Bojan Šarčević
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Bojan Šarčević (b.1974) is a Bosnian-French visual artist. Born in Belgrade, Sarcevic spent part of his childhood in Morocco and Algeria but was living in Sarajevo at the outbreak of the Bosnian war. He studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 1997. Continuing the research and work at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
[edit] Description of work
Bojan Sarcevic's work over the past decade has taken many forms, including single-channel video or video installation, site-responsive architectural interventions, photographic collage, more or less abstract sculpture, and a mixed bouquet of printed publications. An interlocking set of concerns pursued across this range of media includes the conditions of cultural identity, the social and psychological dynamics of human behaviour, and the politics and poetics of space. Modulating across a spectrum of humour, beauty, melancholia and criticality, his works are invariably primed with individually appropriate measures of psychological charge, formal elaboration and sociopolitical engagement.
Sarcevic held his first solo exhibition "It seems that an animal is in the world as water in the water", at the gallery BQ in Cologne. Since then he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including:
- Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998)
- Centre Soleil d'Afrique, Bamako (2000)
- Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2001)
- Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2001)
- Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich (2003)
- The 50th Venice Biennale, (2003)
- Tate Modern, London, (2004)
- ArtPace Fondation, San Antonio (2005)
- Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2005)
