Borut Hlupič (Soya Holland)
John Baldessari
Marina Abramović
Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay)
Željko Jerman

Borut Hlupič (Soya Holland)

Borut Hlupič (Holland) was born in 1956, graduated from Faculty for sociology, politology and journalism in Ljubljana. In the years of his study he followed the marxist philosophy and was active in circles around Škuc, Problemi and Tribuna. In 1981 he editioned his individual poetry collection Anti-Amerika. He occupied himself with visual poetry, he was one of the beginners of mailart in Slovenia, he followed different practices of fine arts, especially painting. At the moment he occupies himself with so-called quantum art which comprehends artistic creation as exploring and revealing of the spiritual, ethereal world, where the higher creatures - angels live. They are the leading motive of his paintings. He recognized the world of angels through a revelation and supported it with the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. In his works he tries to form, through fine arts, this angel-like, invisible world which can be perceived and described only by the consecrated people. He lives and works in Celje.

Individual exhibitions

1995 Ljubezniva vesoljska ladja, Saloon of Fine Arts Celje
1996 Ljubezniva vesoljska ladja, Gallery Škuc Ljubljana
2002 Slikarska razstava, Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Celje

Group exhibitions

1999, 2001 Vizualna in konkretna poezija, Gallery Bežigrad, Ljubljana
Mestece Celje, alternativa sedemdesetih, Saloon of Fine Arts Celje
2001/2002 Mestece Celje, fantazme osemdesetih, Saloon of Fine Arts Celje

John Baldessari was born in 1931 in National City, California, USA. He graduated from San Diego State College. As one of the leading figures of American conceptual art, he became famous in the second half of 60s in 20th century. He was a professor at Southwestern University, University of California San Diego and California Institute of the Arts. At the moment he lives and works in Santa Monica, California.
He exhitioned all over the world, among the others at Documenti 4, 5, and 6, Venice Biennale, MOMA in New York, MOCA in Los Angeles. In 2001 he hosted at Grafical Biennale in Ljubljana.

More about John Baldessari's work and his exhibitions on www.baldessari.org

Marina Abramović

She was born on 30 November 1946 in Belgrade. From 1965 to 1970 she attended Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, afterwards, between 1970 and 1972 she fulfilled herself in post-gradual studies at Academy for Fine Arts in Zagreb. Now she lives in Amsterdam. In 1997 she lectured at Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig, Sax in Germany.
Marina Abramović started to occupy herself with performance and with her body when she was stil living in Yugoslavia. She was interested in borders of the body, borders of physical and psychological endurance. The energy which decanted between her and the audience was important for her. Her power was great, even fatal. When living in Yugoslavia, the art was a question of life and death for her, something extreme, as she herself was an extreme person. She resisted not only to the family structure but also the system of society and art. Her rebellious energy labelled her as a traitor of the art at that time, the majority opposed to her work.
At television recording of the performance art and its important representatives in Amsterdam, in 1975, she met Ulay. The coincidence was it was on 30 November, which was the day of hers and his birthday. After a while they decided to live together in Amsterdam. Her energy became more feminine in their co-operation. They have made enormous number of performances, videos and movies, with questions of their balancing of masculine and feminine energy, the reducement of ego, position of public and private sphere and their knitting. ... They worked together until 1988 when they broke up. After their break her "masculine energy" started to "boil" again. She occupied herself with performances, with energy that is similar to shaman tradition. It is about connecting with higher energetic sources in various human testings and has characteristics of a therapy, trance and inspiration. She wants to share that with her audience. For her, art is, above all, an arrangement of public area. Her work always handels with a real human body and its borders, the process is more important than mere artistic object.

