Ana Bilankov, vizualna umjetnica, rođena u Zagrebu 1968., živi i radi u Berlinu. Njezina konceptualna i kontekstualna umjetnička praksa uključuje medije kao što su fotografija, video/eksperimentalni film, instalacija i tekst, a glavne su joj teme poetika/politika dislokacije, migracije, osobno i kolektivno sjećanje, kao i konstrukcija identiteta u “međuprostorima”. Studirala je povijest umjetnosti i germanistiku na sveučilištima u Zagrebu i Mainzu (diplomirala u Zagrebu), umjetničku fotografiju na Wiesbadener Freie Kunstschule te postdiplomski studij Umjetnost u kontekstu (M.A.) na Universität der Künste u Berlinu i University of the West of England u Bristolu, UK. Dobitnica je više stipendija i rezidencija, među kojima su Residency Unlimited i Pioneer Works u New Yorku; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Moscow House of Photography; Q21_Museums Quartier u Beču, kao i istrazivačke stipendije berlinskog Senata za kulturu i Europu. Godine 2022. odabrana je za Neustart – stipendiju fondacije Stiftung Kunstfonds u Bonnu. Izlagala je na mnogobrojnim samostalnim i grupnim izložbama, među kojima se izdvajaju: Muzej suvremene umjetnosti (Zagreb), Institut za suvremenu umjetnost (Zagreb), National Museum (Gdanjsk), Photon galerija (Ljubljana), Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles (Montreal), Kino Arsenal (Berlin), School of Visual Arts (New York), Collegium Hungaricum (Berlin), Collegio Armeno (Venecija), Galerie Weisser Elefant (Berlin), Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti (Rijeka), 1. Moskovski bijenale, Museum of Modern Art (Moskva), Galerija Nova_WHW (Zagreb). Njezini eksperimentalni videoradovi prikazivani su na više filmskih i videofestivala, na kojima je i nagrađivana, primjerice na 29. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, South East European Film Festival #2 (Berlin), 25. Danima hrvatskog filma (Zagreb), Video in Progress 5 (Ljubljana), 25 FPS – Internacionalom festivalu eksperimentalnog filma i videa (Zagreb).
Ana Bilankov, visual artist, born in Zagreb in 1968, Croatia, lives and works in Berlin. Her conceptual and contextual practice in the media photography, video/experimental film, installation and text examines themes of poetics/politics of dislocation, migration, nomadism, individual and collective memory and construction of identity within "in-between-ness“. She studied Art History and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz; Art Photography at Wiesbaden School of Fine Arts and postgraduate studies program “Fine Art in Context “at the University of the Arts Berlin (M.A.) and the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She was awarded several grants and residencies, such as Residency Unlimited and Pioneer Works in New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Moscow House of Photography; Q21_MuseumsQuartier, Vienna as well as research scholarships by The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. In 2022 she was selected for the Neustart scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfond in Bonn. Bilankov’s works have been shown internationally in art venues like Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb; National Museum Gdansk, Poland; Photon Gallery, Ljubljana; Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles, Montreal; Kino Arsenal, Berlin; School of Visual Arts, New York; Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin; Collegio Armeno, Venice; Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; 1st Moscow Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Gallery Nova_WHW, Zagreb, as well as at film and video festivals, such as 29th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival; South East European Film Festival #2, Berlin; 25th Days of Croatian Film, Zagreb; Video in Progress 5, Ljubljana; 25 FPS – International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb.
Ana Bilankov
LOVEMAP, 2022.
jednokanalna videoinstalacija HD video / single channel video installation HD video
7:00 min
Pustinja kao projekcija, tj. fiktivno mjesto temporarnog ispunjenja sreće? U recentnoj (post)pandemijskoj situaciji s neizvjesnim ishodom, a u relaciji s našom dvogodišnjom ograničenom mobilnošču, u kojem se naša „analogna egzistencija“ svela na prisilno izolirano i lokalno bivstvovanje ispunjeno velikom čežnjom za putovanjima i bliskošću, ovo filmsko putovanje kroz geografske i osobne među-prostore, na granici realnog i fiktivnog, može mozda na tren ugasiti našu glad za istim.
The desert as a projection, i.e. a fictitious place of temporary fulfillment of happiness? In the recent (post)pandemic situation with an uncertain outcome, and in relation to our two-year limited mobility, in which our "analog existence" has been reduced to a forced isolated and local existence filled with a great longing for travel and closeness, this cinematic journey through geographical and personal interspaces, on the border between real and fictitious, can perhaps for a moment satisfy our hunger for the same.
- iz izjave umjetnice / from the statement of the artist
