![Solidarity Network [Gildo Bavcevic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gildo-Bavcevic-02-600x300.jpg "Solidarity Network [Gildo Bavcevic]")
About the documentary, entitled Solidarity Network (2013) by artist and filmmaker Gildo Bavčević. The short text was initially published in VASA Journal for images and Culture. The Solidarity Network documentary is a compilation of direct actions and protests against the repressive apparatus of transitional elites in the city (and surrounding areas)…
![New Extensions of Man [Jure Kastelic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Kastelic-Wipes-02-500x300.jpg "New Extensions of Man [Jure Kastelic]")
The essay was initially published in the exhibition catalogue of Jure Kastelic‘s exhibition, entitled Pretty Loops, at Photon – Center for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana and Lamut’s Art Salon, Kostanjevica na Krki (16 March – 16 April 2016). Translation by Sunčan Stone. With the appearance of digital technologies, their speedy development…
About the exhibition of Jelena Blagović and Ana Opalić, entitled Domestic Stories, that takes place at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana [4 February – 4 March 2016] The exhibition entitled Domestic Stories showcases the works of two distinctive and acclaimed contemporary photographers from Croatia, Jelena Blagović and Ana…
![Study for the Applause [Ibro Hasanovic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ibro-Hasanovic-Study-for-the-Applause-detail-591x300.jpg "Study for the Applause [Ibro Hasanovic]")
An essay about Ibro Hasanović and his work, entitled Study For The Applause (2013) In art historical terms a study represents the most common process for an artist when creating complex artworks such as allegorical or historical paintings. While highly idealised and mythologised, historical paintings have always been based on…
![The Future of Investigative Photo-Journalism… Almost There [Sochi Project]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Sochi-Project-Monuments-of-Russian-Georgian-Friendship-2013-670x300.jpg "The Future of Investigative Photo-Journalism… Almost There [Sochi Project]")
The Sochi Project is one of the most notorious, successful and omnipresent photographic initiatives in the past couple of years that connect classic photojournalism and conceptual photography, journalism and storytelling. In a way this is due to a highly innovative approach of their creators, photographer Rob Hornstra and journalist Arnold van Bruggen who have created a press of their own.
On the book Portraits: John Berger on Artists (ed. Tom Overton) which was released by Verso Books in 2015, and on the public interview with John Berger at The British Library on 18 September 2015. The article was initially published in Slovenian language at the Dnevnik daily newspaper, on 26…
![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]")
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…
About the Kristijan Milić’s heroic saga on the Croatian civil war (1991-1995) I somehow like genre of war films even though they are most often terribly biased. Their usual purpose is, unfortunately, pure propaganda. However, there are rare exceptions of war films which are ambivalent in their discourse dealing with…
Bitter Lake, a documentary directed by Adam Curtis, released on BBC iplayer in 2015. Adam Curtis has once more made a documentary which can be – without deliberating – proclaimed a masterpiece. Commissioned by BBC it has only been available online and has not been broadcast on TV. I have…
Review of the Conflict, Time, Photography exhibition at Tate Modern in London – open until 15 March 2015! *initially published in Dnevnik daily newspaper in Slovenian language Almost endless number of acclaimed photographers who have in the past 150 years documented direct or indirect consequences of armed conflicts are presented…