About Marija Mojca Pungerčar’s exhibition Three Botanical Stories (2018) which addresses small and intimate phenomena in her everyday life such as the relationship between culture and nature.
![Three Botanical Stories [Marija Mojca Pungercar]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Overgrowing-2018-670x300.jpg "Three Botanical Stories [Marija Mojca Pungercar]")
Photo-publishing in Slovenia
An essay on the history and the present of photo-publishing and art-publishing in Slovenia.
![On Ideology and Art [Jasmina Cibic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cibic_Nada-Act-II_9-WEB-to-fit-670x300.jpg "On Ideology and Art [Jasmina Cibic]")
On Ideology and Art [Jasmina Cibic]
About the Nada project by Ljubljana- and London-based artist Jasmina Cibic and the book that has been released by Kunstmuseen Krefeld and Kerber Verlag in 2018. The review was originally published in EIKON. International Magazine for Photography and Media Art #103. The Nada project by Jasmina Cibic is a…
Victims of War and Capitalism
About the exhibition Aftermath. Art in the Wake of World War One, Tate Britain, London [5 June-23 September 2018]; cover image: Ernst Friedrich, Krieg dem Kriege, 1924 (photobook) Over the past four years of commemorating the centenary of World War One a series of exhibitions, performances and publications have been…
Interview with Ivan Petrović: Photographer, Archivist and Artist
Interview with Ivan Petrović The interview was initially published in the Membrana Magazine No. 3 and Revija Fotografija 76/77 [in Slovene language], a thematic issue entitled Cabinet where contributors looked at archives and uses of vernacular photography in the art making. Ivan Petrović (1973) has been working in the fields…
Photobook: Discipline, Genre or Movement?
The column on the phenomena of photobook, first published in the catalogue of the Fotoknjiga in fotozin [Photobook and Photozine] exhibition at DobraVaga, Ljubljana. Today, the photobook is a thoroughly institutionalised and canonised discipline in the field of contemporary photography and art, swiftly building its own theoretical apparatus and extensive…
![Sisyphean Labour of a Robot [Bostjan Drinovec]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bostjan-Drinovec-02.jpg "Sisyphean Labour of a Robot [Bostjan Drinovec]")
Sisyphean Labour of a Robot [Bostjan Drinovec]
An essay about the piece of the Ljubljana-based artist Boštjan Drinovec. The text was initially published in the catalogue of the exhibition entitled Moebius Strip at Montfort / Obalne galerije, Portorož, Slovenia. Ever since the first Industrial Revolution, which in some areas began in as early as the second half…
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A Woman with a Photo Camera [Breda Beban]
Transcript of the lecture given by Miha Colner at Studio Tommaseo / Trieste Contemporanea, in Trieste, on 21 April 2017 / originally published in a publication Breda’s Lesson. In the following talk I will present and analyse some of the most distinctive and significant photographic works of Breda Beban. Her…
Ongoing Struggle and Inevitable Pride
About the exhibition entitled Vigilance, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes at Maribor Art Gallery (19 January-11 March 2018) curated by Marina Paulenka and produced by Društvo za evropsko zavest, Maribor; Organ vida, Zagreb; Fotoklub Maribor; Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, Graz; KuBiPro, Berlin; E@I, Bratislava. Nowadays a large part of population…
Alternative Discourses of Documentary Photography
Creating Alternative Discourses: Contemporary Photography Between Mass Media and Art Practice Edited transcript of the lecture which took place at the conference Beyond the Documentary on 9 September 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb in frames of Organ vida. International Photography Festival. Cover Photo: Ivan Petrovic, Students, 2006.…