Most Favoured Nation
2022
Most Favoured Nation, monograph publication, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Hatje Cantz, 2022
Most Favoured Nation is a publication accompanying Jasmina Cibic’s exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
Bringing together texts by Marijana Schneider, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, and a conversation between Tevž Logar and Jasmina Cibic, the publication situates Cibic’s work within broader geopolitical and historical frameworks.
Through installations, films, and archival research, the project traces how nations construct identity through culture—from world expositions and modernist architecture to political speeches, gift economies, and institutional display. It reveals how artistic production is repeatedly mobilised to stage ideological narratives, while also exposing the fractures, failures, and contradictions embedded within them.
Central to the publication is an analysis of Europe’s contemporary condition: the erosion of transnational solidarity, the resurgence of nationalism, and the increasing instrumentalisation of culture within political agendas. Against this backdrop, Cibic positions art as both a participant in and a critical mirror of these systems—capable of revealing the mechanisms of power while proposing alternative, collective futures grounded in feminist and transnational perspectives.
Works
C-type print
100 cm × 80 cm
Forged iron, scent, marble quarry rubble, taxidermy
390 × 600 × 490 cm
Single channel HD video, stereo
11 min 43 sec
Single channel HD video, 6 min 43 sec, 16:9, stereo
Single channel HD video, stereo sound
Single channel HD video, stereo
10 min 9 sec
Single channel HD video, stereo
13 min
Single channel HD video, stereo
17 min 13 sec
Single channel HD video, stereo,19 min
Three-channel UHD video, stereo, 25 min
C-type print
100 cm × 80 cm
C-type print
200 cm × 150 cm
38 cm x 38 cm x 14 cm
C-type print
100 cm × 80 cm
Engraved speculum
18 cm x 48 cm x 64 cm
Bronze
75 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm
74,7 cm × 6,7 cm × 6,7 cm
74,4 cm × 14 cm × 15,8 cm
Plinth (forged iron, wood)
110 cm × 130 cm × 66 cm
Curtain
390 cm x 940 cm
Kilim tapestries, iron, thread
180 cm x 140 cm each kilim
Forged iron
Dimensions variable
Performative installation
Wallpaper, gold paint, ladders, collage, durational performance
Dimensions variable
Credits
Sadowsky, Thorsten, ed., Jasmina Cibic. Most Favoured Nation, Texts by Maja and Reuben Fowkes et al., Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022 (German/English)
Exhibition Projects
Most Favoured Nation
2022
Drawing on the Most Favoured Nation principle of international trade law, the project examines how artists, institutions, and nations compete for visibility, legitimacy, and influence within contemporary systems of soft power.
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The Palace
2021
Staged as a theatrical environment populated by political gifts and their afterlives, the exhibition explored how culture becomes a performative tool through which political elites define what is representable in the name of the nation and the common good.
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The Foundation of Endeavour
2020
Tracing the afterlives of political gifts created in the name of transnational unity.
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The Pleasure of Expense
2020
Developed on the centenary of the League of Nations, The Pleasure of Expense reflected on the fragile legacy of internationalism and the political role culture has played in its aspirations.
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Everything that You Desire and Nothing that You Fear
2018
Through an immersive installation inspired by Expo 67 and Yugoslavia’s final appearance on the world stage, Jasmina Cibic juxtaposes artworks as souvenirs of a failed state with a stage set that reanimates its political imaginaries and possible futures.
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This Machine Builds Nations
2018
An examination of the cultural machinery of nation-building.
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For our Economy and Culture
2013
Commissioned for the Slovenian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, For Our Economy and Culture reimagined a national pavilion as a theatrical apparatus of statecraft, examining how nations mobilise cultural symbols to stage authority and construct collective identity.
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