An essay about the artistic practice of the photographer Vanja Bučan who most commonly addresses the relationship between “culture” and “nature” through metaphors and allegories.
![Human Figure as an Object [Vanja Bucan]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Vanja-Bucan-Looking-for-Sadiq-cover-670x300.jpg "Human Figure as an Object [Vanja Bucan]")
Case Study on Vernacular Photography
The Doubles project that displayed works of Ljubljana based artists Noemi Veberič Levovnik and Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi was initially shown at DLUL Gallery, Ljubljana in frames of Month of Photography in Ljubljana. The joint project entitled Doubles showcases photography by Noemi Veberič Levovnik and Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi. Duality,…
![Blue Wall Red Door [Alban Muja]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Alban-Muja-Blue-Wall-Red-Door-01-670x300.jpg "Blue Wall Red Door [Alban Muja]")
Blue Wall Red Door [Alban Muja]
The text is about the film by Alban Muja & Yll Citaku, entitled Blue Wall Red Door (2009) It was initially published for the VASA film series In the Land of… showcases works of artists and filmmakers from the territory of former Yugoslavia who work in the field of so…
![Monumental Landscapes [diSTRUKTURA]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/diSTRUKTURA-031-670x300.jpg "Monumental Landscapes [diSTRUKTURA]")
Monumental Landscapes [diSTRUKTURA]
The text was initially written for the Face to Face show by artist group diSTRUKTURA at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (Ljubljana) in 2009. The artistic practice of the group diSTRUKTURA (Milan Bosnić & Milica Milićević) is stretched across various creative approaches depending on the medium and on the…
![Violence, Death and Decay [Goran Bertok]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Visitors-Wien-2-670x300.jpg "Violence, Death and Decay [Goran Bertok]")
Violence, Death and Decay [Goran Bertok]
The essay was written for the Body and Flesh exhibition by Goran Bertok at Photon Gallery in Brotfabrik Wien, Vienna [authors: Miha Colner & Jasna Jernejšek] The Body and Flesh exhibition presents the distinctive body of work of an artist who, over the past 25 years, has relentlessly explored themes…
The Economics of Contemporary Art
On the book by Bojana Kunst, The Artist at Work: The Proximity of Art and Capitalism, Zero Books, 2015 [Umetnik na delu: bližina umetnosti in kapitalizma, Maska, 2013] The article was first published in Slovenian language in the Art Words magazine [Likovne besede], issue 98, winter 2013 At a time…
Photography as Testimony of Time and Space
The essay was written in 2012 for the publication of the Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape project that displayed and analysed tendencies of engaged contemporary photography on the territory of former Yugoslavia after its break-up. The publication is available as e-book at Photon online bookshop and the content is partially available…
![Finally, the President Who Understands Ordinary People [Borut Krajnc]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Borut-Krajnc-Vecni-koledar-3_737-670x300.jpg "Finally, the President Who Understands Ordinary People [Borut Krajnc]")
Finally, the President Who Understands Ordinary People [Borut Krajnc]
About the Politics (2012-2014) series of photographs by Borut Krajnc. The project was premiered in December 2014 at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana as an exhibition and as a perpetual calendar, produced by the Made in China project. In the past twenty and something years the coalition between the political elites…
![Documents of Time and Space [Branko Lenart]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Branko-Lenart-Styrians-1970-1974-04-670x300.jpg "Documents of Time and Space [Branko Lenart]")
Documents of Time and Space [Branko Lenart]
About photographer Branko Lenart and his two significant series of photographs: Styrians (1970-1974) and Augen:Blicke (2002) which were published (in Italian and German language) in the book entitled Sguardi sulla Styria and exhibited at the Sale Esposotive della Provincia C. so Garibaldi in Pordenone, Italy (16 September – 10 November…
![Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lady-Mile-01-670x300.jpg "Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]")
Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]
About the Lady’s Mile series of photographs (2014-2015) by the Cypriot artist and photographer Stelios Kallinikou The project was part of the group show Borderlines at The House of Cyprus in Athens in frames of Athens Photo Festival 2015. There is a certain affinity among contemporary photographers to record and…