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Son:DA is a creative alliance of Metka Golec, who studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, and Miha Horvat, who studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. They collaborate since 2000, when Son:DA was engaged as a founding member of the Klon:Art:Resistance group.

About

Son:DA creates in various media computer mouse drawings, space installations and mixed digital/analog installations and systems. It uses modern technology both as a theme and a mode of creative production. Their anxious heavy contour lines and deliberately simple flat forms depict the symptoms of an absurdly overwhelmed society struggling with alienation. Topically they speak (and link) new and old technologies, but in a critical and ironical way. Recently Son:DA exploring also the field of (audiovisual) performance. Son:DA widely cooperates and exhibits home and abroad.

Projects and awards

Since 2000 Son:DA have had several solo exhibitions at various venues in Maribor, Ljubljana, Celje, Koper and Ribnica, and have exhibited internationally in Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), the UK (Margate), Italy (Milano), Spain (ARCO, Madrid), Switzerland (Lugano) just to name some. Their work has been exhibited at numerous group exhibitions, in Rome, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Skopje, Belgrade, Graz, Bukarest, Zagreb, etc. Beside the participation on plenty of group exhibitions Son:DA prepared recently solo exhibitions in Maribor Art Gallery (SON:DA print), in Vaska Emanouilova Gallery in Sofia (Items of the Room) and in Mario Mauroner Contemporaray art in Vienna (Last Supper Alias not so Recent Works). In 2007 it exhibited at the 27th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art. In the same year Son:DA received the Golden Bird Award and the OHO Group Award.

In second half of 2010 Son:DA exhibits with Dobrila Denegri, Biljana Tomić and aksioma.org in Beograd, participates Cankar-Kurent at Borštnik Theatre Festival in Maribor and the Macbeth After Shakespeare in Seul (Korea), as well it works with Sanja Neškovič Peršin, Svetlana Makarovič and Robert Waltl in Ljubljana.

Cooperations

Son:DA has collaborated frequently with other artists, including visual artist Janez Janša and Eric Seymen, and participated in various multimedia, sound, animation, video and experimental film and theatre festivals (Prague, Gorica, Hiroshima, Utrecht, Berlin, Florence, Hull, Zagreb).

Son:DA regularly engages also in curatorial practice. They have also organized exhibitions and dialogues in alternative venues including a former Yugoslavian military bakery, now known as the Garage for Art Photography (gUF) in Pekarna. This space for solo exhibitions of photographic work exhibited photographers Primož Bizjak, Miloš Srdić, Nejc Saje, Damjan Kocjančič, Gian-Luca Faccio and Borut Peterlin, and by female photographers Magda Tothova, Christine Tsilidis, Janja Glogovac, ECLIPSE, Manca Juvan and Rita Nowak. In 2006 the Garage published two books entitled 'the male/the female positions at gUF', which presented a photo documentation of the Garage exhibitions and their installation. Curatorial projects since 2004 have also included DI_alog (Maribor Art Gallery), ToX-edition (KIBLA Multimedia Centre, Maribor) and EX-garage (Gregorčičeva 56, Maribor).

Foundation Son:DA

In 2008 Son:DA alliance created a Foundation Son:DA to support new structures of funding contemporary art practice and research in Eastern Europe. In 2009 the painter Uroš Potočnik was granted.

