Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremić are artists whose research-oriented work comprises installations and artistic interventions in public space. In their collaborative practice, Rena & Vladan explore the relation between art and politics, unveiling the contradictions of today’s societies. They use techniques that are easy to reproduce and distribute such as drawing and prints, and simple materials such as textile, cardboard and wood, and they insist on their artistic production’s use value, social and ecological awareness. They develop the transformative potentials of art in the context of social struggles and in collaboration with social movements. They have recently exhibited at MUAC, Mexico City; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Creative Time Summit, Miami; nGbK, Berlin; Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim; Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Kibla, Maribor; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje; Galleria del Progetto, Milano; Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki; Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn; Intercultural Museum, Oslo; 49th and 56th October Salon, Belgrade; Cultural Center of Serbia, Paris; EKKM, Tallinn; P74 Gallery, Ljubljana; 1st and 4th Autostrada Biennale, Prizren; Kaapelin Gallery and Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki; Politics of Dissonance in the framework of Manifesta 12, Palermo; rotor, Graz; Borey Art Center, Sankt-Peterburg; Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Krasnodar; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad; Tirana Art Lab, Tirana; Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade; 18th Tallinn Print Triennial (ArtLeaks); Kuslev’s House, Podgorica; The Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad; 32^nd Nadežda Petrović Memorial in Čačak and Survial Kit 15 in Riga, Latvia.

http://raedle-jeremic.net

Transformatorium

Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, 4. June – 4. July 2021.

https://raedle-jeremic.net/transformatorium.html

Transformatorium, catalogue of the exhibition
Published by: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Editors: Vladan Jeremić, Rena Rädle, Maja Ćirić
Authors: Maja Ćirić, Corina L. Apostol, Rena Rädle, Vladan Jeremić

https://raedle-jeremic.net/pdfs/raedle-jeremic_transformatorium_msuv_2021_web.pdf

Paris Commune Revisited

Installation, cardboard and wood, various dimensions, acrylic on cardboard, 2019–
Paris Commune Revisited, HD video, 11 min., 2022.

Rena & Vladan’s aim was to create art objects that could be transformed into objects that have a use value and to share them as a common good. They met up with different groups in Tirana and discussed with them whether these art objects could be of use in their struggles. Finally, the objects were taken over by a protest movement against the privatization of public space which tried to prevent the demolition of the National Theater in Tirana. On the last day of the exhibition, the objects were carried on a protest walk to the occupied theater where they were erected as a kind of barricade, and served as a platform for the speeches of the activists. From then on, they became part of the life of the occupied theater. When Tirana was shaken by a strong earthquake in November 2019, the boxes were used to distribute clothes and food to people who lost their homes. In May 2020, during the ban on assembly due to the pandemic, the National Theater was violently demolished by the government.

The installation was developed as part of the performative exhibition Komuna e Parisit Revisited at the Tirana Art Lab in 2019, curated by Adela Demetja.

https://raedle-jeremic.net/komuna_e_parisit_revisited.html

Workers’ Collective

Newspaper Worker’s Collective, roto-print, 39 x 28 cm, 16 p., print run 1,000
Video, PAL, 5 min, camera: Rastko Popov, editing: Rena Rädle
Year: 2013

Workers’ Collective is an artistic intervention dealing with the historical experience of workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia as well as with the possible perspectives of workers’ organizing in Serbia today. Rena & Vladan edited a newspaper titled Workers’ Collective inspired by previous editions of the newspaper Bor Collective. The first number of Bor Collective came out in 1947 with the establishment of workers’ self-management. In 2013 it was published as the journal of the Bor Mining and Smelting Complex (RTB) and is issued by Serbia Zijin Copper today. Although it is still published under the same name, Bor Collective represents the views of the Zijin’s management, instead of the voice of the workers. The artistic newspaper Workers’ Collective was distributed among workers in front of the RTB Mining Company gate. The workers were invited to a discussion at the National Library in Bor with Dragiša Trujkić, president of the Independent Workers’ Union Bor, sociologist Milan Rakita, and philosopher Ivan Radenković.

Workers’ Collective was developed in 2013 on invitation by Dragan Stojmenović and in collaboration with the National Library in Bor

https://raedle-jeremic.net/workers_collective.html