BPM 2020/1: This Will Change Your Life Forever – Klaus Pichler

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

Klaus Pichler, 2015–2017
New age esotericism is only one of several ‘alternative’ belief systems which claim to have discovered their own (spiritual, political or pseudo-scientific) model of truth. Esotericism theories – no matter how speculative or irrational they may be – are slowly but surely making their way into the centre of mainstream society. They are not only a game played with the hopes of gullible or desperate people; they are also profitable business models that lie somewhere between marketing and promises of salvation.
Klaus Pichler wanted to know more: For a period of two years, Klaus Pichler immersed himself into the scene by pretending to be an esotericist fanatic. He joined online forums, attended esotericism fairs and gatherings, familiarised himself with relevant theories, ordered products and made use of services. This enabled him to gain an inside view of the irrational world of esotericism, filled with remote healing, aura sprays and unicorn essences. In the process, he witnessed a mixture of credulity, quackery and betrayal.
The result of Klaus Pichler’s approach is the series This Will Change Your Life Forever which consists of pictures of products, re-staging of images found on online forums and visualisations of esotericism theories.

This exhibition has been organised through the essential support of Austrijiski kulturni forum Beograd, that supports artist mobility, by which Austrian artist Klaus Pichler is able to participate in Belgrade Photo Month Festival.

https://klauspichler.net/

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

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BPM 2020/1: Potraga za g-dinom X – Karsten Kronas

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Da li mi je g-din X ukrao mobilni telefon?
On se sasvim neočekivano pretvorio u duha:
Preko Dropbox aplikacije instalirane na moj telefon video sam svaku fotografiju koju je g-din X uslikao, pa i njega, njegove prijatelje, eritrejska venčanja, društvo, detaljnije od svih ostalih fotografija koje sam video u životu. Na tim slikama sam video i ženu koju sam fotografisao dve nedelje pre njega.
Nakon što sam primio 156 slika i nekoliko videa, počeo sam potragu za g-dinom X po Tel Avivu, a kasnije i po Eritreji. To je navodno bila potraga za mojim ukradenim telefonom. U Tel Avivu sam došao do zajednice pravoslavnih hrišćana iz Eritreje, koji nisu mogli sagledati svoju budućnost ni u rodnoj Eritreji, niti u Izraelu. U Eritreji sam upoznao najiskrenije ljude na svetu. Potraga se metaforički preokrenula.
Serijal je kombinacija mojih i fotografija g-dina X. Panoptičke slike i koncizni detalji okreću se oko pitanja koja vizuelno transformišu specifičnu pretragu u odiseju; pitanje identiteta, doma i sudbine, pitanja o lutanjima koje ne postavljam samo g-dinu X već i zbog g-dina X.

Ova izložba realizovana uz veliku podršku Goethe-Institut Belgrad.

https://karstenkronas.com/

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BPM 2020/1: Searching for Mr. X – Karsten Kronas

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

Is Mr. X the one who stole my mobile phone?
At least it was him who unexpectedly turned into a ghost:
Through the Dropbox-interface of my phone, I saw every photograph Mr. X took with the camera, saw him, his friends, Eritrean weddings, and a community, more detailed than the one I have seen before. And, I discovered a woman on one of his photos whom I photographed two weeks earlier than him.
After I received 256 images and some videos files, I set out searching for Mr. X in Tel Aviv, later also in Eritrea. It was a search that was never one for my stolen mobile phone. In Tel Aviv I found a home from a community of Orthodox Christians from Eritrea who do not see any future either in their home country, nor, for most of them, in Israel. In Eritrea I found the most sincere people ever. The search has long turned metaphorical.
The series combines my photographs with those of Mr. X. With panoptic images and concise details, it revolves around questions which also visually transform a specific inquiry into an odyssey; questions of identity, home and faith, questions about wandering around. I am not only asking Mr. X, but because of Mr. X.

