Short biography

 

Ex-Yugoslavia / France
Diploma of the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Diploma and MFA in Multimedia, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

 

l Solo exhibitions / Performances / Commissions l

2017
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

2014
We Are the Last Ones of Yesterday, But the First Ones of Tomorrow, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France

2012/13
To Be Continued, The James Gallery, CUNY, New York, USA (cur Katherine Carl)

2012
To Be Continued, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany (cur Ariane Beyn)
Maja Bajevic / Marcelle Marcel, Charim gallery, Vienna, Austria (cur Ami Barak)

2011
Continuara / To Be Continued, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain (cur. Manuel Borja-Villel)
Karaoke; I left my wife with 38 children to die of starvation with only one hamburger left, right, left, right, Kunstforeningen 44 Moen, Moen, Denmark (cur. Rene Block)
Karaoke, Velan, Turin, Italy (cur Francesca Referza)
Layers, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland

2009
Import-Export, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (cur. Sabine Rusterholz)
Maja Bajevic, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland

2008
Quelqu’un veille sur toi, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Maja Bajevic, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (cur. Angela Vettese)

2006
Sculpture for the blind / Le Voyage, commissioned for NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo foundation, Cadiz, Spain (cur. Jimena Blazquez Abascal)
Home Again, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (cur. Asja Mandic and Maja Bobar)
I Wish I Was Born in a Hollywood Movie, launching of the web project organized by Dia Chelsea, New York, USA (cur. Lynne Cooke)

2005
The 1st at Moderna, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (cur. Magnus af Petersens)
Terrains vagues, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Etui, The foundation for Women’s Art, London, commissioned by the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmith College, UK (cur. Kim Dhillon and Jessica Wythe)
Be Nice or Leave, Galeire Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Avanti popolo, performance, Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria (cur. Martina Hochmut and Georg Schollhammer)
Maja Bajevic, Moderna galerija Ljubljana; Mala galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Zdenka Badovinac)

2004
Step by step, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island City, New York, USA (cur. Jimena Blazquez Abascal)
Timemachine, performance, Centre Culturel Français, Vienna (organized by Tanzquartier Wien & cur. Martina Hochmuth)
Good Morning Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia (cur. B. Andjelkovic)
La Mina, performance, part of How do we want to be governed?, La Mina, organised by MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (cur. Roger Buergel)

2003
Fables de l’identité, Project room, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (cur. Régis Durand)
Chambre avec vue, performance, Aussillon, France, commissioned by the Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (cur. Marta Gili)
The Prayer, performance, part of Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di Padula, Salerno, Italy (cur. Achille Bonito Oliva)
Sewing My Wedding Dress While Waiting, performance, part of Il Racconto del Filo, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy (cur. Giorgio Verzotti, Francesca Pasini)

2002
Maja Bajevic, plug.in, Basel, Switzerland (cur. Annette Schindler)
Avanti popolo, galerie Viafarini, Milan, Italy (cur. Gabi Scardi)
Green, Green Grass of Home, Artopia, Milan, Italy (cur. Edi Muka)

2001
La vie est belle, Sarajevska Zima, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Jusuf Hadzifejzovic)
Women at work – Washing up, performance, commissioned for: 7th Biennale of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey (cur. Yuko Hasegawa)
En attendant, performance, part of Watou Poeziezomer 2001, Watou, Belgium (S.M.A.K., cur. Ann Demeester)

2000
Women at work – The Observers, performance, Château Voltaire, Ferney Voltaire, France (in collaboration with Pro Helvetia)

1999
Women at work – Under Construction, performance, part of Under Construction, SCCA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (cur. Dunja Blazevic)
Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To Work, Mobius, Boston, Maryland, USA (residency Arts Link)
Black on White, Obala Art Centar, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Izeta Gradjevic)
Dressed – Up, performance, part of Minimum, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blazevic)

1998
The Speaker, intervention, Sarajevska Zima, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blazevic)

1996
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

1995
Wet Paint on Iron Gates, Galerie Bernanos, Paris, France

1993
Galerie Bernanos, Paris, France

1992
Galerie Bernanos, Paris, France

 

l Group exhibitions l

2016
A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Nous, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Metatextile – Ruptures narratives, exchanged values, Edel Assanti Gallery, London, UK
Our work, Lunds Konsthall, Lunds, Sweden (cur. Emil Nilsson)
Technologies of violence, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (cur. Piedad Solans)
Beyond Performance, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
¡Patria o Libertad! On Patriotism, Nationalism, and Populism; Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, Chile (cur. Paco Barragan)
We refugees, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, (cur. Anja Casser)
HERO MOTHER, Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism, Momentum, Berlin, Germany; (cur. Dr Bojana Pejic and Dr. Rachel Rits-Volloch)

