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Make a Wish
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka
Rijeka, 2023
The exhibition Make a Wish continues to present artists from Rijeka’s art scene who came of age in the nineties and found more stimulating working conditions abroad. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Ukić attended the Academy in Düsseldorf (2000-2004), where he remained, with occasional activities on the local scene, primarily in Zagreb, Split and Rijeka.
The current exhibition features new large-scale works of demanding production, developed in dialogue with space and indirectly pointing to the building’s history and its repurposing from industrial use to a museum. In addition to smaller-scale wall art, the exhibition is based on objects between sculptural pieces and architecture, with an interest in the research of materials as a significant starting point, yet with new preoccupations and focal points. Whilst before he regarded matter as an independent component of his work, partly tamed in a random form it provides, now it immerses us into a physical experience of space where the visitor’s body becomes an important component. The exhibition itself takes the form of a stage and a visitor takes part with their own presence, in a dilemma before Ukić’s ambiguous objects which belong to the world of both everyday life and fiction, to both the familiar and the abhorrent (Make a Wish!)
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Nikola Ukić, Fugue 2023
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
concrete, reinforcing wires, styrofoam, wood, PVC pipes, electric motors, electronics, motion sensors, 770 x 730 x 17 cm
Nikola Ukić, Fugue 2023, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
Nikola Ukić, Fugue 2023, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
concrete, reinforcing wires, styrofoam, wood, PVC pipes, electric motors, electronics, motion sensors, 770 x 730 x 17 cm
Nikola Ukić, Fugue 2023, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
concrete, reinforcing wires, styrofoam, wood, PVC pipes, electric motors, electronics, motion sensors, 770 x 730 x 17 cm
Nikola Ukić, Untitled (Ducts) 2022
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
ducts, concrete, wood
Nikola Ukić, Untitled (Ducts) 2022
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
ducts, concrete, wood
Nikola Ukić, Untitled (Ducts) 2022
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
ducts, concrete, 20 x 82 x 174 cm
Nikola Ukić, Untitled (Ducts) 2022
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
ducts, concrete; Front: 15 x 74 x 177 cm, behind: 20 x82 x 174 cm
Nikola Ukić, Untitled (Ducts) 2022
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
ducts, concrete, wood, 24 x 74 x 151 cm
Nikola Ukić, Untitled (Ducts) 2022, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
ducts, concrete, wood, 24 x 74 x151 cm
Performance: Morgen, Morgen, Gestern, Gestern, 2023,
Performance concept: Thea Henken, Bastian Buddenbrock, Nikola Ukić
Performers: Thea Henken, Bastian Buddenbrock
Duration: 30 min
Nikola Ukić, Symmetry of the time 2007-2021
A group of 20 Works, Acrylic blobs on the old catalog pages, taken apart and reassembled with two different halves.
Framed dimensions: 40 x 52,5 cm
Performance: Morgen, Morgen, Gestern, Gestern, 2023,
Performance concept: Thea Henken, Bastian Buddenbrock, Nikola Ukić
Performers: Thea Henken, Bastian Buddenbrock
Duration: 30 min
Nikola Ukić, Symmetry of the time 2007-2021
Acrylic blobs on the old catalog pages, taken apart and reassembled with two different halves.
Framed dimensions: 40 x 52,5 cm
Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, printV
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Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, print
Variable dimensions
Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, print
Variable dimensions
Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, print
Variable dimensions
Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, print
Variable dimensions
Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, print
Variable dimensions
Nikola Ukić, Circle Dance 2023, detail
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Polyurethane, wire, print
Variable dimensions
Nikola Ukić, You, you, you, I, II 2021
Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
Found bubble wrap used for art packing, variable tapes with marks of Art handling & Transportation companies
dimensions: 166 x 149, 194x150
All photographs’ credits: Hrvoje Franjić
© Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka
© Nikola Ukić