1965, Eschenbach, Germany
Greta, 2021
Photography, collage, 29,6 x 21,3 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 05298
1965, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Down There Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (2), 1995 – ongoing
Series of 3 photographs, 30 x 42 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 05275 (2)
Nihad Nino Pušija is a photographer now based in Berlin. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1965, he studied journalism at the city’s university. Subsequently he worked as a trainee photojournalist and photo illustrator for the Bosnian independent daily newspaper Oslobodjenje in Sarajevo. Before moving to Berlin in 1992, he worked on photo projects and studied in England, Belgium, Italy and the United States. In 1994 he was at the helm for the project ‘Zyklop foto fabrik’ (Cyclops Photo Factory) in Germany, which involved a group of young artists who were forced to abandon their studies because of the Yugoslavian war. In the project, which was supported by Kunstamt Kreuzberg and NGBK (New Society of Fine Art), they explored the themes of Bosnia, refugees, conflict resolution, integration and Roma in Europe. Pušija attended Marina Abramović’s classes at the Academy of Arts in Braunschweig in 2001, and exhibited in Paradise Lost, the 1st Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007.
He chose to live and work in Berlin because he found there was no other metropolis in the world in which two divided halves were trying to grow back together. Trying to capture both the division and merging of the Eastern and Western Blocs, he explores Berlin as a microcosm of streets, food stands and park benches – as change is in progress steadily. In this context, the faces inhabiting the pictures become projections of events. He considers photography to be a medium for (re)gaining one’s identity and self-image, both for himself as an artist and for his subjects.
Aiming to communicate his own experiences as part of a whole, his portraits of Roma people make them and their unique personal stories the focus of attention. These photographs of individuals become defining documentaries for whole groups of people. Pušija’s artistic goal is to seek out microcosms where he lives and works, so that the resulting photographs defy the vague generalisations of his surroundings and daily life.
Source: romarchive.eu/en/collection/p/nihad-nino-pusija-1/
1965, Worthing, United Kingdom
Roma Embassy at The British Embassy Macedonia, 2023
Digital print, digital print on canvas, 37.9 x 50 cm.
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 05273
Biography
Le Bas told the Travellers’ Times that “I actually liked going to school which was difficult because I am the only one out of five of us that finished school. And then I had ideas about going to Art College.” She said that until starting school she had been sheltered from how racist people can be towards Gypsy Traveller people. Delaine Le Bas has shown her art extensively both in the UK and internationally, including at the International Festival of Singular Art, Roquevaire, France; the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, U.S., Transition Gallery and the 2005 and 2007 Prague Biennales. In June 2007 her work was included in the first Roma pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale. She took part in the Summer 2007 Prague Biennale. Le Bas participated in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, which took place September 7 – November 11, 2012 in Gwangju, Korea.
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1987, Uroshevac, Kosovo
Barking on the Clouds Doesn’t Hurt the Dogs, 2022
Welded iron letters and broken glass, 60 x 840 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 5308
1933, Modena, Italy
Italian Landscape 2, 1975
Color photography on paper, 24 x 36cm
Edition: inscribed b.l. Italian Landscape; b.r. Franco Fontana 75
Acquisition: Donation by the artist
Reference: 03080
1971, Skopje, Macedonia
Hypsifobia, 2000
Installation, wooden ladders, photography, text
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03978
1948, Prilep, Macedonia
Photograph No. 761, 1976
Black&white photography on paper, 58,5 x 69 cm
Acquisition: Purchase
Reference: 01948
1969, Ohrid, Macedonia
In Our Benefit, Made in Macedonia, 2002
Photography, plotter print on canvas, 240 х 350 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 04002
1954, Skopje, Macedonia
Andalusia / Kiss, 1978
Gelatin silver print on Ilford paper, 27 х 40,5 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 04483
*There are 133 works by Ivo Veljanov in the MSU photography collection. Made as a recording of continuous summer traveling between 1976 and 1982 the series centers around the nomadic movement and the hedonism of the unconstrained and fulfilled living of the moment.
1974, Skopje, Macedonia
Hand, Skopje, Macedonia, 2007
Digital C-print, lambda paper, 50 x 75 cm
Acquisition: Purchase
Reference: 04961
