Sanja Iveković is the first artist from Croatia who will have a solo exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art, MoMA. An exhibition at MoMA is, of course, considered the pinnacle of a career and an unattainable dream for many artists. The opening is on December 18, 2011, and the exhibition will remain open until March 26. The title "Sweet Violence" is taken from her 1974 video work of the same name. In it, the artist places black bars over advertisements that were running on Zagreb Television at the time. The exhibition is proudly announced on the official MoMA website as follows: "In its first presentation Dream Ivekovicin America, the exhibition will cover over forty years of extraordinary creative practice of the famous feminist and one of the pioneers of video art".
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!
