PhD Bojana Pejic

Born in Belgrade in 1948 and studied History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Belgrade. From 1977 to 1991 she was curator at the Student Cultural Center of Belgrade University and organized many exhibitions of Yugoslav and international art . Started to write art criticism in 1971 and was editor of art theory journal Moment, Belgrade (1984 - 1991)
Since 1991 she has lived in Berlin.

She organized an international symposium The Body in Communism at the Literaturhaus – Berlin in 1995. She was Chief curator of the exhibition After the Wall - Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe organized by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (1999), which was also presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Foundation Ludwig, Budapest (2000) and at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2000-2001). She was one of the co-curators of the exhibition Aspects/Positions held in the Museum of Contemporary Art – Foundation Ludwig, Vienna in 1999.
Between 2002 and 2004, she was one of international advisers of the Contemporary Art Museum in Kumamoto (Japan) where she also curated a retrospective of Marina Abramovic (2003), which also toured to Morigame (Japan).
In 2003, she had the Rudolf Arnheim guest professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin (history of art).
She was adviser of the project “De/Construction of Monument “organized by the Center for Contemporary Art in Sarajevo where she also held seminars at the Academy of Fine Arts dedicated to the “Communist Body.” (2004-2005)
In May 2005 she has defended her Ph.D. “The Communist Body – An Archeology of Images: Politics of Representation and Spatialization of Power the SFR Yugoslavia (1945 -1991)” (in preparation for publishing).
She was a Maria Goeppert-Mayer guest professor for International Gender Research at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University in Oldenburg (2006-2007).


Curatorial Work [1981 – 2004]
1981, Space Between, exhibition of Jürgen Partenheimer, SCC Gallery, Belgrade
The exhibition of Yugoslav young artists M. Markovic, D. Krnajski. V. Stevanovic, V.Mikic etc), Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, co-curator with Biljana Tomic
1982, Fragments of the Painting: Monument, exhibition/installation of Milovan De Stil Markovic, SCC Gallery, Belgrade
1983, Proste: Raum, the exhibition of young Yugoslav artists, Kunstakademie, München, co-curator with Biljana Tomic
Meeting in Belgrade, exhibition/performance/discussion between Jürgen Partenheimer, Jochen Gerz, Michel Sauer and Alan Johnston, SCC Gallery, Belgrade
1985, Australiana, exhibition of contemporary Australian Art (J. Watson, J.Nixon, B.Henson, M.Kosic, F. Bendinelli & R. Randal etc), SCC Gallery, Belgrade
Eucharist, exhibition of Milovan De Stil Markovic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Postisms: Belgrade Scene, (alter imago, D. Krnajski, M. Prodanovic, M. Markovic, V. Sovilj), Museum of Koprivnica and Museum of Varazdin (Croatia)
1986, Zaboravljeni jezik [Forgotten Language] exhibition of Breda Beban, SCC Gallery, Belgrade
Svecanost Motrenja [Celebration of Theory], exhibition of Veso Sovilj, SCC Gallery, Belgrade
Art and Criticism in the Mid Eighties, exhibition of Yugoslav contemporary art curated by eight art critics from Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Skopje, Sarajevo and Novi Sad
1988, So rare, so wonderful, so beautiful, exhibition of Lorenzo Pezzatini (Florence) SCC Gallery, Belgrade
1989, The Days of Perestroika – Contemporary Russian Artists – Shuravlev, Serebriakova and Kircova), SCC Gallery, lectures on art in Moscow and Leningrad by Jelena Kuzjancova and “Paper Architecture in Soviet Russia”, by Andrej Savin (Moscow); Fashion Show by Ekatarine Filipovna (Moscow )
1990, Copernicus in Belgrade, exhibition of Ken Freidman, SCC Gallery
1992, Katharina Karrenberg, in 37 Räume [37 Rooms], an exhibition curated by 31 curators based in Berlin and organized by Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1994, Kunst: Sprache, exhibition of the curators associated with the Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1995, Curator of the international section of the Yugoslav Biennale for Contemporary Art, Memorijal Nadezde Petrovic, Cacak (Serbia)
1997 - 2001, Chief Curator of After the Wall- Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe organized by Moderna Museet in Stockholm (together with David Elliott and Iris
Mueller Westerman). The exhibition presents 125 works from 143 artists coming from 22 Eastern European countries. It was held in Stockholm (15 October 1999 - 15 January 2000), in Museum of Contemporary Art – Stiftung Ludwig, Budapest (15 June - 30 August 2000) and the Hamburger Bahnhof and Max Liebermann House, Berlin (30 September 2000 - 4 February 2001)
1998, Performance art in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), co-curator for Body and the East - From the Sixties to the Present, (Chief Curator Zdenka
Badovinac), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, July - September
Focus Belgrad (co-curated with Dejan Sretenovic), an exhibition of Serbian contemporary art, ifa-Galerie, Berlin (Group Apsolutno, J. Cekic, N. Kocic, Z. Naskovski, Rasa Todosijevic and M. Tomic). Symposium, video and film program held in Podewil, Berlin
Aspects/Positions – Art in the Central and Eastern Europe 1949 - 1999 (Chief Curator Lorand Hegyi), Curator for Serbia at the exhibition, Museum of
Modern Art – Foundation Ludwig, Vienna, December 1999 - February 2000. Later shown in Fundacio Miro, Barcelona (September - October 2000),
Hansard Galery/City Gallery, Southampton (November 2000 - January 2001), and National Gallery in Prague (February - April 2001)
2003, Red, rad, rod [Work, Order, Gender], exhibition of Maja Bajevic (Sarajevo) and Artur Zmijewski (Warsaw), Art Gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade
2003/04, Retrospective of Marina Abramovic, The Star, held in Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (CAMK), Japan (October 2003 - January 2004) and in MIMOCA, Morigame, Japan
2004, Assitant curator to the Commissioner arh Slobodan Selinkic, Pavilion of Serbia and Montenegro, „Eco-Logic“, at the 9th International Exhibition of Architecture, the Venice Biennial
2006, Curator of a retrospective exhibition by Jusuf Hadzifejzovic (Sarajevo), to be held in Museum in Prijepolje; MoMA, Belgrade; Heimat Museum, Sarajevo, 2008 (in preparation)