Biography

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Exploration of new models of soci­abi­lity and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on situ­ati­ons, an inte­rest for soci­al­ly enga­ged the­mes, con­fron­ta­ti­on with dif­fe­rent audi­en­ces, and col­la­bo­ra­ti­on on col­lec­ti­ve pro­jec­ts cha­rac­te­ri­ze Kuluncic’s artis­tic prac­ti­ce. She sets up her own inter­dis­ci­pli­nary networ­ks, seeing artis­tic work as a pro­cess of coope­ra­ti­on (co-cre­ati­on) and self-orga­ni­za­ti­on, often asking the audi­en­ce acti­vely to par­ti­ci­pa­te and “finish” the work.

 

Art is under­sto­od as rese­ar­ch, by which rese­ar­ch resul­ts are no lon­ger pri­mary, but are rat­her one of the inte­gral com­po­nents, the bac­k­gro­und on which artis­tic pro­duc­ti­on unfol­ds. The tran­sdis­ci­pli­nary appro­ach in which spe­ci­fic artis­tic skil­ls are com­ple­men­ted by com­ple­men­tary skil­ls from other are­as is an impor­tant ele­ment of Andreja Kuluncic’s artis­tic prac­ti­ce, who­se wor­ks are almost regu­lar­ly cre­ated in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with soci­olo­gis­ts, phi­lo­sop­hers, ant­hro­po­lo­gis­ts, psyc­ho­lo­gis­ts, desig­ners, pro­gram­mers, etc. In her wor­ks, Andreja Kulunčić takes issue with some of the symp­toms of con­tem­po­rary soci­ety, from xenop­ho­bia to depre­ssi­on, with a spe­ci­al emp­ha­sis on the bur­ning pro­blems of tran­si­ti­onal and post-tran­si­ti­onal set­tin­gs. She often tur­ns a gal­lery into a spa­ce for a wor­k­shop and for lear­ning, a kind of soci­al labo­ra­tory, the resul­ts of which are felt in everyday life. By ope­ra­ting in the mar­gi­nal are­as of oppo­si­ti­on and focu­sing her cri­tique on the cen­tral valu­es of ima­gi­nary ins­ti­tu­ti­ons of glo­ba­li­zing soci­eti­es and divi­si­ons con­di­ti­oned by them, her artis­tic pro­duc­ti­on sug­ges­ts the capa­bi­lity of art to offer pole­mi­cal gro­un­ds for the ret­hin­king and disso­lu­ti­on of cer­ta­in ins­ti­tu­ti­onal for­ms and the cre­ati­on of new ones.

Her work has been pre­sen­ted at inter­na­ti­onal exhi­bi­ti­ons, inclu­ding: Documenta11 (Kassel), Manifesta4 (Frankfurt/Main), 8.Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul), Liverpool Biennial04 (Liverpool), 3.Tirana bien­ni­al (Tirana), 10.Triennial-India (New Delhi) among others. At col­lec­ti­ve shows in muse­ums, inclu­ding: Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), PS1 (New York), Museum MUAC (Mexico City), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kumu Art Museum (Tallin), Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), Museum of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warshaw), Garage Museum (Moskva), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rijeka), Lentos kuns­t­mu­se­um (Linz), Museum of Modern Art (Saint-Etienne), Ludwig Museum (Budapest). At solo shows, inclu­ding: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Museo MADRE (Napoli) and others.

She lives in Croatia, whe­re she teac­hes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of New Media.

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