FLIPSIDE

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An exhibition of work by artists who have been supported by ArtsLink Awards, running from November 11, 2004 through January 8, 2005.

Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, New York, NY

Flipside investigated post-utopian artistic practice between the era of communism and the integration of many Central European countries into the European Union. Could one utopia be simply a flipside of the other?

Critical to investigating this question and its implications for the future is the examination of art practice resulting from the generative force of the cultural exchange program ArtsLink, created in 1992, which itself can be viewed as a utopian construct.

Flipside was a rare opportunity for New Yorkers to see first-hand work by 34 artists from across Central Europe and the United States. It provided information with which to investigate critical questions about international influence, cooperation and exchange in burgeoning cultural environments that are undergoing significant political and economic change.

 

Participating Artists

Cristian Alexa, (b. 1968, Bucharest, Romania). Alexa has had solo exhibitions at Longwood Arts Project, Bronx (1998) and Art in General (window project, 1997). His work has been part of group exhibitions including The Last East European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2003); Something About Love, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain (2003); Preview, National Museum of Contemporary Art, KalinderuMediaLad, Bucharest (2002); Unstable Narratives, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund (2002); Busan Biennial (2002) and Looking for Mr. Fluxus, Art in General, New York (2001). Alexa studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest and currently lives and works in New York City. He received an ArtsLink Projects award in 1996.

Art Attack was founded in 1979 in Los Angeles, CA, and subsequently moved to Washington, D.C. and finally to New York City. Art Attack maintains a formal group of associates who participate on a project-by-project basis. The group primarily constructs installations or creates events in public spaces including abandoned buildings at both authorized and unauthorized sites. Art Attack has had exhibitions at Offenes Kulturhaus Linz (1995), Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle (1993) and Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C. (1983). Their work has also been included in the International Survey of Group Art, Marseille (1991, 1989). Art Attack received ArtsLink Projects awards in 1993, 1995 and 1998.

Association APSOLUTNO is an artist collective founded in 1993 in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro. Its members are Zoran Pantelić, Dragan Rakić and Bojana Petrić (and Dragan Miletić from 1995 until 2001). Since 1995 the works have been signed APSOLUTNO without any reference to individual names. APSOLUTNO’s work has been part of numerous festivals and exhibitions including Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (2002); VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Basel (2000); The War Room, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco (1999) and Video Art in Serbia, Center for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade (1999). APSOLUTNO received an ArtsLink Independent Projects award in 2001.

Maja Bajević (b. 1967, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Bajević recently had a solo exhibition at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (2004). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2003), Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan, Sammlung Essl, Vienna (2003); Biennial de Valencia (2001); the Istanbul Biennial (2001) and Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000). She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo and l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. She currently lives and works in Paris and Sarajevo. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999 at Mobius in Boston.

Emese Benczůr (b. 1969, Budapest, Hungary). Benczůr has had solo exhibitions at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest (1999) and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998). Her work has been part of group exhibitions including Haunted by Detail, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (2002); Out of Time, Mucsarnok, Budapest (2001); Venice Biennale (1999); Aspects/Positions, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (1999); After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999) and Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998). She lives and works in Budapest. She received an ArtsLink Independent Projects award in 1999.

Cabinet Magazine is a quarterly magazine of art and culture that was launched in 2000. It presents multi-disciplinary content through columns, essays, interviews, and special artist projects. Cabinet was named “Best New Magazine” of 2000 by the American Library Association’s Library Journal and “Best Art and Culture Magazine” for 2001 and 2003 by the New York Press.

Danica Dakić (b. 1962, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Dakić’s work has been part of group exhibitions including Passage d’Europe, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne (2004); Istanbul Biennial (2003); Valencia Biennial (2003); In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003); Ich ist etwas Anderes, Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf (2000); La casa, il corpo, il cuore, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (1999) and After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999). Dakić studied at the Academy of Art in Sarajevo, the Academy of Art in Belgrade and the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. She currently divides her time between Sarajevo and Dusseldorf. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Milena Dopitová (b. 1963, Sternberk, Czech Republic). Dopitová has had solo exhibitions at Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2001) and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994). She has participated in three editions of the Venice Biennial (1999, 1995, 1993) and in many other group exhibitions including Artists of Central and Eastern Europe, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (1995). Her work is in the collections of the Czech Museum of Modern Art, Prague; Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, National Gallery, Prague; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg. Dopitová studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and currently lives and works in Prague. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1995 at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.

