Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Sandra Dukic and Boris Glamocanin
Artist group Sandra Dukic & Boris Glamocanin work in the field of art activism in their home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the Yugoslav wars, the Bosnian city of Ljubija was the most dramatic example of a marginalized community with a large population of people forgotten by their new government. The artists viewed this city in light of a long-term series of projects that would act as a setting for them to answer the question, “What will the future bring this country?” The project is envisaged to have a number of chapters in the series. First and foremost, Dukic & Glamocanin look to raise public awareness about Ljubija and its continued marginalization by the govenment. The most recent project in the series, Ljubija Kills, emerged from the study of and participation in activist and humanitarian work with women in the local community. Ljubija Kills raises questions, draws attention and opens a discussion as it gives a clear artistic attitude about the place where life ends and which currently has no positive platform for future development.
Sandra Dukic and Boris Glamocanin, I don't hear I don't see, 2010, Knitted wool, Intervention-Installation.
Sandra Dukic and Boris Glamocanin, Ljubija Kills, 2010, Wood table-wood, crocheted tablecloth, four pairs of speakers, two lamps, Audio installation.
Sandra Dukic and Boris Glamocanin, I don't hear I don't see, 2010, Knitted wool, Intervention-Installation.
Sandra Dukic and Boris Glamocanin, Saht mat, 2010, Red stencil, Intervention in public space.
Sandra Dukic and Boris Glamocanin, Saht mat, 2010, Red stencil, Intervention in public space.
Residents from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Marko Markovic
Marko Markovic’s work is interested in the transformation process between the individual and the masses; when an individual becomes a mass or when the mass becomes an individual. In doing so, he animates and includes audiences and/or other participants, working with varying age groups and socio-economic classes. Markovic’s work is socially engaged and directly involved with people and their needs, consciousness and social structure. He sees this as the best method to directly impact his public audience. Markovic’s work reflects current events and questions the structure of politics, economics, status and positions of inferiority and superiority. He uses a variety of media, including video, installation, performance and happenings.
Marko Markovic (born 1983, Osijek, Croatia) lives and works in Zagreb and graduated from the Art Academy in Split, Croatia in 2007. He has participated in exhibitions, workshops and festivals in Croatia, USA, Russia, Mexico, Finland, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Italy, Greece, Serbia and Austria. In 2011, he was awarded the Radoslav Putar Award for best young visual artist in Croatia by the Institute for Contemporary Art and the Young Visual Artists Awards. Markovic also works as the organizer of Days of Open Performance in Split and is the front man in a performative art punk band, Elijah and the Grain.
Marko Markovic, It is not gold everything that shines, 2010, Golden pillar, A state mandate of Croatian government prior to entering the EU, Action in public space, 10 min.
Marko Markovic, The labor saves, 2011, Happening featuring previously employed workers of a bankrupt textile industry "Ideal", featuring Ljiljana Shuchur, Senka Rogich, Vjera Gotovac and Dijana Uvodich, 3 min.
Marko Markovic, Other side of the flag, 2010, Music happening featuring the band, Elijah and the Grain, 15 min.
Marko Markovic, Selfeater - the thirst, 2009, Performance, medical needle, tube system, vane belt in national state colors, blood, 5 min.
Past Resident2012: SEAT Pagine Gialle S.p.A.
Simone Martinetto
Simone Martinetto’s practice consists of photography and installations. His work is an investigation on the importance of memory, freedom, coincidences and dreams. Martinetto has created a new form of narrative, using an original photographic language to tell small stories with symbolic meanings. He uses photography as a tool to examine the minds of others. Without Memory is a series of photographs and installations with the artist’s grandmother as the subject matter who lost her memory and subsequently fills her home with reminder notes. The series, Travellers, documents racing pigeons and the images they see during their return trips. Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On is made of “talking photos” where the viewer is able to relive the dreams of other people.
Simone Martinetto (born 1980, Turin, Italy) has a degree in philosophy. He has exhibited in over 40 exhibitions in Italy and around the world, including Claudio Bottello Contemporary Gallery, Torino and Frost Art Museum, Miami. He began to practice photography when his grandfather, shortly before his death, passed on to him the camera he bought on the occasion of his birth. Martinetto works as an artist, cinematic still photographer and teacher.
Simone Martinetto, Travelers (Viaggiatori), 2005-2007, Sequence of C-print photographs, feathers of pigeons, 193/4 × 291/2 in. (50.16 × 74.93 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, Without the Memory (Senza la Memoria), 2004-2005, Sequence of C-print photographs, Objects and a plexiglas box where you enter a memory that you would never forget, 193/4 × 291/2 in. (50.16 × 74.93 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, The Thread of Time (Il Filo del Tempo), 2008, Sequence of C-print photographs, 6 × 9 in. (15.24 × 22.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, Such Dtuff as Dreams are Made On – Valeriu’s Dream, 2010-2011, Talking C-prints photograph, 193/4 × 291/2 × 2 in. (50.16 × 74.93 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