External links

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-Metka Golec studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, while Miha Horvat studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. They have collaborated as [[son:DA]] artistic alliance since 2000, when son:DA was engaged as a founding member of the Klon:Art:Resistance group. son:DA creates in various media computer mouse drawings, space installations and mixed digital/analog installations and systems. Topically they speak (and link) new and old technologies, but in a critical and ironical way.
+[[Son:DA]] is a creative alliance of [[Metka Golec]], who studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, and [[Miha Horvat]], who studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. They collaborate since [[established::2000]], when Son:DA was engaged as a founding member of the Klon:Art:Resistance group.
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-Since 2000 son:DA have had several solo exhibitions at various venues in Maribor, Ljubljana, Celje, Koper and Ribnica, and have exhibited internationally in Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), the UK (Margate), Italy (Milano), Spain (ARCO, Madrid) and Switzerland (Lugano). Their work has been exhibited at numerous group exhibitions, in Rome, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Skopje, Belgrade and Graz. They have collaborated frequently with other artists, including Primož Bezjak, Samo Salomon, visual artist Janez Janša and Eric Seymen, and participated in various multimedia, sound, animation, video and experimental film and theatre festivals (Prague, Gorica, Hiroshima, Utrecht, Berlin, Florence, Hull, Zagreb). son:DA regularly engages in curatorial practice: they initiated and ran the 2004-2005 series of art photography exhibitions at [[Garage for Art Photography (gUF), Pekarna]] in Maribor. In 2007 son:DA received the Golden Bird Award and the OHO Award.
+==About==
+Son:DA creates in various media computer mouse drawings, space installations and mixed digital/analog installations and systems. It uses modern technology both as a theme and a mode of creative production. Their anxious heavy contour lines and deliberately simple flat forms depict the symptoms of an absurdly overwhelmed society struggling with alienation. Topically they speak (and link) new and old technologies, but in a critical and ironical way. Recently Son:DA exploring also the field of (audiovisual) performance. Son:DA widely cooperates and exhibits home and abroad.
+==Projects and awards==
+Since 2000 Son:DA have had several solo exhibitions at various venues in Maribor, Ljubljana, Celje, Koper and Ribnica, and have exhibited internationally in Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), the UK (Margate), Italy (Milano), Spain (ARCO, Madrid), Switzerland (Lugano) just to name some. Their work has been exhibited at numerous group exhibitions, in Rome, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Skopje, Belgrade, Graz, Bukarest, Zagreb, etc. Beside the participation on plenty of group exhibitions Son:DA prepared recently solo exhibitions in [[Maribor Art Gallery]] (SON:DA print), in Vaska Emanouilova Gallery in Sofia (Items of the Room) and in Mario Mauroner Contemporaray art in Vienna (Last Supper Alias not so Recent Works). In 2007 it exhibited at the 27th [[Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art]]. In the same year Son:DA received the [[Golden Bird Award]] and the [[OHO Group Award]].
+In second half of 2010 Son:DA exhibits with Dobrila Denegri, Biljana Tomić and aksioma.org in Beograd, participates Cankar-Kurent at [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]] in Maribor and the Macbeth After Shakespeare in Seul (Korea), as well it works with [[Sanja Neškovič Peršin]], [[Svetlana Makarovič]] and [[Robert Waltl]] in Ljubljana.
+==Cooperations==
+Son:DA has collaborated frequently with other artists, including visual artist [[Janez Janša]] and Eric Seymen, and participated in various multimedia, sound, animation, video and experimental film and theatre festivals (Prague, Gorica, Hiroshima, Utrecht, Berlin, Florence, Hull, Zagreb).
+Son:DA regularly engages also in curatorial practice. They have also organized exhibitions and dialogues in alternative venues including a former Yugoslavian military bakery, now known as the Garage for Art Photography (gUF) in Pekarna. This space for solo exhibitions of photographic work exhibited photographers [[Primož Bizjak]], Miloš Srdić, [[Nejc Saje]], [[Damjan Kocjančič]], Gian-Luca Faccio and [[Borut Peterlin]], and by female photographers Magda Tothova, Christine Tsilidis, Janja Glogovac, [[ECLIPSE]], [[Manca Juvan]] and Rita Nowak. In 2006 the Garage published two books entitled 'the male/the female positions at gUF', which presented a photo documentation of the Garage exhibitions and their installation. Curatorial projects since 2004 have also included DI_alog ([[Maribor Art Gallery]]), ToX-edition ([[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]], Maribor) and EX-garage (Gregorčičeva 56, Maribor).
+==Foundation Son:DA==
+In 2008 Son:DA alliance created a Foundation Son:DA to support new structures of funding contemporary art practice and research in Eastern Europe. In 2009 the painter [[Uroš Potočnik]] was granted.
 == External links ==
 *[http://sonda.kibla.org Son:DA website] (in English)
+* [http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?action=webpages&k=2955 Son:DA on Kunstaspekte Website]
+* [http://www.galerie-mam.com/index/index.php?id=21&subid=2&nr=56&select=work Son:DA represented by MAM Gallery (Salzburg and Vienna)]
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