PrivatePrint

03/09/2025

ПОСЛЕДНИ КОПИИ!

Две од нашите најпопуларни книги си ги бараат своите последни купувачи!
„На Скопје, со љубов! – Архитектонската мисла на Живко Поповски“, приредена од Анета Христова-Поповска и Мери Батакоја >> 490 денари
„15 Horror Stories by Women Workers“ од Кристина Божурска >> 350 денари
Не ја пропуштајте последната можност да си обезбедите примерок!
Пишете ни за нарачка или посетете нè во нашето студио.
Книгите можат да се набават директно кај нас или да ви ги пратиме преку брза пошта. Доставата се наплаќа дополнително.

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LAST COPIES!

Two of our most popular books are searching for their last owners!
“To Skopje, with Love! – The Architectural Thought of Zhivko Popovski” edited by Aneta Hristova-Popovska and Meri Batakoja [Macedonian only] >> 490 MKD / 8 EUR
“15 Horror Stories by Women Workers” by Kristina Bozhurska >> 350 MKD / 6 EUR
Don’t miss the last opportunity to have your copy!
Please send us a message to order or visit us in the studio.
You can purchase the books at our studio, or we can ship them to you by post. The delivery isn’t calculated in the price.

01/09/2025

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Ima li išta lepše od čitanja knjige pod ćebetom dok napolju rominja jesenja kiša? 🍂Evo naših preporuka dela romskih autora i autorki iz regiona, savršenog štiva u susret septembru i jesenjim danima koji su pred nama. Na listi možete pronaći ponešto za svakoga: od ilustrovanih knjiga za najmlađe čitaoce do romske poezije. 📚☕

Dela kojih romskih autora i autorki vi čitate ovih dana?

18/07/2025

A Bright Past is Ahead od Us:

Lara Reichmann
Disposable Bodies, 2024
Video installation, 10’

Galerija Škuc 21.6.-22.7.2025

Lara Reichmann analyses how marginalised bodies—especially women’s—are transformed within systems of labour, science, and technology. Merging historical fact with speculative fiction, she reveals how essential contributions are overlooked or mechanised. In Disposable Bodies, she reflects on the Women Astronomical Computers, using metaphor and poetic narrative to question who is remembered and how bodies become disposable in data-centric systems.
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Lara Reichmann (b.1995) is a video and animation artist based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work is often based on stories of forgotten, erased, or indefinable places and characters dwelling on archived history’s peripheries. Her recent projects focus on digital interfaces, glitches, and time lapses through which parallel virtual landscapes of satellite imagery are built.

📸 Matic Pandel

16/07/2025

A Bright Past is Ahead od Us:

Klelija Živković

Skills for Resurgence, 2024
Video, 20’

Costume for “Skills for Resurgence” video and “Who Taught You How to Feel Good?” performance, 2024
Synthetic fur
Costume designer: Magdalena Tanevska

In the Embrace of the Ones Who Know How to Decompose, 2024
Wet and dry wool felting, embroidery

Galerija Škuc 21.6.-22.7.2025

Klelija Živković’s artistic practice explores aliveness as a radical form of resistance—an embodied response to systems of oppression, inherited shame, and emotional suppression. Her work invites us to see aliveness not as a given but as a skill: something to be learned, nurtured, and shared. Through her works, Živković constructs spaces where emotional truths are both confronted and transformed. She offers a language for resilience—one grounded in emotion, collectivity, and the quiet power of staying present in a world that often demands disconnection.
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Klelija Živković (b.1989) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Formally trained across several design disciplines, her work is a theoretical, material, and experiential inquiry into boundaries, the physical, psychological, emotional, or spiritual barriers we construct to help us know ourselves as beings that occupy space and provide an interface for contact with our surroundings. 

📸 Maric Pandel

14/07/2025

A Bright Past is Ahead of Us:

Jaione Cerrato
Framed, 2025
A series of six posters in different sizes

Galerija Škuc 21.6.-22.7.2025

Jaione Cerrato’s practice critically examines how we frame, aestheticise, and distance ourselves from nature. Rooted in ecological thought and speculative futures, her work challenges the anthropocentric gaze that reduces nature to image, symbol, or resource. In Framed, Cerrato exposes our paradoxical desire to protect and control the natural world, questioning the aestheticisation embedded in everyday visual culture. Through minimal imagery and poetic text, she invites reflection on our place within a living, interdependent system in transformation.
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Jaione Cerrato (b.1988) is a visual artist with a background in graphic design, based in Berlin, Germany. Her practice is channelled through individual work and collaborations, one of which is the duo Cerrato–Halls, which focuses on the concept of value and its creation in contemporary society. She has collaborated with independent collectives and contributed to various institutions to generate meaningful discussion.
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📸 Matic Pandel

09/07/2025

A Bright Past is Ahead of Us:

