Pad printing on cardboard
Kontakt Collection
Intempestif

In his singular artistic practice starting in the early 1960s, Július Koller has deliberately multiplied and varied his works, dignifying worthless objects of common use with his personal signature and thus undermining the art world’s principles and rules or commodity. 

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Vlado Martek entered visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired certain special forms: he extracted poetry from a book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; and he wrote poster poetry and graffiti, which he exhibited together with the Group of Six Artists in the streets and squares of Zagreb.

Glitch
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Kontakt Collection with support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)

Manuel Pelmuş (1974, București / RO) works as artist and choreographer and is one of the protagonists of the “new performance turn” who have been reimagining the role of performance in the context of visual arts. Pelmuş often uses live presence as a continuous action inside the context of exhibitions. The artist works with enactment as a strategy and the human body as a medium and is interested in its relationship to memory and the construction of history, which he transfers to the living body.

IKHÉA©SERVICES
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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The work of les gens d’Uterpan questions the norms and conventions that govern exhibitions and the live arts. Relying on the mechanisms of adjustment of the individual, the body and creation to these contexts, the artists create a critical work based on the choreographers’ initial practice.

OHO by Luka Savić
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Kontakt Collection / Moderna Galerija Ljubljana

The OHO group developed various strategies and approaches that they first called “reism.” Reism was a type of arte povera, land art and body art, processual and conceptual art. They aspired to liberate situations and objects and present them to the public outside their fixed or accepted functions. The term OHO refers to the observation of forms in their immediate presence, and is also an exclamation of astonishment.

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Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

OHO by Luka Savić
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Kontakt Collection / Moderna Galerija Ljubljana

An old-fashioned tin canteen or rectangular aluminum baking pan approx. 30 x 40 cm and 5 cm deep is filled with water. I take matchsticks from a match box, light them, and throw them into the water. Any kind of rectangular baking pan can be used. Even a (transparent) Pyrex or glass dish could be used.

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Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

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Kontakt Collection

Vlado Martek entered visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired certain special forms: he extracted poetry from a book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; and he wrote poster poetry and graffiti, which he exhibited together with the Group of Six Artists in the streets and squares of Zagreb.

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 09-235

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.

Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

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Kontakt Collection

Vlado Martek entered visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired certain special forms: he extracted poetry from a book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; and he wrote poster poetry and graffiti, which he exhibited together with the Group of Six Artists in the streets and squares of Zagreb.

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

Glitch
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Pad printing on cardboard
Kontakt Collection
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In 1965, Július Koller introduced his “Anti-happening” series and soon turned it into a permanent process of demystifying the institution of socialist culture. His dialectical language games, which he distributed as notices—text cards with stamped letters—were disseminated via the mail.

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Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

OHO by Luka Savić
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Kontakt Collection / Moderna Galerija Ljubljana

A project connected to Leonardo Da Vinci’s man in the middle of the cosmos. David Nez made a commentary that the human is no longer in the middle of the cosmos, which explains the position from a vertical man (Da Vinci) to a horizontal one (Nez).

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

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Kontakt Collection with support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)

Two Times adds a live, ‘immaterial’ piece to the collection, literally questioning the Kontakt Art Collection’s future and the idea of a physical collection in general. His starting point is the work of Mladen Stilinović, in particular his work “Two Times / Dva Vremena,” which Pelmuş transfers to the living body who performs periodically, each time producing the work anew.

OHO by Luka Savić
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Kontakt Collection / Moderna Galerija Ljubljana

An old fashioned tin or aluminum rectangular cake pan (for baking) approx. 30 x 40 cm and 5 cm deep is filled with water. I used stick matches from a match box, lit the matches and threw them into the water. Any kind of rectangular baking pan can be used. Even a Pyrex glass dish (transparent) could be used.

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Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

Intempestif
Kontakt Collection

Vlado Martek entered visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired certain special forms: he extracted poetry from a book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; and he wrote poster poetry and graffiti, which he exhibited together with the Group of Six Artists in the streets and squares of Zagreb.

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.

Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

Glitch
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Kontakt Collection with support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)

“Two Times” adds a live, ‘immaterial’ piece to the collection, literally questioning the Kontakt Art Collection’s future and the idea of a physical collection in general. His starting point is the work of Mladen Stilinović, in particular his work “Two Times / Dva Vremena,” which Pelmuş transfers to the living body who performs periodically, each time producing the work anew.

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

Each version of Anthropométrie is announced to visitors by the display of a text that is written by hand on the walls of the site in question: “Several people infiltrate the flow of visitors and the spaces of the museum by anticipating and acting out their movements and their pauses, guided only by the architectural characteristics of the site and the scenography of its spaces.

OHO by Luka Savić
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A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

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Pad printing on cardboard
Kontakt Collection
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Starting in 1970, Koller became the subject of a series of annual portraits known as “U.F.O.-naut J.K.” Koller’s strategy of using real objects, the real world, and everyday life as a given program for displacement gained particular attention; a strategy intended to put an end to aesthetics and to create a “new cultural situation,” resulting in a “new life, a new creativity, and a new Cosmohumanist Culture.”

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Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

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Kontakt Collection

Vlado Martek entered visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired certain special forms: he extracted poetry from a book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; and he wrote poster poetry and graffiti, which he exhibited together with the Group of Six Artists in the streets and squares of Zagreb.

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Kontakt Collection

Vlado Martek entered visual art by writing poetry. In the mid-1970s, his poetry acquired certain special forms: he extracted poetry from a book and incorporated it into “poetic objects” made of mirrors, clay and books; and he wrote poster poetry and graffiti, which he exhibited together with the Group of Six Artists in the streets and squares of Zagreb.

OHO by David Nez
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The purpose of the performance is to slow down perception and increase mental focus to fully concentrate on the present moment—to alter experience of time—and hopefully encourage the viewers to do the same? In our culture based on time urgency, constant distraction and short attention span this could perhaps be a radical act? The physical action is secondary to the altering of consciousness and shifting awareness to the present.

OHO by Luka Savić
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A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

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Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

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Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.

Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117