2015
All the World Futures, 56th Venice biennial, Venice, Italy
Our Land/ Alien Territory – Special project of 6th Moscow biennale – Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia (cur. Yulia Aksenova)
Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany
Gender in art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd, Centre Pompidou Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Permanent collection – Forgiven intimacy, National gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Desire for Freedom, Art Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Just Drawings, Michel Rein Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Export Import, SP-ARTE, 31st Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2014
Grip Friheten! Take Liberty!, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (cur. by Andrea Kroksnes),
La guerra che verrà non è la prima, MART- Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy (cur. Nicoletta Boschiero, Saretto Cincinelli, Gustavo Corni, Gabi Scardi and Camillo Zadra)
The Dignity of Man, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic (cur. Maja Abdomerovic, Berthold Ecker, Roland Fink, Terezie Petišková and Jana Vránová)
Only the Dead have Seen the End of War (Plato), 4th International Canakkale Biennial, Canakkale, Turkey (cur. Beral Madra)
Memory Lane, Contemporary Art Scene from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Galerie du Jour-Agnes B, Paris, France (cur. Pierre Courtin)
The Desire For Freedom, National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (cur. Maja Abdomerovic and Ivana Udovicic)
The Dignity of Man, National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (cur. Maja Abdomerovic, Berthold Ecker, Roland Fink, Terezie Petišková and Jana Vránová)
Neighbours, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey (cur. Çelenk Bafra, Paolo Colombo)
ARS AEVI Museum in Progress 1993-2013, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo, Museo Pecci, Milan, Italy
The Dignity of Man, MUSA, Vienna, Austria (cur. Maja Abdomerovic, Berthold Ecker, Roland Fink, Terezie Petišková and Jana Vránová)

2013
Everywhere But Now; 4th Thessaloniki biennial , Thessaloniki, Greece (cur. Adelina Von Fuerstenberg)
The Unanswered Question, NBK / TANAS, Berlin, Germany (cur. Rene Block)
All About These… Ladies and Gentlemen, Viafarini, Milan, Italy (cur. Fani Zguro in collaboration with Gallery On The Move)
Un spectre déambule, Les instants chavirés, Montreuil, France (cur. Juliette Courtillier, Constanze Fritzsch and Agnès Noël)
Speak, Memory, Wallach Gallery of Columbia University, New York, US (cur. Tamar Margalit Beau Rutland)
Porosités, Centre d’Art le LAIT, Albi, France (cur. Jackie-Ruth Meyer)
Macht der Machtlosen, Power of the Powerless Staatl. Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (cur. Johan Holten)
ARS AEVI Museum in Progress 1993-2013, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo, Arsenale di Venezia, Italy
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2012
Habeas Corpus. Functions and Dysfunction of the Figure of the Witness, Contemporary Art Center of Tarragona, Spain (cur. Cèlia del Diego)
Supertemporal. A selection of videos from LOOP/ Screen from Barcelona, (cur. Paul Young and Estelle af Malmborg), Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
Explosion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (cur. Magnus af Petersens)
From The Sunniest Day To The Darkest Night , ZAK BRANICKA, Berlin, Germany
In Action, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Active Presence, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Spain (cur. Sergio Edelsztein)
The common which no longer exists, Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria (cur. Anamarija Batista and Majda Turkic)
Reflecting Fashion; Art and Fashion since Modernism, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (cur. Susanne Neuburger in collaboration with Barbara Rüdiger)
Women at Work, Frac de Pays de la Loire at Art Beijing, Beijing, China,
Psychosis Part II, Färgfabriken – Center for Contemporary Art & Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, (cur. Sofia Palmgren)
Re.Act.Feminism #2, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
Spotlights – Video.Kunst, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg bei Wien, Austria, (cur. Anna Szöke and Andreas Hoffer)
Miraz, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia / Centru za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, Beograd, Serbia (cur. Dunja Blazevic)

2011
Active Presence, MARCO, Vigo, Spain (cur. Sergio Edelsztein)
Spellbound, City of Women, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Predrag Pajdic)
Patria o Libertad, MOCCA, Toronto, Canada; COBRA, Amstelveen, Holland (cur. Paco Barragan)
Washed Out, Konsthall C, Stockholm; Apexart, New York (cur. Corina Oprea, Isabel Loefgren, Judith Souriau, Milena Placentile and Valerio Del Baglivo)
Selected artists, NGBK, Berlin (cur. Franck Wagner)
Contraviolencias, Centre de Cultura “SA NOSTRA” de Palma, Spain (cur. Piedad Solans)
Re.Act.Feminism #2, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark; Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia; Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
Art of the World in Sarajevo, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Berliner Zimmer, National gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Irrealigious! Parallelwelt Religion in der Kunst, Minoriten Kultur, Graz, Austria (cur. Johannes Rauchenberger)
1st Time Machine, The Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O Ark Underground, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Where is My Place?, Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Washed out, Apexart, New York, USA
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible, Wallach Gallery, New York, USA (cur. Kerry Oliver-Smith)
Miraz, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy / Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Dunja Blazevic)