This exhibition has been organised through the essential support of Goethe-Institut Belgrad that supports artist mobility, by which German artist Karsten Kronas is able to participate in Belgrade Photo Month Festival.

https://karstenkronas.com/

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

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BPM 2020/1: Minbizia – Olatz Vázquez

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Kustos David Pujadó

Olac je fotograf, novinar, žena, rođena 1994. godine u Bilbau. Novinar po zanimanju, a fotograf po potrebi.
Od početka je svoj rad zasnivala na svom telu, svojoj duši, ženi koja se krije u svojoj koži.
Njeni autoportreti imaju suptilnu delikatnost, ali sadrže i senzualnost dostojnu fotografa kao što su Edvard Vetson, Cveće Roberta Mapltorpa, rad japanskog fotografa Masaa Jamamota i jednostavnost i minimalizam Noela Osvalda.
Ali 2020. godine, njen život i rad su izbačeni iz koloseka i sva ta suptilnost, delikatnost, senzualnost, jednostavnost i minimalizam prekriveni su dodatnom tvrdoćom, onom koju jedino možemo da zamislimo da je poput gutanja slomljenog stakla, nečega što može da nas približi radu Norvežanke Lene Marie Fosen. Ovo delo ima ime, a ime i prezime je Rak.

*Minbizia (bask) – jak, intenzivan bol; rak

www.olatzvazquez.com

Uz podršku ambasade Španije u Srbiji

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BPM 2020/1: Minbizia – Olatz Vázquez

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

Curated by David Pujadó

Olatz is a photographer, a journalist, a woman, born in 1994 in Bilbao. Journalist by trade and photographer by necessity.
From the beginning she has based her work on her body, her soul, the woman who hides within her skin.
Her self portraits have a subtle delicacy, but also contain a sensuality worthy of photographers such as Edward Weston, the Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe, the work of Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto and the simplicity and minimalism of Noel Oszvald.
Come 2020, her life and her work are knocked sideways from their natural flow and all that subtlety, delicacy, sensuality, simplicity and minimalism have been infused with an added hardness, a hardness that I can only imagine is like swallowing broken glass, something that could bring us closer to the work of the Norwegian Lene Marie Fossen. This work has a name, the first and last name being Cancer.

*Minbizia (Basque) – strong, intense pain; cancerWith the support by the Embassy of Spain in Serbia

www.olatzvazquez.com

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
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Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

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BPM 2020/1: Nežni vandalizam – Miloš Tomić

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Nisam neki fotograf ali svuda oko sebe primećujem prizore i bez razmišljanja reagujem – fotografišem ih.
Više od slikanja, voleo sam da seckam slike, većinom fotografije iz starih časopisa i pravim kolaže.
Još više od slikanja, godinama sam opsesivno sakupljao stare fotografije.
Uslikane neobične situacije, privlačna fotogenična lica, ili slučajno uhvaćeni detalj koji nije trebalo da bude na slici. Kao omađijan, gledao sam i gomilao te birane prizore, i tek skoro počeo da ih animiram.
Ohrabrio sam se da krenem da ovako uništavam B-klasu slika iz kolekcije da bi od njih napravio nešto novo.Nežni vandalizam, može se i tako reći.

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BPM 2020/1: Gentle Vandalism – Miloš Tomić

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

I’m not a good photographer, but I notice scenes and moments all around me and I react without thinking – I photograph them.
More than photographing, I love chopping pictures, mostly photos from old magazines, turned now into paper collages.
Even more than photographing, I have been obsessively collecting old photographs for years.
Captured unusual situations, attractive, bizarre, photogenic faces, or a randomly recorded detail that should not have been in the picture.
Enchanted, I watched and piled those selected images for years and only recently, I started animating them.
I encouraged myself to destroy those images in order to make something new out of them.
Gentle Vandalism, so to speak.

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

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Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

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BPM 2020/1: Ćelijska međupovezanost – Milan Marković

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Tema međupovezanosti prirodnih elemenata u vezi korelacija i kauzalnosti do sada je bila prisutna u mom radu u vidu ispitivanja njihove dualnosti. Ovom serijom fotografija odbacujem dualnost i prihvatam stanje jedinstva. U stanju jedinstva, dve sukobljene strane prestaju da budu sukobljene, postaju komplementarne u formiranju nove prirode koja više nema dualistički pandan. Sve je povezano u jednom univerzalnom jedinstvu svega što je bilo, što jeste i što će biti; ne u borbi, već u dopunjujućoj komplementarnosti koja čini sistem života.

