ANA PRVACKI

Ana Prvački. Prvacki’s new paintings focus on bee imagerywhich has been adopted universally for its symbolic and political connotations, from

monarchs and the church to republics to trade unions. Bees have adorned Napoleonicrobes and have been used in IBM advertising campaigns, as well as provide evidence of thedelicacy and fragility of our ecosystem. They are one of our main pollinators, they are hyperorganized but also hypersensitive, with their actions being driven by intricate internalchemistry, pheromone signals and subtle choreographies, all qualities that connect themdeeply to our current environmental crisis.

There are approximately 20,000 species of bees; in Prvački’s new sculpture, The BeeMemorial, which pays homage to the European honeybee, Apis Mellifera, or as it’s knownthe Common Bee, a precious insect that has been on the planet for over 80 million yearsand now, in the 21st century it is nearing extinction. The sculpture is a 1:1 replica of aclassic beehive reproduced in black granite.

Prvački’s multi-faceted practice takes the form of diverse projects that draw onperformance, daily practices, consumer aesthetics, and popular concerns. Her projectsforeground experimentation in content and form their ephemeral nature both a strategy forcreating unique experiences and a nod to an environmentally conscious artistic practice.

Ana Prvački was born in Yugoslavia and lives and works in Berlin. Her solo exhibitions andprojects include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Boston; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Turin; Artists Space, New York;and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore. Her work has been included in thefollowing group exhibitions: the 57th Oktobarski Salon, Belgrade, Serbia, 14th IstanbulBiennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, Istanbul, Turkey 2015, Contour Biennialin Mechelen Belgium 2015, dOCUMENTA 13 2012, Sydney Biennial 2007, SingaporeBiennial 2006, and the Turin Triennale 2005. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the ChicagoArchitecture Biennial have commissioned Prvački’s performances. In 2019 she was the deYoung Museum artist in residence where she created a solo exhibition in collaboration withGoogle Arts and Culture and in October she will participate in the 2020 Bangkok ArtsBiennale and the Busan Biennale.