Individual exhibitions and performances

1972 Ritem 10, Prvi del (Eight artists from Yugoslavia), Gallery Richard Demarco, Edinburgh, Scotland
1973 Spaces, (installation) Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Zagreb
Ritem 5, Expanded media Festival, Student cultural centre, Belgrade
Ritem 2, Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Zagreb (performance)
Ritem 4, Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italia
Ritem 0, Galleria Studio Mora, Neapel, Italia
1974 Art Must be Beautiful Artist Must be Beautiful, Artistic festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (performance)
1979 The Brink, Evropean dialogue, Third biennale in Sydneyju, Artistic gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1980 Gold found by the Artists, Nightsea Crossing, Artistic gallery of New South Walles, Sydney, Australia
1986 Nightsea crossing, complete work, Musée Saint-Pierre d'Art Contemporian, Lyon, Francija (objects, photographical documentation)
1987 Ulay/Marina Abramović1988 , Centre of Contemporary Arts, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland (objects in polaroids)
1989 Boat Emptying/Stream Entering, Gallery Victoria Miro, London, Great Britain (objects)
The Lovers, Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam, Netherland; Muhka, Antwerpen, Belgium
1990 The Lovers, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Lovers, Galeries Contemporanies, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1991 Watersael, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1989 Cleaning the Mirror, Gallery Sean Kellyja, New York, USA (installation with objects and performance)
1990 Objects Performans Video Sound (travelling exhibition), Villa Stuck, Munchen, Germany; Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedfabrik, Odense, Denmark; Groninger museum, Groningen, Netherland
1991 Spirit House, Gallery Sean Kellyja, New York, USA (videoinstallation and objects)
1998 Artist Body - Public Body (travelling exhibition), Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art Valencia, Spain; Modern Gallery and Cankarjev dom, Slovenia
1999 Expiring Body Video Installation, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA

Group exhibitions and performances

1975 Sound environments, Student cultural centre gallery, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia
1976 Ambiente, Participazione/Strutture Culturali, Venice Biennale, Italia
1983 Vision of Disbelief, Fourth biennale in Sydneyju, Australia
1992 Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (objects)
1993 Nature in art, Kunstmuseum, Vienna, Austria (objects)
1994 Arte Amazonas, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (objects)
1995 La Coeistenza dell'Arte, Venice Biennale, Italia
1996 Cerco, International biennale de Obidos, Obidos, Portugal
World festival of video, World video centre, Hague, Netherland
Différentes Natures, (Feur, Wasser, Erde, Luft), La Défense, Paris, France
1995 Longing and belonging, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, ZDA (objekti, instalacija)
Istanbul Bienalle, video installacion ťBecoming visibleŤ, Istanbul, Turkey
Biennale in Lyonu, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lyon, France (videoinstallation)
Feminin/Masculin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1996 Walking and Thinking and Walking, Museum Louisiana, Odense, Denmark (videoinstallation and objects)
1997 Future, Present, Past, Venice Biennale, Italia (videoinstallation in performance)
Ulay/Abramović, 1976-1988, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherland
(videoinstallation),
1998 Out of Actions, Between performence and objects, 1949-1979 (Marina
Abramović/Ulay),
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Vienna, Austrija
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (objects)
Wounds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (videoinstallation)
Animal, Anima, Animus, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
1999 Images of Religious Contemplation, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer,
Norway (videoinstallation)

Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay)

Born in 1943 in Solingen Germany. In 1968 he moved to Amsterdam where he studied photography. He was an adviser at Polaroid. At the early stage of his artistic way he made polaroid photograps with more personal character. In 1974 he started to occupy himself more intensive with video, performance and insallations. Beteen 1975 and 1988 he co-operated with Marina Abramović. The main question in their joint performances was a question of existential position of human endurance in public sphere. He has travelled a lot, lived and worked with Aborigines in a desert in middle Australia. In 1988 he travelled through India, north Africa, Japan and China (The Great Wall Walk). After the break with Marina Abramović, he once again dedicated himself to photography as a field of artistic expression. His main interest was the situation of a person as a homeless, a convict and as Aborigine. He occupied himslef with the problem and ways of how people react on nationalism and its symbols. He always emphasizes his openness toward audience, he shows himself as a vulnerable person, without covering. Till today he hosted a lot with his lectures, seminars and workshops at several artistic academies, galleries and museums around the world. In 1998 a movie portrait 'Ulay in a photography' was recorded, which shows the periods of his later artistic creating in Boston (1990), Berlin (1994-1995) and Australia (1997).

Individual exhibitions
(in co-operation with Marino Abramović)

1978 Installation One, De Appel, Amsterdam
Installation Two, Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden
On the Way, Audio Arts/Riverside Studio, London
1984 You seeWhat You Feel/I See, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
Modus Vivendi, ICA, Boston, Massachusetts
1985 Modus Vivendi, works 1980-1985, travelling exhibition:
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Castello de Rivoli, Turin
1986 Modus Vivendi: Tuesday/Saturday, Gallery Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, California
Nightsea Crossing, the whole work, Musee Saint Pierre Art, Lyon
Ulay/Abramović, San Francisco Art Institute
1987 Die Mond, Der Sonne, Centre d'Art Contemporian-Palais Wilson, Geneva; Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1988 The Lovers, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum van Hedendgase Kunst, Antwerpen
1989 The Lovers, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Musse d'Art Moderne, Pariz; Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1990 The Lovers, Musée d'Art Contemprarian, Montreal
Images of Consciousness, Miller Nordenhake, Cologne
1997 Ulay/Abramović1998 , Gallery Okazaki Tomako, Tokyo

