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EKO 8, International Triennial of Art and Environment / A Letter to the Future
Former MTT factory
Maribor / Melje
May 21 − 18 July 2021

In 2021, the Maribor Art Gallery is re-launching the International Triennial of Art and Environment in its eighth edition. The artistic director of EKO 8, Alessandro Vincentelli, an independent curator from the UK, titled the revised edition of the triennial A Letter to the Future. The exhibition will present the collected visions of more than 30 international and Slovenian artists dedicated to the central theme of the letter on the premises of the former MTT factory in Melje. In the face of the uncertainties created by the global pandemic, and in the new and enhanced need to recognize signs and learn from history, the EKO 8 Triennial will be designed as a barometer of change.

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, Mako Sajko, ScanLAB Projects, Nina Slejko Blom & Conny Blom, Danae Stratou, Emilija Škarnulytė, Marko Tadić, Jimmy Turrell, Chris Watson

Installation view EKO 8
Take a look at photos of the artworks at the EKO 8 exhibition, International Triennial of Art and Environment / A Letter to the Future.
JIMMY TURRELL / Visions of Legacy, 2021
Jimmy Turrell has created a new set of designs for EKO 8, A Letter to the Future, having been invited to use his experimental, layered, collage work within several sites.
MARKO TADIĆ / Manuals of Sensemaking
Marko Tadić designed the new installation from assembled parts and pieces of furniture in response to the premises of the MTT factory.
YOKO ONO / Grapefruit, 1964-2021
Yoko Ono's earliest works were often based on instructions, which radically questioned the division between art and the everyday.
ANTONIS PITTAS / one brick at a time, 2021
one brick at a time is comprised of more than 1500 used bricks; texts and phrases rubbed in graphite are to be found.
MAKO SAJKO / Poisons, 1964
The short documentary Poisons (1964) shows the other side of the accelerated industrialization of Yugoslavia in the post-war period.
LAURA HARRINGTON / A Yarn
Laura Harrington investigated the textile production process, working with nine organisations which have chosen to embrace the idea of sustainability.
JAMES BRIDLE & NAVINE G. KHAN-DOSSOS / Hymn to Malandrina
This work is intended to play as a soundtrack to the exhibition and will be presented in several locations.
LUCIEN ANDERSON / A Million Tinkered Solutions, 2021
Lucien Anderson structured the sculptural assemblage for EKO 8 as a series of environments, and habitats stacked one on top of the other.
WILLIAM COBBING / WIll.Je.Suis to Will.Ik.Ben, 2020
William Cobbing creates surreal performative pieces that show the protagonist engaging in repetitive, almost compulsive cycles of manipulating formless material.
HARLEY KUYCK COHEN / Body Farm, 2021
Kuyck Cohen is engaged in creating visceral sculptural works using disparate materials, such as plaster, clay, and other found objects.
NINA SLEJKO BLOM & CONNY BLOM / The Green Drawings: I Pledge, 2021
The Green Drawings is a project that uses the logic of free market capitalism to limit the total amounts of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
POLONCA LOVŠIN / We Miss the Forest for the Trees, 2021
We Miss the Forest for the Trees is a series of collages that tackles the complex subject of the forest in the perspective of climate change.
KARA CHIN / Closer Than We Think!, 2020
Presenting Kare Chin and her art project for EKO 8 by artist. Her work Closer Than We Think!! was created during the first quarantine.
SCANLAB PROJECTS / Remote Relic: Observation 01 and 02, 2020
ScanLAB Projects is a pioneering half art, half research lab run by Matthew Shaw and William Trossell.
CHRIS WATSON / Hverir, Iceland, 2020
Hverir by Chris Watson is an spatial sound installation, which places the listener in a dynamic environment over a volcanic tectonic plate rupture.
JANJA KOSI / Patchwork, 2020
The artist designed the Patchwork wall installation and the floor and wall painting Meet You at 4.17 pm in a direct dialogue with the MTT premises.
JASMINA CIBIC / Beneficial Demolitions, 2021
The project centres on the artist's interest in the subject of the double game between cultural capital and political powers.
MARCUS COATES / Apology to the Great Auk, 2017
The video Apology to the Great Auk (2017) is based on one of the most notorious episodes in natural history.
Emilija Škarnulytė / Sirenomelia, 2017
A woman born with sirenomelia, a mythological posthuman being takes us on the journey to the Cold War submarine base above the arctic circle.
VADIM FIŠKIN / Light Chasers, 2016/2017
Light Chaser is an installation in which twenty spotlights are displayed on the floor. Inside the area there is a mini solar car, which is fuelled and pushed when one of the lights goes on.
STANE JAGODIČ / Eco Design, 1986
The work is one of three historical points in the exhibition, linking the present and the foundations of environmental thought in art.
ALLORA & CALZADILLA / The Great Silence, 2014
Through exploration of sound, the video examines the relationships between the living and non-living, human and animal, and terrestrial and cosmic.
DANAE STRATOU / Memory Threads, 2020-2021
This vast temporary installation is an adaption of an earlier installation made by Danae Stratou in the old textile factory of PIRAÏKI.
MIKHAIL KARIKIS / No Ordinary Protest, 2018
Working across film, sound and performance, Mikhail Karikis’ video No Ordinary Protest adopts the children’s science fiction novel ‘The Iron Woman’.
MAXIME BERTHOU & MARK POŽLEP / Southwind, 2019
SOUTHWIND follows the project in movement, translating it into an archive of personal experiences.
MARJETICA POTRČ / Nomads Inhabit Islands, Settlers Build Walls, 2016
Nomads Inhabit Islands, Settlers Build Walls is part of the series The Earth Drawings (2009–2019).
MANCA BAJEC / Prologue: Weaver of Past Potentials, 2021
At the centre of the tale is the allegory of a spider and the amnesia-like properties of a plant with the ability to cause long-term memory loss.