Exhibitions
Selection of NSK Folk Art artefacts at the Taipei Biennial 10
by The Organising Committee on Sep.14, 2010, under Exhibitions
A selection of NSK Folk Art artefacts, curated by IRWIN and NSKSTATE.COM
at the Taipei Biennial 10, Sept. 7 – Nov. 14, 2010
Presented artists: Peter Blase, Christian Chrobok, Danaja, Dape, Haris Hararis/NSKSTATE.COM, David K, Charles Krafft, Goran Lišnjić, Lili Anamarija No, Christain Nnoruga, NSK.IS, Avi Pitchon, Alex Ross & Chris Wade, Armin Zerbe
Irwin show “State in Time” in Novo Mesto, Slovenia
by Pro on Sep.10, 2010, under Exhibitions
Irwin
Država v času / State in Time
Exhibition in Dolenjski Muzej, Novo Mesto, Slovenija (main hall)
Opening on Sunday Sept. 26, 2010 at 18.00
Runs till Jan. 16, 2011
In the exhibition will be included also Words from Africa, which was done together with NSKSTATE.COM
Opening speech by Peter Mlakar from Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy at NSK
GESAMTKUNST LAIBACH, Fundamentals 1980–1990
by Pro on Apr.16, 2010, under Exhibitions
15 April – 6 June 2010
At the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.
Thirty years have passed since the founding of Laibach, a group whose music and performances have become part of cultural history. What many do not know, however, is that Laibach in fact began its career as a visual art group. Images that most of us know from the paintings of the Irwin group – the cross, the coffee cup, the deer, the metal worker – were originally Laibach motifs. They were part of the capital the group invested in the newly established collective Neue Slowenische Kunst in 1984. With the founding of NSK, the visual art tradition Laibach had been creating up to that time was taken over by Irwin.
Laibach brought an alternative post-modern form of creativity into Slovene art. The group drew connections between New Image painting, the do-it-yourself art of punk bands and the post-conceptual practices that were being promoted in the Belgrade and Zagreb art scenes. Laibach “welded together” various media – music, video, film and performance – “high” and “low” culture, pop culture, politics and art. And at the very start of the 1980s, they defined in clear terms the fundamentals of the Retro-Avant-Garde.
The Eye of the State
by The Organising Committee on Feb.01, 2010, under Exhibitions
IRWIN Exhibition at the Israeli Centre for Digital Art
6.2.2010 – 10.4.2010
Opening: Saturday, February 6th, at 20:00
Curator: Avi Pitchon
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Laibach announces new exhibitions for 2010
by The Organising Committee on Nov.27, 2009, under Exhibitions
Following this year’s major and successful retrospective exhibition AUSSTELLUNG LAIBACH KUNST – RECAPITULATION 2009 at Museum Sztuki in Łodz (Poland), which opened on May 26th and lasted until September 1st, Laibach is announcing a number of large-scale exhibitions for next year (2010), this time in Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Trbovlje. Each of these exhibitions will present a different aspect of Laibach’s visual and multimedia art.
The Trbovlje exhibition will open in the Delavski Dom on September 27th, exactly 30 years after the (forbidden) very first Laibach appearance at the same place in Laibach’s home town.
Ljubljana exhibition at MGLC (International Centre of Graphic Arts) will open on April 1st 2010.
Zagreb exhibition date will be announced as soon as the date is confirmed.
Outlook: WORDS FROM AFRICA at Utopics
by Pro on Oct.02, 2009, under Exhibitions
During the last couple of years, more than 2000 of people from Africa, (mainly from Nigeria) tried to contact NSKSTATE.COM by email. WORDS FROM AFRICA is a collection of emails organized according to the words that was used in the messages.
NSKSTATE.COM in collaboration with Irwin presented “Outlook: Words from Africa” (the latest version of the project) in “Utopics” the 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition in Biel/Bienne on August 29th. The exhibition will be open until October 25, 2009.