Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid
contact: margrz@zrc-sazu.si
Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid have been working with video since 1982. They participated in more than 40 video art projects, shot a 16mm short film and created numerous video and media installations; they independently directed several video documentaries and television productions.
In 1997, they created an interactive CD-ROM for the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Gržinić and Šmid presented and exhibited their video works and video installations at more than 100 video festivals around the world and received several important awards for their video production.
Marina Gržinić (1958) holds a PhD in philosophy and works as a Principal Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) in Ljubljana. She also works as a freelance media theorist, art critic and curator. Gržinić is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has published hundreds of articles and essays, as well as numerous books.
Aina Šmid (1957) is an art historian. She was editor of a design magazine in Ljubljana and worked as a freelance writer.
Gržinić and Šmid had several presentations of their video films in 2022 and their work was also presented in two lectures by Marina Gržinić at ERG (Brussels) and ISELP (Brussels). The program was organized by Cinematek Brussels (Christophe Piette, Iris Lafon, Magali Michaux, Velerie Leclercq participated).
Marina Gržinić is a curator of the exhibitions SLOVENIAN PUNK & PHOTOGRAPHY (5. 12. 2023 – 11. 2. 2024, Galerija CD, Ljubljana); PUNK. SUBCULTURE. SOCIALISM. ARCHIVES OF THE FUTURE. PHOTOGRAPHY FROM SLOVENIA. (27. 4. 2024–26. 5. 2024, A.K.T; Pforzheim, Germany); PUNK. SUBCULTURE. SOCIALISM. ARCHIVES OF THE FUTURE. PHOTOGRAPHY FROM SLOVENIA. (03. 08. 2024–28. 09. 2024, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria).
COLLABORATIONS:
From 2010 to 2012 Gržinić and Šmid collaborated with Zvonka Simčič. From 2016 to 2018 Gržinić collaborated with curator and artist Aneta Stojnić. Since 2020, she has been collaborating with Tjaša Kancler and Jovita Pristovšek.
In 2023 Marina Gržinić in collaboration with Tjaša Kancler and Jovita Pristovšek made the experimental-feature length documentary video film Insurgent Flows. Trans*Decolonial and Black Marxist Futures (2023), and co-authored with them the exhibition INSURGENT FLOWS. THRIVING OF BLACK, BROWN, INDIGENOUS, QUEER AND TRANS VITALITIES. WHITE TOPOGRAPHIES OF COERCION AND EMANCIPATION (21.09.2023 –10.11.2023, KiG! Kultur in Graz, Austria).
BOOKS AND DIGITAL PRESENTATIONS:
In 2004, a DVD compilation of their works from the 1990s to 2003 was realized in Vienna as part of the project INDEX. https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/indexedition/release/5/
The book Moments of Decision: Performative, Political, and Technological was published in Slovenian in 2006 under the editorship of Marina Gržinić and Tanja Velagić (Založniško društvo ZAK, Ljubljana).
In 2009, a book entitled New-Media Technology, Science, and Politics: The Video Art of Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid (Loecker Verlag, Vienna) was published in English, edited by Marina Gržinić and Tanja Velagić.
RETROSPECTIVE PRESENTATIONS:
In 2003, a retrospective entitled MARINA GRŽINIĆ / AINA ŠMID (1985–2003) was held at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany.
In 2011, a retrospective entitled MARINA GRŽINIĆ / AINA ŠMID, 30 YEARS: 26 WORKS IN 5 PARTS (screening of video works from 1982 to 2011) was held in Belgium at the Galerie D.O.R. in Brussels.
In 2017, a large retrospective exhibition with new works and installations titled Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid – RADICAL CONTEMPORANEITY: 35 years of work revisited (1982–2017), curated by Aneta Stojnić, took place at Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt, Austria.
In 2022 Marina Gržinić authored the exhibition ODPADNIŠKE ZGODOVINE | STORIE DISSIDENTI | DISSIDENT HISTORIES (1982–2022), Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid (25. 11. 2022 – 28. 2. 2023, Galerija Loža Koper, Piran Coastal Galleries). The curator of the exhibition is dr. Mara Ambrožič Verderber.