Vadim Fishkin (b. 1965, Penza, Russia). Fishkin has had solo exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (1997) and Moderna Galerija Ljubljana (1995). His work has been part of group exhibitions including Mediterraneans. Arte Contemporanea, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2004); Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2003); Venice Biennale (2003); MIR, Art in Variable Gravity, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester (2003); Iconoclash, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2002); After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999) and Manifesta 1, Rotterdam (1996). Fishkin studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He currently lives and works in Ljubljana and Moscow. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1997 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Jaroslaw Fliciński (b. 1965, Gdansk, Poland). Fliciński has had solo exhibitions at Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2003); Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (2002) and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2000). His work has also been part of group exhibitions including Re:Location 6, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (2004); The Forbidden City, Kokerei Hansa, Dortmund (2002) and Art Point, Miami (2002). Fliciński studied at the State College of Art in Gdansk and currently lives and works in Gdansk. He received an ArtsLink Independent Projects award in 2002.

Tomislav Gotovac (b. 1937, Sombor, Serbia). Gotovac’s films, photographs and documentation of his actions and performances have been included in numerous exhibitions including Body and the East, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (1998); Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneium, Graz (2002); Venice Biennale (2003) and In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003). He studied film at the Faculty of Dramatic Art in Belgrade. He currently lives and works in Zagreb. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1993 at Franklin Furnace Archive in New York City.

Pradoliub Ivanov (b. 1964, Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Ivanov has had solo exhibitions at ATA Center/ Institute for Contemporary Art-Sofia (2003) and Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (2002). His installations have been part of group exhibitions including the Sydney Biennial (2004); In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003); Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan, Sammlung Essl, Vienna (2003); Bound/less Borders, Belgrade (2002); Tirana Biennial (2001) and Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000). Ivanov studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia and currently lives and works in Sofia. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1998 at Longwood Arts Project in the Bronx, NY.

Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY). Jonas’ performances, videos and installations have been widely exhibited including at the Sydney Biennial (1982); Biennale de Sao Paolo (1994); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1994); Documenta 11, Kassel (2002) and recently at a solo exhibition, Joan Jonas: Five Works, at the Queens Museum of Art (2003). She lives and works in New York City and received an ArtsLink Projects award in 1993.

Kai Kaljo (b. 1959, Tallinn, Estonia). Kaljo’s videos have been shown in solo exhibitions throughout Europe and in many festivals and group shows including New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2004); 10th Biennale of Moving Images, Geneva, Switzerland (2003); Sound Systems, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria (2003); WRO International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw (2001) and Chinese Whispers, Apex Art, New York, NY (2000). Her work is held in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tartu Art Museum, Estonia and Sprengel Museum, Hannover. Kaljo studied at Tallinn Art University and currently lives and works in Tallinn. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1998 at Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY, and received an Independent Projects award in 2002.

Charles Krafft (b. 1947, Seattle, WA). Krafft has had solo exhibitions at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (2002); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2000); and the Republic of Slovenia’s Ministry of Defense (1999). His work has been part of group exhibitions including North American Ceramic Scupture Now, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA (2004); the Annual World Ceramics Biennale, Incheon (2003); Gun and Wound, White Box Annex, New York (2003); 2000 & 1/2, Looking Forward, Looking Back, Seattle Art Museum (2000) and Mortal, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999). His work is in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum and Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana. Krafft currently lives and works in Seattle, WA. He received ArtsLink Projects awards in 1995 and 1997.

Pawel Kruk (b. 1976 in Koszalin, Poland). Kruk has had solo exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2004) and Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw (2001). His work has been part of group exhibitions including Art, Sport, Video, Musée Géo-Charles d’Echirolles, France (2004); The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003); The Young Are Realists, Really, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2002) and Model to Assemble, The Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko (2000). Kruk studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and currently lives and works in Warsaw. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 2002 at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco, CA.

