biography
Education
2004-2006 Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, MA Fine Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;
1999-2004 University of Arts Belgrade, Faculty of Applied Arts, Serbia.
2001-2002 CENPI, Centre for Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art, Art Theory, Belgrade, Serbia.
Residencies
2010/11 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Amsterdam, NL;
2008 VIVID, Birmingham, UK;
2007 ISCP, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, USA;
2007 Platform Garanti Centre for Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey;
2007 TICA, Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania.
Grants/ Awards/ Nominations
2010 Nomination for Prix de Rome Visual Arts; Amsterdam, NL;
2010 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfornds, Ina van Doormaal Fonds, Amsterdam, NL;
2009 The 50th October Salon Award, Belgrade, RS;
2009 FONDS BKVB, Project grant, NL;
2008 FONDS BKVB, Startstipendium, NL;
2008 DKC, Research Grant, Rotterdam, NL;
2007 Nomination for De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2007, Amsterdam, NL;
2007 Nomination for the B.M.W. Award 2007, CBK Zuid Oost, Amsterdam, NL;
2007 Winner of Dimitrije Banisevic Mangelos Award, Belgrade, RS;
2006 Winner of Promotieprijs Award 2006, for the advancement of practice, Rotterdam, NL;
2005 Nuffic, The Netherlands State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, NL;
2005 Fond for Young Talents, Serbian Ministry of Education, RS;
2005 Felix Meritis Foundation, Mitra scholarship, the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture & Science,NL;
2004 Winner of the Aleksandar Tomasevic Award, University of Arts Belgrade, RS;
Solo & Duo exhibitions
2012 And In Between, Katarina Zdjelar and Thomas Locher, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, A;
2011 CIRCUS Gallery, Act I, ActII, Berlin, D;
2011 City Museum, Tobacna 001 Gallery, Today’s motto is ” Do one thing passengers that one helps”, curated by Alenka Gregoric, Ljubljana, SLO;
2011 Centre for Contemporary Art Celje, Katarina Zdjelar-Stepping In-Out, Celje, Slovenia;
2010 Centre d’Art Contemporain, I think that here I have heard my own voice coming to me from somewhere else, curated by Corinne Charpentier, Fribourg, CH;
2010 CIRCUS Gallery, Katarina Zdjelar-One or two songs, Berlin, D;
2010 ar/ge kunst Galerie Musum, Katarina Zdjelar& Michael Hoepfner, curated by Luigi Fassi, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy;
2010 Galería Valle Ortí, video room, Katarina Zdjelar-Shoum, curated by Nacho Valle, Barcelona, Spain;
2009 TENT., Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Katarina Zdjelar-Parapoetics, curated by Mariette Dolle, Rotterdam, NL;
2009 CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais, curated by Miguel Amado, Coimbra, Portugal;
2009 The 53rd Venice Biennial, Serbian Pavilion, But if you take my voice, what will be left to me?, Venice, Italy;
2009 LOOP 09, Mirta Demare Projects, Shoum, Barcelona, Spain;
2009 SKOR, The Precarious State project, Edition #3, Amsterdam, NL;
2009 Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Katarina Zdjelar- Speaking through each other’s mouth, Belgrade, RS;
2008 VIVID, The Perfect Sound, Birmingham, UK;
2008 Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Katarina Zdjelar-Everything is Gonna Be, curated by Joris Lindhout, Amsterdam, NL;
2008 Anne de Villepoix Gallery, Everything is gonna be, curated by Alexandra Fau, Paris, France;
2008 LOOP 08, Mirta Demare Gallery, Barcelona, Spain;
2007 CASCO, Office for Art, Theory and Design, Another Project, with Renee Ridgway, curated by Emily Pethick, Utrecht, NL;
2007 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bez prevoda, Pancevo, Serbia;
2006 Mirta Demare Gallery, Back to back by heart, Rotterdam, NL;
2006 Hedah, Center for Contemporary Art, Would that be alright with you if I bring my cat along, solo exhibition, curated by Suchan Kinoshita, Maastricht, NL;
Group exhibitions and screenings
2012 41st Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL;
2012 Art Gallery of Alberta, Rearview Mirror, curated by Christopher Eamon, Alberta, CAN;
2012 Muzeum Sztuki, DLA WAS/FOR YOU, curated by Jaroslaw Lubiak and Maria Morzuch, Lodz;
2011 Schaulager, When the Day‘s Loud Voices Do Not Keep Quiet, video screening, Basel;
