CV

Born 1957 in Cacak, Serbia. Lives in Berlin and Belgrade.
1977-83 Studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.
1979-86 Cooperates with Studentski kulturni centar (SKC), Belgrade.
1981 Founded Zestoki (with Vlasta Volcano Mikic), Belgrade.
1982-85 Founded and directed club Akademija at Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade.
1983 M.A., Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. Art symposium Sopocani, Novi Pazar. Study of icons and frescos in Byzantine and Serbian monasteries.
1984-85 Cooperates with TV Galerija, TV Belgrade, Belgrade.
1985 Organizes exhibition Total Art Work, Galerija SKC, Belgrade.
1986 Studio in West Berlin.
1987 Beginning of cooperation with Sissel Tolaas on Laboratorium projects. Study travels to Peru, Columbia, Bolivia, and Brazil.
1989 Organizes Sava Projekt, Park of the International Center Sava, Belgrade.
1990 Begins to work on Prototypes.



1991 Studio at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Art symposium Mileseva, House of Revolution, Prijepolje.
1992 Organizes Red Cross - International Art Action, (with Ryszard Wasko and Raffael Rheinsberg), Berlin, Lodz, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Sarajevo, and Tirana. Organizes a socker game Artists against Curators, Kunst-Werke, Berlin. Organizes support for state independent media in Belgrade during the war in former Yugoslavia.
1993 Organizes exhibition Private, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
1994 Begins to work on Transfigurative Paintings. Founded mock-up Berlin.
1999 Work on internet project worldbeograd (with Vlasta Mikic, Miroljub Mima Marjanovic), Berlin, Belgrade, New York.
2002 Begins to work on Homeless project.
2003 Art symposium Istanbul Art Museum Foundation, Turunc.
2009 Co-founded publishing house: Verlag fuer zeitgenoschische Kunst und Theorie, Berlin.

Lectures

2011 Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai.
2010 Bauhaus University, Weimar.
2009 Visiting Professor, Kunst im Kontext, University of Arts, Berlin.
2008 Kunsverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim.
2007 Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
2006 Institut fuer Kunst im Kontext, University of Arts, Berlin.
Department for Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.
2005 Akademie der Kuenste, Wienna.
2003 Istanbul Art Museum Foundation Symposium, Turunc.
2002 Merit College and Ezu School, Kumamoto.
1993 Studentski kulturni centar (SKC), Belgrade.
1990 Mileseva Symposium, House of Revolution, Prijepolje.
1987 Universities of Sao Paulo, Oslo, Belgrade, and at Technical University Berlin, West Berlin.
1983 Akademija club, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.
1981 Department for Art History, University of Belgrade, Belgrade.
1980 Studentski kulturni centar (SKC), Belgrade.

Awards and Grants

2007 Arbeitsstipendium, Senate of Berlin, Berlin.
2005 Katalogfoerderung, Senate of Berlin, Berlin.
2004 Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin.
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York.
2000 City of Cacak Award, Cacak.
1996 19th Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic Award, Cacak.
1991 Arbeitsstipendium, Senate of Berlin, Berlin.
1990 Mileseva White Angel Award, Prijepolje.
1986 Politikina nagrada, Foundation Vladislav Ribnikar, Belgrade.
1984 Young Artists Grant, City of Belgrade, Belgrade.
1983 24th October Salon, Belgrade.

Public Collections

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Krohne Sammlung, Duisburg
Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
Istanbul Art Museum Foundation, Istanbul
Wanas Foundation, Knislinge
Artists‘ Museum, Lodz
National Museum, Belgrade
Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Vladislav Ribnikar Foundation, Politika, Belgrade
International Center Sava, Belgrade
Kuenstlerfoerderung des Landes Berlin, Berlin
House of Revolution, Prijepolje
Department for Culture, City of Belgrade, Belgrade