Reflection of the research project and the group exhibition Collective Practices and Photography in the Region at Artget Gallery, KCB, Belgrade (9 November – 12 December 2017), curated by Fotodokumenti. Cover photo: Peter Rauch, Community, 2012-2013 Collectivism in art and other branches of creative endeavour is not a new phenomenon.…
The article entitled Notes to Independence was initially published in the catalogue of Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere, Finland, which was focusing on different notions of independence. The human world, like that of many other living species, is undoubtedly hierarchical and structured in a particular social pyramid. This is a…
![100 Hectares of Understanding [Jaakko Kahilaniemi]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/100Hectares_100PlantedSaviorsOfTheHeritage_2015-670x300.jpg "100 Hectares of Understanding [Jaakko Kahilaniemi]")
About Finnish photographer and artist Jaakko Kahilaniemi and his ongoing photographic project entitled 100 Hectares of Understanding.
An essay on contemporary art reflecting on the World War I, originally published in the book entitled Red Poppy Fields [The Great War Reflected in Contemporary Photography] released by Photon, 2017. “Gentlemen, we are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law!” said German Chancellor Bethmann…
![The Scream and Its Echo [Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Oblak-Novak-Border-Mover-2015-622x300.jpg "The Scream and Its Echo [Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak]")
About the work of Nika Oblak & Primož Novak which has been showcased on series of exhibitions entitled And Now for Something Completely Different, currently on at Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana. Works of art generally reflect the zeitgeist in which they were created; the more effective ones furthermore universalise their…
An essay about the group project Nothing is Forever interrelating recent works of three artists from Slovenia: Aljaž Celarc, Klemen Ilovar & Dan Adlešič and Name:. The display of the project takes place at the new Project Space of Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana. The Nothing Is Forever project…
An essay about the group project entitled Memory. Imprints of Destruction and Rebellion of Life showcasing works of Jaka Babnik, Masaki Hirano and Bojan Radovič whcih was premiered on 26 and 27 May 2017 at DUM Project Space in Ljubljana (co-production of House of Photography Slovenia, Sektor Institute, Rostfrei Publishing).…
![Why So Serious? [Jaka Babnik]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WSS-09-670x300.jpg "Why So Serious? [Jaka Babnik]")
A short essay about the series of photographs by Jaka Babnik entitled Why So Serious? which was released as a photobook, published for Rostfrei Publishing, and displayed as an exhibition at Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica, Slovenia. The photobook can be ordered here. Although created consciously and intentionally, as a result…
![The Bright Side of Stratification [Mihailo Vasiljevic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Mihailo-Vasiljevic-Untitled31-New-Money-2015-564x300.jpg "The Bright Side of Stratification [Mihailo Vasiljevic]")
On Mihailo Vasiljević‘s New Money series of photographs. Premiered at U10 Art Space, Belgrade (30 March – 16 April 2017). The world is unjust; face it! People (including the poor and the underprivileged) tend to look down at the rising problems of unequal distribution of wealth and income with just…
![The Ambivalent Eclecticism of Contemporary Photography [Bojan Salaj]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bojan-Salaj-Snapshots-2002-670x300.jpg "The Ambivalent Eclecticism of Contemporary Photography [Bojan Salaj]")
The essay analyses the body of work of Ljubljana-based photographer Bojan Salaj. It was first published in the Membrana magazine 66/67 (2016) The final years of the 1980s saw a considerable widening of perception and expressive possibilities of visual art in museums and art galleries, which had previously been reserved…