Julia Kunin (b. 1961, Burlington, VT). Kunin had solo exhibitions at Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach (2002), Four Walls, New York (1999) and Old Gallery, Tbilisi (1999). Her work has been part of group exhibitions including Corporal Identity, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2004); Triennial of Contemporary Art and Design, Frankfurt (2003); Unexpected Selections, Frost Art Museum, Miami (2002); Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York (2002) and Red Square, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn (1999). Kunin studied at Wellesley College and Rutgers University. She lives and works in New York City. She received an ArtsLink Projects award in 1999.

Yuri Leiderman (b. 1963, Odessa, Ukraine). Leiderman has had recent solo exhibitions at Le Quartier, Centre d’ art contemporain de Quimper (2004), the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2003), and Herzliya Museum of Art (2002). He has participated in two editions of the Venice Biennial (2003, 1993) as well as many other group exhibitions including Berlin/Moskau, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2003); L’Autre moitié de l’Europe, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2000); After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999); Sydney Biennial (1998); Manifesta, Rotterdam (1996) and the Istanbul Biennial (1992). His work is in the collections of the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg; the Ludwig Museum, Budapest and the National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne. Leiderman studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology and currently lives and works in Moscow. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1996 at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.

Antoni Maznevski (b. 1963, Skopje, Macedonia). Maznevski has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of the City of Skopje (2002) and the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art (1996). His work has been part of group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2003); Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan, Sammlung Essl, Vienna (2003); In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003); 40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden (2002) and Construction in Process VII: This Earth is a Flower, International Artists’ Museum, Lodz (2000). Maznevksi studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and currently lives and works in Skopje. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1997 at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York City.

Audrius Novickas (b. 1968, Vilnius, Lithuania). Novickas has had a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius (1994). His work has been part of group exhibitions including Est ist Schwers, Kunstverein München (2004); 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva (2003); 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2002) and After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999). Novickas studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Vilnius. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999 at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.

Odili Donald Odita (b. 1966, Enugu, Nigeria). Odita has had solo exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2002), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2000) and Gallery 101, Ottawa (1999). His work has been part of group exhibitions including the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art (2004); After Matisse & Picasso, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (2003); Black President, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2003) and Painting As Paradox, Artists Space, New York (2002). His work is in the collections of The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Miami Art Museum, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. Odita studied at Ohio State University and Bennington College. He currently lives and works in Tallahassee, FL. He received an ArtsLink Projects award in 2000.

Tony Oursler (b. 1957, New York, NY). Oursler has had many solo exhibitions including Spheres of Influence, Musée National d‘Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986); White Trash and Phobic, Centre d‘Art Contemporain, Geneva (1993); Tony Oursler-Recent Video Works, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (1994) and at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw (1999). He has been included numerous group shows including the Whitney Biennial (1989) and ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (1995). He lives and works in New York City and received an ArtsLink Projects award in 1999.

Anthony Pemberton (b. 1966, Toledo, OH) and Katya Pemberton (b. 1971, Kaluga, Russia). Tony Pemberton‘s films include Beyond the Ocean (2002) which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Description of a Struggle (1993) which received a Juror‘s Award at the Humboldt International Film Festival and Paradise (1992) which won Best Experimental Film at the Baltimore Film Festival. Pemberton studied at the State University of New York at Purchase and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Co-Director Katya Pemberton has degrees in both Russian Literature and Design from Russian Humanitarian University. She has worked as a producer on feature films, documentaries, and currently works as a Russian television production consultant. They currently live and work in New Jersey. Anthony Pemberton received ArtsLink Projects awards in 1996 and 1998.

Dan Perjovschi (b. 1961, Sibiu, Romania). Perjovschi has had recent solo exhibtions at Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne (2004) and the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu (2003). His work has been part of group exhibitions including Passage d’Europe, Musée d’Art Moderne, St.Etienne (2004); Undesire, Apex Art, New York (2003); Unstable Narratives, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund (2002); Voila! Le monde dans la tête, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2000); After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999) and Body and the East, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana (1998). Perjovschi studied at the Art Academy of Iasi. He currently lives and works in Bucharest. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1995 at Franklin Furnace Archive in New York City.

