Ana Bilankov
Spaces, Stories, Geographies or (Un)possibility of a Book
| Exhibition opening, Thursday, December 14, 2017, @ 8:00 p.m.,
in the presence of the artist
Trg kralja Tomislava 20, Zagreb
Institute for Contemporary Art
| Exhibition remains open until December 30, 2017
| Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.
The exhibition of Ana Bilankov, a Croatian artist living in Berlin, is the first collaboration between the artist and the Institute for Contemporary Art, which was created on the occasion of the book project entitled “Spaces, Stories, Geographies”, a book that does and doesn’t exist and to which this exhibition is dedicated.
“The newest and most recent work at the exhibition, the ambient installation “The Book (Absence) _ English / Croatian_228 pages_225 x 290 cm arouse from a question of how to translate the bizarre circumstances in which I have found myself in the last few months, finally wanting to materialize my art book into which were invested the enormous efforts of my associates and myself as an author, in a reduced and absurd visual expression. In parallel, I am trying to move this unpleasant current and local “reality” of the non-existence of a specific book into the vision of some abstract and global future, a kind of “turbofuturism” of post-digital publishing, in which the “book” in digital form will have the only legitimacy of existence – in the USB stick with engraved “The Book” inscription – and the book’s promotion becomes a silent party under the lights of a rotating disco ball.”
Ana Bilankov
The exhibition also shows a selection of photos from the book.
| ANA BILANKOV is a multimedia artist, born in Zagreb, lives and works in Berlin and Zagreb. Her conceptual and contextual practice in the media photography, video/experimental film, installation and text examines themes of poetics / politics of dislocation, migration, nomadism, no-places and construction of identity within „in-between-ness“.
She studied Art History and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz; Art Photography at Wiesbaden School of Fine Arts and postgraduate studies program “Fine Art in Context “ at the University of the Arts Berlin (M.A.) and the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Bilankov’s works have been shown internationally in art venues as well as film & video festivals, where she has been among the prizewinners. She also won several grants and residences, e.g. at Residency Unlimited and Pioneer Works in New York, and recently at Q21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna as well as research stipend from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.