2011 52nd October salon, It’s Time We Got To Know Each Other, curated by Galit Eilat and Alenka Gregoric, The Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrad;
2011 Frieze Foundation, Frieze Film, Rise Again, curated by Sarah McCrory, London;
2011 Galeria Fernando Santos, On not to, Porto;
2011 Slovak National Gallery, Iron Applause, curated by Lucia Gavulova, Tijana Stepanovic and Rita Kalman, Bratislava;
2011 MNAC, Museu do Chiado, Poetic Things That Are Political, screening program curated by Miguel Amado, Lisboa;
2011 CAME, Your center is my periphery: Lost in translation, curated by Rael Artel, Tallinn, Estonia;
2011 Kunsthaus Dresden, is that true? possibilities of (non-)knowledge, curated by Petra Reichensperger, Dresden, D
2011 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Rearview Mirror, curated by Christopher Eamon, Toronto,CAN;
2011 Hilger Brot Kunsthalle, 255 804 km², Young art from the former Yugoslavia, curated by Alenka Gregoric and Mateja Podlesnik, Vienna, AT;
2011 Seeing the Capital, Perla-Mode, curated by Jeanne Gillard, Nicolas Rivet and Laurence Schmidlin, Zurich, CH;
2011 SMART Project Space, Prix de Rome, curated by Una Henry; Amsterdam, NL;
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, The Curious Case of Ifs and Whens, curated by Radmila Joksimovic, Novi Sad, RS;
2011 Kunsthalle Basel, How to Work, video screening, Basel, CH;
2011 11th Go-East Filmfestival; Spoken Words and Misheard Lyrics, video screening curated by Katrin Mundt, Wiesbaden, D;
2011 Husets Biograf, Dutch Punch, video screening curated by Peter Taylor, Copenhagen;
2011 CNEAI, Centre National de l’Edition et de l’Art Imprime, Shoum, Paris, F;
2011 Labor, Lets talk about nationalism.Between Ideology and Identity, video screening curated by Rael Artel, Budapest, HU;
2010 ACF, Austrian Cultural Forum, Serbia: Frequently Asked Questions, curated by Branislav Dimitrijevic& Andreas Stadler, New York, NY, USA;
2010 ISCP, There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past, curated by Sandrine Canac and Marco Antonini, New York, NY, USA;
2010 ATELIERFRANKFURT, Fremd,curated by Corinna Bimboese and Heike Sütter, Frankfurt am Main, D;
2010 Fondazione Morra, Palazzo delle Sperimentazioni, Il Ventre di Napoli, curated by Patricia Pulles, Naples, I;
2010 Open Space Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Not Where from but Where to…, curated by Alenka Gregoric, Wien, A;
2010 NCCA, National Centre for Contemporary Art, VoTh, Ekaterinburg, RU;
2010 CRAC, Centre Régional d’art Contemporain, Memoria, curated by Milan Tutunovic, Sete, F;
2010 The Invisible Hand Politics, group exhibition at Y-gallery, curated by Rael Artel, Tartu;
2010 Pera Museum,Dutch Punch, WORM’s screening program compiled by Peter Taylor, Istanbul;
2010 III Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, screening of Shoum, Brazil;
2010 -OR- changes of art, group exhibition at Likovni Salon Celje, curated by Petra Kaps, Celje;
2010 For the Birds, group exhibition at Site Gallery, curated by Hilde de Bruijn, Sheffield;
2010 Indefinite Destinations, curated by Vessela Nozharova and Oyku Ozsoy, The Red House-Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia;
2010 255.804km2, curated by Alenka Gregoric, Gradska Galerija, Ljubljana;
2010 Waiting for Political Moment, video screening, Wolphaert project space, Rotterdam;
2010 Gestures, Postures and Beyond, video screening curated by Dovile Tumyte at National Gallery of Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius;
2010 >50% image, video screening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo, Amsterdam;
2010 Remote viewing. The best of LOOP, group exhibition curated by Paul Young, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona;
2010 For the Birds, group exhibition at SMART Project Space, curated by Hilde de Bruijn, Amsterdam;
2010 Borrowed time, group exhibition curated by Edet Bartz, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna;
2010 Art Sheffield 2010: Life-A User’s Manual, group exhibition curated by Frederique Bergoltz and Annie Fletcher, Sheffield, UK;
2010 International Film Festival Breda, Breda, NL;
2010 Vital Signs, Courtisane Festival, screening curated by Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz, Gent, Belgium;
2010 Second Scénario, la Box, group exhibition curated by Céline Poulin and Gregory Castera, Bourges, France;
