Tanja Lažetić
If we weren’t here … look, immediately the grass is growing
solo exhibition
Program:
– Artist’s Talk
Thursday, December 22, 2016 @ 7:00 p.m.
– Exhibition opening
Thursday, December 22, 2016 @ 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition remains open until Januray 7, 2017
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 do 7:00 p.m.
On Saturdays December 24 and 31, 2016 and on holiday January 6, 2017, the gallery of the Institute for Contemporary Art remains closed.
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If we weren’t here … look, immediately the grass is growing is the first solo exhibition by Tanja Lažetić at the Institute for Contemporary Art, but this year it is already her third exhibition in Zagreb, after the group exhibition of Slovenian photography at Klovićevi dvori and solo exhibitions in the Spot gallery. Earlier this year, she has presented her works at a retrospective exhibition in ŠKUC gallery of Ljubljana.
At the exhibition If we weren’t here … look, immediately the grass is growing, Lažetić exhibits works made in the media of photography, video, graphics and the selection of her large number of artist’s books.
Lažetić is in her works dealing with topics ranging from intimate and personal through the recording and registering of everyday life, to social and political. She approaches her interests seemingly with the distance by hiding behind irony, banality and ludism.
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Tanja Lažetić (b. 1967) graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Ljubljana. She works in the fields of photography, video, installation, performance and artist’s book. She won a variety of awards as is the first prize at the International design competition Trieste Contemporanea in Trieste (1995), nomi- nation for the international media/art award at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2001), the third prize UNICUM at the International Ceramic Triennial in Ljubljana (2015) and the bronze prize at the Nanjing Festival in China (2015).
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at venues including Moderna galerija; Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; City Art Museum, Ljubljana; P74 Gallery Ljubljana; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; Museum Brandhorst, Munchen; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel; Art Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina; Gallery of Extended Media, Zagreb; Ars Aevi, Sarajevo; Museum 25th May, Belgrade; 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana; Festival der Regionen, Austria; Brighton Photo Biennal; and Gagosian Gallery in NY and Paris.
In last ten years she published twenty artist’s book. Her books are included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr, published by Phaidon in 2014 and in VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS edited by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner, published by The MIT Press in 2013.