Ibro Hasanović | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Photo: Olivier Anselot

• Biography
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• Ibro Hasanović

  → ibrohasanovic.com/cv.html

  Ibro Hasanovic (b. 1981) is a Bosnian artist, based in Brussels. Hasanović studied product design at the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts and completed his studies in contemporary art and cinema at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in France. Individual and collective memory are the main topics of his work, made manifest in films, videos, photography and installation art. His works have been featured in exhibitions at: Turku Art Museum, Finland (2012); Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna; SPACE Gallery, Bratislava; Galleria A+A (Slovenian Exhibition Centre), Venice; 52nd October Salon, Belgrade; Panorama 13, Le Fresnoy; Brot Kunsthall, Vienna; Nappe Arsenale, Venice; Thessaloniki Concert Hall (2011); City Museum of Ljubljana; P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana (2010), Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona; Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica (2009), Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington DC (2008), 1st International Annual Exhibition SPAPORT, Banja Luka (2008), as well as the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, South Korea (2006). In 2007 Hasanovic was a finalist of ZVONO Young Visual Artist Award, organized by Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art; and in 2011 he won the Special Prize at 5th International Art Prize Arte Laguna in Venice.

• Željko, they will remember you

  10.-30.09.2012.

  Ibro Hasanović is a multidisciplinary Bosnian artist who lives and works on the relation Rouen – Brussels. His focus of interest is post-conceptual artistic praxis. He also explores specific social phenomenons by analyzing relations of individual and collective memory. In his work he uses varios media  - performance, photography, contemporary printmaking,  installation, video art and film. His works have been presented in relevant international institutions, such as: Turku Art Museum in Finland, City museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Brot Kunsthall in Vienna, Sharjah University City in United Arab Emirates, Washington Project for the Arts in USA and Busan Metropolitan Art Museum in South Korea.  The project that he will be working on in Rijeka is entitled Željko, they will remember you. Željko, they will remember you is a long-term reaserach project whose final form should be docu-fictional movie. Main themes are: assasination attempt on Turkish ambassador in Belgrade by two Armenian terrorists in 1983. and the album Zastave – Flags of the punk group Paraf  from Rijeka released in 1894. The central theme will be the relationship between individual and collective memory and its role in the formation of mythologies.

   

   

   

   

• NGO SIZ

  → www.g-siz.com

  SIZ Gallery was founded in 2009, at the initiative of artists and curator Nemanja Cvijanovic. By 2010. the Gallery acts as one of the most important programs of the NGO The Other Sea. Active  participants of the gallery are, artists and designers,: ABS group, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babic, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Focus Group aka Iva Kovac and Elvis Krstulović, Igor Grubic, Janez Jansa, Sinisa Labrovic, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler, SCRAP, Slaven Tolj and associations NGO The Other Sea. SIZ Gallery is designed as an artist run gallery in which all  artists  are actually shareholders of the Gallery, and jointly decide on the program, promotion, guest appearances, etc.

  In 2011. members  of the Gallery  established the NGO SIZ, thorugh which annual programme the Gallery continues to exist. In 2013. SIZ  (NGO and the Gallery) starts a collaboration with Museum of modern and contemporary art in Rijeka -  its annual program will be presented in the Mali salon gallery in Rijeka's main street Korzo. SIZ is defined by artistically never more relevant model of functioning of the collective association of equal individuals whose puropse is joint appearances in the art system. SIZ Gallery through a specific approach to artistic system emerged as one of the most interesting programs in Rijeka and beyond. Small, independent, rapidly rotating exhibitions thar connect Croatian contemporary art scene with artists from both the immediate region and other countries. Programme of the Gallery,  through the presentation of some of the most interesting tendencies in contemporary art, which in a  determined way, reflect social reality and its various, specific, dimensions such as politics, culture, ideology, cultural policy, etc., is aimed at informing the public and creating a critical counterbalance to the programs of large institutions.

  With the founding of the Gallery and later by founding of the Association SIZ they try to act positively in the exhibition scene in Rijeka, where the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had created  a positive impact on the cultural life of the city, primarily educating audiences for contemporary visual language. Unexpectedly large and encouraging interest in international and regional art scene for SIZ Gallery which annually receives dozens of offers for collaboration, and in a way has become an important center of contemporary visual arts and cultural scene in general.

  Through Gallery SIZ to date the following has been achieved ...

  2009.: Nemanja Cvijanovic, Sinisa Labrović, Slaven Tolj, Igor Grubic, Sinisa Labrović, Club of Art Lovers and Oliver Ressler; 2010.: exhibitions Tomislav Brajnović, Cesare Pietroiusti, ABS Group, Rodion, Janez Janša, Janša and Janez Jansa, the artist duo Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (also director and advisors one of the most important international exhibitions - Document 13 - Ms. Carolyn Christov Bakargiev); 2011. Vlado Martek, Marijan Crtalić, collective GREY, art group Claire Fontaine, Sasha Huber, Milijana Babic, and Marko Markovic; 2012 and 2013.: Alexi Kukuljevića, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Pasquini, Ciprian Muresan, Ibro Hasanovic, Kristina Norman, Giuliana Racc0, Hudradea Collective and Fokus group.

  Summary: NGO  SIZ (SIZ - Self-management community of interests) is running the SIZ gallery. The Gallery started as a programme organized by the NGO Drugo more (The Other Sea) in 2009. During its 3-year long existence the Gallery created a certain recognisable profile of visual content in regional and local cultural community.

  It gradually became a significant point of contemporary artistic production and pratice. The content it presents is focused on works of Croatian and foreign artists that reflect various dimensions of social reality and its numerous fine nuances in specific ways.