2010
Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando?, Works from the Consolandi collection, MAGA, Gallarate, Italy (cur. Francesca Pasini and Angela Vettese)
Michelangelo’s Nose, Marktgasse 4 + 6, Zurich (cur. Peter Kilchmann)
GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cur. Gabi Scardi)
Remote Viewing. Loop Barcelona (2003-2009), Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (cur. Paul Young)
Patria o Libertad! The Rethorics of Patriotism, Miami Dade College, Miami, USA (cur. Paco Barragan)
C.O.N.T.R.A.V.I.O.L.E.N.C.I.A.S, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea,San Sebastian, Spain (cur. Piedad Solans)
October salon, Belgrade, Serbia (cur. Johan Pousette)
PORTİZMİR2, Izmir, Turkey (cur. Necmi Somez)
Francisco de Goya. Visionen von Schrecken und Hoffnung, Museum Voswinckelshof, Dinslaken, Germany (cur. Jürgen Kaumkötter)
Kratos, About (Il)Legitimate(d) Power, Team gallery, New York, USA (cur. Raphael Gygax)
La Démocratie et ses nouveaux defies, Tel Aviv, Israel (cur. Marie Shek)
Starter, the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey (cur. Rene Block)
Contra Violencias, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea de San Sebastián, Spain (cur. Dr. Piedad Solans)
Gender Check, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (cur. Dr. Bojana Pejić)
La séance, Connaissance des arts, Les 3 Luxembourg, Paris (cur. Alexandra Fau)
Demain vous n’y penserez plus, Galerie Art et Essai, Rennes, France (cur. Marion Hohfeldt)
Project Europa: imagining the (Im)possible, Harn Museum, Gainesville, USA (cur. Kerry Olivier-Smith)
Berlin Paris, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
CAPC ou la vie saisie par l’art, CAPC, Bordeaux, France (cur. Aurelie Voltz)
Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy

2009
elles@centrepompidou, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, Farnce
Opening, MuMo Museum Montanelli, Prague, Czech Republic (cur. Juergen Kaumkoetter and Dadja Altenburg – Kohl)
Storia, memoria, identita, Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
Instantané (75) : Plus général en particulier, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
The Social Critique: 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden (cur. Martin Schibli)
Borders and Beyond, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (cur. Agnes Kohlmeyer)
Momentum 2009, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway (cur. Lina Džuverović and Stina Högkvist)
Art and terrorism, Gradska Galerija Bihac, B&H (cur. Irfan Hosic)
Madre Coraggio, Fondazione Ravello, Ravello, Italy (cur. Achile Bonito Oliva)
Bertha von Suttner Revisited, Schüttkasten Harmannsdorf, Austria (cur. Susanne Neuburger and Hedwig Saxenhuber)
Effet miroir, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Medium Religion, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (cur. Boris Groys and Peter Weibel)
Feel The Force, CGP, London, UK (cur. Clare Goodwin and Liz Murray)
Prague biennale 4, Prague, Czech republic (cur. Dadja Altenburg Kohl)
Performing the East, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (cur. Hemma Schmutz)
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (cur. Seamus Kealy)
Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France (cur. Pascale Pronnier)
Liquid Frontiers, Tri Postal, Lille, France (cur. Iara Boubnova)
Crime & Punishment – The Sequel, Kortil gallery, Rijeka, Croatia (cur. Predrag Pajdic)
Looking at others, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (cur. Radmila Iva Janković)
En Découdre, Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Toulouse, France (cur. Alexandra Fau)
Europe XXL, Lille 3000, Lille, France

2008
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (cur. Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer)
Medium Religion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cur. Boris Groys, Peter Weibel)
49th October Salon of Belgrade, Artist-Citizen, Belgrade, Serbia (cur. Bojana Pejic)
Voyage Sentimental: Meditations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (cur. Lorand Hegyi)
Central Europe Revisited II,, Schloß Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria (cur. Lorand Hegyi)
Can Art Do More? Art Focus 5, Jerusalem, Israel (cur. Ami Barak, Bernard Blistène)
The Bearable Lightness of Being – The Metaphor of the Space, Biennale of Venice – 11.International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice, Italy (cur. Lorand Hegyi and Davide Di Maggio)
Scenes du sud II, Méditerranée Orientale, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France (cur. Françoise Cohen)
Emergency Biennale / Chechnya / World Tour, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
The Schengen Women, SKUC gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Zdenka Badovinac)
We Interrupt Your Program, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, USA (cur. Marcia Tanner)
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada (cur. Seamus Kealy)
Small Things End, Great Things Endure, New Langton Art, San Francisco, California, USA (cur. Jill Dawsey)

