Jelena Vesic

Born in Serbia in 1974.
Works and lives in Belgrade.

Program YCI 2006 participant

Education

2004-2005

Curatorial Training Program, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2003

Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade.

1999-2002

School for History and Theory of Images, Center for Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.

Editing and writing

1995-1999

Beorama, Vreme Umetnosti, Nasa Borba, Vreme, B92 radio. Associate of various daily and weekly magazines and radio specials.

1996 - 1999

"3+4" magazine, published by Department for Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia. Member of editorial team.

Since 2001

"Prelom" magazine for theory of images and politics, published by the Center for Contemporary Art and Prelom Collective. www.prelornkolektiv.orq. Editor.

Reviews and essays for Praesens (Budapest), Prelom (Belgrade), Umelec Art International (Prague), Flash Art International (Milan), Idea/art+society/ (Cluj), Version (Paris), Galerija Nova Newspapers (Zagreb), Afterartnews /Onestarpress/ (Paris), Remont (Belgrade), (An) other Publication (Rotterdam).

Curatorial projects

1998

3^rd Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Konkordija, Vrsac. Curator.

2000

III Annual exhibition of CCAb, Insomnia, SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade. Curator.

2001

Inside/Outside, exhibition at Zachetta Gallery, Warsaw. Curator. web catalogue: http://www.diiafraqrna.com/lnOut.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION, video program, Center for Conternporary Art - Zarnek Ujazdowsky, Warsaw. Curator.

2003

Painting: Concept = Yellow: Cat, Salon of Museum for Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Curator.

web catalogue: http://www.msub.orq.vu/macka

Sculpture gardens, Photographs by Vesna Pavlovic, Fusebox Gallery, Washington DC. Curator.

Post-Colony, artistic colony in Kaleni?, Museum in the air, Kaleni?. Curator. web catalogue: http://www.dijafraqma.com/koloni iakalenic.index.html

2004

Untitled as Yet, 6th Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artist, Vrsac. Curator. website: http://www.yuartbiennial.vrsac.com

2005

Radiodays, 10^th exhibition of Curatorial Training Program, De Appel, Amsterdam. Curator. website: http://www.radiodays.org/

Stories from Neighborhood, video program, Kunsthalle Tallinn, Estonia. Curator.

No More Reality - STEP 1, Uncontrollable situations: Model of Different Radio Usage by radio group Ligna, Belgrade. Curator.

2006

No More Reality - STEP 2, video exhibition + music performance + lectures + talks, Belef & Centre For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade. Curator.

Scene for New Heritage (David Maljkovic), Salon of Museum for Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

Contributed for different exhibition catalogues: Venice Art Biennial, 1999; World Wide Video festival Amsterdam, 1999; Slowly Does Sutjeska Flow (Goranka Matic), 2004; Back Up, 2005; Sinisa Ilic Art Book, 2005; Back Up (Milena Maksimovic), 2005; Imperfect and Unfinished Story (Aleksandar Kelic), 2006; and many others.

Conferences

2003

Presentation of project Sculpture Gardens, Gasterbaiting and Displaying, Corcoran College of Art, Washington DC.

International conference Yugoslav studies, presentation of research projects A clash within the Left: MuraIs of Krsto Hegeduši?, Belgrade.

2004

Cordially Invited: European Magazines Panel, Utrecht.

2005

Regional conference Critique in Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Panel radioaRtivism, Cultural Centre - Rex, Belgrade.

2006

Panel Self-organization and collective work, BITEF, Belgrade.

Workshop Cultural Policy as Crisis Management, Pristine.

Symposium Art Life and Curating, October Salon, Belgrade.

Institutional experience

2002

Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade. Documentation department.

2003

Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade. Curator of the Salon - Gallery for Recent Art.

2004

Curator in Center for Contemporary Art - Belgrade.