Concept
Zdenka Badovinac
Curators selectors
Afiaty Riksa, Zdenka Badovinac, Ekaterina Degot, Tandazani Dhlakama, Galit Eilat, Charles Esche, iLiana Fokianaki, Boris Groys, Hou Hanru, Vít Havránek, Koyo Kouoh, Pablo Lafuente, Tammy Langtry, Maria Lind, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Bojana Piškur, Tjaša Pogačar, Igor Španjol, Mabel Tapia, Christine Tohme, Abhijan Toto, Jelena Vesić, Raluca Voinea, WHW
Artists
Julian Togar Abraham, Mounira Al Solh, Maria Thereza Alves, Nika Autor, Gaain Baahc, Babi Badalov, Djordje Balmazović, Denilson Baniwa, Jože Barši, Marko Batista, Richard Bell, Mona Benyamin, Olivia Botha, Sergey Bratkov, Tony Chakar, Olga Chernysheva, Virginia Chihota, nora chipaumire and Ari Marcopoulos, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Eduard Constantin, Anna Daucikova, Državljanska akcija [Civic Action], Jimmie Durham, Germano Dushá, Goran Đorđević, Lenka Đorojević, Ali Eyal, Vadim Fiškin, Jule Flierl, Andreas Maria Fohr, Jošt Franko, Quinsy Gario, Noa Giniger, Igor Grubić, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Nika Ham, Michal Heiman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maja Hodošček, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Siniša Ilić, IRWIN, Iman Issa, Sanja Iveković, Janez Janša & Janez Janša & Janez Janša, Admire Kamudzengere, Mahmoud Khaled, Jure Kastelic, Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim, Kladnik&Neon, Staš Kleindienst, Meiro Koizumi, Jiří Kovanda, Nina Koželj, Andreja Kulunčić, Matts Leiderstam, Cristiano Lenhardt, Anna López Luna, Mikhail Maksimov, Tuan Mami, Agrippina R. Manhattan, Dalibor Martinis, Olivia Mihaltianu, Albina Mochryakova, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tanja Muravskaja, Ekaterina Muromtseva, Sarah Naqvi, Toos Nijssen, Octora, Ahmet Öğüt, Dimitry Orlač, Ernesto Oroza, Pavel Otdelnov, Prabhakar Pachpute, Iza Pavlina, Vesna Pavlović & Vladimir Jerić Vlidi, Yan Pei-Ming, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Dan Perjovschi, Borut Peterlin, Raluca Popa, Tabita Rezaire, Sallisa Rosa, María Ruido, Jeffrey Shaw, Simona & Ramona (aka Claude & Dersch), Buhlebezwe Siwani, Maja Smrekar, Société Réaliste, Jonas Staal, Ayesha Sultana, Andrej Škufca, Igor Štromajer, Milica Tomić, Isola Tong, Isaac Chong Wai, Otty Widasari, Lin Yilin, Madalina Zaharia, Dion Zeqiri, Arseny Zhilyaev
Online Exhibition Editor
Ida Hiršenfelder
Viral Self-Portraits
We started thinking about the Viral Self-Portraits online exhibition at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when we were still self-isolating at home. We first contacted 23 curators across the globe to invite five artists each to do self-portraits, according to the invitation below. 100 international artists responded.
Rather than literal images of artists’ faces, what we had in mind with self-portraits was all the forces currently (co)shaping our subjectivities. Forces of a reality that is today full of unknowns due to the pandemic: without a way to prognosticate the kind of future that lies ahead we tend to imagine it on a range between two extremes: the possibility of outrageously authoritarian regimes and the prospect of a society of more equitable division of wealth. This is our first time of truly facing the transience of all existence, ourselves included, of facing our own death, which we had been pushing to the back of our minds for so long. Our increasingly fast-paced life has now come to a halt, at least for a while, hopefully long enough to allow for collective reflection.
