Janez Jan_a¨

Janez Jan_a¨COLOR VERSION In 2007, three Slovenian artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and officially changed their names to Janez Jan_a. While they renamed themselves for personal reasons, the boundaries between their lives and their art began to blur in numerous and unforeseen ways. The catalogue of Janez Jan_a the anthological exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta and presented in 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

COLOR VERSION // In 2007, three Slovenian artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and officially changed their names to Janez Jan_a. While they renamed themselves for personal reasons, the boundaries between their lives and their art began to blur in numerous and unforeseen ways.
The catalogue of Janez Jan_a¨ Ð the anthological exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta and presented in 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) in Ljubljana Ð presents a comprehensive selection of works and projects produced by Janez Jan_a, Janez Jan_a and Janez Jan_a over the last ten years Ð most of them arising as collateral effects of the name change or other life events related to it. The publication raises some universal questions about identity in the age of biopolitics and about art in the age of information, and it casts the Jan_asÕ story into the future by announcing the registration of the Janez Jan_a name as a trademark for the next ten years.