EKO 8 / guide tour
EKO 8 / guide tour
Former MTT factory, Maribor / Melje
Saturday, 5 June 2021, 10:30
Artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Lucien Anderson, Manca Bajec, Maxime Berthou & Mark Požlep, James Bridle & Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Kara Chin, Jasmina Cibic, Marcus Coates, William Cobbing, Vadim Fiškin, Laura Harrington, Stane Jagodič, Mikhail Karikis, Janja Kosi, Harley Kuyck-Cohen, Polonca Lovšin, Yoko Ono, Antonis Pittas, Marjetica Potrč, Nina Slejko Blom & Conny Blom, ScanLAB Projects, Danae Stratou, Emilija Škarnulytė, Marko Tadić, Jimmy Turrell, Chris Watson
guided by: Simona Vidmar, curator UGM
We invite you to join us at 11:00 at the guide tour in the premises of the former Maribor textile factory MTT. This year, between 21 May and 18 July, these spaces host EKO 8, International Triennial of Art and the Environment. We present the works of more than twenty-five Slovenian and foreign artists, some of whom were created especially for the EKO 8.
In 2021, the Maribor Art Gallery will relaunch the EKO, International Triennial of Art and Environment. The artistic director of the EKO 8 Triennial, Alessandro Vincentelli, an independent curator from the United Kingdom, gave the revised edition of the triennial the title A Letter to the Future. The title comes from a memorial plaque with which Icelanders marked a special moment of the loss of the Okjökull glacier in Borgarfjörður. Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason wrote on the plaque: "Okjökull is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it." In August 2019, the event captured media attention, generated solidarity and resulted in community action. It is a powerful plea. The eulogy to the glacier throws us forward into the future. It encourages us to use our imagination.
Guide tour of the exhibition is possible in accordance with the PCT protocol.
