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December 2011
FIRST U.S. SURVEY OF THE WORK OF SANJA IVEKOVIC OPENS AT MoMA IN DECEMBER
Sanja Ivekovic:
Sweet Violence
Special Exhibitions Gallery,
third floor
18 December - 26 March 2012
Sweet Violence
Special Exhibitions Gallery,
third floor
18 December - 26 March 2012
NEW YORK. THE MUSEUM of Modern Art presents Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence, the first retrospective in the United States of the artist’s work, from December 18, 2011, to March 26, 2012. This exhibition covers four decades of Ivekovic’s audacious work as feminist, activist, and video and performance pioneer. Ivekovic (b. 1949, Zagreb) came of age in the post-1968 period, at a time when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying ground for a form of opposition to official art. In the 1970s Ivekovic probed the persuasive qualities of mass media and their identity-forging potential, and after 1990-with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a new nation-she focused on the transformation of reality from communist to post-communist political systems. Ivekovic’s work offers a view into the politics of power, gender roles, and the paradoxes inherent in society’s collective memory. The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition features the full range of the artist’s work, including single-channel videos and video installations, performances, sculptures, photomontages, and drawings. The artist’s monumental sculptural installation Lady Rosa of Luxembourg (2001) will be featured in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium with documentation of its original public presentation and critical reception. Among the other works presented are a group of single-channel videos that the Museum has recently acquired, including Sweet Violence (1974), Instructions No. 1 (1976), Make Up - Make Down (1978), Personal Cuts (1982), Practice Makes a Master (1982/2009), and General Alert (Soap Opera) (1995), as well as a selection of photomontages from Ivekovic’s celebrated series Double Life (1975-76), for which the artist juxtaposed pictures of herself from her private albums with commercial ads clipped from the pages of women’s magazines such as Elle, Grazia, Brigitte, and Svijet. Additionally, the artist’s performance piece Practice Makes a Master will be reenacted at specially announced times leading up to the opening of the exhibition.
The exhibition features the full range of the artist’s work, including single-channel videos and video installations, performances, sculptures, photomontages, and drawings. The artist’s monumental sculptural installation Lady Rosa of Luxembourg (2001) will be featured in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium with documentation of its original public presentation and critical reception. Among the other works presented are a group of single-channel videos that the Museum has recently acquired, including Sweet Violence (1974), Instructions No. 1 (1976), Make Up - Make Down (1978), Personal Cuts (1982), Practice Makes a Master (1982/2009), and General Alert (Soap Opera) (1995), as well as a selection of photomontages from Ivekovic’s celebrated series Double Life (1975-76), for which the artist juxtaposed pictures of herself from her private albums with commercial ads clipped from the pages of women’s magazines such as Elle, Grazia, Brigitte, and Svijet. Additionally, the artist’s performance piece Practice Makes a Master will be reenacted at specially announced times leading up to the opening of the exhibition.
Spring 1971.
In the Studio on Savska Street / “Brigitte,” February 1976, from the seriesDouble Life. 1976. Gelatin silver print, magazine page and typewritten text by the artist, 16 1/16 x 22 13/16" (40.8 x 57.9 cm). Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb © 2010 SanjaIvekovic.
Sweet Violence. 1974.
Video (black and white, sound), 12 minutes. Courtesy the artist © 2010 SanjaIvekovic.
Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue that weaves together art-historical analysis and political theory and includes ten texts focused on the artist’s projects as well as two longer essays.
Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence makes a major contribution to the reevaluation of significant women artists andthe discursive relationship between art and social change in the post-1960s period. The peer of Marina Abramovic, VALIE EXPORT, Joan Jonas, and Martha Rosler, Ivekovic has become known through her participation in major international exhibitions including Manifesta 2 (1998), Documenta 11 (2002), Documenta 12 (2007), and the 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010). Recent mid-career retrospectives of her work include Sanja Ivekovic: Urgent Matters (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, 2009), and Sanja Ivekovic: Practice Makes the Master (Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, 2009).
Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence is made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation. Major support is provided by the Modern Women’s Fund, established by Sarah Peter, and by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional funding is provided by David Teiger, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence makes a major contribution to the reevaluation of significant women artists andthe discursive relationship between art and social change in the post-1960s period. The peer of Marina Abramovic, VALIE EXPORT, Joan Jonas, and Martha Rosler, Ivekovic has become known through her participation in major international exhibitions including Manifesta 2 (1998), Documenta 11 (2002), Documenta 12 (2007), and the 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010). Recent mid-career retrospectives of her work include Sanja Ivekovic: Urgent Matters (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, 2009), and Sanja Ivekovic: Practice Makes the Master (Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, 2009).
Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence is made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation. Major support is provided by the Modern Women’s Fund, established by Sarah Peter, and by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional funding is provided by David Teiger, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
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Personal Cuts. 1982
Video (black and white and color, sound), 3:40 min. Courtesy the artist. © 2011 SanjaIvekovic