Bojan Šarčević Explained

Bojan Šarčević (pronounced as /sh/; born 1974) is a Serbian visual artist and educator. His work includes video, installations,^[1] site-responsive architectural interventions,^[2] photographic collage, more or less abstract sculpture, and printed publications.

Biography

Born in 1974, in Belgrade, Serbia. Šarčević spent part of his childhood in Morocco and Algeria, but was living in Sarajevo at the outbreak of the Bosnian war.

Šarčević studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 1997. He continued his studies at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
He has been a professor at Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2016^[3] and a tutor at the postgraduate program deAteliers in Amsterdam since 2008.^[4]

Šarčević 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.

Collections

• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
• Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
• FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
• Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
• Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
• MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
• Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
• MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
• Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
• TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

References

• Martin Herbert, "Unbounded Enthusiasms" Artforum, November 2010
  Jeniffer Allen, "Social Patterns, Frieze, issue 117, 2008
  Christy Lange, "Une Heureuse Régression", Frieze, issue 97, 2006
  Kirsty Bell, Bojan Šarčević, Frieze, issue 85, 2004
  Jörg Heiser, "Dogs in Space", Frieze, issue 55, 2000

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Filippo Romeo, Bojan Šarčević - Reviews, ArtForum, Summer 2002.
2. Justin Hoffmann, Bojan Šarčević: Kunstverein Munchen - Munich, ArtForum, Nov 2003.
3. Web site: Bojan SARCEVIC . www.beauxartsparis.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107004010/https://www.beauxartsparis.fr/fr/formation/professeurs/1571-bojan-sarcevic . 2017-11-07.
4. Web site: Tutors – de Ateliers.