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,…
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…
The essay was written in 2012 for the publication of the Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape project that displayed and analysed tendencies of engaged contemporary photography on the territory of former Yugoslavia after its break-up. The publication is available as e-book at Photon online bookshop and the content is partially available…
![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…
Extensive essay about group Buldožer, one of the first rock bands and counterculture phenomena from Yugoslavia. The entire text is published in a book accompanying the retrospective exhibition “Fly-Posting Prohibited: The Story of Buldožer” that celebrates the fortieth anniversary of formation of the band – in Photon – Centre for…
![Exploration of Moving Image, Poetry and Sound [Damir Ocko]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/spring-48-670x300.jpg "Exploration of Moving Image, Poetry and Sound [Damir Ocko]")
The text was written for the solo exhibition of Damir Očko titled SPRING / We Saw Nothing But The Uniform Blue Of The Sky at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana (1 April – 8 May 2015) Damir Očko is also representing Croatia at the 56th Venice Biennial 2015…
The essay was written for the exhibition of Goran Micevski & Ivan Petrović: “In Dialogue with Photography” at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (12 March – 18 April 2014) Goran Micevski and Ivan Petrović detect and deliberate the reality of their cultural and social milieu in very peculiar ways.…
This is a short response to the body of work of Alexandra Polina whose exhibition “Made In…” is currently on show at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana. In the past two decades number of contemporary artists have abundantly dealt with the phenomenon of migration. It often became…
![“Jebodrom” [Jaka Babnik]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Jaka-Babnik-Jebdrom-02-670x300.jpg "“Jebodrom” [Jaka Babnik]")
About Jaka Babnik and his Jebodrom series of photographs displayed at Photon in September-October 2014! In his series of photographs Jebodrom, Jaka Babnik deals with contemporary phenomena concerning public spaces by taking the role of an active observer, documentarian and commentator. Jebodrom is a slang term used across the…
This text was written for the catalogue of the Copy Paste exhibition which focuses on the practices of re-using found photography in the artistic / photographic context. The exhibition is open from 10 December 2014 to 16 January 2015 at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana and will…