Exhibition ''14x14 - Survey of the Danube Region. Individual views. Photographic positions'' represents 14 individual views of artists from 14 countries of the Danube region: Biljana Đurđević (Serbia), Magdalena Jetelová (Czech Republic), Julian Palacz (Austria), Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová (Slovakia), István Csákány (Hungary), Mladen Miljanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Igor Grubić (Croatia), Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia), Herbert Stolz (Germany), Ivanov Pravdoliub (Bulgaria), Lazar Pejović (Montenegro), Alexandra Croitoru (Romania), Pavel Brăila (Moldova) and Ivan Bazak from Ukraine.
The Banjaluka exhibition is extended with three special presentations: Mila Panić (Banjaluka), Mladen Miljanović (Banjaluka) and Christian Schnurer (Muenchen).
On its way through the countries of the European macro region, the exhibition has been shown in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, and it was organized under the patronage of the City of Regensburg and Bavaria.
The Danube River Region is composed of 14 countries that build a multilayered macro-region in Europe. In total, 28 snapshots from 14 contemporary, internationally renowned sculptors, painters, installation and media artists, as well as a photographer reflect their ideas of the utopia, reality, life experiences, home, and homeland. Their “way of seeing” or perspective through the camera does not only signify the transfer of their respective artistic expression through the means of the camera lens. They also provide and negotiate different ways of looking at their own country of origin.
Regina Hellwig-Schmid curator and artistic director of donumenta, one of the most important and influential cultural actors in the Danube region previously invited these 14 artists to give a personal view exploring their respective countries, their communities and the lives of their fellow citizens by a snapshot with their camera.
“14 x 14 - Survey of the Danube Region.” encourages the viewer to become the interpreter when explicating the artwork: you receive an invitation to view the art as a boarder or frame in which one can choose to interpret for example, the Danube region individually, as an European or global reality, or as a vision of sorts where one can meet and reflect on a space or place. In addition, donumenta underscores this concept in “14 x 14” by giving the artists the ability to take responsibility of their messages in order to create new realities. By agreeing with the statement that an artist is embodied in the new work that he/she creates, where open and unbiased views of other people can be understood, questioned and given new light, the macro-region on the Danube presents itself as a huge laboratory where these unique thoughts and actions can take place, develop and flourish.
Art director of the project and curator of the exhibition “14x14 Donumenta” is Regina Hellwig Schmid. “Donumenta” manifestation is an annual event which presents art and culture of the countries of the Danube region, and it has been held in Regensburg since 2003.