Gjorgji Despodov
Where I Post From, 2025
Mixed media installation
Object 1: PLA 3D-printed segments, 3D resin figure, plexiglass cut-outs, lenticular print
Object 2: Light box table with vinyl prints

Galerija Škuc 21.6.-22.7.2025

Gjorgji Despodov explores memory, material culture, and speculative futures. His practice critiques societal norms and digital overconsumption, questioning what we preserve or discard and what legacy we leave behind. In Where I Post From, Despodov reimagines the technology as an artefact of the future. Through 3D-printed forms and fictional archives, he examines how data-driven societies construct meaning and heritage, prompting us to reconsider the roles and values passed to future generations.
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Gjorgji Despodov (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hague, Netherlands, whose practice is located at the intersection of physical and digital environments by using storytelling with familiar objects that serve as an extension of his personal experiences. His artistic practice exists within the intersection of physical and digital environments.

📸 Matic Pandel

07/07/2025

A Bright Past is Ahead of Us:

Enar de Dios Rodríguez
Above All, 2025
Audiovisual essay, 25’

Galerija Škuc 21.6-22.7.2025

Enar de Dios Rodríguez interrogates the physical and conceptual politics of space, revealing the infrastructures and ideologies that shape our sense of ownership, freedom, and belonging. In her video essay Above All, she turns her gaze skyward, challenging the romantic notion of the sky as boundless and untouched. Instead, she exposes it as a contested zone—occupied, surveilled, and exploited. Through poetic narration and layered visuals, Rodríguez resists linear storytelling, favouring fragmentation to provoke reflection on access, the commons, and systems that shape our environments.
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Enar de Dios Rodríguez (b.1986) is a visual artist based in Vienna, Austria, whose research-based projects reflect on the production of space and its sociopolitical and environmental consequences. In her artistic practice, the selective process of existing visual and textual material is a starting point for exploring the poetic and its political applicability. Her audiovisual works have also been presented in numerous film festivals.
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📸 Matic Pandel
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24/06/2025

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A Bright Past Is Ahead of Us

Opening 21. 6. 2025
Art talk and presentation 23.6.2025
Škuc Gallery

Artists: Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Gjorgji Despodov, Jaione Cerrato, Klelija Živković, Lara Reichmann

Exh 📸 Simao Bessa ⓒ Škuc Gallery
Art talk 📸 Gorjan Tasevski

23/06/2025

A Bright Past Is Ahead of Us
21. 6. 2025 - 22. 7. 2025
Škuc Gallery

Artists: Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Gjorgji Despodov, Jaione Cerrato, Klelija Živković, Lara Reichmann

16/06/2025

Next up, we have
A Bright Past Is Ahead of Us
21. 6. 2025 - 22. 7. 2025

You are kindly invited to the opening of the exhibition on Saturday, 21 June, at 7 pm!
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Artists: Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Gjorgji Despodov, Jaione Cerrato, Klelija Živković, Lara Reichmann
Curators: Ilija Prokopiev, Marija Hristova (PrivatePrint Studio)
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A Bright Past Is Ahead of Us explores the unsettling concept of generational promises – ideals and beliefs passed down through lineage that bind us to expectations we may neither trust nor identify with. Using the theory of fairy tale narrative codes as a curatorial pretext, the exhibition features work by five artists, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Gjorgji Despodov, Jaione Cerrato, Klelija Živković and Lara Reichmann, who envision narratives that challenge our understanding of human and social relations. Set in a semi-darkened space that masks unease, the exhibition contrasts fantastical and poetic elements with stark political, environmental and economic realities. It becomes a site for layered reflection and dialogue, guided by speculative design and documentary methodologies.
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The exhibition is co-produced with PrivatePrint.

The participation of Spanish artists Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Jaione Cerrato is kindly supported by the Spanish Embassy in Ljubljana – Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

16/06/2025

Miss Read 2025

Late spring in Berlin, golden days filled with books, conversations, and friends. What more could one ask for? A celebration of independent publishing, ideas, and the joy of gathering.

Thank you, Miss Read — for the inspiration, the community, and the pages that brought us together. ❤️

06/06/2025

Four Exercises in Uncertainty–
Careful Misreadings of Skopje
Judith Milz

30.5.2025

As the concluding gesture of her one-month artist residency in Skopje, Judith Milz presented a performative work. This multifaceted piece emerged from four workshops she conducted in various locations across the city, each designed to explore how individuals perceive, interpret, and reimagine their urban surroundings.

Rooted in a spirit of collaboration and experimentation, the performance was constructed from a rich assemblage of materials—texts, images, sounds, and gestures—collected from workshop participants and incorporated with Milz’s artistic responses. By combining these diverse perspectives, she crafted a layered and dynamic interpretation of Skopje, embracing ambiguity, contradiction, and the incomplete as generative forces.

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PrivatePrint Arts and Culture Residency is funded within the project “Circles of Temporary Merging” supported by the Goethe Institut Skopje.



📸 Aleksandra Kostadinovska