Untitled (Praxis)
01 . 01 - 31 . 12 . Gradski muzej Korčula
31 . 03 - 30 . 04 . Centro Cultural Tafalla Kulturgunea, Navarra
01 . 06 - 30 . 08 . Centar mladih RIbnjak, Zagreb
2022
31 . 03 - 31 . 12 . Booksa, Zagreb
31 - 03 - 30 . 04 . Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD), Belgrade
02 . 04 - 31 . 12 . Town Museum Korčula
07 . 04 - 13 . 04 . exhibition Forty Years of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory – The History of a Counter-Institution, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Kolarčeva 6, Belgrade
07 . 04 - 31 . 12 . office no. 5, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 6, Belgrade
08 . 04 - 31 . 12 . ALU Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
12 . 04 - 12 . 05 . billboard . Road D 60, Cista Provo, between Imotski and Trilj, KVART association, Croatia
01 . 05 - 12 . 06 . ArtfarmP2, Stari Grad Field, Hvar island
04 . 05 - 30 . 05 . Centro Huarte, Navarra
05 . 05 - 18 . 05 . billboard . Zagreb, Jadranska avenija - Lučko
05 . 05 - 18 . 05 . billboard . Split, Obala kneza Domagoja - ferry harbour
05 . 05 - 18 . 05 . billboard . Split, Poljička cesta - Blatine
05 . 05 - 18 . 05 . billboard . Split, Solinska-Dujmovača
05 . 05 - 18 . 05 . billboard . Dubrovnik, Obala Ivana Pavla II
05 . 05 - 18 . 05 . billboard . Slano, Jadranska magistrala
17 . 05 - 29 . 05 . KIC, Zagreb
26 . 05 - 01 . 07 . National Museum of Montenegro, Contemporary Art Gallery Miodrag Dado Đurić, Cetinje
11. 07 - 16 . 08 . Creative Europe Desk - office Culture, Zagreb
18 . 07 - 39 . 09 . Remont - independent artistic association, Belgrade
20 . 07 - 11 . 09 . Manifesto project, The Quadrennial, WELD, Stockholm
28 . 07 - 31 . 07 . Polygon - Being a shot - minimalist festival intended for pollinators, sites of Krbavsko polje and surrounding villages of the Municipality of Udbina, coordinates - 44.546834, 15.764683
01 . 08 - 31 . 08 . Quartieri Intelligenti, Naples
20 . 09 - 24 . 12 . SPACE, Mare st., Ilford / London
27 . 11 - 06 . 01 . 2023 . Pavement Gallery, Manchester
01 . 12 - 31 . 12 . Casa de cultura de Zizur Mayor, Zizur Mayor, Navarra, exhibition Grandes Éxitos by Meryan Rivers
2023
31 . 03 - 30 . 04 . Centro Cultural Tafalla Kulturgunea, Navarre, exhibition Grandes Éxitos by Meryan Rivers
Igor Grubić's art poster Untitled (Praxis) is exhibited at various locations, in collaboration with partners through the Open Call. Artwork is a typographic image that reads the text: "The criticism of all that exists starts with self-criticism". The size of the posters is variable and the edition is unlimited. The minimum size is 70 x 50 cm and minimum duration of the exhibition is ten days.
The artwork corresponds with rather general and global subjects trigged by Praxis philosophy. Praxis's slogan was "ruthless critique of all that exists" where the phrase is related to Marx directly.
Grubić reflected on his work in general: "I realized that if I wanted to criticize others I should start from myself; it is exactly here that personal demons and self-deception lurk and there is a need for continuous work on one's vigilance and self-questioning."
Miško Šuvaković reflected on his work: "Grubić, by generation, belongs to those artistic tendencies, which, close to political theory (...), make a turn from the neutral aestheticism of postmodernism to political activism. (...) The critical potential of artistic presentations becomes important ranging from the treatment of the recent past (decline of self-governing socialism, emergence of transitional practices of capitalism, formation of nation-states) through problematization of gender and racial violence, intolerance and ideological blindness in contemporary times."
The Praxis was a Marxist humanist philosophical movement, that originated in Zagreb and
Belgrade in the SFR Yugoslavia. From 1963 to 1974 they published the journal Praxis and organised the Korčula Summer School in the town of Korčula. The collective of critical thinkers around the journal developed a singular trajectory of humanist Marxist and socialist analysis in the context of non-aligned Yugoslavia, and they functioned as a hub for the exchange of critical perspectives between the East and the West. In the proceedings of the summer school and the journal, many prominent figures of the period participated, among others Ernst Bloch, Eugen Fink, Erich Fromm, Lucien Goldmann, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, Henri Lefebvre, Karel Kosík, Richard J. Bernstein and Shlomo Avineri.
In the 1964 introductory text Why Praxis? editors stated how they want a journal: "that would not be philosophical in the sense according to which philosophy is just one of the special areas, one scientific discipline, strictly separated by the rest of them and from the problems of everyday human life. We want a philosophical journal in the sense that philosophy is the thought of the revolution, ruthless criticism of all that exists, a humanist vision of the human world and as an inspirational force for revolutionary activity." Each summer, the gathering focused on a particular topic: Progress and Culture; Meaning and Perspectives of Socialism; What is History?; Creativity and Creation; Marx and Revolution; Power and Humanity; Hegel and Our Time; Utopia and Reality; Freedom and Equality; The Essence and Limits of Civil Society and Art in a Technologized World.
The project Untitled (Praxis) curated by Darko Fritz is part of the workshop/symposium Caring for 20th-century heritage which will be held in 2022 as part of the European project Who Cares?
Artwork Untitled (Praxis) by Igor Grubić is under licence Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), Approved for Free Cultural Works
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About author
Igor Grubić (b. 1969, Zagreb) is one of Croatia's most accomplished and internationally acclaimed artists. His work includes site-specific interventions in public spaces, photography, and film. Since 2000 he is also working as a producer and author of documentaries, TV reportages and socially committed commercials. Grubić's project sits firmly in the humanist dimension, bridging together poetics, politics and social reality. He presented Croatia at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Exhibitions include, among others: Tirana Biennial 2 (2003); Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2002); Manifesta 9 (Genk, 2012); 50th October Salon (Belgrade, 2009); Gender Check, MuMOK (Vienna, 2009); 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009); 4th Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg (2011); East Side Stories, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012); Gwangju Biennale (2014); Zero Tolerance, MOMA PS1 (New York 2014); Degrees of Freedom, MAMbo (Bologna, 2015); 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); Cut / Rez, MSU (Zagreb, 2018); Heavenly creatures, MG+MSUM (Ljubljana, 2018); The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2018); Yerevan Biennial – The Time Complex (2020); Bigger than myself, MAXXI (Roma, 2021).
Who Cares? project
Who Cares? is a cooperation project focusing on care practices. It is made up of 5 organisations dedicated to artistic production from different latitudes in Europe: Idensitat (Barcelona, Spain), SPACE (London, United Kingdom), Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania), Grey Area (Korčula, Croatia) and Centro Huarte (Navarra, Spain). They working on a common project to explore new ways in which to engage audiences, incorporating care practices in the infrastructure and programs of their respective organisations. Care is a major thread in the project that runs through the concerns and challenges that each of the entities currently faces. Who Cares? understands care as a joint responsibility towards the communities, both local and global, to which the activity is addressed as artistic production organisations.
Who Cares? is led by Centro Huarte as one of the selected projects within the European Cooperation Projects 2020 call of the Creative Europe program.
https://who-cares.eu
