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Bosnian artist, born 1981 in Ljubovija, former Yugoslavia.
Lives and works between Rouen and Brussels.

Education:
2010 - 2012 Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, FR
2001 - 2005 Product design, Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, BA

Awards:
2011 Special prize at 5th International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Venice
2007 Finalist of ZVONO Young Visual Artist Award 2007, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art
2003 Special award for experimental film, 2nd Mostar Film Festival

* indicates upcoming or current exhibition or screening

Solo exhibitions + performances:
2011 Stories, Galleria A+A (Slovenian Exhibition Centre), Venice, IT (cur. Aurora Fonda, Claudia Zini) (cat.)
2011 the name of the film is..., The Promenade Gallery, Vlore, AL
2009 Impasse within Windows upon Oceans, Espace Insight, Strasbourg, FR (cur. Dimitri Konstantinidis) (cat.)
2007 6,8m², 10m² Gallery, Sarajevo, BA
2006 Ibsen's Monolog (Enemy of the people), Chamber Theatre 55, Sarajevo, BA (performance)
2005 to be good to be true, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, BA (performance + installation)

Group exhibitions:
2011
Common Identity?, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, SK (cur. Lýdia Pribišová, Katarína Slaninová) *
Beyond the Truth, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI (cur. Galit Eilat, Alenka Gregorič) *
Is this all there is?, Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, AU (cur. Gülsen Bal, Alenka Gregorič) (cat.)
It's time we got to know each other, 52nd October Salon, Belgrade, SR (cur. Galit Eilat, Alenka Gregorič) (cat.)
Artists from the 10m2 collection, Duplex /10m2 Art Center, Sarajevo, BA
Panorama 13, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, FR (cur. Bernard Marcadé) (cat.)
255.804 km2, Brot Kunsthall, Vienna, AU (cur. Alenka Gregorič, Mateja Podlesnik) (cat.)
5th International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Nappe Arsenale, Venice, IT
Winter/Spring 2011 BRIEF HISTORIES, Sharjah University City, Al Bayrouni, UAE (cur. Fawz Kabra, Isak Berbic)
Windows upon Oceans, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Thessaloniki, GR (cur. Dimitri Konstantinidis) (cat.)

2010
Bosnia and Herzegovina Searching for Lost Identity, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, SI (cur. Dunja Blazevic)
255.804 km2, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI (cur. Alenka Gregorič, Mateja Podlesnik) (cat.)
Regards Projetés / Projected Visions, apollonia - european art exchanges, Strasbourg, FR (cur. Zlatan Filipovic) (cat.)

2009
I will find the title (Brothers in hand), K.U.K. Galerie, Colgone, DE (collaboration with Pierre Courtin)
INTERZONE: Gender, Galzenica Gallery, Velika Gorica, HR (cur. Sanja Horvatincic, Nina Pisk)
Il padiglione immaginario di Bosnia-Herzegovina, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, IT (cur. Aurora Fonda)
SuperNova, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, FR
Video Salon: Memory, K.U.K. galerie, Cologne, DE (cur. Pierre Courtin)

2008
When Absence Becomes Presence, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington DC, US (cur. Sonja Simonyi, Niels Van Tomme)
First International Annual Exhibition SPAPORT, Banja Luka, BA (cur. Ana Nikitovic) (cat.)
namaTRE.ba, Gallery of Fine Art Academy, Trebinje, BA (cur. Igor Bosnjak) (cat.)
Collection 10m², Art Center OUI of Grenoble, Grenoble, FR (cur. Pierre Courtin)
Models of TRANSformation, Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BA (cur. Asja Mandic, Branka Vujanovic)
Video-Salon 3 - Curatorial Rebound project, Gallery 10m², Sarajevo, BA

2007
ZVONO Finals 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banja Luka, BA
dadada, Hammam Cejvan Cehaja, Mostar, BA (curator Pierre Courtin)
Sarajevo (Memory and Communication), Shiga Art creation hall, Shiga Prefecture, JP (cur. Yoshiaki Inatsugi)
Video salon 2, 10m² Gallery, Sarajevo, BA

2006
Permanent Presence, White Box Gallery, New York, US (cur. Nebojsa Seric Shoba)
Moving windows, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, KR (cur. Argentine Lee) (cat.)
Sarajevo-Kyoto, Kyoto Aeroport Gallery, Kyoto, JP
Video salon, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, BA

2005
Happy New Year, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, BA
NBA - New Bosnian Art, MM Center - SC, Zagreb, HR
Theory in Practice 3, Gallery OTOK, Dubrovnik, HR
Nine Dragons Heads, Cheongju Art Center, Daecheong-Lake, KR (cat.)
Histories of Dialogue, National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BA (cur. Maja Bobar) (cat.)
Digital Demystification, Gallery of Fine Arts Academy, Sarajevo, BA

2004
Speak Up, Galerija NOVA, Zagreb, HR
Histories of Dialogue, Strasbourg, FR (curator Maja Bobar) (cat.)

2003
spacetrans'former project, Graz 2003, AT (cat.)

