Projections // Chapter II: Speculating // SUPERPOSITIONS THREE

...they come to need each other in diverse, passionate, corporeal, meaningful ways.

Donna Haraway

Living Together is a program of artistic research and artistic production curated by Katja Anguelova and Lucrezia Cipitelli in the context of the SUPERPOSITIONS THREE exhibition series initiated by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Sofia (ICA-Sofia). The events are realized with the financial assistance of the National Fund "Culture" under the program "Creation" and with the support of the Municipal Security Company "Egida - Sofia" Ltd.

Riccardo Arena (b. 1979 in Milan, Italy. Lives in Milan, Italy) 

Artist, teacher, and independent researcher, Arena’s artistic practice is dedicated to creating evocative environments that, combining theoretical and visual research, are conceived as cultural devices of imaginative knowledge. Installations, films, visual reflections, narratives, seminars, and workshops intertwine in a constellation of expressive languages aimed at contemplating in the accidental the universal components that link distant stories, cultures, theories, and myths in time and geography. Animated by these tensions over the years, he has dedicated himself to the development of long-term investigations in various countries around the world: China “Four Times a Tree” (2006– 2008); Argentina “Dual Death Ellero and Visual Ecosystem” (2009–2012); Russia “Vavilon” (2013–2017); and Iran, Armenia, and Ethiopia “LuDD! - Topography of Light” (2017–2020). He is currently working on the “Geranos” project, born in 2021 from research on the history and archives of Monte Verità, Fondazione Eranos, Warburg Institute, and the Anthropological Museum of Mexico City. His works were exhibited at MUSEO ELISARION, Locarno (CH); KADOK Center, Leuven (BE); TRIESTE CONTEMPORANEA, Trieste (IT); MONTE VERITÀ, Ascona (CH); GALLERIAMILANO, Milan (IT); MAMbo - Bologna Modern Art Museum (IT); MATERA CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019 (IT); ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (ET); TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN ARMENIA, Merkurov Museum, Gyumri (AM); MAXXI, Rome (IT); IMMA, Dublin (IE); CENTRO PECCI, Prato (IT); QUADRIENNA-LE D’ARTE, Rome (IT).

Zbyněk Baladrán (b. 1973 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Lives in Prague, Czech Republic)  

Visual artist, curator and exhibition designer Baladrán focuses on the contradictions of the contemporary world and the possibilities of understanding them through art and artistic practice. He studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2001 he co-founded Display – Association for Research and Collective Practice, where he works as a curator and organizer. He participated as a curator in the biennials Manifesta 8 in Murcia (2010) and Steirischer Herbst in Graz (2012). From 2006-2010 he worked on the interdisciplinary project Monument of Transformation. He has participated in exhibitions such as Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian (2004), the 11th Biennale de Lyon (2011), the 56th La Biennale di Venezia (2013). He has exhibited in group exhibitions at MoMA New York (2015), Württembergischer Kunstverein (2019), etc. He is represented by the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery in Paris, Gandy Gallery in Bratislava, Hunt Kastner in Prague and the Salvator Rosa cooperative association. 

Emre Hüner (b. 1977 in Istanbul, Turkey. Lives in Istanbul and Amsterdam)

Working with drawing, video, sculpture and installations, as well as writing, Hüner’s practice focuses on constructed narratives and eclectic assemblages or structures, exploring the subjects of archaeology, failed utopias, technology, questions of progress and futurities through the reimagination of architectural entities, speculations on the language and the materiality of organic and artificial forms. The artist’s recent solo exhibitions include, Icononoclastic Nuclear Plastic, (RODEO, Athens, 2023), [ELEKTROİZOLASYON]: Unknown Parameter Extro-Record (Arter, Istanbul, 2021), Neochronophobiq (Protocinema, New York and STUK, Leuven, 2017), Hypabyssal (Marso Gallery, Mexico City, 2016), Floating Cabin Rider Capsule Reactor Cycle (CCA Kitakyushu, 2015), MAM Project 019: Emre Hüner, (Mori Museum, Tokyo, 2014) and Aeolian (RODEO, Istanbul, 2013). Hüner’s works also took part in various group exhibitions, including CMD P for 2079 (Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 2020), Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials (Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2018), Planet 9 (Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2017), 14th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2015), Manifesta9 (Genk, 2012), Younger Than Jesus (New Museum, New York, 2009), 10th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2007). His work is included in the collections of Tate, UK, Arter, TR, Centre Pompidou, FR, Princeton University Art Museum, US, Spencer Museum, US, Van Abbe Museum, NL.