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>> Ana Bilankov:Spaces, Stories, Geographies/
Prostori, priče, geografije, Zagreb, 2019
>> portfolio I: selected works (pdf, 3,2 mb)
>> portfolio II: selected photographs (pdf, 1,4 mb)
>> videography (pdf)
>> cv short (pdf) >> cv long (pdf)
>> artist's statement (pdf)
>> Inventing a Space (artist book, pdf, 1,8 mb)
>> Going Back and Forth (catalogue, pdf, 3,6 mb)
>> mail: ana@anabilankov.com
>> phone: 0049 (0)179 6946200
Prostori, priče, geografije, Zagreb, 2019
>> portfolio I: selected works (pdf, 3,2 mb)
>> portfolio II: selected photographs (pdf, 1,4 mb)
>> videography (pdf)
>> cv short (pdf) >> cv long (pdf)
>> artist's statement (pdf)
>> Inventing a Space (artist book, pdf, 1,8 mb)
>> Going Back and Forth (catalogue, pdf, 3,6 mb)
>> mail: ana@anabilankov.com
>> phone: 0049 (0)179 6946200
Reviews & Interviews
Artmargins Interview >> LinkGoethe Institut Interview >> Link
Vizkultura Interview >> Link
„Night Riders“ Ana Bilankov >> (pdf) (english excerpt)
“Night Riders” by Ana Bilankov
Ana Bilankov, Berlin based artist with Croatian background, creates videos connected with peculiar places in different European cities, Moscow and New York, connected with the geographies and stories of those places, mostly interwoven with her own biography or experience. Her short films often combine a brittle visual poetry with rarified narratives on the soundtrack. Her training in art history and German studies in Zagreb together with her Master in Art in Context in Berlin seem to give her the intuition to pick out places and situations that become metaphors for things unspoken or stories untold. It may also have been her biography, which sensitized her for the hidden traces in human geographies, namely her escape from war while it spread over former Yugoslavia. The artist on the other hand calls it her "search for Roland Barthes' punctum" in the geography of the city.
(Text by Klaus W. Eisenlohr, curator of Directors Lounge Screening at Z-inema Berlin 2017)
„The Poetry and Revolution of Ana Bilankov“ Ana Bilankov >> (pdf) (english excerpt)
“Poetry” and “Revolution” of Ana Bilankov
The whole Gesamtkunstwerk!
The author is, namely, by her education an art historian and that is evident in all her presented work. Photography, video and experimental film widen the scope of her art. The spoken and the written word, often on display in some gallery, expand the horizon of Ana Bilankov' s artistic zeal. Her art-world is interdisciplinary…
Using the language of literature she constitutes her unique author's subject, which is not limited to a certain media. Through her best achievements the author associates esthetic principles and social engagement. Literary language and that of visual media includes also the critical awareness of social environment and in a way it is the reaction of its historic changes.
(Marijan Krivak, film critic and philosopher, published in Zapis Nr. 72/2011, Zagreb)
Pričanje prostora u radovima Ana Bilankov >> (pdf) (english excerpt)
Telling a Space in Ana Bilankov´s video works
To live means passing from one space to another trying hard not to bump against the wall, Georges Perec has written in Species of Spaces. The concepts of space are founded on various sorts of individual and collective experiences, while the models of representing some places are created on the foundation of various fragments - layers from direct environment, everyday routines, parts of history, culture and society, which build and form the process of thinking and perception. Spaces, places, towns, various landscapes, displacement, no-places and the construction of identity in spaces "between" are the central interests of Ana Bilankov' s work. They correspond with social and political or historic context of the place in which they are realized, but at the same time they reflect the inner psychological conditions, experiences, personal stories and traumas. In adverbs of places I position myself – geographically, culturologically, phenomenologically, psychologically, asserts the author.
(Branka Bencic, independent curator, researcher and writer, in: Flyer for the Video Screening in Kino Tuskanac, Zagreb, 2011)
Interview: Poetski aktivizam Ana Bilankov, Art Magazine Kontura >> (pdf)
