Sanja Iveković is the first artist iz Hrvatske koja će imati samostalnu izložbu u njujorškom Muzeju moderne umjetnosti, MoMA-i. Izložba u MoMA-i smatra se, naravno, vrhuncem karijere i nedostižnim snom za mnoge umjetnike/ce. Otvorenje je 18. prosinca 2011. a izložba ostaje otvorenom do 26. ožujka. Naziv “Slatko nasilje” uzet je prema njezinom istoimenom video radu iz 1974. U njemu umjetnica preko reklama koje su se u to doba vrtile na Zagrebačkoj televiziji stavlja crne rešetke. Na službenim stranicama MoMA-e izložba se ponosno najavljuje na sljedeći način: “U prvom predstavljanju Dream Ivekovicu Americi, izložba će pokriti preko četrdeset godina izvanredne stvaralačke prakse poznate feministkinje i jedne od pionirki video umjetnosti”.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1970, and together with Dalibor Martinis, she laid the foundations for the Croatian artistic practice of video, which she began to engage in in 1973. The main theme of her work is questioning one's own person and finding one's place in the world, and especially questioning the role of women in a patriarchal society.
Sanja Iveković is the first female artist to call herself a feminist, and this preoccupation resulted in a large number of performances and actions, as well as the founding of the association Electra – Women's Art Center in Zagreb.
Sanja Iveković collaborated with BaBa in the mid-nineties, and there is a large photo from the project on our wall. Gen XX (1997/98).
Well done, Sanja!