Group exhibitions
(in co-operation with Marina Abramović)

1976 Ambiente/participazione/strutture culturale, Venice Biennale, Venice
1977 La Performans Oggi, Gallery Comunale d'Art Moderna, Bologna
1978 Masculin/feminin, Trigon 79, Steirischer Herbst 79, Künstlerhaus/Neue Galerie, Graz
1981 VXI. bienale v Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
1982 Momentbild, Künstlerphotographie, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
1983 ARS 83, Art museum Ateneum, Helsinki
1985 Image On the Run, Dutch Video Art of the 80's, The Kitchen, New York
1986 The Real Big Picture, The Queens Museum, New York
1987 Avantgarde in the 80's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
1989 Das Verhältnis der Geschelechter, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
1995 Male/Female, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1996 Bienale v Lyonu, Lyon
1998 Out of Actions - Between Performance and the Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ulay/Abramović - 12 years of performance, Tramway, Glasgow
Out of Actions - Between Performance and the Object, El museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Out of Actions - Between Performance and the Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1999 Ulay/Abramović Performances, Musee d'Art Contemporarian, Lyon

Željko Jerman

Born on 10 March 1949 in Zagreb. He interrupted his high school education, concluded a photographic course, passed the professional photographic examination and, at the same time, opened a photo studio "Blow up"... (1970) In the same year he started exploring creative possibilities inside the medium of photography, which is why his works started to show a declination from standard, so-called "artistic photography". He came across the resistance of the artistic circles, but the first expert who saw a great potential in his work was prof. Radoslav Putar, one of the members of former avant-garde group ?Gorgona? and a manager of former Galleries of the city Zagreb. In 1973 he invited him to the exhibition "Nova Fotografija 1" and in 1975 he enabled him his first individual exhibition. Later on, Jerman was invited to many individual and group exhibitions in Yugoslavia and elsewhere around the world. In 1975, he was a co-founder of a well-known post-neoavant-garde group "Grupa šestorice autora", with which he performed exhibitions - actions; at the beginning in "ungallery" places and after that in galleries. In 1978 the group, along with some well-known post-conceptual artists, founded "Delovna skupnost umetnikov", which organized exhibitions, projections, actions, seminars and other artistic events. He performed together with Vlasta Delimar (1979-1983), independently making interdisciplinar actions, wrote criticism and creative texts. Between 1998 and 2001 he lectured at Academy of Contemporary Art in Split, where he runs the Gallery Ghetto since 1999. In 1999, the Modern gallery in Zagreb organized a retrospective exhibition for him (curator Zdenko Rus). He lives and works in Zagreb.

Individual exhibitions

1969 Omladinski klub u Šrapč1970 evoj ulici, Zagreb
1972 Turistič1973 ko društvo Gornji grad, Zagreb
1974 Kreativna fotografija - Zagreb, Mjesna zajednica Stari grad
1975 Subjektivna fotografija / Subjective photography - Zagreb, CEFFT
Subjektivna fotografija - Beograd, Galerija SKC
1976 Life Art - Zagreb, Prozor u umjetnost, Voć1977 arska 5
Moja galerija - Beograd, Galerija SKC
1978 Galerija Nova, Zagreb
1979 Moja godina / My year - Zagreb, Studio Galerije suvremene umjetnosti
Moj prostor - Zagreb, Podrum
Radovi pisaćim strojem - Zagreb, predvorje kina
1980 Punk Art - Zagreb, Podrum
1983 Early Works - Zagreb, galerija Doga?anja
1984 Elementarphotographie - Kassel, Galerie Friedrichstrasse
Elementarna fotografija 1974-1984 - Zaprešić, Narodno sveučilište
1985 Foto-ego-tot - Zagreb, Galerija PM
1986 Fotoslike / Photopaintings - Zagreb, Galerija DDT
1988 Fotogramske slike / Photogram paintings - Novo Mesto, Fotogalerija
Fotogramske slike - Prijepolje, Galerija Doma Revolucije
Foto slike - Zagreb, Galerija Doga?anja
1989 Povratak pramediju - Zagreb, Galerija Doga?anja
Dubrovnik, Galerija Sesame
Retrospektiva - Zagreb, Voćarska 5
1990 Fotoslike / Photopaintings - Zagreb, Galerija PM
1993 Svejetloris / Lightdrawing - Zagreb, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević1994
Svjetloris II / Lightdrawing II- Salon Galerije Karas, Zagreb
1995 Svjetlorisi - Dubrovnik, Galerija Kovač1996 ka 3
Korkyra on my mind - Galerija PM, Zagreb
1997 Vela Luka, Centar za kulturu
1998 Subjektivne i elementarne fotografije, foto i fotogramske slike 1970-1995 / Subjective and elementary photographs, photo and photogram paintings 1970-1995 - Zagreb, Moderna galerija
1998 Moja godina II - zagreb, Studio Muzeja suvremene umjetnosti
Klub Otok, Dubrovnik
1999 Galerija-atelier-galerija - Zagreb, galerija PM
2000 Siva zona - Rijeka, Galerija Gal
Iz sive zone - zagreb, Crveno-crno učilište / Caffe bar ŤAsť
2001 Role, rolice - Zagreb, Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika;
Dubrovnik, Umjetnička galerija Dubrovnik

