MY MOTHER TONGUE IS BOSNIAN, Kunst und Bauschlosserei Gallery, 04.08.2007–30.09.2007, Leipzig, Germany.

VD exhibition in Leipzig, German art center, very well known for its famous Leipzig art School leaded by professor and artist Neo Rauch. Veronika Somnitz, our friend and cultural manager which is based in Leipzig was admirer of VD work and experience, and she decided to show our exhibition to the Leipzig audience. Soon, two executives from Kunst und Bauschlosserei gallery in Leipzig got interested to host that show. We get in touch and all agree for project contained small workshop with artist talks when we are in Leipzig, and exhibition which will last one month, and, if audience will be interested for more, gallery will keep it opened. Duration of this exhibition was extended for more than one month.

 

Excerpt from curator’s statement:

The exhibition "My mother's tongue is Bosnian" displays work by five representatives of the artists' group Vizionarsko Drustvo ", all in Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina lives and work. 
The socio-political circumstances in the work of the artists have found their way; offer the occasion to take stock of the current situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

The title "My mother's tongue is Bosnian" expresses a new understanding of the artists. It is characterized by pride, a rebellion and the desire to be a people with their own beliefs and cultural backgrounds in a country in Europe to say, by the globalized economic and socio-political value system of the EU an ever greater role. 

We are delighted that the artists personally visited will be presented on the opening, and thus the opportunity for dialogue and exchanges on a cultural basis exists on which all visitors are cordially invited. 
Event will continue on Sunday, 05.08.2007 by 20 o’clock, a film shown in, the activities of the "Vizionarsko Drustvo" and SICE in Baraka in Sarajevo, Berlin, Tokyo documented. All viewers are connecting to a question-and round-table discussion in the presence of Bosnian artists.

 

Artists:

Samir Fejzovic, Demis Sinancevic, Muhamed Begic, Emir Kapetanovic
Guest artist: Dzenat Drekovic.

 

Curated by:

Veronika Somnitz

 

Thanks to:

Christian and Franzika,
Christiana Biron,
Gallery crew and friends,
Dzenat Drekovic

Special Thanks to Veronika Somnitz for her huge effort and patience to put all things together.

 

Support:

Kulturstiftung Sachens, StudentInnegenRat, GS Leipzig.