"The art of Jovana Popic (*1977, CRO-RS) is based on a modus operandi that occupies different positions in different moments. Her installations are heterotopias - that is to say, they are based on a navigation across a universe of signs and meanings, and inhabiting the spaces in between, rather than occupying any single place." Maja Ciric, art historian

Our spatial perception is always influenced by architecture, but also always an expression of an inner thought process. Jovana Popic explores in addition to the specified location the transcendent level of existence. Because even unspoken thoughts often remain, the young artist dares working to make the energy of a place visible. Extremely impressive in its facilities is the intimate interplay between material space and the fleeting acting work, which is composed of drawings, objects and phosphorescent polyester, videos or sound installations. The focus of her productions is the man who must get involved with his or her feelings and thoughts and then can trace the artistic devotion by Jovana Popic to culture and history of the place, but also of nature.

Jovana Popic got the grant of the United Kingdom of Norway and thereafter studied from 1999 till 2003 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade with the Serbian State Scholarship for Science and Art Talents. Furthermore, she got the Friedrich Naumann Foundation´s grant for gifted people in 1999 and 2006. She has been represented at the 50th Venice Biennale already during her studies. In 2008 Jovana Popic received the Award of Ulrich and Burga Knispel Foundation. After further studies at the University of Arts in Berlin, Popic finished her degree as a master student in the class of Rebecca Horn and was awarded with the president´s prize of the University of Arts Berlin. Also in 2009 she got the scholarship of the Goethe Institute and went to Novosibirsk, which was followed by a grant (“Medea Electronique-Mixmedia Lab Residencies”) in Athens and Sellasia, Greece. In 2010 she got the grant of the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft e.V. Berlin. Recently she was awarded with the Codice Mia 2016 Award.

The multimedia artist Jovana Popic followed invitations to exhibit her work throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia as well as USA and Japan.

Selected solo shows

2017	What Do You Want To Forget? Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb/CRO
2016	Destruction, Subtle and Abstruse, MIA 2016, Milano/IT
2015	Neither Here Nor There – Topology of Identity, Goethe Institute, Belgrade/RS
2014	TERRITORY, Gallery Greta, Zagreb/CRO Take a place, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2013	URBAN INCUBATOR: I am not my body, Spanish House Pavillon (supported by Goethe-Institut), Belgrade/RS
2012	Choregie Festival for New Music, WHO´D HAVE THOUGHT THAT SNOW FALLS - Performative Installation with Voice, Maribor/SLO  Kunst im Bauhof, Winterthur/CH
2010	Navigating Bodies, Gallery Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin/DE
2009	The Route of Vanish, State Museum of Arts in Novosibirsk/RU
2007	Lunik, Gallery Mel Factory, Vienna/AT
2004	The Flow, Gallery Stara Kapetanija, Belgrade/RS
2002	Long Distance, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade/RS

Selected group shows

2016	Who wants to die?, rk Galerie, Berlin/DE Zentih is not Dada -100 Years of Cabaret Voltaire, Macura Museum, Novi Banovci/RS LITHOMANIA EDITION, Schaufenster, Berlin/DE Dada 2, Macura Museum /RS  Mia Photo Fair, Milano/IT Inner Migrations, Duplex100m2, Sarajevo/BA
2015	Inter Nation Art, HDLU – Croatian Association of  Artists, Mestrovic Pavillion, Zagreb/CRO Art Market Budapest, with WHITECONCEPTS, Budapest/HU  Deutschland unter die Haube, Museum ships MS Stubnitz and Cap San Diego, Hamburg/DE Hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy, Schau Fenster, Berlin/DE
2014	The inner wealth, Conference of the visionaries, Berlin/DE ZEHN STIPENDIATINNEN DER ULRICH UND BURGA KNISPEL STIFTUNG, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin/DE
2013	Art Market Budapest art fair, with WHITECONCEPTS, Budapest/HU  La Grande Migration, Millenaris Park, Budapest/HU
2012	Never Ever Ever Land, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York/USA Ausstellung 6, Berlin Art Junction, GIZ, Berlin/DE Vice Versa, Miami/USA Vice Versa, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin/DE DMY, International Design Festival, Berlin/DE The universe is built on a plan, SAVVY Contemporary in cooperation with WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2011	ICH BIN EIN BERLINER, Schauhalle Dezer, Miami/USA PREVIEW AFTERSHOW, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE PREVIEW Berlin, with WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE The End of the Dream, WHITECONCEPTS@MicaMoca, Berlin/DE Drawing the Line. Schaufenster, Berlin/DE Westwendischer Kunstverein, KUNSTkammer, Gartow/DE KunstAktienausstellung, Uferhallen, Berlin/DE Fundacja Forum Krasków/PL Krasków Palace, Marcinowice/PL Art Junction, GIZ Haus, Berlin/DE
2010	Die Grammatik des Buches, Artotheque - Municipal Gallery, Munich/DE Situs Inversus, University of Fine Arts (UdK), Berlin/DE Real Presence, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade/RS Hipernatural, Artcampus Heidestraße, Berlin/DE Gute Karten, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin/DE
2009	Medeaelectronique, Kinitiras Studio, Athens/GR Lucid Dream, Gallery Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin/DE Wish You Were Here, University of the Arts, Berlin/DE
2008	Schein, Gallery Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin/DE Beware the Aftereffects, Infernoesque Project Space, Berlin/DE Offbeat: Look and See the Violence Against Women, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade/RS
2006	Tiger im Loewenpalais, Starke Foundation, Berlin/DE
2005	100th: Half Eternity, Sophiensaeale, Berlin/DE Medical Treatment and Art, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima/JP Devenir: Becoming Minor, Gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade/RS April Meetings - Film Works of the Class of Rebecca Horn Gallery of the Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade/RS Fotografija Project, Crosspoints Gallery, Belgrade/RS Fliehende Bücher, Old library, University of Arts, Berlin/DE
2004	Oh Tender Sailorman, Turboplex Gallery, Berlin/DE Mitternacht Tage, Starke Foundation, Berlin/DE
2003	50th Biennale di Venezia, Performance with Marina Abramovic’s “The Independent Artists Group“, Venice/IT 4 Zeiten des Jahres, University of Fine Arts, Berlin/DE
2002	Achi - Young Architectural Thought, Centralny Dom Hudozhnika, Moscow/RU
2001	Real Presence, Tito’s Museum, Belgrade/RS
2000	30th Exhibition of Drawings and Sculptures, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade/RS Belgrade Youth Cultural Centre, Belgrade/RS  Move - Project for the Cultural Awakening of Serbia, Center for the Presentation of Youth, Arilje, Zrenjanin/RS

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