Tanja Ostojić

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Tanja Ostojic (* 19th August 1972 in Titovo Uzice , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian feminist performance - artist . She lives in Belgrade and Berlin .

After Courbet

Tanja Ostojić became known throughout Europe at the end of December 2005 for her EU underpants . After Courbet is a parody of Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World . Ostojić's version shows her own abdomen, photographed by David Rych , but dressed in blue underpants with European stars . The poster was intended to ironic that foreign women are only welcome in Europe if they drop their panties.

In addition to several other works, this poster was selected from an ongoing art exhibition in order to advertise Austria's EU presidency in public . The Vienna Kronenzeitung turned it into a tangible scandal , was outraged by state-funded pornography and worried about Austria's reputation in the world. Unsettled politicians from all parties jumped up - with the result that the posters were taken down again. Since then, this picture, which had been shown several times in 2005 without a title, has been given the unofficial name Die EU-Unterhose .

Previous actions

Tanja Ostojić's big topic is the “arrogance of the EU” towards the integration of Southeastern Europe into the EU, which especially for women is mostly only possible through marriage, which she describes as a form of prostitution . In the year 2000 to 2003 she started the open art campaign “Looking for a husband with EU-passport” via the internet , where she did not prettify herself, but presented herself with shaved hair like a convict. This led to her marriage to a Cologne artist, from whom she divorced again in 2005 as an online art campaign.

The exhibition organizer and the Balkans - curator Harald Szeemann , of a large budget decreed accompanied them in the action "I'll be Your Angel" at the Biennale in Venice in 2001 for days at every turn, and she smiled at him only love. The former “great subversive ” Szeemann didn't find that amusing. He made sure that she was left out of his projects.

Quote

  • If a depicted woman's body means a political statement in the EU presidency, what about the reality of Southeastern European women who will be sold as goods in the EU in 2006? Here the fictional woman lies in the picture in an allegedly lascivious pose and there the real woman stands on the corner or is locked in the brothel. The picture is broken.

literature

  • Integration Impossible? - The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić , argobooks, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812552-6-3

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personal data
SURNAME Ostojić, Tanja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Titovo Užice , Yugoslavia