Yugoexport
All Classifications Will Lose Their Grip
19 Feb - 01 May 2022
Irena Haiduk, Voice Base, Seductive Exacting Realism Waiting Room, documenta 14, produced by Yugoexport, 2017. Inox, microphone hardware, botanical matter. Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger.
Irena Haiduk, Siren Bay, Seductive Exacting Realism, 2015. The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago.
Irena Haiduk, Means and Ends, produced by Yugoexport, 2017, Waiting Room, documenta 14. Arandjelovac marble, striking paper, matches, Marcel Proust’s Complete Works Vol 1-13 (Zagreb: Zora, 1965). Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger.
Irena Haiduk, Spinal Discipline: Julia Allnoch, Isabella Artadi, Mustafa Boğa, Annika Katja Boll, Beryl Chepkirui, Mona Eing, Ozgür Genc, Mila Gligorić, Josefine Mundri, Andara Shastika, Wenti Sheng and Alma Weber working, Kassel, produced by Yugoexport, 2017. Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger.
Irena Haiduk, Disciplina Kičme Kapitel, Tomas Lov Radi (Spinal Discipline Capital, Thomas Love Working), produced by Yugoexport, 2017. Photo: David Born.
Irena Haiduk, Contract Form B-02, produced by Yugoexport, 2017, Transactional Area, documenta 14. Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger.
Irena Haiduk, Remaster, Hella Working in Apartment 50, produced by Yugoexport, 2020. Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger.
Irena Haiduk, Remaster, Hella Reading in Apartment 50, produced by Yugoexport, 2020. Photo: Anna Shteynshleyger.
January 1, 2021 marked the beginning of the 'Initiative for Trade Aesthetics (ITA)', a long-term collaboration between Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and the oral corporation Yugoexport. So far, ITA has supported the writings of Irena Haiduk, who heads Yugoexport since 2015. Two collections of writing Studio Feelings and All Classifications Will Lose Their Grip have propelled production of accessories, scripts, sets, animated films, educational and performance programs, some of which will find form in the upcoming exhibition. The overlapping of aesthetic and economic production powers Yugoexport's work, and serves as a starting point for the first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland.
Yugoexport is a blind, non-aligned, oral corporation modeled after the self-managed, autonomous, unofficial organizations and experimental clubs within the larger state infrastructure of the former Yugoslavia. Incorporated in the United States (where corporations are people), launched in Paris and headquartered in Belgrade, she is a copy or an avatar of Jugoeksport, a defunct Yugoslav apparel manufacturer and weapons exporter.
The exhibition by Yugoexport is sponsored by LANDIS & GYR STIFTUNG.
The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is supported by Stadt St.Gallen, Kulturförderung Kanton St.Gallen, Swisslos, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, E. Fritz und Yvonne Hoffmann-Stiftung, Martel AG and Kulturförderung Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
The educational programme is made possible by Raiffeisen.
Yugoexport is a blind, non-aligned, oral corporation modeled after the self-managed, autonomous, unofficial organizations and experimental clubs within the larger state infrastructure of the former Yugoslavia. Incorporated in the United States (where corporations are people), launched in Paris and headquartered in Belgrade, she is a copy or an avatar of Jugoeksport, a defunct Yugoslav apparel manufacturer and weapons exporter.
The exhibition by Yugoexport is sponsored by LANDIS & GYR STIFTUNG.
The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is supported by Stadt St.Gallen, Kulturförderung Kanton St.Gallen, Swisslos, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, E. Fritz und Yvonne Hoffmann-Stiftung, Martel AG and Kulturförderung Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
The educational programme is made possible by Raiffeisen.