2–15 November 2026
Gallery Entropia, Wroclaw, Poland
Works by Ana Nuša Dragan and Marko A. Kovačič, which are included in the DIVA Station archive, will be featured in the exhibition New Perspectives. Archive. The exhibition is part of the international festival of performing arts organised by the Centre for Culture and Art in Wrocław (OKiS).
The exhibition New Perspectives. Archive is an encounter with the documentation of performative artistic practices in Central and Eastern Europe. It reopens archives, brings overlooked stories to light, and offers a cross-border perspective on the region’s art.
The materials and works on display come from Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, and Poland. The work of artists, documentation of performance-based activities, and archives of art institutions come together to create a multifaceted narrative of experimentation, alternative art circuits, and the search for new forms of expression. The artists and groups featured in the exhibition include:
- Hungary: the New Modern Acrobatics: István efZámbó, László feLugossy, Tibor Szemző, János Szirtes, and Péter Magyar, László Waszlavik Gazember.
- Slovenia: Ana Nuša Dragan, Marko A. Kovačič, Dušan Jovanović, and the Teater Pupilia Ferkewerk collective.
- Croatia: Vlasta Delimar, Željko Jerman, Sanja Iveković, Tomislav Gotovac.
- Slovakia: Peter Bartoš, Kvetoslav Hečko.
- Romania: Miriam Raducanu, Geta Brătescu, Ion Grigorescu.
- The Polish section of the exhibition has been co-created with materials from the archives of Entropia Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Works for the exhibition were selected by: Kata Balázs-Miklós, Pia Brezavšček, Agnieszka Chodysz-Foryś, Corina Cimpoieru, Lucia Gregorová Stach, Alicja and Mariusz Jodko, Iva Kovač
Exhibition announcement on the festival’s website
From the DIVA Station archive:
1968, 1′ 14”
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Because of and So and Some Information are the first short films by the artist: silent black and white 2x8mm films. They were created based on her interest in film and at the same time her study of psychology and pedagogy. In the 1960s, she became acquainted with film production, theory, and practical work, attended a film course by Vasko Pregelj, joined summer film schools and screenings and talks of the Movie Lovers’ Club, which at that time was led by Mirjana Borčić in the small hall of Ljubljana’s Kino Union. She was involved in conceptual art in Slovenia, especially in the OHO movement, but also professionally in various psychological courses and seminars of group dynamics oz. group communications, which was also reflected in collaborative and solo projects.
Thus, in the company of colleagues, a few short occasional films were made, about which she says: “We simply played: In Because of and So we poked fun in front of the camera. I wanted to test how a face works in a movie if you shoot facial expressions one shot at a time. It was fun and unusual. Some Information is my first documentary showing my move from a campus, helped by a classmate who had a car. The film is also a kind of farewell from youth; not youth as such, but a farewell to some beautiful, though not always easy life … departure to the adult world.” (Source of the statement: Nil Baskar: A Conversation with Ana Nuša Dragan, KINO! Magazine, no. 11, 12, 2010.)
1983, 19′ 45”
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Documentary footage of the artist’s new wave performance at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana in 1983.
The video documentation was recorded in real time and broadcast simultaneously through the Škuc Gallery window for visitors who couldn’t fit inside. At the venue, there was a metal structure holding a stretched screen onto which the artist’s handmade slides were projected. In the first part, the artist superimposed his body onto the projected images; his figure was visible in the background as a shadow or silhouette. Positioned behind the screen, he engaged with the Constructivist and Expressionist elements displayed on it, using mechanical movements and activist gestures to create both static and moving images. (Interspersed during the performance was a text in Serbo-Croatian read aloud by Dragan Čolaković – Šiljo, which began with the words “I don’t want to boast. But I can say I punched someone in the ear…” This text is an adaptation of an absurdist short story “Vindication” by Daniil Kharms.) In the second part, he stepped out from behind the screen—or membrane—to face the audience as a vulnerable, erotic body of flesh and blood, and performed a self-destructive act: he wrapped his face in adhesive tape until he ran out of breath. (Source: Barbara Borčić: Race with Time: Performance and Video in the Rear-View Mirror, SCCA-Ljubljana, Theatre Museum/Institute, Ljubljana, 2014 – exhibition leaflet).
DIVA Station is an online and physical archive that SCCA-Ljubljana has been developing since 2005 with the aim of researching, documenting, archiving and presenting art film, video and new media art.