MLADEN BIZUMIC - MLADEN BIZUMIC (b.1976) is an artist who has exhibited at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; the 10th Istanbul Biennial; the 9th Lyon Biennale; the Zacheta National Museum, Warsaw; the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; the Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; the steirischer herbst festival, Graz and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand among others / He has studied at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts and Art Theory and Cultural Studies with Prof. Diedrich Diederchsen at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna / In 2004, he was a Frances Hodgikns Fellow at the University of Otago and in 2006, an Artist-in-Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin / Bizumic makes installations that appear like sites or scenes that await event of their occurrence / He sets up arrangements that are always 'works' plus their x value / The x value stands for a number of contextual factors that constitute any exhibition (location, architecture, exhibition duration, institution etc.) / There is a constant tension between the works and their display, the content and the context / Bizumic's practice is not about choosing one or the other but about the permanent, precise and playful change of attention values / This 'fills' space with time, opens up potentialities and creates new points of perception / For example, in his project for Freud Museum (for Her) in Vienna, Bizumic instals a vitrine of architectural fragments from Viennese buildings and paints them in the colour of their own shadows / These are accompanied by two commissioned works: a piano piece composed by his Vienna-born fiancée and a ‘psychoanalytic poem’ written by his mother, a psychologist / Local material including the built environment of Vienna, finds its way into a museum, reframed as a self-consciously ‘historical’ display, which, in turn, it is translated and abstracted in both highly structured and oddly subjective ways / For which is the musical note that figures the sound of a built form? What is the ‘unconscious’ of rubble that can be put into a poem?