1 February – 3 March, 2024
Opening 1 February, 2024 at 19h
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Artists: Darko Aleksovski, Lamija Čehajić , Danube Transformation Agency for Agency, Anita Fuchs, Teuta Gatolin, Ernst Koslitsch, Polonca Lovšin, Ralo Mayer, Edith Payer, Irena Lagator Pejović, Nada Prlja, Lala Raščić, Oliver Ressler, Ivan Šuković, Adrienn Újházi / Nemanja Milenković, Anna Vasof, Driant Zeneli, Dardan Zhegrova
Curators: Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer
Organisation: < rotor > Center for Contemporary Art, Graz
EX-SITU
Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species
The Bosnian Mountain Newt and the planned vivarium are the starting points for an exhibition of contemporary visual art in relation to the Natural History Department of the National Museum in Sarajevo. 18 artists and groups from Central and South-Eastern Europe present artworks which are situated in the field of tension between nature, human activity and (species) diversity versus endangered forms of life in the Anthropocene. References to science will be established directly in the Natural Sciences Department of the National Museum. Influences from multispecies discourse, other-than-human perspectives on living beings, and the changing conceptions of living beings in intellectual history and their appearances in mythologies of different cultural areas will play a role.
For EX-SITU, Lala Raščić was commissioned to produce a new site-specific work, Frau Ritter, as a response to one of the museum’s temporary exhibition halls, colloquially called “snake room” (“zmijarnik”). Frau Ritter is a multimedia essay that meanders through the National Museum in Sarajevo via art history, science, mythology and lore. Narrated by the artist and incorporating personal history, the essay winds into an unpublished tale about a snake-princess. The work was informed by collaborations with the museum’s herpetology and ethnography professionals.
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