2010 Searching Songs, group exhibition curated by Keiko Okamura, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan;
2010 Try different keywords, group exhibition curated by Glòria Pou, Barcelona, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Spain;
2010 Let’s Talk about Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, group exhibition curated by Rael Artel, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia;
2010 Lost&Found, screening program curated by Hilde de Bruijn, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam;
2010 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam;
2010 Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise, group exhibition orhanized by TAG, The Hague in collaboration with CTM (Club Transmediale), Berlin;
2010 Almost there, group exhibition curated by Minna Rainio, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center of Art, Minneapolis, USA;
2010 Lecture Performance, curated by Jelena Vesic, Kathrin Jentjens, Radmila Joksimovic, Anja Nathan-Dorn, CZKD, Belgrade;
2010 Indefinite Destinations, curated by Vessela Nozharova and Öykü Özsoy, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey;
2009 Morality. Act II: From Love to Legal, curated by Juan Gaitan and Nicolaus Schafhausen, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL;
2009 Сучаснае галандскае мастацтва,video screening curated by Magdalena Ziolkowska at YGallery, Minsk;
2009 Never Dance Alone, curated by Pascale Pronnier, Le Fresnoy, F;
2009 Galerija Nova Skola, Posao, Obitelj, curated by WHW, Zagreb, Croatia;
2009 Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.v ,.move,., Halle, DE;
2009 The 50th October Salon Circumstance, curated by Branislava Andjelkovic, Belgrade, RS
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2009 HISK, After All, Everything Is Different In The End, curated by Jens Maier-Rothe, Gent, Belgium;
2009 29th Graphic biennial, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
2009 Henie Onstad Art Centre,To be Heard is to be Seen, curated by Tone Hansen, Høvikodden, Norway;
2009 Jan van Eyck Academie, Voice weekend, initiated by Myriam Van Imschoot, Maastricht, NL;
2009 MACBA, The Uncertainty Principle / How fast does an idea travel?, curated by Chus Martinez and WHW, Barcelona, Spain;
2009 SUPERNOVA, Non Museum, video screening as a part of Museum Night event, Riga, Latvia;
2009 Etablissement d’en Face, Resonant Voices Bodies Memories, video screening curated by Anke Bangma, Lina Issa, Deirdre Donoghue, Katarina Zdjelar, Brussels;
2009 De Appel,Keep it to yourself, curated by Ann Demeester, video screening as a part of book launch of F.R David, Amsterdam;
2009 Foundation 3,14, Soft Manipulation or Who is afraid of the new now?, curated by Zoran Eric, Enrico Lunghi, Maria Lind, Bergen;
2009 Le Fresnoy, VIDEOS EUROPA, curated by Pascale Pronnier, Studio national des arts contemporains, Lille, France;
2009 Artprojx Space, Farewell Lemaitre, screening, London, UK;
2009 ARCO 09, Expanded Box, curated by Carolina Grau, Madrid, Spain;
2009 Tallinn Art Hall, Happy together. Critical reflections on collective identities, curated by Minna L.Henriksson and Mika Hannula;
2009 Piet Zwart Institute, Resonant Voices Bodies Memories, video screening curated by Anke Bangma, Lina Issa, Deirdre Donoghue, Katarina Zdjelar, Rotterdam, NL;
2008/9 Casino Luxembourg, Soft Manipulation or Who is afraid of the new now?, curated by Zoran Eric, Enrico Lunghi, Maria Lind, Luxembourg;
2008 Rawabet Theater, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, video screening curated by WHW, Kairo, Egypt;
2008 Human Rights Film Festival, The Right To Stay For All, Vienna, Austria;
2008 Norsk Kulturråd, video screening curated by Maria Bustnes, Oslo, NO;
2008 Art Forum, LOOP at Art Forum, curated by Sabrina Van der Ley, Berlin;
2008 Art Laboratory Berlin, Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded, curated by Elena Sorokina, Germany;
2008 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, The Right To Stay For All, Austria;
2008 Privremena zenska Mjesna Zajednica ELEKTRA, Dobre, hrabre, slavne, video screening organized by Sanja Ivekovi , Zagreb, Croatia;
2008 49th October Salon, Artist-Citizen. Contextual Art Practices, curated by Bojana Pejic, Belgrade, Ser;
2008 TINA B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival ,FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT, curated by Blanca de la Torre, Prague, Czech Republic;