Screenings:
2012
Panorama 13, Vidéo Les Beaux Jours, l'École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, FR
2011
28. Französischen Filmtagen, Tübingen - Stuttgart, DE
2010
Nuit Blanche: Vidéo-Salon Ephémère, Point Ephemere, Paris, FR
2009
10th Maremetraggio - International Short Film Festival, Trieste, IT
Midi-Midi (Istanbul / Balkans), Lille 3000: Europe XXL, Tri postal, Lille, FR
2008
When Absence Becomes Presence, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, US
Örebro Int. Video Art Fest., Örebro Konsthall, Örebro, SE
2006
Fest. of new film and video "Alternative film/video 2006", Academic Film Centre, Belgrade, SR
Moving Windows, Alternative Space Bandee, Busan, KR
2005
Queering BG, REX Gallery, Belgrade, SR
2004
Velesajam Kulture, Student Center, Zagreb, HR
2003
Du monde aux Balkans, Grenoble & Toulouse, FR
2nd Mostar Film Festival, Mostar, BA
Balkan Black Box Film Festival, Berlin, DE
2002
1st Mostar Film Festival, Mostar, BA
Insert program, 8th Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, BA (cat.)
1st OKUP Arts Festival, Sarajevo, BA

Projects:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Searching for Lost Identity, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art / Pro.ba, 2009
NBA - New Bosnian Art, curatorial project, 2004-2006
- AETF Stockholm - Sarajevo, funded by Research and Developments in the Arts, Stockholm, 2005-07

Presentations + artist talks:
2011 Manifesta 9 Coffee Break: "The Contemporary at the Service of the Past", Casino Modern, Genk, BE
2006 Academic Film Centre, Belgrade, SR
2006 Art Form class of Alma Suljevic, Academy of Fine Art, Sarajevo, BA
2005 Theory in Practice II, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, HR
2004 Speak Up, Galerija NOVA, Zagreb, HR

Filmography:
- A short story (2011)
- 30. Nov '93 / Pieter Bruegel in the letters of my father (2011)
- the name of the film is... i cannot remember the name of the film (2008)

Bibliography: (selection)
- 52nd October Salon, The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, ISBN 978-86-7996-079-5 (cat.)
- 255.804km2, City Museum of Ljubljana, ISBN 978-961-6587-73-0, 2011 (cat.)
- Encours (Panorama 13), Le Fresnoy, ISBN: 978-2-917696-06-4, 2011. (cat.)
- Galerija Galzenica 2009, p. 45-46, Velika Gorica, ISSN 1847-5051 (cat.)
- artverona09, published by Grafiche Siz, Campagnola di Zevio (Verona), 2009 (cat.)
- Regards Projetés II, edited by apologia, european art exchanges, ISBN 978-2-9527497-7-0, 2009 (cat.)
- Aleksandra Sekulic, Videography of the region, ISBN 978-86-7933-056-7, 2009
- Berlin Wall 20 Years After, ISBN 978-29527497-8-7, 2009 (cat.)
- Pierre Courtin, Dadada, Gazet'art Magazine, N°5, 2009, p. 9-11 (periodical)
- Ana Nikitovic, SPAPORT, ISBN 978-99955-617-0-3, 2008 (cat.)
- Branka Vujanovic, "ZVONO" Poziv na ozbiljnu igru, VIZURA Magazine, No. 1, 2007, p. 136-144 (periodical)
- Moving Windows, ISBN 89-92225-02-4 03650, 2006 (cat.)
- Molly Klaiman, ArtNet.com, www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/kleiman/kleiman9-5-06.asp
- Peter Farko, Artists Unite Issue, http://artistsunite-ny.org/blog/?m=200606
- Ursula Röper, Histories of Dialogue, Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, Nr. 111, IV/2005
- 10th International Enviroment Art Symposium, Nine Dragon Heads, 2005 (cat.)
- Irena Vasic-Dobric, Maxi magazine No. 5, 2007, p. 28-40 (periodical)
- Mladen Buric, Zapis - Croatian film clubs' associtation magazine No. 43, 2003 (periodical)