JASMINA CIBIC

NADA: Act II restages a reimagined performance of Béla Bartók’s pantomime ballet The Miraculous Mandarin – as performed inside the Yugoslav Pavilion at the Brussels EXPO in 1958. With its scope to represent the country’s new aesthetic direction on the National Day almost sixty years ago, the ballet score is here traced through scarce archives and re-invented and overwritten with new purpose.

Jasmina Cibic works in film, sculpture, performance and installation to explore ‘soft power’ – how political rhetoric is deployed through art and architecture, particularly examining how cultural production is used by the state to communicate certain principles and aspirations. Through unfolding the complex entanglements of art, gender and state power, the artist encourages viewers to consider the strategies employed in the construction of national culture.

Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project For Our Economy and Culture. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at: BALTIC Gateshead, Museum Haus Esters Krefeld, National Museum of Art Macedonia, Aarhus 2017, Esker Foundation Calgary, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, MGLC Ljubljana and Ludwig Museum Budapest and group exhibitions at MOMA New York, MUMA, CCS BARD, Guangdong Museum of Art China, Pera Museum Istanbul, La Panacee Montpellier, City Gallery Wellington, MSUM Ljubljana and MNHA Luxembourg.