Supported by the exhibition funding program
Funded artist: Tanja Ostojić
Tanja Ostojić’s exhibition "Women’s Health, Body Politics, Labour, Sexuality, Wellbeing, Menopause, Ageing and Agency features" works of art in various media (sculpture, embroidery, drawing, photography, video). The creation of this body of work was inspired by the artist’s research into important issues in every woman’s life. Ostojić understands the female body and female consciousness as an area where personal and social perspectives meet. Through her works, she demonstrates the potential of women to actively participate in their own well-being and advocates for a significant shift in consciousness.
The exhibition offers a focused view at Tanja Ostojić’s artistic practice and includes both her older and most recent works, both individual and collaborative ones, as well as those that have not yet been shown publicly or outside their respective collections.
The opening, on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 17:00, will be organized as a guided tour through the exhibition, including a conversation with the artist. The exhibition will be accompanied by a number of public programs, and a catalog, featuring a newly commissioned essay by Prof Dr Jasmina Tumbas (Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Buffalo).
Tanja Ostojić is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator, of Yugoslav origin, who lives and works in Berlin. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer of institutional gender critique and for her work in the field of socially and politically engaged art, and art in public space. Since 1994, she has been developing research lead, performative art projects dealing with issues of gender politics, feminism, migration, displacement, work and ethical participation. Her works are in important museum collections, and have been exhibited around the world, among others: at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, at the Venice Biennale, as well as at the Biennale in Busan, South Korea.
https://tanjaostojic.com/
Housed in a historic Art Nouveau building, THE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY SUBOTICA was founded in 1962 by the Municipality of Subotica as one of the first public galleries of modern and contemporary art in the former Yugoslavia and is today one of the leading institutions of its kind in the Autonomous province of Vojvodina and in Serbia with the main aim of producing, exhibiting, mediating and collecting contemporary art, as well as cultivating the public.
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Opening, on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 15:00
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 - 18:00
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