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).…
![The World Goes Holy, Again [Jaka Babnik]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jaka-Babnik-Zagreb-2016-670x300.jpg "The World Goes Holy, Again [Jaka Babnik]")
The essay was initially published in the booklet of Jaka Babnik‘s Holy Land exhibition (26 January – 17 February 2017) at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana. The history of the Papal State is rich and stormy. The position of the leader of church and the proclaimed substitute…
This is a brief display of the artists and photographers from the Western Balkans who were shortlisted at the Different Worlds competition and collectively exhibited at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography and Kino Šiška in Ljubljana (7 November – 2 December 2016). The jury members were: Sophia Greiff (FotoDoks,…
![On the Road Across Yugoslavia [Bojan Radovic]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Bojan-Radovic-03-670x300.jpg "On the Road Across Yugoslavia [Bojan Radovic]")
About Bojan Radovič‘s YU and ME series of photographs (1986-1990 / 2014), available as a limited edition photobook at the ArtZine Editions As soon as it collapsed, the (former) state of Yugoslavia became a myth: the myth of an extravagant, liberal socialist state forever lost. After realising that the romantic period…
![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…
![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.
![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…
![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…