![Musical for the Senses [Breda Beban]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Most-Beautiful-Woman-in-Gucha-title-670x300.jpeg "Musical for the Senses [Breda Beban]")
Musical for the Senses was an exhibition that took place at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (Ljubljana, 22 March – 30 April 2013). It brought together selected works of Breda Beban (1952-2012) from her recent creative period, between 1997 and 2012. Breda Beban was one of the most prominent…
![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)…
![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]")
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…
![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…
![Monumental Landscapes [diSTRUKTURA]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/diSTRUKTURA-031-670x300.jpg "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]")
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…