BRINA Performance at Partizanke.Art in Leipzig
- Bara Kolenc
- Apr 13
- Branje traja 2 min
Wed, Apr 9 - Sat, May 17, 2025
6:00pm-7:00pm
Exhibition and Public Program
Partizan★ke Art Aesthetics and Practices of Women´s Resistance in Yugoslavia und Carinthia / Die Kunst des weiblichen Widerstands in Jugoslawien und Kärnten / Umetnost ženskega odpora v Jugoslaviji in na Koroškem / Umjetnost ženskoga otpora u Jugoslaviji i u Koruškoj
The resistance of women in the territories of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe occupied by Nazi Germany is hardly a topic in Germany and Austria. This is all the more true of the resistance in Yugoslavia, which has increasingly disappeared from European memory since the collapse of the state. But it was precisely here that there was a nationwide resistance movement that successfully fought back against racist and exploitative violence and liberated the country from occupation. An unusually large number of women were involved in this liberation movement, taking part in the struggle both as helpers, with weapons and artistically. This is why the artistic-scientific exhibition Partizan★ke Art focuses on the female resistance against the German occupation forces and the Axis powers in Yugoslavia and Carinthia/Koroška, which is still barely visible today.
Behind the term "partisan art" lies a fascinating phenomenon that is unrivalled in art production: by this we mean art as resistance or culture as a subversive practice by Yugoslav and Carinthian-Slovenian partisans. The protagonists of the resistance were on the one hand part of the art avant-garde and on the other hand peasants who expressed themselves in traditional forms of folk art. The subversive culture they created, i.e. literature, visual arts, film, photography, comics, textiles, graphic art, theatre, dance and monumental architecture, will be shown as part of a European history of resistance in the exhibition Partizan★ke Art at the HGB Gallery from April 2025 and flanked by a supporting programme.
Artistic positions: Fritzi Bosch, Carla Maruscha Fellenz, Cosmo Großbach, Kassandra, Lea Petry, Merlin Rainer (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig), Markus Gönitzer (Muzej in spominski kraj pri Peršmanu/Museum and Memorial Peršmanhof), Zoe Gudović (artist and performer), Markus Gönitzer (Muzej in spominski kraj pri Peršmanu/Museum and Memorial Peršmanhof), Zoe Gudović (Muzej in spominski kraj pri Peršmanu).nstler and performer), Leja Jurišić (dancer, choreographer, Ljubljana), Bara Kolenc (Faculty of Philosophy Ljubljana), Davor Konjikušić (freelance artist), Dana Rausch (freelance artist), Julia Stolba (University of Fine Arts Hamburg)
Author: Bara Kolenc
Performance, choreography: Bara Kolenc, Leja Jurišić
Production: KUD Samosvoj
Coproduction: City of Women Festival
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