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…
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]")
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]")
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]")
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…
![Confronting the Death… Again [Goran Bertok]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bertok-najava-mailing-02-591x300.jpg "Confronting the Death… Again [Goran Bertok]")
A introductory text for Goran Bertok‘s exhibition Survivors that took place in January 2013 at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Wars, states of emergency and continuing repression are immense breeding places for the pogroms…
![Laughing at the Other [Cristina de Middel]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Cristina-de-Middel-Afronauts-02-670x300.jpg "Laughing at the Other [Cristina de Middel]")
Cristina de Middel and her Afronauts This text was written after long consideration, and after seeing the artist talk about her project at the Athens Photo Festival. I guess it is weird to see a black guy wearing a spacesuit and a helmet, and it seems to be comic to…
Extensive essay about group Buldožer, one of the first rock bands and counterculture phenomena from Yugoslavia. The entire text is published in a book accompanying the retrospective exhibition “Fly-Posting Prohibited: The Story of Buldožer” that celebrates the fortieth anniversary of formation of the band – in Photon – Centre for…
![Exploration of Moving Image, Poetry and Sound [Damir Ocko]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/spring-48-670x300.jpg "Exploration of Moving Image, Poetry and Sound [Damir Ocko]")
The text was written for the solo exhibition of Damir Očko titled SPRING / We Saw Nothing But The Uniform Blue Of The Sky at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana (1 April – 8 May 2015) Damir Očko is also representing Croatia at the 56th Venice Biennial 2015…
The essay was written for the exhibition of Goran Micevski & Ivan Petrović: “In Dialogue with Photography” at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (12 March – 18 April 2014) Goran Micevski and Ivan Petrović detect and deliberate the reality of their cultural and social milieu in very peculiar ways.…