Ivan Grubanov Born in Belgrade, 9th of March 1976 Education 2008 Casa de Velazquez (The French Institute in Madrid, scholarship and research-oriented residency), Madrid, ES 2005-2006 Delfina Foundation Studio Programme (Scholarship and practice-oriented residency), London, UK 2002-2004 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (equivalent to University level PhD in Arts), Amsterdam, NL 1996-2001 Academy of Fine Arts, Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Belgrade, YU Teaching and Research Experience at University Level 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar in the class of Prof. Frances Scholz, Hochschule fuer bildende kunste Braunschweig, University of Arts Braunschweig, DE 2005-2006 Guest Tutor, Konlijnke akademie, Den Haag, NL 2003 Visiting Artist, Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Den Bosch, NL Solo exhibitions (selection) 2013 Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE, ‘Dead Flags’ 2012 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR, ‘Current Pasts’ (with Vangelis Vlahos, curated by Daphne Vitali)) 2012 Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE, ‘Smokescreens’ 2010 MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, PT, ‘Haunting Memory’ (associated project of the Architecture Trienale) 2010 Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE, ‘Seven Studies for a Memorial’ 2009 ARCO, Solo Projects, Madrid, ES 2009 Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, RS (solo show within the 50th October Salon, Belgrade’s annual exhibition of international contemporary art) 2008 Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE, ‘The Evil Painter’ 2008 Laboratorio 987, MUSAC (Museo de arte contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon), Leon, ES 2007 Le Grand Cafe Centre d’Art Contemporain, St Nazaire, FR, ‘Non-Institutional’ 2007 Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, RS 2006 Nogueras Blanchard Gallery, Barcelona, ES 2005 Stroom Contemporary Art Center, Den Haag, NL (curated by Arno van Roosmalen) 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, SCG. ‘Visitor’ 2004 Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, NL, ‘Study of My Father, a Relation to the Origin’ 2004 Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London, UK 2004 Expodium, Utrecht, NL, ‘Cages’ 2001 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, YU 1999 Zlatno Oko Center for Visual Culture, Novi Sad, YU Group Exhibitions – International Biennials and Triennials 2011 The 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algiers (FIAC), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers, DZ, (curated by Nadira Laggoune) 2009-2010 2nd Spa Port Biennial, Banja Luka BH, ‘Where Everything is Yet to Happen’ (curated by Antonia Majaca, Ivana Bago, Anselm Franke) 2009 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, ‘The Matrix: An Unstable Reality’, Ljubljana, SLO 2008 3rd Bucharest Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, RO (curated by Ami Barak) 2008 1st Spa Port Biennial, Banja Luka, BH 2007 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR (Curated by Hou Hanru) 2007 1st Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki, Greece, ‘Heterotopias’ (curated by Jan Erik Lundstorm) 2006 12th Pancevo Biennial, Pancevo, RS (co-curator and participating artist) 2005 2nd Tirana Bienale, Tirana, AL, ‘Sweet Taboos” (curated by Hou Hanru) 2005 Manif d’Art, 3rd Biennial of Quebec, Quebec, CA 2004 The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, SCG. ‘Untitled as Yet’ 2004 11th Pancevo Biennial, Pancevo, SCG, ‘Values’ 2001 15th International Triennial of Drawing, The Modern Gallery, Rijeka, CRO Group Exhibitions – Museums and Institutions 2014 STUK Kunstencentrum, ‘Performing Protest?’ (curated by Wim Lambrecht), Leuven, BE 2014 Stroom Center for Contemporary Art, ‘The Good Cause’, The Hague, NL 2013 267 Quartiere für Zeitgenossische Kunst & Fotografie, ‘Der Geist in Vakuum”, Braunschweig, DE 2012 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI, ‘Reality Bites (curated by Eija Aarnio, Leevi Haapala, Saara Hacklin, Patrik Nyberg, Jonna Strandberg) 2012 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR, ‘A Gathering’ (curated by Maria Thalia and Olga Hatzidaki) 2011 Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE, ‘Donumenta’ (curated by Miroslav Karic) 2011 MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, PL, ‘History in Art’ (curated by Maria Anna Potocka) 2010 Extra City- Kunsthal Antwerpen, BE, ‘Drawing Documents’ (curated by Anselm Franke) 2010 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR, ‘Politics of Art’ (curated by Anna Kafetsi) 2010 Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection (curated by Miguel Amado) 2010 Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, ‘Morality, Act 3, And the Moral of the Story is’ (curated by Zoe Gray) 2009 City Gallery, Prague, CZ, ‘Monument to Transformation’ (curated by Vit Havranek) 2008 Kunsthalle Bern, CH, ‘No Leftovers’ 2008 Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, CA, ‘Signals in the Dark’ 2008 Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, NO, ‘Headlines & Footnotes’ 2008 ARCOS, Contemporary Art Museum Sannio, Benevento, IT, ‘Italy Italien, Wlochy’ 2007 Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Drawing