Maja Bajevic

Maja Bajević (born April 20, 1967 in Sarajevo ) is a Bosnian / French video and installation artist .

life and work

Bajević attended the Art Academy in Sarajevo. From 1991 she attended, for eight months, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris , where she later graduated with awards in multimedia art .

In her works she asks social, political, cultural and psychological questions about identity in war-torn Bosnia. In her video works she shows the consequences of violence, religious and cultural tensions, social conflicts and the drug and weapon trafficking, which are strongly linked to her personal biography. "[...] She takes a subjective look at events and phenomena and makes them the subject of a public discussion about truth, identity, marginalization of the 'other', and the abuse of power and religion."

From 2005 to 2008 Bajević was visiting professor at the Università luav di Venezia in Venice. From autumn 2006 she received a one-year DAAD scholarship and therefore lived and worked in Berlin. Maja Bajević lives and works in Paris and Sarajevo.

Works

• Double Bubble , 2001, (video loop, 3:40 min.)
• with Emanuel Licha : Green, Green Grass of Home , 2002, (video loop, 18 min.)
• Women at work - washing up , 2003, (video loop, 15:14 min.), Essl Collection
• La Mina , 2006, (video, 11:03 min.), Performed in 2007 during documenta 12
• with Zoran Solomun : Road Movie , 2012, (autobiographical experimental film, 74 min.)

Exhibitions

• 2001 Istanbul Biennale
• 2003 50th Venice Biennale (Bosnia-Herzegovina Pavilion)
• 2003 Blood & Honey - Future is in the Balkans , Essl Museum - Art of the Present, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
• 2004 PS1 MoMA, New York
• 2005 Moderna Museet , Stockholm
• 2007 Passion for Art , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
• 2007 Double Bubble , video installation, documenta 12 , Kassel, 2006
• 2008 Medium Religion , Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe
• 2008 Import - Export , Kunsthaus Glarus
• 2012 spotlight. Video art , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
• 2017 Power, Governance, Labor , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

literature

• Maja Bajević, Tom Appleton: The enforced dress: Maja Bajević . Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502-0789-7
• Documenta-und-Museum-Fridericianum-Veranstaltungs-GmbH [Hrsg.]: Documenta - Kassel, 16/06 - 23/09 2007 . Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 2007, p. 170, ISBN 978-3-8228-1677-6 . (Contribution by Roger M. Buergel to the documenta 12 catalog)
• Christine Humpl [Ed.]: Blood & Honey. The future is in the Balkans . Edition Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg 2004, ISBN 3-902001-11-9 . (2nd edition of the catalog for the exhibition from May 16 - September 28, 2003 with contributions by Erhard Busek, Ivaylo Ditchev, Edi Muka, Melentie Pandilovski, Gëzim Qëndro, Stefan Rusu, Cyrill Stieger, Harald Szeemann and Karlheinz Essl. 288 pages in German / English with numerous pictures and illustrations)
• Angela Vettese, Lynne Cooke, Dunja Blazevic: Maja Bajevic . Charter, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-8158-670-7

Individual evidence

1. ^ Documenta 12 - catalog , Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 2007, p. 332, ISBN 978-3-8228-1677-6
2. ↑ MAJA BAJEVIC - IMPORT EXPORT  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Maja Bajević in the catalog of the German National Library
• Maja Bajević on kunstaspekte.de
• Biography of Maja Bajević on the website of Galerie Michel Rein (PDF file; 177 kB)
• Video work Double Bubble at the ZKM, Karlsruhe
• Ute Vorkoeper: The knot between history and place , in: Die Zeit from December 9, 2005
• Entries in Arthistoricum.net