Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence

The Museum of Modern Art MoMA (New York, USA) presents Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence, the first retrospective in the United States of the artist's work until March 26, 2012. The exhibition covers four decades of Ivekovic's audacious work as feminist, activist, and video and performance pioneer. Iveković (b. 1949, Zagreb) came of age in the post-1968 period, at a time when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying ground for a form of opposition to official culture.

In the 1970s Ivekovic probed the persuasive qualities of mass media and its identity-forging potential, and after 1990 -with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a new nation- she focused on the transformation of reality from communist to post-communist political systems. Ivekovic's work offers a view into the politics of power, gender roles, and the paradoxes inherent in society's collective memory
 
The exhibition includes over 100 works, presenting the full range of the artist's practice in all mediums -from conceptual photomontage to video, social sculpture, performance, and drawing.

Date: until March 26 .
Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 West 53 Street. New York, NY 10019. USA.
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10.30am to 5.30pm. Friday from 10.30am to 8pm.

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