I’ve been chosen as on of the three finalists to design & produce a sculpture for Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction prize trophy. Read all about it here : https://www.thebookseller.com/news/three-sculptors-shortlisted-to-create-womens-prize-for-non-fiction-trophy

September 2023 : participating in LET IT BE OVER ALREADY! – International contemporary art exhibition in Tállya, Hungary with video Story Which will Never be Finished. In words of curator Gulyás Gábor :

We all want an end to the killings, the war, the angry clashes that affect our society.

Let it be over already! Our pop-up exhibition was also created precisely to stand up for peace and express our displeasure with wars and atrocities through contemporary artworks. The venue for this is Tállya, which preserves a lot of historical monuments, which is also the geometric centre of Europe.

The exhibition opens at ten locations in Tállya on September 8, to display the works of artists who agree with or sympathize with pacifism. Several significant artists (American, Bosnian, Croatian, Polish, Macedonian, Hungarian, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian) will be featured in the exhibition, whose new works will make it worthwhile to come to Tokaj-Hegyalja.

In the unusual but exciting venues (the courtyard and cellar of the Lion wine hotel, the fish pond of the Lion wine estate, the wine bar, the Lutheran church, the Reformed church, the former Catholic girls’ school, the Mailloth Castle, the Hussite House, the Artistalle Studio House, the Creative House) we will see the works of artists such as:

Marina Abramović • Zsolt Carpenter • Žarko Bašeski • Zsolt Berszan • István Betuker • Blue Noses • Viola Boros • Imre Bukta • Lajos Csontó • Eszter Csurka • Peter TomažDobrila • drMáriás • Anna Fabricius • Viola Fátyol • László feLugossy • József Gaál • : Dalma Göncz • GrelaAlexandra • Jusuf Hadžifejzović • Sam Havadtoy • ImreMariann • Veronika Jakatics-Szabó • Adela Jusić • László Karácsony • Ábel Kónya • Vladimir Kopicl • Endre Koronczi • Levente Kőrössy Khayll • Gergő Kovách • Oleg Kulik • Bea Kusovszky • Károly Méhes • Kriszta Nagy• Ágnes Németh • Tomasz Piars • Konrad Pokrywka • Judit Rabóczky • Vlado Repnik • Botond Drunkh • Sára RichterSára • Lara Ritoša Roberts • Jiri Surovka • Tone Svetina • Victor Sydorenko • Borbála Szanyi • János Szirtes • József Szolnoki • Bálint Szombathy • Géza Szöllősi • Julianna Szunyog•Ilona Keserű • József Szurcsik • József Takács • Zoran Todorović• Kata Töttös • László Újvárossy • Ágnes Verebics • Tibor W. Horváth • Yoko Ono

February 2023 : Group exhibition at the University of East London, curated by Ric Roberts

https://uel.ac.uk/about-uel/news/2023/february/exhibition-rebuilds-life-amid-collapse-decline

https://www.poolagallery.net/en/events/?post_id=48&post_slug=multiple-authors-ruin

Glad to be a part Southwark Park Galleries 2022 Open, with the Story Which will Never be Finished, screening daily from 13 NOVEMBER – 3 DECEMBER 2022

https://southwarkparkgalleries.org/annual-open-exhibition-2022/

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EVENTS – EXPERIMENT 6 (weebly.com)

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Museum of Contemporary Arts of Istria, Croatia

Creative team

London : Klaudia Wittmann (performer) & Arturo Badinelli (film maker and cinematographer)

Pula : Ketrin Milicevic Mijosek (curator), Marko Racan (video producer) & Tatjana Merkl (musician)

Part of the installation consist of archived film footage from Croatian State Archives – Collection of Croatian Short Films (HR-HDA-1387) and the archives of FKK Jelen – Pula Film Factory.

The Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria kindly allowed us to film objects from their collection.

Special thank you for their advice to Ines Pletikos, Nevena Trgovcic, Larisa Drinkovic Skalic, Lada Durakovic, Marko Zdravkovic-Kunac & Alana Bradbeer.

Sound piece ‘Beautiful Happy Days’ dedicated to the loving memory of sound producer and friend Iztok Mravlje – Itz, who sadly passed away in October 2020.

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Hosted by MMSU Rijeka, FKK 2020 and Art Kamp Empeduja

CONTENT WITH PICTURES AND VIDEO LINKS TO FOLLOW SOON!

I was invited to exhibit and perform at Arterija 10 Festival – an international, multi-media event in Novigrad-Cittanova, Croatia curated by Jerica Ziherl.

An exhibition dedicated to contemporary performance art in Istria, held in a beautiful space of MSUI/MACI in Pula (my home town). The show will feature photographs, videos, objects and other ‘performance remains’ from a number of Istrian artists working in the field of performance art. The opening will coincide with the Night of Museums 2018, a free annual  and national event on the 26th of January 2018.

https://www.croatiaweek.com/night-of-museums-2018-to-be-held-across-croatia-on-friday/

I will be showing videos and photographs from PK Fiskulturnik performances together with ‘Yugo yoga : The Long March’ installation. During the opening night there’ll be 3 short reconstructions of my past performances introduced and hosted by my colleagues, art historians and performers Gordana Trajkovic and Tina Sirec-Dzodan.

PK Fiskulturnik is invited to lead audiences through a mass fiskultura exercise on the 24th of November 2017 during the Uniqlo Tate Lates event. We’ll be performing at the Turbine Hall at 6.15 / 7.15 / 8.15 & 9.15 pm. See you there comrades!

More information about the whole event can be found here.

 

Revolution Yoga is a 2017 take on PK Fiskulturnik’s Yugo Yoga piece (2008-2013) as a nod to 100 years since the Russsian revolution. It will be performed at Test Dept’s Assembly of Disturbance festival at Red Gallery, London on 6 & 7th Ocotober 2017.

Join PK Fiskulturnik in this participatory performances that fuses elements of yoga, archived physical exercises (fiskultura), poses from socialist-realist sculptures, revolutionary slogans and New age messages of self improvement. Whilst emphasising a need for theory to manifest itself as a practical deed, Revolution Yoga wishes to communicate through an act of embodiment – directly to and through the body. The viewers are invited to immerse themselves directly in the artwork thus arousing the spirit of egality and collaboration.

Final Yugo yoga performance this year will happen on 12/12/12 at Nottingham’s Spanky Van Dykes. More info about the event can be found at the link below

http://www.hatchnottingham.org.uk/?p=2391

Yugo yoga is a series of participatory performances that cross over visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archived physical exercises (fiskultura), poses and gestures from figurative revolutionary sculptures, political slogans and New age messages of self improvement. Coined from ‘Yugoslavia’ – (the country of Lara Ritosa Roberts’ birth that no longer exists) & ‘yoga’, the union, the performance revisits European communist cultural heritage whilst raising issues of collectivism & social happiness in contemporary society. It also draws a parallel between physical effort and determination of spirit – a need for theory to manifest itself as a practical deed. Yugo yoga is adaptable, site specific & responsive piece that wishes to communicate through an act of embodiment – directly to and through the body.  Since its conception in 2008, Lara has been  developing Yugo yoga both as a solo and group piece in a variety of settings and contexts:  from parks, city squares, clubs, theatres and galleries to workshops and conferences. The material is often presented as a group 20 min long ‘intervention’ or lately as a durational installation piece using projections. Yugo yoga featured at many festivals and events including Tate Britain (2010), Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade (2011) & Whitstable Biennale (2012) to name but a few.