Curriculum
Vitae, short version:
Tanja OSTOJIĆ, born in
Serbia (Yugoslavia), on 19/08/1972, is performance and
multimedia artist from Belgrade, based since recently
in Duesseldorf as well. She has an M.A. from Faculty of
Fine Arts Belgrade from 1998 and from ERBAN, Nantes from
1999. She is active in the media of performance art, Internet,
video, theatre and writing.
CONTACT:
Tanja Ostojic
Acker str. 29
40233 Duesseldorf
E-mail: tostojic@web.de
Tell: +49
2118302667
SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS, performances and art
actions
2002.
Venice Diary, Museum of Contemporary
Arts, Zagreb, Croatia.
2001.
Crossing Over, performance with Klemens
Golf, Museum of Contemporary Arts Belgrade, Serbia.
2000-02. Looking for a husband with
EU passport, interactive international
web project + series of actions.
2000.
There is no rest until the renovation is
on, Solo exhibitions, Remont Gallery, Belgrade and
IZBA Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
2000. Illegal border crossing,
art-action, Slovenia, Austria.
1999. Would You Digitalize Your Soul,
performance, ICA, London, UK.
1997. Personal Space,
Hollywood Leather Venue, London, UK.
1996.
Hopscotch , performance, Student
Cultural Canter Gallery, Belgrade, YU.
Personal Space , exhibition
With S. Gajin, Gallery 12+, Belgrade, YU.
SELECTION
OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS and festivals
2002.
Uncertain Signs /True Stories, Badishe Kunstvereir,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
VideoMedeja festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
and Montenegro.
Oh, Curator, Rotor, Graz, Austria.
Devenirs, City Gallery, Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
2001.
Plato of Humankind, 49th
Venice Biennale, Italy.
Zero Gravity, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
Roma, Italy.
Digital Bodies, Ludwig Museum, Budapest,
Hungary.
SPAN2, Dilston Grow Church, London,
UK.
Dare to be different, City Gallery,
Fier, Albania.
Never Stop the Action, Rotor, Graz, Austria.
Personal Political, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
Perfect Match, City Shopping Mall,
Skopje, Macedonia.
Serbia File Fine Art Academy, Berlin Germany
Body
and the East Gallery Exit Art, New York, USA.
2000. Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum,
Stavanger, Norway.
Digital media festival, Maribor, Slovenia.
Oberhauzen video and film festival, Germay.
Serbia File Fine Art Academy, Vienna.
1999. SKIN DESTE Foundation,
Athens, Greece.
Witness, with André Stitt, PS1,
New York, USA.
I Wont You to Demand
Exhibited unofficially
on the streets, Venice Biennale, Italy.
Stirring, Streaming, Dreaming, Forum
Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.
10 Artist,Glassbox Gallery, Paris,
France.
Polysonneries, live arts festival, Lyon, France.
1998. MANIFESTA 2 Musée
d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Utopia, Chateau de Beaumanoar, Quentin,
France.
Body and the East Moderna Galerija Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
·
Grzinic Marina, Springerin, «Malewitshc auf
dem Venushugel von Tanja Ostojic» Band Vlll Helf
1/2002.
·
Milevska,
Suzana, exhibition cat. Uncertain Signs
True Stories, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002
(Ger. Eng.)
·
Grzinic
Marina, Szeeman Harald, Ostojic Tanja and Milevska Suzana,
Venice Diary, Museum of Contemporay Art, Zagreb,
Croatia, 2002 (Eng. Cro.)
·
Leoni, Chiara, Flesh
Art, «Ready to Rumble», decembar
2000-januar 2001, Milano, Italia, 2001.
·
Milevska Suzana,
NU, Nordic Art Review, «Spectacle of Invisible»,
vol. Lll No. 5/01
·
Ostojic, Tanja Ill
be Your Angel, 49th Venice Biennale catalogue,
Italy, 2001.
·
Ostojic, Tanja Nema
odmora dok traje obnova, Remont magazine #2,
Belgrade, 2001 (web version in English http://www.remont.co.yu/artzine).
·
Rose, Matthew web art magazine:
http://www.art-themagazine.com/paris3.htm.
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Slijepcevic, Nina "Art in
Yugoslavia", Metro issue # 2, Toronto-
Canada, March 2000, (English), http://www.window.to/metro.
·
Cubrilo Jasmina,Etre une
artiste, Profemina, Belgrade-YU, 2000.
(Serbian)
·
Ostojic, Tanja, edited
by: Gržinič, Marina, The body caught
in the computer intestines and beyond, by MKC, Maribor
and MASKA, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2000 (English and
Slovenian)
·
Howell, Anthony, The Analysis
of Performance Art, by Harwood Academic Publishers,
London, U.K. 1999.
·
Krivokapic, Jelena, ArtPresse,
Paris, January 1999.
·
Dimitrijevic, Branislav, "MANIFESTA
2", catalogue of the exhibition, Luxembourg, 1998.
(English, French and German)
·
KUNSTFORUM, magazine
No: 142, Oct-Dec. 98, (pg.319, 347 and 360)
(German)
·
Sretenovic, Dejan, Body
and the East, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 1998.
·
Ferre, Sylvie, Inter
magazine No. 71, Quebec, Canada, 98.
·
Cubrilo, Jasmina, Belgrade
Art Scene - the Nineties , p.105-107, Radio
B92, Belgrade, 1998.
·
Suica, Nikola, "Personal
Space" in ARTI vol. 36/1997,
Athens Greece.
·
Ostojic, Tanja and Gajin Sasa, Personal Space ,
published by Gallery 12+, September 1996. Belgrade. (in Serbian and English)
·
Cubrilo, Jasmina, Tanja
in First Person in A Look at the
Wall 1994-1996 , published by Radio B92, Belgrade,
1996. (in Serbian and English)
WEB SITES and LINKS
49th Venice Biennale Web Site: video interview
www.biennale24.com
London projects: www.span2.org
The interactive web project
"Looking for a husband with EU passport" http://www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic/
Three/Free postcards project: http://www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si/ostojic/
REMONT, Independent artists association, Belgrade http://www.remont.co.yu