Nasuprot dualističkom posmatranju sveta u kojem su jedinke i prirodni elementi u borbi, u stanju jedinstva sve što postoji treba da postoji. Nema borbe i svi smo povezani.

Svaki činilac u sistemu života je UVEZAN.
Uvezani, svi i sve zajedno činimo kompleksnost bivanja,
Uvezani, neodvojivi smo od okoline,
Uvezani, neodvojivi smo jedni od drugih.
Baš kao ćelije, svako sa svojom jedinstvenom ulogom.

Inspiracija za rad potekla je od testa Ćelijska međupovezanost (Within Cells Interlinked – Blade Runner 2049).

Ne mogu ti reći kako
znam – ali prešao sam
Granicu. Sve što sam voleo izgubljeno je
Ali aorta ne konstatuje kajanje.
Gumeno sunce se zgrčilo i zašlo;
I ništavilo crno od krvi se zavrtelo
Ćelijski sistemi su se ispovezivali u
Ćelije ispovezane ćelijskim povezivanjem
U stabljici. I odvratno drugačija
od mraka, visoka bela fontana je igrala.

Bleda vatra, Vladimir Nabokov

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BPM 2020/1: Within Cells Interlinked – Milan Marković

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

The topic of the interconnectedness between natural elements that are in the relation of correlation and causality has been present in my work, primarily as an examination of their duality. With this series of photographs however, I reject dualism for a state unity- where there is no longer any conflict because everything is complementary and comes together to form one new nature without conflicting sides. We are all linked in an eternal bond, which extends through all the things that have, and are still happening now, as well as all things that will, ahead of us. Not in war, but coming to harmony when coming together as complementary elements to make up the whole life cycle we know today.

At a point of unity, dualities cease to exist. Dual forces become complementary and work together for an unknown outcome that is exactly what nature wants it to be.
Every factor in the system of life is INTERLINKED.

INTERLINKED, we all and all together make complexity of Being,
INTERLINKED, inseparable from environment our lives are intertwined with one another.

The inspiration for the work came from the Within Cells Interlinked – Blade Runner 2049 test.

I can’t tell you how
I knew – but I did know that I had crossed
The border. Everything I loved was lost
But no aorta could report regret.
A sun of rubber was convulsed and set;
And blood-black nothingness began to spin
A system of cells interlinked within
Cells interlinked within cells interlinked
Within one stem. And dreadfully distinct
Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.

Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
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Visiting hours:
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BPM 2020/1: All Time is All Time – Ivan Blazhev

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Drezden ima dugu istoriju prestonice i kraljevske rezidencije. Na samom kraju Drugog svetskog rata, u istorijski posmatrano kontroverznom savezničkom bombardovanju, grad je devastiran, kao i istorijski gradski centar. Nakon rata, grad je rekonstruisan i vraćen mu je prvobitni izgled.

Moj rad inspirisan je Vonegatovim romanom o bombardovanju Drezdena, Klanica 5, temom nelinearnosti vremena, kao i osetljivošću sećanja. Odrazi ovih tema se vide u istoriji Drezdena, u stvaranju identične replike grada kakav je bio pre, tako da je iz današnje perspektive nejasna linija između starog i novog, prošlog i sadašnjeg, sećanja i sadašnjosti. Fotografišući grad digitalnom pinhol kamerom, stvorio sam paralelu problematizujući samog medijuma i njegovu autentičnost, direktno se oslanjajući na paradoksalnost novog starog, a tako namerno pocrtavajući kompleksnost urbane i arhitektonske istorije grada, potpuno uništenog, pa rekonstruisanog.

Umesto čistog prikaza sadašnjosti, fotografije prikazuju i pukotinu prošlosti, ostatke uništenog poput živog svedoka bombardovanja. Fotografije zato mogu biti posmatrane kao uspomene, ali i kao fakti. Namera mi je bila da stvorim fotografije koje prikazuju prošlost u sadašnjosti, poput traga paralele vremena i simultanosti događaja.

Svaki trenutak, prošli, sadašnji i budući, uvek je postojao i uvek će postojati…
Iluzija je to što mi na Zemlji mislimo da jedan trenutak prati sledeći, poput
nanizanih perli, i kada nestane, nestao je zauvek.
Kurt Vonegat, Klanica pet

https://ivanblazhev.com/

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