2008 SPAPORT Annual International Exhibition, It is raining outside but I don’t believe that it is, curated by Ana Nikitovic, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
2008 Galerie Cortex Athetico, Le musee des recontres, curated by Alexandra Fau, Bordeaux, France;
2008 Halle fuer Kunst, Some things never change, screening curated by Alenka Gregoric, Lueneburg, DE;
2008 Magacin, YVAA, Belgrade, Serbia;
2008 LIAF 08, Towards a Future Present, curated by Taru Elfving and Rickard Borgstrom, Lofoten, Norway;
2008 CAM, The Chelsea Art Museum, The Promised Land, curated by Blanca de la Torre, New York, NY, USA;
2008 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Visibility Works, curated by Eszter Lazar, Budapest, HU;
2007 MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerpen, If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution, curated by Annie Fletcher and Frederique Bergholtz, Antwerp, BE;
2007 Finnish Museum of Photography, The nature of evil, curated by Aura Seikkula, Helsinki;
2007 ABC No Rio, Coexistence, curated by Antonio Arévalo and Raúl Martínez,New York, NY, USA;
2007 PARALLAX. A View from a Different Angle, New Visual Tendencies Festival, curated by Maja Ciric, Belgrade, Serbia;
2007 CBK Zuidoost, group exhibition curated by Maaike Gouwenberg, Amsterdam, NL;
2007 Open Studio, ISCP, New York, NY;
2007 Fries Museum, Buro Leeuwarden, Wolkom in it Heitelan, curated by Wouter Osterholt en Elke Uitentuis, Leeuwarden, NL;
2007 Kontekst Gallery, Mangelos Award exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia;
2007 SAT Gallery, Audio Lab, curated by Tobias C. van Veen, Oklahoma City, Canada;
2007 52nd International Venice Biennale, video program curated by Edi Muka, Italy;
2007 SC, Centrifugal, curated by Minna L. Hendrikson, Zagreb, Croatia;
2007 Mirta Demare Gallery, Art Athina fair, Athens,Greece;
2007 TICA, Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, Everything we want to know but didn’t dare to ask, curated by TICA curatorial team, Tirana, Abania;
2007 SMART Project Space, Tijdelijk Museum, group exhibition curated by Hilde de Bruin, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
2007 Platform Garanti Centre for Contemporary Art, Open Studios, Istanbul;
2007 Mirta Demare Gallery, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL;
2007 Freud Museum, Paranoia, London, curated by Predrag Pajdic,UK;
2006 PSWAR, Beauty Unrealized, curated by Angela Serino, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
2006 IAO Gallery, Upgrade!, AudioLab, Montreal, curated by Tobias van Veen, Canada;
2006 TENT., Center for Visual Art, Wherein certain persons…, Rotterdam, NL;
2006 HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, The Peekskill Project, Peekiskill, New York, curated by Blanca de la Torre García, USA;
2006 Artstore, Rotterdam International, curated by Han Goan Lim, R’dam, NL;
2006 Focal Point Gallery, Paranoia, Southend, curated by Predrag Pajdic, UK;
2006 Leeds City Art Gallery, Paranoia, Leeds, curated by Predrag Pajdic, UK;
2005 De Appel, Centre for Contemporary Art, Radiodays, curated by CTP 05, Amsterdam, NL;
2005 Prodajna galerija Beograd, Belgrade in the Past and Present Belgrade, curated by Marko Stamenkovic, Ser;
2005 Het Wilde Weten, How to send a message, Rotterdam NL;
2005 Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Orientations out of gender, curated by Deve, Belgrade, Ser;
2005 PSWAR, Relocated identities I. Overexposure, Amsterdam, curated by Eva Fotiagi and Tamuna Chabasvili, NL;
2005 Museum of Applied Arts, Think performance, Belgrade, by TKH, Ser;
2005 Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Round trip, Rotterdam, NL;
Book projects
Editorial
2010 Parapoetics Reader, published by TENT., Rotterdam;
2009 Resonant Voices Bodies Memories, co-editor, PZI & Revolver by Vice Versa;
2007 Another Publication, co-editor, PZI &Revolver;
Contributions
2009 TIME BOOK, TIME Festival, Gent, Belgium;
2009 NOA, published by Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey;
2007 The lost moment is the lost moment is the lost moment…, contribution to the book project by Bik van der Pol and Fatos Ustek, GfKFB – Kunstfabrik, Berlin, Germany;
2005 Black Friday, Revolver Books, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany and PZI, Rotterdam, edited by Christoph Keller.
