Transformation, Immortality, and the Abject in Ivana Bašić’s Sculptures By Stefanie Hessler (Director of Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway)

Authors

  • Stefanie Hessler
  • Ivana Bašić

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i24.428

Abstract

/

Author Biographies

Stefanie Hessler

Stefanie Hessler
Director of Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim
Norway

Stefanie Hessler (b. 1987) is a curator, writer, and editor. Her work focuses on ecologies, technology, and expanded definitions of life and non-life from an intersectional feminist perspective. She is the director of Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway since 2019, and project co-leader (with Katja Aglert) for the large-scale transdisciplinary research project and exhibition “Sex Ecologies” within The Seed Box environmental humanities collaboratory. Between 2020–22 Hessler is visiting research scholar at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media at Westminster University in London, UK. She is curator of the 17th MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image, titled “Sensing Nature” in Montreal, Canada (upcoming September 2021). Recent curatorial projects include “Jenna Sutela: NO NO NSE NSE” at Kunsthall Trondheim (2020); “Down to Earth” (with Thomas Oberender, Tino Sehgal, Frédérique Aït-Touati, and others) at the Berliner Festspiele / Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany (2020); “Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno: More-than-humans” at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain (2019), etc.

Ivana Bašić

Ivana Bašić
https://www.ivanabasic.com/

Visual Artist, New York, USA; Belgrade
Serbia

Ivana Bašić, (b.1986) is a Serbian artist based in New York. Recent shows include KUMU Museum, Tallinn; Whitney Museum, New York; Marlborough Contemporary, New York; 6th Athens Biennial, Athens; Hessel Museum of Art, New York; 57th Belgrade Biennial, Belgrade; CRASH Test curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at the MOCO, Montpellier; Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Gratz; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; NRW-Forum Museum, Düsseldorf; and Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as: ArtForum, FlashArt, CURA, Frieze, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Review, Foundations, Huffington Post, San Francisco Art Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail, Wall Street International Magazine, etc. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, New York.

Ivana Bašić, I will lull and rock my ailing light in my marble arms #2, 2017

Downloads

Published

15.04.2021

How to Cite

Hessler, S., & Bašić, I. (2021). Transformation, Immortality, and the Abject in Ivana Bašić’s Sculptures By Stefanie Hessler (Director of Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway). AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, (24), 150–162. https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i24.428

Issue

No. 24 (2021): Issue No. 24, April 2021 – Main Topic: How to Do Things with Speculative Pragmatism: Pedagogy, Politics, Philosophy

Section

Artist Portfolio

License

Copyright (c) 2023 AM Journal of Art and Media Studies

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies ISSN 2217-9666 - printed, ISSN 2406-1654 - online, UDK 7.01:316.774

Contact: amjournal@outlook.com

Publisher: Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

Indexed in: ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, DOAJ, and in The List of Scientific Journals Categorization of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia (M24 in 2021; M23 in 2023). Beginning with No. 12 2017, AM is indexed, abstracted and covered in Clarivate Analytics service ESCI.