Igor Savchenko (b. 1962, Minsk, Belarus). He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk (2002) and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (2002). His work has been part of group exhibitions including 24/7 Vilnius – New York, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2003); Die Aufgabe der Zeit, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2002); Beyond the Sentence, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2001) and After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999). Savchenko studied at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. He currently lives and works in Minsk. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1997 at Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT.

Tomo Savić-Gecan (b.1967, Zagreb, Croatia). Savić-Gecan has had solo exhibitions at De Loge, Haarlem (2000) and Gallery PM, Zagreb (1998). His work has been part of group exhibitions including Visa for Thirteen, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2004); Portal II, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003); Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2002); Chinese Whispers, Apexart, New York (2000); and Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000). He currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Zagreb. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1996 at Cleveland Institute of Art.

Stephen Shannabrook (b. 1965, Cleveland, OH). His work has been part of group exhibitions including Artists and Arms, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Tagil and Kaliningrad, Russia (2004); Gun and Wound, White Box Annex, New York, NY (2003); Workspheres (in collaboration with Veronika Georgieva), Museum of Modern Art, New York, (2001) and Paradise 8, Exit Art (1999). Shanabrook studied at Syracuse University and he currently lives and works in New York City. He received an ArtsLink Projects award in 1995.

škart is an artist collective founded by Dragan Protić and Djordje Balmazović in 1990 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. škart’s work has been part of numerous exhibitions including Exciting Europe, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig (2004); Graphic Triennial, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (2003); Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tirana (2003); Evolutionare Zellen, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildene Kunst, Berlin (2002) and Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000). Their work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the New York Public Library. Dragan Protić and Djordje Balmazović studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. They currently live and work in Belgrade. They were ArtsLink Fellows in 1998 at Lower East Side Printshop and Dieu Donne Papermill in New York City.

Sandra Sterle (b. 1965, Zadar, Croatia). Sterle has had solo exhibitions at Moderna Galerija, Zagreb (2003) and Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb (1998). Her work has been part of group exhibitions including Pilot 04, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2004); In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2003); A Short History of Dutch Video Art, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam (2003); Miranda July, Sandra Sterle, Rita Gonzales, Wexner Center for the Arts, Videotheque, Columbus, OH (2002); Videozone, 1st Biennial of Video Art, Tel Aviv (2002) and Viper International Film and Video Festival, Lucerne (1999). Sterle studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany. She currently divides her time between Croatia and The Netherlands. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999 at Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH.

Audrius Stonys (b. 1966, Vilnius, Lithuania). Stonys’ films include Alone (2001) which won the Grand Prize at the Split International Film Festival that year. Stonys studied at the Vilnius State Conservatory. Three of his films, Alone, Earth of the Blind (1992), and Flying Over Blue Field (1996) are being shown at Anthology Film Archive in New York City as part of a program of Lithuanian poetic documentary concurrent with this exhibition. He currently lives and works in Vilnius. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1996 at Boston Film Video Foundation.

Eric Triantafillou (b. 1968, USA) and Csilla Kosa (b. 1968, Romania). Triantafillou and Kosa have participated in group exhibitions including TransEuropa, Museum Quartier, Vienna (2002); MindBomb, Gallery Atlas, Cluj-Napoca (2002) and The People’s Plan, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco (2002). Triantafillou studied at L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago. Kosa studied at Academy of Visual Arts in Cluj-Napoca and San Francisco Art Institute. They currently live and work in Chicago. They received ArtsLink Projects awards in 2001 and 2003.

Aleksandar Zograf (a.k.a. Sasa Rackezić, b. 1963, Pancevo, Serbia and Montenegro). His comics have been published in magazines throughout Europe and in the United States. His solo titles include Life Under Sanctions, Bulletins from Serbia, Psychonaut, and Dream Watcher. Rackezić lives and works in Pančevo. He was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999 at GOH Productions in New York and received an Independent Projects award in 2001.
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Antoni Maznevski, A Se Esse, 1998

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Charles Krafft, The Porcelain War Museum Project l997 (fragment grenades), hand-painted underglaze on porcelain