All That we Have in Common @MoCA Skopje
All That We Have in Common
Waiting
Waiting is a series of videos taken at the last stops on the long-awaited railway connection between North Macedonia and Bulgaria, our EU neighbor. The railway connection has had several attempts to be build but has been in the waiting for the last three decades.
Participative project Homework
The Homework project’s aim was to develop experimental and collaborative forms of artistic practice where the focus was on the process and the possibilities that come out of that process. Our starting point on the online workshops was looking at examples of socially engaged art – a means to open discussions, draw parallels…
The Chorus Project
Visit the online theater festival and find out more about the Chorus Project, which is a collaboration between Upstart Theatre in the UK, Pathos München in Germany, Theater am Lend in Austria, and the MKC Youth Cultural Centre in the Republic of North Macedonia. It is co-funded by the Creative…
Book launch at Firstborn Girl, Festival of Feminist Culture
The art-documentary project 15 Horror Stories by Women Workers was presented at the Festival of Feminist Culture Firstborn Girl, together with Kristina Ampeva, president of “Glasen Tekstilec” and the founders of PrivatePrint and editors of the publication, Ilija Prokopiev and Marija Hristova. The book consists of 15 testimonies of women workers accompanied…
Virtual Exhibition at Private Print
The Workplace virtual exhibition is a direct continuation of the published book 15 Horror Stories by Women Workers, that has just been published by PrivatePrint as the first publication of the new Emerging Concepts Edition. The exhibition consists of three virtual special works completely placed in the digitally simulated studio.…
15 Horror Stories by Women Workers published by Private Print
15 Horror Stories by Women Workers is an artistic documentary project as part of the PrivatePrint’s Emerging Concepts Edition. Primarily, this book is conceived and realized as a fundraising project for support of the disenfranchised labor rights of the women workers in North Macedonia. With every sold book a contribution…
Trapped
365(Days), stone,cotton, thread;dimensions variable, 2018 Excerpt from Feminism for the 99% A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser Thesis 2: Liberal Feminism is bankrupt. It’s time to get over it. The mainstream media continues to equate feminism, as such, with liberal feminism. But far from…
Tangled Threads
Tangled Threads, object 18x17cm, installation dimensions variable, paper and text, 2019 The work ‘Tangled Threads‘ refers to the complex socio-political situation the countries of the region endure: transitioning from one system to another, huge unemployment, poor regulation of labor rights, increased access to cheap labor… As a result, the women…
Artist in Residence, Exhibition Opening at GaleriaKalo, Tirana
Photographs of the exhibition opening
Nationalism
'Nationalism', plates and dough, 300 x 20 cm, 2017 The grand revamp of Skopje that was announced back in 2010, over the years reached the cost of 680 million euros, a huge amount of money for such a poor country spent on sculptures, facades and new buildings. The Neo-Baroque makeover…
15 Horror Stories by Women Workers- Private Print Publication
15 Horror Stories by Women Workers- Private Print Publication 15 Horror Stories by Women Workers by Kristina Bozhurska is an artistic documentary project and is the first publication in the new PrivatePrint’s edition, Emerging Concepts Edition. Primarily, this book is conceived and realized as a fundraising project for support of…
Work will set you free
In Macedonia, the labor rights (and especially of the garment workers) are completely neglected and violated steadily, to every level. Their voice is unheard from the sound of the sewing machines, and their dreams are trapped in the daily struggle for survival. Arbeit macht frei, Ready made objects, sewing machine…
Set in Stone
For better or worse, capitalism is here to stay. The most affected of this system are the workers around the world whose lives are most savagely exploited and oppressed by the neoliberal political economy. …And we are failing to imagine a different economic system, one better suited to the needs…
It’s a trap
It’s a trap, It’s a trap,
Politization of debris
In this series of works, I was exploring the working conditions in Macedonia, and collecting personal stories of workers whose rights have been violated. Long working hours, low wages, lack of regular contracts, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions especially in the garment and shoe production industry are regularly the case.…
The Invisible
The Invisible, wall texts, 2015 Life size silhouettes of inscribed personal stories of workers from Macedonia whose rights have been violated. Bozurska Kristina, The Invisble, installation view, video and wall texts, 2015 The Invisble, wall texts, fragemnt, 2015 The Invisble, wall texts, fragemnt, 2015 In her latest works, the artist…
2013-2014
2013-2014,installation with objects- stone blocks and photographs, 300×180 cm, 2013 After the catastrophic earthquake that happened in Skopje, many artists from around the world donated works to the ruined city as a sign of solidarity. Since then, these important works are part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary…
Objects compressions
“… Generally, she will be encompassing the rubbish/litter & philosophy i.e. the relationship between the disposal and assembling the latter as a current problem and its negative impact on contemporary society and existence, thus creating a highly decadent social notion about the mentality and discipline on these grounds… Miniature objects…
Paintings compressions
Paintings Compressions, 2008-11 The aftermath of the constant innovation of capitalism is, of course, the permanent production of piles of leftover waste: “The main production of the modern and postmodern capitalist industry is precisely waste. We are postmodern beings because we realize that all our aesthetically appealing consumption artifacts will…
Garbage bags
Garbage bags in an abandoned space This exhibition renders the space as a piece of art. The work is previously conceived against the backdrop of ruined space and the orientation centers around drawings, videos and wall installation. The overall concept about this intervention begins and moves around a thankless material…
Lost and found
Lost and found identities Various of debris found on the streets carefully preserved in the jars and labelled with maps pointing out the place of origin using the Google map layout. Instalation view detail 3, Open Studio ISCP, NY, 2011 Instalation view detail, Open Studio ISCP, NY, 2011 Lost and…
Social art practice, published in Context, 2016
Телата и Мебиусовата лента Главниот акцент на своите проучувања на телесноста и субјективитетот Елизабет Грос, во своите дела Недофатни тела и во Простор, време и перверзија, го става на современите толкувања на телото, кои ги дели на две основни групи… Read More
Интервју за ОКНО/Interview for OKNO (only in Macedonian)
Здраво Кристина, според темите кои ги обработуваш изгледа како да живееме во интересни времиња? Прилично интересни, но за жал не онака забавноинтересни како што би сакале да бидат. Секој историски период секако има свои предизвици и борби кои придонеле за револуционерни општествени промени (право на глас на жените, усвојување на Универзална декларација за човекови права, итн.), но последниве случувања на глобалната светска мапа почнувајќи од сè поголемата популарност на десничарските националистички движења, бегалската криза, затворањето на границите и подигнувањето на ѕидови и бариери до забрани за абортус, нè наведува да помислиме дека и покрај сите цивилизациски придобивки … okno.mk 10.03.2017 Read More