Vesna Bukovec (Slovenia)

Vesna Bukovec
www.vesna-bukovec.net

Vesna Bukovec (1977, Ljubljana, Slovenia) graduated and completed her
post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA together with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanic. In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Zagreb, Belgrade, Utrecht, Athens, Berlin, den Haag, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, Milano, Verona, Warsaw etc. She works with the themes such as memory, media, consumer society and the pursuit of happiness, uses a wide range of artistic strategies: research, documentary approach, appropriation, art activism, public actions, collaboration with the public and personal interpretation. Formally, her projects are based on video, photography, drawing and installation. Vesna Bukovec (with KOLEKTIVA) also curates video exhibitons and organizes video screenings. In 2009 she was co-curating international video exhibition Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative.