A Conversation: Maja Ruznic and Cecilia Alemani

A Conversation: Maja Ruznic and Cecilia Alemani
at Karma New York
Wednesday, June 26, 4–5pm

22 East 2nd Street
New York, New York 10003

Karma presents a conversation between artist Maja Ruznic and Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, on the occasion of Ruznic’s exhibition The World Doesn’t End at 22 & 188 East 2nd Street, New York, on view from June 26-August 23, 2024.

Maja Ruznic (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vivid paintings that hybridize figuration and abstraction. Painting variably with oils and gouache on immense and small scales alike, she extracts order from layers of diluted pigment. Ruznic’s practice is informed by her studies, from Slavic shamanism and alchemy to Jungian psychoanalysis and sacred geometry. Imbued with a discordant beauty, her compositions emerge without a premeditated outcome. Ruznic’s introspective, mystical approach places her into a lineage of visionary painters including Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint. Ruznic lives in Placitas, New Mexico.

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. Currently, she is also overseeing the 12th edition of the SITE Santa Fe International, scheduled to open in June 2025. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams, which was visited by over 800,000 visitors.