Ana Cigon
Cheers to Women! A Performative Appetizer to Video Art
Ana Čigon works in the fields of video, film, and performance. In her projects, she engages with social and feminist topics. Her work often incorporates elements of humor and irony. She has held several solo exhibitions amongst them in Alkatraz and Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana; Kibela Gallery Maribor; Likovni salon Celje; Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina etc. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program) in New York, USA; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Museum of Modern Art and MSMU Ljubljana, among others. She is the recipient of the OHO Group Award (2009), a finalist for the Henkel Slovenia Award (2010), and a finalist for the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award (2010). She has also received several awards in the field of film.
"Cheers to Women! A Performative Appetizer to Video Art" was dedicated to video art created between 1995 and 2019 by Slovenian female videasts. Through the eclectic merging of written, spoken and performative quotes, Ana Čigon formed a performative tale, encouraging viewers to an in depth viewing of the exhibited works. In that sense, the performance was formed as an experimental historical overview, otherwise different from the classical critical texts, but nevertheless awakening the video archives, contemporising it and thereby encouraging a re-thinking of the meaning and position of artwork by Slovenian female video artists within the canon of art history.
courtesy Ana Čigon
Format
Performances
Document media
Video, colour, sound, 4:24 min
Issue date
2019
To be seen in
re.act.feminism #4 - Archival Chain Reactions, MSUM, Ljubljana, 2026