KATARINA ZDJELAR

Lives & works in Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Very active in: 2000s, Current decade

Representative galleries:
Mirta Demare

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Video Art Works

A girl, the sun and an airplane airplane (2007)
There is no is (2007)
Don't do it wrong (2007)
When the opposites meet there is always a chance? (2007)
Untitled, one or two song on someone or something, in particular (2007)
Would that be alright with you if I bring my cat along? (2006)

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.

ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION

2005 Felix Meritis Foundation, Amsterdam, Innovative Strategies in International Cooperation, the Netherlands
2001-2002 CENPI, Centre for Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art, Art Theory, Belgrade, Serbia

RESIDENCIES

2008 (upcoming) VIVID, production residency, 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 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
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

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS&SYMPOSIUMS

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

UPCOMING SHOWS

-CAM, The Chelsea Art Museum, The Promised Land, curated by Blanca de la Torre, New York, NY, USA (group)
-49th October Salon, "Artist-Citizen." Contextual Art Practices, curated by Bojana Pejic, Belgrade, Ser (group)
-LIAF 08, curated by Taru Elfving and Rickard Borgstrom, Lofoten, Norway (group)
-Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (solo)
-Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia (group)
-VIVID, Birmingham, UK (solo)
-Ellen de Brujin Projects, Amsterdam, NL (solo with Dora Garcia)
-SKOR, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
-Happy Together. Critical reflections on Collective Identities, curated by Minna L. Henriksson and Mika Hanulla, touring Helsinki, Zagreb, Tallinn (group)
-Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Halle, Germany (group)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS&PROJECTS

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, Work in 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

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:
2008 (upcoming) On Body, Memory and Language, 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.