Vanja Vukovic

Portrait of Vanja Vukovic

Vanja Vukovic (* 1971 in Montenegro , grew up in Stuttgart ) is a photo artist and photo designer living in Germany .

Life

Vanja Vukovic moved with her family to Germany four years after her birth in Montenegro and lives and works mainly in Frankfurt am Main . Outside of Germany, she has already carried out projects in the USA, Canada, China, Poland, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hungary. She works as an advertising photographer for well-known companies such as Publicis , Schweppes , Renault , Bankhaus Metzler , Dewey & LeBoeuf , Die Bahn and Young & Rubicam . She works as a press photographer for the following magazines: Stern, Chrismon, Impulse, 11 Freunde and Nido.

From 1994 to 2000 she studied communication design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in the field of design and photography and graduated with a very good diploma. During this time, she spent a semester abroad at the University of Portsmouth , Great Britain, from 1997-98 , in the Media Arts, Photography department. At a later point in time she studied fine arts for two guest semesters with Martha Rosler and Wolfgang Tillmans at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste, Städelschule Frankfurt .

Her work has received several prizes, including an award at the 5th Aenne Biermann Prize and in 2007 she was a finalist of the Golden Award of Montreux .

Vanja Vucovic is a member of the German Association of Artists . She lives in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2010 she has also been working with the medium of video .

Projects

I am your camera my dear

In the "I am your Camera my Dear" campaign as part of the Schirn Kunsthalle's "Playing the City" project, three bodyguards wearing black suits, dark sunglasses and radio telephones looked for any passerby in downtown Frankfurt, whom they then accompanied until they were noticed, with different reactions occurring: Depending on whether the situation was perceived as threatening or pleasant, the people fled from their protectors or enjoyed the attention they were shown. The questions arose: How much privacy is public and how much public is private? Where and how is the interface between the intimate sphere and public space designed?

Plastic Invader

In the photo series "Plastic Invader" , which was created mainly in Shanghai in the summer of 2012 , Vanja Vukovic looked for traces of a grown and growing city in China. In doing so, she was able to document the urban developments in sometimes extreme dimensions. Increasingly larger and larger areas are being built extremely densely without regard to natural rhythms, neither the residents nor the environment. Nature is being replaced by plastic, by artificially made and built things. There is an invasion of the plastic, the artificial, the non-natural. But nature also places the city erbert back: trees, reeds and Un herb form green islands covered with concrete in the city.

Safe Heaven

In the series "Safe Heaven" from 2010 Vanja Vukovic shows night shots in front of the refugee home in Schöppingen . The nameless refugees are portrayed like ghosts trying to escape the artificially lit room. Vanja Vukovic learned a lot from them and won their trust during her artist-in-residence stay in the artist village of Schöppingen , often talking to the people in the refugee home. Her pictures show the sensitivity of the artist and the person photographed. Matthias Ulrich , the curator of the Schirn Kunsthalle , said of the refugees depicted in the photo series: "Whether they will ever reach safe heaven, however, write a continuation of their story in a new home, is another matter."

Scholarships

• Artist in Residence, artist village Schöppingen , 2009
• Artist in Residence, Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main, 2010.
• Utopia Parkway ad hoc residence, Stuttgart
• Artist in Residence, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China, 2012.

Exhibitions (selection)

• “ 5th Aenne Biermann Prize ”, Museum of Applied Arts, Gera , group exhibition, 2001.
• “Humankapital”, Schloßgartencafe, Darmstadt, group exhibition, 2005.
• “Tyurangalila”, Holler & Jacobs, Gießen, solo exhibition, 2007.
• “Der mere Mensch”, Gallery Höchst, Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2007.
• “Sommerschau” Basis Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2008.
• “Ich ist ein Raum”, 1822 forum of the Frankfurter Sparkasse, solo exhibition, 2008.
• “I is a room” Kunstradar Düsseldorf, solo exhibition, 2009.
• “Life is an Art” Bahnhofsmission Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2009.
• “New to the Eye”, artMbassy, ​​Berlin, group exhibition, 2009.
• “Brixton Salon”, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London, England, group exhibition, 2010.
• “Playing the city”, Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2010.
• “The question of the future of art in our society”, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart , group exhibition, 2011.
• “100-Tage-Kunst”, Ballhaus, Düsseldorf, group exhibition, 2011.
• Denkpause Gallery, Hamburg, solo exhibition, 2011.
• Künstlerhaus Stuttgart , Artist Talk, 2011.
• Former scholarship holders “Geist ist Geil”, Schöppingen, group exhibition, 2011.
• “Performance Show”, Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz, Berlin, group exhibition, 2011.
• Matters of opinion, district initiative Koblenzer Strasse, Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2011.
• “42, Safe Heaven”, Perpetuel, Frankfurt, solo exhibition 2011.
• “Loss of face”, Kunstverein Viernheim, group exhibition 2012.
• Souvenir Frankfurt, Frankfurt, solo exhibition 2012.
• “Of affection and other (between) human affects”, 25 images / second, Mannheim, group exhibition 2012.
• “Mein atelier - my studio”, Stuttgarter Kunstverein, group exhibition, 2012.
• Galerie 143, Dortmund, solo exhibition, 2012.
• “Martha Rosler - Vanja Vukovic”, Kunstverein Eulengasse, Frankfurt, solo exhibition, 2013.
• Video screening at the 60th International Short Film Festival , Oberhausen, 2014
• VANJA VUKOVIC - THE DARK SIDES OF SPARKLING, Young Museum Bottrop, solo exhibition, 2015
• This is not a love song ... - Vanja Vukovic, Parkhaus WK 16, Frankfurt am Main, solo exhibition, 2016
• The dark sides of sparkling, Athens Photo Festival APhF: 17 "Still Searching", group exhibition, 2017
• AOIO5S - Attention on interests of 5 subjects, Basis Projektraum Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2018
• Vanja Vukovic - Kunstverein Linz am Rhein, solo exhibition, 2019

Publications

• “The dark sides of sparkling”. Volume 1, Edition Faust, ISBN 978-3-945400-25-8 .
• with Matthias Göritz: “Shanghai Blues”. Volume 1, Edition Faust, ISBN 978-3-945400-15-9 .
• with Guido Rohm: “Safe Heaven”. Volume 2, Edition Faust, ISBN 978-3-938783-73-3 .
• "I am a room I. - VI .: July 1st to August 2nd, 2008." On the occasion of the exhibition “Ich ist ein Raum” in the 1822 forum of the Frankfurter Sparkasse.

Web links

• www.vanja-vukovic.de
• www.vanjavukovic.com
• I am your camera my dear ; YouTube video, 2010
• The dark sides of sparkling

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography: Vanja Vukovic
2. ^ Production Paradise: Vanja Vukovic, Advertising Photographer. Showcase Magazine, October 2012.
3. ↑ Artgrant: Vanja Vukovic  ( 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.  
4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "V" / Vanja Vukovic (accessed on June 6, 2016)
5. ↑ YouTube video: I am your camera my dear, 2010.
6. ↑ Gallery 143: Vanja Vukovic, I am your Camera my Dear! January 7 - February 18, 2012. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Virtual Exhibition: “Plastic Invader” by Vanja Vukovic ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Jannis Plastargias : Safe Heaven by Vanja Vukovic and Guido Rohm. Pain awake, October 11, 2011.
9. ↑ District initiative Koblenzer Straße: Actions / interactions: What happened so far ...
10. ↑ kunstaspekte.de: Vanja Vukovic (accessed on June 6, 2016)