exhibition
18 May 2021 > 23 May 2021
videogalleryAnja Medved and Nadja VeluščekFilm screening | Bigger than Myself. Heroic voices from ex-Yugoslavia
videogallery – free entrance
curated by Zdenka Badovinac
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valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); myMAXXI membership cardholders; European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
videogallery – free entrance
curated by Zdenka Badovinac
On the occasion of the exhibition, MAXXI’s videogallery hosts a series of works by the artists Igor Grubić, Goran Dević, Anja Medved & Nadja Velušček.
The first week of the screening programme is dedicated to the artistic duo Anja Medved and Nadia Velušček, whose work deals with the theme of loss and change starting from the historical case of the city of Gorizia, on the border between Slovenia and Italy.
After the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty in 1945, the city of Gorizia, despite having a large part of the population of Slovenian nationality, formally belonged to Italy. In response to this decision, the Yugoslav authorities decided to build a completely new town, called Nova Gorica. The story of Nova Gorica is told in their film A Town on a Meadow, shown in the exhibition Bigger than Myself. Heroic Voices from Ex- Yugoslaviaand in the film Smugglers’ Confessional,part of this programme.
Another central theme of their reflection is the border, narrated in the films My Borderline, Binding Memoriesand Memory Surgery: a physical and conceptual demarcation line that is not always easy to cross, between socialist Yugoslavia and Italy.
The films in the programme, in continuity with the themes of the exhibition, reflect on the idea of loss and change, both provoked by the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, the end of Socialism, its inclusion in global Capitalism and its integration into the European Union.
header: Anja Medved, Ordinacija Spomina / Memory sugery, 2010 (still da video) Production: KINOATELJE, Gorizia (I) and ZAVOD KINOATELJE, Nova Gorica (SLO).