes Pratt, Gallery of Modern Art, Cankarjeva ulica 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, +386 (0)591 94 326, info@ganes.si
UGM I Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia, +386 (0)2 2502543, info@ugm.si
