Bio

Biljana Djurdjevic (b. 1973, Belgrade, Serbia) is an artist practicing mainly in painting, animation works, and sound works. Djurdjevic holds an MA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and a PhD in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. She was also a guest lecturer at Parsons the New School for Design  from 2010 to 2011.

While in earlier years Djurdjevic concentrated mainly on painting, she has recently begun developing her large-scale paintings into video animations, which also incorporate sounds.

Djurdjevic portrays realistically what seems as fabricated, unrealistic scenes, managing to examine the tension existing in the everyday. The subject might be a collective experience or a very subjective standpoint; all are based in harsh surroundings – an alienated, claustrophobic interior or a dense exterior. The correlating animation develops these themes, allowing her to deviate from the still depiction and deepen the effect on its viewer.

Selected solo shows include: Museet Moderna (2006, Stockholm), Galerie Davide Gallo (2006 Berlin), Gallery KIBLA (2009, Slovenia), Haifa Museum of Art (2009, Haifa), Cultural Center Belgrade (2010, Serbia), Museum of Contemporary Art (2013, Belgrade), Braverman Gallery (2015, Tel Aviv) and Goethe Institute (2017, Belgrade). Examples of her recent work include ‘The Dark Forest’ (2012), ‘Instrument of Activity’ (2015), RIMA Gallery, Kragujevac, Serbia (2016), Contemporary Art Gallery, Smederevo, Serbia (2017), Goethe institute Belgrade, Serbia (2017), Kahán Art Foundation, Vienna and Budapest (2017), Kahán Art Foundation, Vienna and Budapest (2021), Dr Éva Kahán Foundation, Vienna, Budapest (2022), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Banja Luka, Bosnia &Herzegovina (2022).

Selected group exhibitions include: Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (2006, Naples), Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (2006, San Francisco), Ascona Museum of Modern Art (2007, Ascona), Musée d’art moderne Saint-Étienne Métropole (2009, Saint-Étienne), Museum of Contemporary Art (2009, Klagenfurt), Austrian Cultural Forum (2010, New York), Hagaur Museum (2010, Oslo), Frissiras Museum (2010, Athens), ESSL Collection Museum (2013, Austria), and Belgrade City Museum (2016, Belgrade), and Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak Serbia (2020)

 

Djurdjevic was awarded the Beijing Biennale 2nd prize in 2008 and the “Politika” prize for Best Exhibition in Serbia in 2013.

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Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation, Vienna

Gallery Exhibitions

Anna Yam, Anton Ginzburg, Biljana Djurdjevic, Dana Levy, David Adika, Gilad Ratman, Hila Karabelnikov, Ilit Azoulay, Jacob Mishori, Katharina Gaenssler, Nezaket Ekici, Nira Pereg, Noa Gur, Ohad Matalon, Oren Eliav, Reuven Israel, Robin Rhode, Shahar Marcus and Shana Moulton

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GRAPHIC NOVEL 11, mixed media, 2018-2019

Promised Land (poliptych), oil on canvas, 255 x 745 cm, 2019-2021

Installation view, Good Life, Kahán Art Foundation, 2021

Installation view, Good Life, Kahán Art Foundation, 2021

Farewell, oil on canvas, 205 x 145 cm, 2021

Hallway, oil on paper applied to canvas, 130 x 205 cm, 2020

Train Station, oil on canvas, 255 x 200 cm, 2017

Instrument of Activity, Painting – based animation, 7'26" min. 218x382 cm, 2014 - 2015

Bee Hive, Acrylic on paper and canvas, 131x193 cm, 2015

Sweat-Shop, Acrylic and ink on paper, 125x90 cm, 2013

iljana Djurdjevic, Rising, 2011, 203 x 130 cm

Biljana Djurdjevic, Dark is the Forest (open Polyptych), 2010-12, 255 x 905 cm

BIljana Djurdjevic, Dark Is The Forest (Polyptych-III), 2010 - 2012, 255 x 905 cm

Biljana Djurdjevic, Dark Is The Forest (Closed Polyptych), 2010 - 2012, 255 x 905 cm

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