About

Vanja Novaković (1992) is a new media artist and independent researcher who explores how the (new) media shapes culture, identity, body, and human behavior as a consumer.
She completed her bachelor’s (2018) and master’s studies (2020) at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad at the Department of New Media Art (RS). In 2021, she passed the state professional exam for the title of museum curator (RS).

Vanja Novaković Portrait

CV

Education

  • 2021. State Exam for Curator, Museum of Vojvodina (RS)
  • 2020. MA – New Media Art, Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2018. BA – New Media Art, Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad (RS)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2020. Click Her(e), SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, (RS)
  • 2019. Pink and Red, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, (RS)
  • 2018. Second Picture (with Jelena Gajinović and Kristina Maksimović), Startit Community / Startit Community Bar, Novi Sad, (RS)
  • 2018. Identify Yourself (with Luka Stojanović), Startit Center / Startit Community Bar, Novi Sad, (RS)
  • 2017. Am I Beautiful to You?, OWL, Novi Sad
  • 2017. AM I REAL? (with Luka Stojanović and Vasso Vujović), Gallery Progres, Belgrade, (RS)
  • 2016.You, Female Moron!, Partizan Gallery, Shock Cooperative, Novi Sad / Petrovaradin, (RS)

Group exhibitions

  • 2024. End of language:Wittgenstein re-imagined, Gallery-Legacy of Milica Zorić & Rodoljub Čolaković, Belgrade (RS)
  • 2022. 18th The Athens Digital Arts Festival FutuRetro, The 3rd ADAF Online Edition (GR)
  • 2022. The end of language – Wittgenstein reimagined, Online Exhibtion, Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, Lichtfelder (AT/SR)
  • 2022. QR Code and NFT Show.p, Loading Festival and The Wrong Digital Art Biennale during BitCoin Conference Miami, Sagamore Hotel, Miami (USA)
  • 2022. SCAM ME, The Wrong Digital Art Biennale, Loading Festival Virtual Pavilion
  • 2022. QR Code Show and NFT Shop, Loading Festival, Sagamore Hotel, Miami (USA)
  • 2021. Scam Me, Loading Festival during Miami Art Week, Miami (USA)
  • 2021. Youth Biennial, Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade (RS)
  • 2021. Exhibition of Tik5 artist collective ”I am superficial”, KC Grad, Belgrade (RS)
  • 2021. Language, organised by Loosen Art, Millepiani, Rome (IT)
  • 2021. 75/50/10, Art Gallery Kruševac, Kruševac (RS)
  • 2020. 65th Annual Exhibition of SULUV Members, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2020. Dialogs 2019, Atelier97, La Spezia (IT)
  • 2019. Pop-up group exhibition, Kulturfourm, Nova Iskra, Belgrade, (RS)
  • 2019. X group small-format exhibition “Meeting”, Kulturforum, Culture station Eđšeg, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2019. The Wrong Digital Art Biennale, In Absentia Pavilion (IT)
  • 2019. Group Exhibition “Masters 2019.”, Gallery of the Archive of Vojvodina, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2019. Looking forward, Bell tower Liesl, Graz (AT)
  • 2019. Exhibition of Tik5 artist collective ”I am superficial”, Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2019. Transpositional discourse of identity and space, Gallery of the Novi Sad Branch of SANU, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2019. Exhibition of new members of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina, Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2018. Project “Differences”, Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2018. 30X30, Cultural Center Zrenjanin, Zrenjanin (RS)
  • 2018. Home Exercises, Author: Andrea Palašti, VN Gallery and Spot, Zagreb (CRO)
  • 2018. Second Picture, Gallery of the Archive of Vojvodina, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2018. Final exhibition of the fourth year of the Academy of Arts, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2017. VI group small-format exhibition “New Rhythm”, Transformat Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
  • 2017. The international project “Danube Connections” in cooperation with Heim.art (Austria) and the Museum of Vojvodina, Gallery HOL, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2017. Ritual fest and Outworld, Boris’s studio, Petrovaradin fortress, Novi Sad / Petrovaradin (RS)
  • 2017. Project “Differences”, Fabrika, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2017. Shop Window 34, Theatre 34, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2017. Home Exercises, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade (RS)
  • 2016. Stop City, International Workshop and Exhibition, Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad / Petrovaradin (RS)
  • 2016. Project “Differences”, Fabrika, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, (RS)
  • 2016. Bodies and Organisms, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2016. Pop-up exhibition “Money, carts and you’re a badass”, Trafika Gallery, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2015. Project “Differences”, Factory, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2015. SHORTZ, International Festival of Video and Short Film, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad (RS)

Panel Discussions

  • 2021. Crisis of the Body: Ambivalentions of the Postmodern Subjectivity Modalities, co-author with Tanja Todorović, Luka Janeš, The 5th International Transdisciplinary Symposium “Bioethics and Aporia of the Psyche”, Croatian Bioethics Society (CRO)
  • 2020. Aesthetics and Media: The World of Variation and Simulation or a Mediator in the New Forms of Education?, Second International Conference on “Why Still Education?”, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade (RS)
  • 2019. What does art have to do with it?, The project “Culture on the Palm – Palm Culture” Interreg- IPA CBS Hungary-Serbia, Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2019. Visual Transpositions of Identity and Space, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris (FR)
  • 2017. Moderator of panel discussion “Contemporary Art”, Ritual fest and Outworld, Boris’s studio, Petrovaradin fortress, Novi Sad / Petrovaradin (RS)

Workshops

  • 2019. ”ID Places”, co-author, with Luka Stojanović, Jelena Gajinović i Tijana Jevrić, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris (FR)
  • 2016. Stop City, International Workshop and Exhibition (IT, FR, RS), Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad / Petrovaradin (RS)

Published Works

Awards

  • 2022. The first prize winner, The end of language-Wittgenstein reimagined, Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, Lichtfelder (AT/RS)
  • 2019. Declared winner for 2019 public competition of the Inclusive Gallery, donors Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the City of Novi Sad – City Administration for Culture, Novi Sad, Serbia Inclusive Gallery, Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2018. “Dragan Rakić” Award for the best work in the fields of digital painting and new media art, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad (RS)

Artist talk

In Collections

  • 2019. Inclusive Gallery, Novi Sad (RS)

Commissions

  • 2022. Curator, Ehxibition Art for All, Inclusive Gallery, Foundation “Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture”, Rectorate of the University of Novi Sad (RS)
  • 2012/2022 The Wrong nº5 Team Member, International Digital Art Biennial
  • 2021. Member of the jury with Sunčica Pasuljević Kandić, and Andrea Palašti for Open Call 2021, Inclusive Gallery (RS)
  • 2021. Web designer / The Anatomy of a Fatberg, Winner of the Art+ science selection 2021, organisation and production: Center for Promotion of Science,Belgrade, authors: Sanja Anđelković, Jovana Pešić, Stefana Janićijević, Andrea Palašti, web development Luka Lopičić (RS)
  • 2021. Web design consultant / Woodiana.today, Danube Transformation Agency for Agency, Jovana Pešić, Sanja Anđelković, web development Luka Lopičić (AT / RS)

Member

  • Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina
  • Co-founder of Tik5, Artist collective