Emergency Exit

	Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia 03 Dec 2021 - 11 Sep 2022
	curators; Bojana PiškurIgor ŠpanjolZdenka BadovinacAna Mizerit

Beom Kim, A Rock that Learned the Poetry of Jung Jiyong, 2010. Video stills. Courtesy of the artist

Artists; Agnieszka Brzeżańska | Šempas Family | Vadim Fiškin | Mitsutoshi Hanaga & Jusatsu Kito Sodan (Group of Monks Bringing the Curse of Death) | Kim Beom | Neža Knez | Natalia LL | Polonca Lovšin | Karel Miler | Peter Nadin & Natsuko Uchino & Aimée Toledano | OHO (Marko Pogačnik, Milenko Matanovič, David Nez, Andraž Šalamun, Naško Križnar, Iztok Geister, Matjaž Hanžek) | Marko Peljhan | Špela Petrič | Plateauresidue | Marika & Marko Pogačnik | Porodica bistrih potoka / Family of Clear Streams | Marjetica Potrč | Franc Purg | Maja Smrekar | Robertina Šebjanič & Sofia Crespo & Feileacan McCormick | Miloš Šejn | Petr Štembera | Aleksandra Vajd & Anetta Mona Chişa | ZAKOLE | Brane Zorman |

An Annex. Notes from the Penumbral Age edited by Sebastian Cichocki.

 

The Emergency Exit exhibition revolves around the burning environmental issues of our time, looking for answers in postwar neo-avant-garde artistic practices and current ecological initiatives. Responding to apparently hopeless situations of social and ecological cataclysms, such initiatives seek ways to survive in a system affected by the collapsed structure of the ecosystem. The question this raises and that the artists try to answer is whether there is an emergency exit out of the situation we have all found ourselves in at the start of the third millennium.

The main emphasis of the first part of the exhibition is on the heritage of the holistic environmental activities of the OHO movement and the art collectives and artistic practices that were inspired by it.

https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/3504/exhibition-emergency-exit/