2007
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (cur. Roger Buergel & Ruth Noack)
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (cur. Christine Macel and Daniel Birmbaum)
House trip, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (cur. Ami Barak)
Mine Yours Our’s, galerija Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia (cur. Nemanja Cvijanovic and Davor Miskovic)
Bound, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (cur. Predrag Pajdic)
Inbetweeness. Balcani: metafore di cambiamento, Antica Casa di Correzione di Carlo Fontana, Rome, Italy (cur. Dobrila Denegri and Ludovico Pratesi)
Collectors 1 – Collezione La Gaia, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy (cur. Bruna Girodengo and Matteo Viglietta)*
Art Protects, galerie Yvone Lambert, Paris, France
Jefes, Cabecillas, Abusones, Sala Parpallo, Valencia (cur. Javier Marroqui)
History Started Playing With My Life, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (cur. Erzen Shkololli)
Emergency Biennale / Chechnya, World Stop 9: 10th Istanbul Bienniale, Kadiköy Public Education Centre, Istanbul, Turkey (cur. Evelyne Jouanno and Ceren Erdem)
Wherever We Go, Art, Identity, Cultures in Transit, SFAI, San Francisco (cur.Hou Hanru & Gabi Scardi)
Passion for Art – 35 jahre sammlung Essl, Essl Museum, Wien, Austria (cur. Prof. Kr Karlheinz Essl)
Intramoenia Extra Art, Castelli del Salento, Lecce, Muro Leccese, Acaya, Italy (cur. Guisy Caroppo and Achille Bonito Oliva)
The Enforced Dress, Kunst Raum Niederoesterreich, Wien, Austria (cur. Susanne Neuburger)
Rouge baiser, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (cur. Laurence Gateau)
Frei, Suzanne Ottesen galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark (cur. Rene Block)
In Focus Under Duress, Tate Liverpool, UK (cur. Predrag Pajdic)
History In Present Tense, Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia (cur. Iara Boubnova Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Nicolas Bourriaud)
Entre Fronteiras, MARCO, Vigo, Spain (cur. Carolina Grau)
Paranoia, The Freud Museum, London, UK (cur. Predrag Pajdic)

2006
Art, Life & Confusion, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia (cur. René Block)
Borders, Museum of Art of Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy (cur. Saretto Cincinelli, Christiana Collu and Roberto Pinto)
Of The One And The Many, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey (cur. Vasif Kortun)
Verstehst Du das?, Neue-Medien-Kunst aus Südosteuropa, AZKM, Munster, Germany (cur. Dr. Gail B. Kirkpatrick & Dr. Necmi Sönmez)
New Video, New Europe, The Kitchen Art Gallery, New York, USA (cur. Hamza Walker)
Archéologie, le jour d’après, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (cur. Sylvie Zavatta)
Metropolitanscape, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy (cur. Marco Di Capua, Giovanni Iovane and Lea Mattarella)
Smile Machines, Akademie der Kunste Hanseatenweg, Berlin, Germany (cur. Anne-Marie Duguet)
Last & Lost – Unterwegs durch ein verschwindendes Europa, Literaturhaus Munchen, Munich, Germany (cur. Rudolf Scheutle)
Paranoia, Focal Point Gallery, Southend; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain (cur. Predrag Pajdic)
Wherever We Go, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (cur. Gabi Scardi and Hou Hanru)
7th Werkleitz Biennale – Happy Believers, Volkspark Halle, Saale, Germany (cur. Anke Hoffman)
Witnesses / Testigos, NMAC Foundation, Cadiz, Spain (cur. Jimena Blazquez)
Voiler / dévoiler, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France (cur. Karine Vonna)
La Force de l’Art, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (cur. Lorand Hegyi and Hou Hanru)
In Between: Long Distance Relationships, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada (cur. Bojana Videkanic)
A Picture of War Is Not War, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Verstehst Du das? Neue-Medien-Kunst aus Südosteuropa, Austellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany (cur. Gail B. Kirkpatrick, Necmi Sönmez)
MACBA collection, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (cur. Manuel J. Borja-Villel)

2005
2nd Tirana Biennale, Sweet taboos, Tirana, Albania (cur. Roberto Pinto)
Soft Target, Basis Actuele Kunst (BAK), Utrecht, The Netherlands (cur. Brigitte van der Sande)
EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, The Netherlands (cur. Eva Meyer-Hermann and Charles Esche)
In / Security, International Festival of Contemporary Arts City of Women, Ljubljana, Slovenia (coordinated by Sabina Potocki)
About Disappearing, PhoenixHalle, Dortmund, Germany (cur. Inke Arns and Ute Vorkoeper)
The Government, Secession, Vienna, