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M i o d r a g   K r k o b a b i c                                   

1971, born in Kraljevo, Serbia;  Lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia;

Contacts:   mob: + 381 64 149 20 44   /    http://www.krkobabic.net      /    miodrag@krkobabic.net

 

Education:

2005, resident Artist at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria

2003 – 2004, DAAD resident Artist, Atelier fur Zeitmedien, HfK, Bremen, Germany

2000 – 2003, postgraduate studies (MA degree) at Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade

1995 – 2000, basic studies (BA degree) at Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade

 

Scholarships:

2003 – 2004, DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – Stipendienurkunde

2000 – 2001, Royal Norwegian Scholarship   

1997 – 2003, Scholarship of Republic Foundation for Development of Young Art Scholars

1996 – 1997, Scholarship of Zepter Foundation “Madlen Jankovic”

 

Awards:

2003, DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – German Academic Exchange Award

2003, Honorable Mention at the 14th edition of the International Electronic Art Festival – Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brasil

          – for digital video installation – “PERSONAL ? ID ? CARD” 

2002, The First Prize - 22^nd Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic (gallery Award), Cacak, Serbia

          – for installation “Fake ID” (bus-shelters billboards)

2002, The First Prize - “Face-Identity”, - The First International New Media Festival, Kraljevo, Serbia

          – for digital photos “Portrait of an unknown man with a Beard” (mutated police ID photos)

2001, The First Prize - 42^nd October Salon, Belgrade

          – for video “6=36” 

 

Solo exhibitions:

2006, 10^th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

           “Elements of Normality”, Cultural Centre Babel, Utrecht, Netherlands

2005, “When the Times End…”, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Beograd

2004, “forePLAY”, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia

2003, “Portrait of an unknown man with a beard”, Remont gallery, Belgrade

         "Necrospection 2\000/2", Nadezda Petrovic Gallery, Cacak

         "Necrospection 2\000/3", ART34'03, Compiler, c/o TweakLAB, Basel, Swiss

2001, "6=36", Gallery of Dom Omladine, Belgrade

         "Topologies of Death", Auction Gallery, Belgrade

2000, "Necrospection", National Museum, Kraljevo

 

Group exhibitions:

2005, “U.S. Visit”, Nurtureart, New York, USA

           7^th Sharjah International Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2004, “BELGRAD ART INC.”, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

           "Passage d' Europe", Musée d'Art Moderne de St-Etienne, France

           “SHAKE – ID Troubles”, Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg, Germany

           “DOB 1995-2004”, Gallery of Dom Omladine, Belgrade

2003,  14º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica, Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

           “Imaginary Balkans”, Video program, Corner house, Manchester, England

            Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca, Maroco

           “FONA”, International Festival of New Art, Rijeka, Croatia

           “IN OUT”, International Festival of The Digital Image, Prague, Czech Republic; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary

           “Logical” – BELEF  – Belgrade International Summer Festival

            44^th  October Salon,  “Positive/Negative”, Belgrade

            36^th  Herceg Novi’s Winter Salon, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

            Kunst/Bewegte Bilder - Kino 46, Bremen, Germany

           “Frischer Wind”, Tag des offenen Speicher, Bremen, Germany

2002,  “Rencontre Video Art Plastique” in Hérouville Saint Clair, France

           “Unstable Narratives”, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany

           “Little Red Elephants”, Art Association, Oslo, Norway

           “Imaginary Balkans”, Video program, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England;

           "Violence-Memory-Mutual understanding", Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, Ramallah, Israel, Palestine

           “YU Video Art”, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Havana

           “Face-Identity”, International New Media Festival, National Museums in Kraljevo, Kragujevac & Krusevac,  Serbia

           “Personal <> Public Space”, 22^nd Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia

            43^rd October Salon,  October Salon Awards, Museum of May the 25^th,  Belgrade

           35^th  Herceg Novi’s Winter Salon, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

           5th International Biennial of Young Artist, Vrsac, Serbia

2001, "Probebetrieb", Medienkunst Archiv, Passagengalerie, K/Haus, Wien, Austria

          “Conversations”, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade

          “European Perspectives”, Austrotel, Innsbruck, Austria

           42^nd  October Salon, Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Belgrade

          "Video Art in Serbia - Extended Play", Center for Contemporary Art, Belgrade

          "Call Me Sarajevo", Sarajevo Winter 2001, Video Bar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

          "BREAK 21", 5^th International Festival of Young Independent Artists, Ljubljana, Slovenia

          Young Serbian Art, Koncertsaal, Hfk, Bremen, Germany

1997 – 2000,  XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII & XIX  Exhibition of drawings and small scale sculpture, Dom Omladine , Belgrade

1997, "A Feverish Leap-Out", Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada

1996, "Linocut",  Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery,  Belgrade

 

Screenings & Projects:

2006,  A61, (in cooperation with Astrid Wege, critic and curator, based in Cologne), Cologne, Germany

2005,  Europ’Art, Naissance et renaissance de l’art videodans les Balkans, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Strasbourg, F

2003 – 2004, Associação Cultural Videobrasil - São Paulo, Brasil; Instituto de Artes do Para, Para;

            Cine Metropolis UFES – Espirito Santo, Brasil; Goethe-Institut/ICBA, Bahia, Brasil;

            Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Minas Gerais, Brasil; Museum Victor Meirelles, Santa Catarina,

            Laboratorio Arte Alameda – Mexico; Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico 

2002 – 2005,  Anthology of Art (by Jochen Gerz) http://www.anthology-of-art.net

           ZKM Karlsruhe; Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin; Kunst&Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany;

2003, Mentor for Visual Arts at International Multimedia program Public Art & Public Space (Belgrade / New York)

2003, "Emancipatory Politics of Art", DVD Magazine for Contemporary Art, ART34'03, Hall Art Unlimited, Basel, Swiss

         Compiler//01"Was ist Kunst, Marinela Kozelj?"  -  Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

         Videogallery & il caffe, Schifflände 5, Viper Basel 2003, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich;  Video in der Dampfzentrale, Bern

         Ecole superieure d'Art, Galerie de l'Esplanade, CIPAC, 4eme congres interprofessional de l'art contemporain, Metz, France

2002 – 2003, “Flux 02”, suburbs - Belgrade and other towns in Serbia  &  Seoul; Korea

2002, “Migration”, Monastery Kalenic, Serbia – project supported by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia

2001 – 2003,  “Projected visions” – Video Art in the Balkans, Apollonia - European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg, France

           Museum for Modern and Contemporary Arts & Upper School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg, France

           MCA & Mylos Gallery, Tessalonique, Greece;  Kamera Cinema, Karlsruhe, Germany;

           Vladin Dom, Cetinje, Montenegro;  Contemporary Art Centre, Pristina, Kosovo, Serbia;

           ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Museum for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade;

           Odeon Cinema Theatre, Chisinau, Moldavia; International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania;

           Fine Art Museum, Prague, Czech Republic; Foundation Transit, Cluj, Romania; Senghor Space, Brussels, Belgium

2000, "The Expectations", New Moment, Magazine for Art and Advertising, No.13

1999,  lectures – “New Media in Visual Art and Film”, Art Association, Kraljevo

 

Woks in Collections, Museums, Galleries & Web Links:

• Medien Kunst Archiv, MuseumQuarter, Vienna, Austria

• ·         http://www.medienkunstarchiv.at/mka/werk.php3?vid=2215&e=0 video “6=36“ page

• ·         http://www.medienkunstarchiv.at/mka/kuenstler.php3?pid=6990&e=0 Miodrag Krkobabic’s page

• OVNI Observatorio de Video no Identificado, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, Spain

• The International Electronic Art Festival – Videobrasil, Sao Paulo - http://www.videobrasil.org.br

• “Heure Exquise!” - Organisation for Distribution of Video and Electronic Art, Lille, France  http://www.exquise.org

• Anthology of Art  - http://www.anthology-of-art.net   http://www.anthology-of-art.net/contrib/a_to_z.html )

• ·         Miodrag Krkobabic’s Comment  http://www.anthology-of-art.net/comment/25/krkobabic.html 

