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Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

Chair Missing

original design by Vito Acconci & theft by Bogomir Doringer (Bigger 4)

What happens when Serbian artist Bogomir Doringer exploits stereotypical Eastern European identity and becomes a thief?

Chair Missing gave a clear and interesting answer to this question.

The opening was festively accompanied with music by DJ Vitamin K, because everyone needs their vitamins now and then.

  • Wanted

    Wanted -

    Missing Chair at Mediamatic

with:
Meet Bogomir

During Chair Missing, a documentation of the Illegal Chair Project, a work by Bogomir Doringer was shown at the premises of Mediamatic. Doringer's work touched on the issues of copyright, public/private, heritage, legality and the consumer society. For the Illegal Chair Project, Doringer climbed into a museum dumpster and traveled to Serbia.

WantedWantedMissing Chair at Mediamatic

Bigger 5

Throughout June, five young artists had their go at and with Mediamatic's project space. The project set off with only one artist in the first week, but it rapidly expanded up to five since one artist per week joined up.

Bogomir Doringer was the fourth artist to join Bigger. At that time, he was a student at the audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and was originally from Serbia.

Illegal Chair Project by Bogomir DoringerIllegal Chair Project by Bogomir DoringerMissing Chair at Mediamatic

Participants of Bigger:

27.05 Tunc Topcuoglu (Turkey)
11.06 Stefan Tiron, Bogdan Marcu en Linda Barkasz (Romania)
17.06 Rafaël Rozendaal (Netherlands)
23.06 Bogomir Doringer (Serbia)
30.06 Irina Birger (Israël) en Katja Sokolova (Russia)

Find your photograph on Bogomir's Flickr Page!