Group exhibitions

1973 Nova fotografija 1 - Maribor, Razstavni salon Rotovž; Zagreb, Galerija suvremene umjetnosti; Beograd, muzej savremene umetnosti; Split, Galerija umjetnina
1976 Nova fotografija 2: Fotografija kao umjetnost - Zagreb, Galerija suvremene umjetnosti; Beograd, Muzej savremene umetnosti; Maribor, Razstavni salon Rotovž; Nowoszesna sztuka Jugoslawii / Modern Art of Yugoslavia - Warszawa, galeia Wspolczesna
1981 Life Art - Zagreb, Prozor u umjetnost, Voć1982 arska 5
Moja galerija - Beograd, Galerija SKC
1978 Nova umjetnička praksa 1966-1978 - zagreb, galerija suvremene umjetnosti
1979 Nova fotografija 3 - Zagreb, galerija suvremene umjetnosti; Beograd, Muzej savremene umjetnosti; Maribor, Razstavni salon Rotovž
1980 Fotografija kao umjetnost, umjetnost kao fotografija - Zagreb, CEFFT; Beograd, Galerija SKC
1981 Erweiterte Fotografie / Extended Photography - Wien, Wiener Secession
1982 Inovacije u hrvatskoj umjetnosti sedamdesetih godina - Zagreb, galerija suvremene umjetnosti; Beograd, Muzej savremene umetnosti; Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum Nove pojave u jogoslavenskoj umjetnosti - Wroclaw, galeria Avantgarda, Warszawa, Galeria Zaheta; Eindhoven, Kulturzentrum Philips; Bukurest, Galeria Dales
1985 Situacija Grupa šestorice autora 1975-1978 - Zagreb, Galerija Karas
1990 Hrvatska umjetnost u osamdesetim godinama - sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum; Skopje, muzej na sovremena umetnost; Zagreb, zagrebač1991 ki Velesajam
1993 Hrvatska fotografija od 1950. do danas - Zagreb, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti
Nova hrvatska umjetnost - Zagreb, Moderna galerija
Mjesto i sudbina - Dubrovnik, Muzej Rupe
The Horse who sings - radical Art from Croatia - Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art
1995 Hrvatska fotografija '95 - Zagreb, Umjetnički paviljon
1996 Koncept - Zagreb, Umjetnič1997 ki paviljon
1998 Hrvatska fotografija ?97 - Zagreb, Umjetnič1999 ki paviljon
2000 Grupa šestorice autora (retrospektiva izložba) - Zagreb, Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika; Split, Multimedijalni centar
33. zagrebački salon - Zagreb, Muzejsko-galerijski prostor
2001 Grupa šestorice autora (retrospektivna razstava) - Rijeka, Kortil&Galerija Gal
Aspects / Positions: 50 years of art in central Europa 1949-1999 - Budapest, Ludwig
2002 Aspects / Positions: 50 years of art in Central Europa 1949-1999 - Budapest, Ludwig museum; Southampton, Hansard Gallery / City Gallery
2003 Grupa šestorice autora (retrospektivna razstava)- Ljubljana, Moderna galerija
Aspects / Positions: 50 years of art in Central Europa 1949-1999 - Prag, National Gallery