• ·         Necrospection Picture  http://www.anthology-of-art.net/generatio/25/krkobabic.html

• ·         Heike Wetzig’s text http://www.transforma-online.net/transforma2003/papers/wetzig.html

• Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

• University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

• National Museum, Kraljevo, Serbia & Centre for Visual Culture – Mirror, Kraljevo, Serbia

• Nadezda Petrovic Gallery, Cacak, Serbia

• Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv, Israel

• Compiler / DVD-magazine for contemporary Art, Basel, Swiss http://www.compiler.ws/

• Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany http://www.hartware-projekte.de 

• ·         http://www.hartware-projekte.de/archiv/inhalt/krko.htm  Miodrag Krkobabic’s page 

• ·         http://www.hartware-projekte.de/programm/inhalt/uneng.htm  Unstable Narratives

• UKS, Art Association, Oslo, Norway   http://www.uks.no

• IN / OUT, International Festival of The Digital Image Prague, Czech Republic  http://www.inout.cz/indexFrame-a.htm

• ·         Miodrag Krkobabic’s page  http://www.inout.cz/umelci-a/krkobabic-a.htm

• 42^nd October Salon Award, Belgrade –  http://www.kcb.org.yu/srpski/likovni/42/nagrade.html  

• ·         eng. Txt http://www.kcb.org.yu/srpski/likovni/42/index_e.html

• Apollonia - European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg, France - http://www.art-exchanges.net/   http://art-exchanges.net/2002/index2002.html   

• ·         http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-ro-0211/msg00075.html

• FLUX 02 -    http://www.rex.b92.net/flux02/autori_radovi_eng.html      http://www.rex.b92.net/flux02/uvod_eng.html )];

• Remont gallery, Belgrade  http://www.remont.co.yu/gallery/ )]; [(Utopia travel - http://www.utopia-travel.org/archive/krkobabic.html

• BELEF  – Belgrade International Summer Festival http://www.belef.org.yu/03/vizuelna/printovi_03.html 

• BALKON - http://balkon.c3.hu/balkon_2002_05/13unstable.html

• Webzinemaker http://www.webzinemaker.com/admi/m1/page.php3?num_web=3463&rubr=3&id=14826

 

Bibliography:

• Peter Wheeler, Review Article on 7^th Sharjah Biennial, Canvas No. , 2005

• Dr. Zoran Eric, text for catalog of exhibition “When the Times End…”, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, 2005

• Stevan Vukovic, text for catalog of exhibition “forePLAY", Belgrade Cultural Centre, September 2004

• Kia Vahland, “Ich-Erzaehler der neuen Zeit“, ART Das Kunstmagazin, No. 01, 2005

• Stevan Vukovic, “Moments of Changes“, text for catalog BELGRAD ART INC. at SECESSION, Vienna, Austria, 2004

• Dr. Zoran Eric, “On Miodrag Krkobabic’s (Fake) Identities, Umelec/ Artist, No. 02, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

• Prof. Cedomir Vasic, Rector of University of Arts in Belgrade, Lecture about art-work of Miodrag Krkobabic awaded at 22^nd Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic,

• Catalog for Solo Show at Gallery Nadezda Petrovic in Cacak, 2003

• Heike Wetzig - “Nach mir die Zukunft“ - Image Thought and Representation in the “Anthology of Art“ www.transforma-online.net/transforma2003

• Dr. Zoran Eric, “Projected Visions“, Balkan Video Art, Apollonia – European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg, France, 2002-2004 

• JURY STATEMENT at 22^ND Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic in Cacak, 2002

• Tordai S. Attila, “Unstable Narratives“, Hartware MKV, Dortmund,  Balkon No. 05, 2002  & Balkon No. 10, 2002

• Prof. Darija Kacic, “Under a High Temperature”, Text for catalog of 42nd October Salon, 2002

• Stevan Vukovic, “Identity, Repetition, Death Drive”, text for catalog "Topologies of Death", Auction Gallery, Belgrade

• Nikola Suica, The Confessional Issues, text for catalog of exhibition "6=36", Dom Omladine, Belgrade

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