After five successful exhibitions – in Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Belgrade and online (due to epidemiological reasons) – we will hold the sixth edition of the international exhibition project OFF THE HOOK in Osijek. This time we will be visiting Osijek with five young Slovenian women artists, thus continuing the already established way of presenting local visual art production in a wider international context.
Participating artists Ana Janež, Ajda Kadunc, Maša Knapič, Anastazija Pirnat and Sara Skenderija each question the medium of painting in their own way. At the forefront of their exploration, they place the use and exploration of various technological processes and experimentation with materials, formats and media, and build images that hint at content, which can in some parts quickly elude the viewer.
Curator: Rea Vogrinčič
Artists: Ana Janež, Ajda Kadunc, Maša Knapič, Anastazija Pirnat, Sara Skenderija
Design: Farah Sara Kurnik
Project Manager: Simona Jerala
Organised by: Kino Šiška | DobraVaga | Galerija Knifer
OFF THE HOOK is a traveling exhibition project, organised by the DobraVaga Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Taken literally, the exhibition title winks at the identity of DobraVaga as a gallery in a former fish market, as well as at the artwork that slipped off the hook of its domestic confines. The exhibition aims to provide the international professional and general public with a glimpse of the current contemporary Slovenian production of artists featured at DobraVaga.
DobraVaga Gallery
DobraVaga is an exhibition and project space, gallery and open studio of various artistic languages, styles and content. The program places an emphasis on the aesthetic reflections of the younger generation of artists, the generation that represents the junction of possibilities, explorations and current contexts of artistic production in the modern age. The mission of the new artistic initiative is to encourage creativity that does not accede to the established definition that the art world depends only on the classic artistic market. That is why DobraVaga focuses on new, engaged and innovative formats, using them to actively support, encourage and promote fresh releases of artistic stories and original artistic practices.
Run by the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (Ljubljana), the space focuses on artists of the younger generation and deals in a variety of art forms – from paintings, illustration and graphic design to artist’s multiples, artist’s books and zines.
