KATARINA ZDJELAR
Born in 1979 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
CONTACT [email protected]
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
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
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, Serbia;
2006 Winner of Promotieprijs Award 2006, for the advancement of practice, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;
2005 Nuffic, The Netherlands State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands; 2005 Fond for Young Talents, Serbian Ministry of Education, Ser;
2005 Felix Meritis Foundation, Mitra scholarship, the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture & Science, the Netherlands;
2004 Winner of the Aleksandar Tomasevic Award, University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia;
2001 Winner of the National University Braca Stamenkovic Award, Belgrade, Serbia.
WORK IN COLLECTION
MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;
Jean-Conrad and Isabelle Lemaître, and other private collections.
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS&SYMPOSIUMS
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, Budapest, HU (presentation and workshop with students);
2007 ISCP, International Studio and Curatorial Program, presentation, New York, USA;
2007 If I can’t dance…, symposium with Mounira Al Solh, De Balie, Amsterdam, Nl;
2007 You can’t judge a book by its cover, symposium with Marina Grzinic, Jan Verwoert, and Frans-Willem Korsten, 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.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS&PROJECTS
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;
2007 Platform Garanti Centre for Contemporary Art Istanbul, Workin’Progress. Open call for a closed meeting, Istanbul, Turkey;
2006 TENT., Center for Visual Art, Being here two, film/video program curated by Katarina Zdjelar, Rotterdam;
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;
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Salon, Workin’Progress. Open call for a closed meeting, discussion piece, curated by Marina Martic, Ser;
2004 SKC Happy Gallery, Memo test, paintings, Belgrade, curated by Miki Pjescic. Ser;
2004 DOB Podest Gallery, Drawings, solo exhibition, Belgrade, curated by Marko Ladjusic, Ser. GROUP EXHIBITIONS &SCREENINGS
2009 Expanded Box, curated by Carolina Grau, ARCO 09, 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 Between a Rock and a Hard Place, video screening curated by WHW, Rawabet Theater, 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 LOOP at Art Forum, curated by Sabrina Van der Ley, Art Forum, Berlin;
2008 Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded, curated by Elena Sorokina, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany;
2008 The Right To Stay For All, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria;
2008 Dobre, hrabre, slavne, video screening organized by Sanja Ivekovi, Privremena enska Mjesna Zajednica ELEKTRA, Zagreb, Croatia;
2008 Artist-Citizen. Contextual Art Practices, 49th October Salon, curated by Bojana Pejic, Belgrade, Ser;
2008 FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT, TINA B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Yukiko Ito, Blanca de la Torre, Viktor Misiano, Francesca di Nardo, Marek Tomin, Adam Vaká , the Grey Zone Collective;
2008 It is raining outside but I don’t believe that it is, curated by Ana Nikitovic, SPAPORT Annual International Exhibition, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 2008 Le musee des recontres, curated by Alexandra Fau, Galerie Cortex Athetico, Bordeaux, France;
2008 Some things never change, screening curated by Alenka Gregori (kuc Gallery Ljubljana), Halle fuer Kunst, 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, Amsterdam, curated by Rael Artel, Kathrin Jentjens, Claire Staebler, Jelena Vesic, Huib van der Werf, and Veronica Wiman, 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;
2004 International Biennial of Young Artists, Untitled(as Yet), Vrsac, curated by Jelena Vesic, Sinisa Mitrovic and Ana Nikitovic, Ser;
2003 VII International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac, Ser;
2003 X Biennial of Drawings, Studentski grad Gallery, Belgrade, Ser;2003 City Gallery, Pancevo, Ser;
BOOK PROJECTS
Editorial:
2009 Resonant Voices Bodies Memories, co-editor with Anke Bangma, Deirdre Donoghue, and Lina Issa, PZI & Revolver Books;
2007 Another Publication, co-editor with Renee Ridgway, PZI & Revolver Books;
Contributions:
2007 The lost moment is the lost moment is the lost moment…, image 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 (contributor).
PLATFORMS
2007 Guide of the reading group On voice in cinema and visual art, W139, Amsterdam, NL;
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- Workin’ Progress.Open Call for a Closed Meeting, series of discussions initiated by Katarina Zdjelar, various locations. PERFORMANCES, THEATRE AND RADIO PROJECTS
2007 CASCO, Office for Art, Theory and Design, India Song, performance,Utrecht, NL;
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;
2004 RTS (Serbian National TV and Radio Station), Radio drama, Misssssssss K, writer and performer, directed by Vlatko Ilic, Belgrade, Ser;
2003 RTS (Serbian National TV and Radio Station),Radio drama , Why Kathy Acker never met Marquise de Sad, performer, directed by Bojan Djordjev, Belgrade, Ser;
2002 SKC, Belgrade, No exit, Jean Paul Sartre, acting, directed by Vlatko Ilic, Ser;
2002 Bitef Theatre, Adam and Eve, Miroslav Krleza , acting, directed by Milos Lolic, Belgrade, Ser.
2002 SKC, Happy Gallery, I am Your Mirror and You are My Database, Belgrade, Ser;
CATALOGUES, SELECTED WRITINGS & PUBLICATIONS
2007 IAO Gallery, Upgrade!, AudioLab, Montreal, exhibition catalogue, CANADA;
2007 Rotterdam international, Artstore, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, NL;
2006 Metropolis M, N0 4 August/ September Issue, an article on me by Patricia Pulles;
2006 An Magazine, September Issue, an article on my piece “Round trip” at Paranoia ehxibition by Elizabeth Wright;
2006 Wherein certain persons…, TENT., Centre for Visual Art Rotterdam, exhibition catalogue;
2006 Would that be alright with you if I bring my cat along, exhibition paper and a catalogue text on me by Steve Rushton;
2006 Paranoia, exhibition catalogue, Predrag Pajdic;
2006 Radiodays, de Appel, exhibition catalogue;
2005 Stage Theory=Applied Arts, Archeology of Space of Think Performance in Belgrade in the 00es, Museum of Applied Arts Belgrade, exhibition catalogue;
2005 TKH , Magazine for Art Theory, Belgrade, SCG, on me by Milos Lolic;
2005 Belgrade in the Past and Present, Beograd Gallery, Belgrade, exhibition catalogue;
2005 Orientation out of gender, exhibition catalogue, Center for cultural decontamination Belgrade, Serbia;
2004 Memo test, SKC Belgrade, exhibition catalogue, on me by Ana Vujanovic;
2004 Untitled (as yet), International Biennial of Young Artists, exhibition catalogue, Center for Contemporary Art Belgrade, by me;
2004 Drawings, Podest Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Belgrade;
2003 TKH, Magazine for Art Theory, Belgrade, by me.