Žiga Koritnik's “JAZZY-GA!”
In Der Schillerstrasse 106
10625 Berlin – Charlottenbourg
Vernissage: Monday 31.10.2016 H. 7.00
PM
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| Paul Lovens photographed by Ziga Koritnik |
Žiga Koritnik has been capturing
images of musicians since 1987. He lives and works in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, where he is a regular guest on the music scene and
documents the Ljubljana jazz festival, the Druga godba festival,
concerts in Cankarjev dom and various other events across Europe,
both large and small, including Saalfelden jazz festival,
Konrontationen in Nickelsdorf, Vienna jazz festival in Austria,
Musique Mettisses in Angouleme, France, Womad in Reading, England and
the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia, Musica Sulle Bocche,
Sardegna-Italy, and the Vision festival in New York. Since 1996 he
has been a resident photographer of the Skopje jazz festival in
Macedonia, where each year a calendar with his photos is published.
In 2001 he held a major exhibition at the Skopje City Museum to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of the festival, which was accompanied
by a book predominantly featuring Koritnik's photographs. In 2001 he
spent seven weeks in New York, where he documented the Vision
Festival and became acquainted with the musical and artistic events
in the city. He was afforded the opportunity to exhibit in the
Kavehaz Gallery in Soho. In June 2006 he was invited back to New York
to exhibit his work at the Vision jazz festival, at the Angel
Orensanz Center. His photographs are regularly published in Slovene
newspapers and magazines (including Delo, Mladina, Muska, and
Fotografija) as well as in international publications (Time Out, Jazz
Times, Jazziz, Signal to Noise, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Ballett
Internationale, Village Voice, All About Jazz, Downbeat, Jazznyt,
etc.).
He is also involved in theater photography and has regularly
collaborated with Mladinsko gledališče Ljubljana. He has worked
with Iztok's Kovač's En-Knap dance company, documenting
performances, and shooting an accompanying film of their performance
Daleč od spečih psov (Far from Sleeping Dogs), as well as a film
about composer Vinko Globokar, Krotilci časa (The Time Tamers) and
Metod Pevec’s film Beneath Her Window, which got many awards at the
Slovenian Film Festival and was the Slovenian candidate for the
Academy Awards in 2005. From 1989 until August of 2006 he has been
employed by the Slovenia’s national television station, Televizija
Slovenija, as a TV and film cameraman, and has worked with directors
Maja Weiss, Peter Braatz, Amir Muratović, Sašo Podgoršek and
Michael Benson, and others. In 2001 he documented the making of Peter
Greenaway's Map to Paradise exhibition in Ljubljana, which was later
that year followed by the publication of a book with extracts from
his documentation of Greenaway's film, the creation of which is still
underway. In 1996 he self-published a book of photographs entitled
Jazzyga! (Jazz-It!). To mark the occasion, he held an exhibition at a
major European jazz festival in Saalfelden, Austria. He was invited
back to the festival in 2003.
His photos have also appeared in many
books by other authors, including a book on the sculptor Jakov Brdar,
whose sculpting of general Rudolf Meister he documented, and Colours
of Music, published on the 20th anniversary of the Saalfelden Jazz
Festival. Žiga Koritnik also created the cover of the Slovene
translation of Miles Davis’ autobiography. He invited photographers
Mauro D'Agati, Raffaella Cavalieri, Matthiass Creutziger, Manfred
Rinderspacher, Jak Kilby, Luca D'Agostino and Enid Farber to exhibit
at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival in Slovenia. In 2004 he made a joint
photography exhibition featuring the works of Slovenian music
photographers. He has collaborated with the publishers of Mladinska
knjiga magazines, and the company Hit Nova Gorica. He is a member of
the Jazz Journalists Association. His photographs were included with
CDs released by labels such as Tzadik, Intuition Music, Nika Records,
Trost Records, The Thing Records and Leo Records. In 1997 the Italian
photo magazine Zoom featured a presentation article on Žiga
Koritnik. In 2005, his work was presented on 16 pages in Jazznin, a
Japanese jazz magazine. He held more than 60 solo and 40 group
exhibitions at home and abroad (Slovenia, Italy, USA, Austria,
Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Croatia, Serbia,
Macedonia, Monte Negro, Ireland, Japan...). Since 2005, he is a
regular visitor of Sardinia, Italy, where he documented the Musica
Sulle Bocche Festival, Ai Confini tra Sardegna E Jazz Festival, and
the Isola delle Storie Festival of Literature several times. In
collaboration with Tumbarinos di Gavoi and Jana Project, he published
their book about the Sardinian carnival in 2009. He still documents
the carnival every year. In 2009 he published a book of black and
white photo impressions of Lake Bohinj, Slovenia. He regularly
organizes music and landscape photography workshops at home and
abroad. He has received the Special Recognition Award at the Olympus
photo competition in Japan, and the Zlata diploma (Golden diploma)
award for the annual report by HIT Nova Gorica. The internet edition
of Encyclopaedia Britannica has an entry on Koritnik’s first
website, created in 1996 ( www.ljudmila.org/scca/koritnik/), under
The Web's Best Sites.
The Exibition will be held from October
31 to November 6
For more Infos:
http://www.zigakoritnikphotography.com/
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