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 “I’ll 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.

·        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