Platforms and curated screening programs
2010 Waiting for the political moment, artists program, NL;
2010 Parapoetics, screening program, TENT., Rotterdam;
2009 Resonant Voices Bodies Memories, screening program co-curated with Anke Bangma, Deirdre M. Donoghue and Lina Issa, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, NL and Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, B;
2007 Guide of the reading group On voice in cinema and visual art, W139, Amsterdam, NL;
2006 TENT., Center for Visual Art, Being here two, film/video program curated by Katarina Zdjelar, Rotterdam;
2005-6 Pink Duck, co-initiator of a reading group at WDW, Centre for Contemporary Art and TENT., Centre for Visual Arts, Rotterdam, with Renee Ridgway, Thomas Michelon, Siebe Tetero, Bart van der Heide and Simon Ferdinando;
2005-7 Workin’ Progress.Open Call for a Closed Meeting, series of discussions initiated by Katarina Zdjelar at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam; Platform Garanti Centre for Contemporary Art, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.
Performances, Theatre and Radio Projects
2007 CASCO, Office for Art, Theory and Design, India Song, performance,Utrecht, NL
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2007 Huis en Festival a/d Werf, India Song, performance,Utrecht, NL;
2005 Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Thuiskomen, with and by Renate Zentschnig, Katarina Zdjelar, Gabrielle Uetz, Evelien van den Broek, Anne Karin ten Bosch, Rotterdam, NL;
2005 FIST01, Wardrobe, as drama writer and audio&video setting, directed by Vlatko Ilic, Belgrade, Ser;
2004 Serbian National Theatre, Crave, Sarah Kane, stage design, directed by Vlatko Ilic, Belgrade, Ser;
Lectures/ Presentations/ Symposiums/ Seminars
2012 Rietveld Academy, tutor photography department, Amsterdam;
2011 Rietveld Academy, tutor photography department, Amsterdam;
2011 AVA, lecture, Ljubljana, SLO;
2011 MA Artistic Research, guest lecturer, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, NL;
2010 Waiting for the political moment, seminar, BAK Utrecht & Wolphaert project spaces Rotterdam;
2010 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL;
2010 Mentor at the kiss – Kultur in Schule und Studium Die Siemens Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany;
2010 Public lecture at Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
2009 Lecture at the KABK, Den Haag, Netherlands;
2009 Public presentation and talk-Mladen Dolar and Katarina Zdjelar, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
2009 Lecture as a part of APENT FORUM, Art Academy Oslo, Norway;
2009 Voice day, Jan van Eyck Academie, initiated by Myriam Van Imschoot, Maastricht, NL;
2009 MONTE VERITA 2, seminar, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL;
2008 Public lecture at PAN Museum, as a part of Il Ventre di Napoli project, curated by Patricia Pulles, Naples, Italy;
2008 Public lecture as a part of MONTE VERITA 1 program, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL;
2008 VIVID, Birmingham, UK (presentation);
2008 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, workshop, Budapest, HU;
2007 ISCP, International Studio and Curatorial Program, presentation, New York, USA;
2007 If I can’t dance I don’t want to be your revolution, symposium, De Balie, Amsterdam, NL;
2007 You can’t judge a book by its cover, symposium, CASCO, Utrecht, NL;
2007 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland;
2007 Kontekst Gallery,Belgrade, Serbia;
2007 HGKZ, Zurich Art School, Zurich, Switzerland;
2007 Academy of Arts Tirana, Albania;
2007 Platform Garanti Centre for Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Tr;
2006 Z of Art, Cultural Centre Rex, Belgrade, Serbia;
2006 Piet Zwart Intitute&University of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;
2006 Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
2005 PSWAR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.