Typologies’ (curated by Roel Arkesteijn) 2007 Forum Stadpark, Graz, AT, ‘Ground Lost’ (curated by WHW collective) 2006 Le Grand Café Centre d’Art Contemporain, St Nazaire, FR,‘Histoires’ (curated by Sophie Legrandjacques) 2006 Drawing Center, New York, ‘Common Destinations’ (curated by Katherine Carl) 2006 South London Gallery, UK, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ (curated by Margot Heller, Jens Hoffman, Kit Kammonds and Claire Fitzsimmons) 2006 Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, CA, ‘Everyday Every Other Day’ (curated by Seamus Keally) 2006 Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, SLO, ‘Interrupted Histories’ (curated by Zdenka Badovinec) 2006 Kunsthalle Bern, CH, ‘Vila Jelmini’ (curated by Philippe Pirotte) 2005 Extra City-Kunsthal Antwerpen, BE, ‘Information/Transformation’ (curated by Wim Peteers) 2005 Kunsthalle Bern, CH, ‘Off-Key’ (curated by Philippe Pirotte) 2004 De Appel, Amsterdam, NL, ‘The World is Fine, We Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less’ (curated by Ritsaert ten Cate) 2004 Freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna, AT, ‘Coded Cultures’ (curated by Dunja Kukovec) 2004 Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, NL, ‘Video Studio’ 2003 Museum De Beyerd, Breda, NL, ‘Martha Colburn, Ivan Grubanov, Bas Louter, Serge Onen- Fuse’ 2001 Museum of Voevodina, Novi Sad, YU, 'Resistances and Confrontations' 2001 Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowsky, Warsaw, PL, 'Under Construction' 2000 Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, PL, 'Inside-Outside' Group Exhibitions – Galleries and Non-Profit Spaces 2014 Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, “Squares” 2014 Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BH, “Put za Evropu /Mir, mir, mir” (curated by Mia David & Zorana Djakovic) 2013 Universiteitsbibliotheek KU Leuven, ‘The Prelude Pathetique’, Leuven, BE (curated by Wim Lambrecht) 2013 Ostrale ‘013, ‘Wir überschreiten den Rubikon’, Dresden, DE 2013 9th Inspiracje Festival, Szczecin, PL, ‘Genesis’ 2013 Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, UK, ‘We Are Everything to Each Other’, (curated by Maja Ciric) 2013 Remont Gallery, Belgrade, RS, ‘Preslisavanje 10’, (curated by Sasa Janjic, Mica Karic, Slobodan Jovanovic) 2012 Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE, ‘Referencing History; (curated by Jane Neal) 2012 Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, US, ‘That Passes Between Us’ (curated by Lala Rascic) 2012 Loock Galerie, Berlin (DE), ‘Private View’ 2011 Apex Art, New York, US, ‘Walls That Divide Us’ (curated by Miguel Amado) 2011 Blainsouthern Berlin, DE, ‘Selektionseffekte’ 2011 MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, PT, ‘Thin Air’ 2010 Apex Art, New York, US, ‘Morality, Act 3, And the Moral of the Story is’ (curated by Zoe Gray) 2009 Arts center Vooruit, Gent, BE, ‘Courtisane Festival’ 2009 Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, ES, ‘Los Puertas Abiertas’ 2008 Iaspis, Stockholm, SE, ‘Between the Images’ 2008 Hattyuhaz Galeria, Pecs, HU, ‘Wasteland’ 2008 Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens, GR, ‘Selective Knowledge’ 2007 Office Baroque, Antwerp, BE, ‘Alabama’ 2007 SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Every Wind That Blows’ 2007 Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, BE, ‘Speakers’ (Curated by Ronald Ophuis) 2006 Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, NL, 'Rembrandt:Death, Dissection & Doctors' (curated by Kees Maas) 2006 Apex Art, New York, USA, ‘Sweet Taboos’ (curated by Edi Muka) 2006 PSWAR, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Pixels of Reality’ 2006 Delfina, London, ‘MRKS & SPNCR’ 2006 Serious Interests Agency, London, ‘Ambivalent Truths’ 2006 Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, SCG, ‘Affinity by Choice’, (curated by Eric Corne) 2005 Press to Exit project Space, Skopje, MK, ‘20/21’ 2005 Zvono Gallery, Belgrade, SCG, ‘20/21’ 2005 Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand, Perigueux, FR, ‘Values’ 2005 Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, NL, ‘Gala of the Year’ 2004 Center in Galerija P74, Ljubljana, SI, ‘Share Like a Recipe’ 2004 ART Rotterdam, NL, Smart Project Space stand 2003 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 'Open Ateliers' 2003 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, SCG, ‘Regional-Universal’ 2002 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 'Open Ateliers' 2002 US Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, SA, ‘Violence-Silence’ 2002 Chinese-European Art Center, Xiamen, CN, 'Rendezvous in Xiamen' 2002 Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv, IL, 'Violence - Memory' 2002 N.S.A. Gallery, Durban, SA, 'Violence' 2002 Nieubethesda, Great Karoo, SA, 'Silence' 2002 Outline & Kunstruimte NP40, Amsterdam, NL, 'Fake or Real' 2002 Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, YU, International Workshop ‘Glass’ 2002 Josip Bepo Benkovic Gallery, Herceg Novi, YU, '35. Winter Salon' 2002 Publikum’s Calendar of New Art and Contemporary Life, Belgrade, YU 2001 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, YU, 'Resistances and Confrontations' 2001 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, YU, '31. Salon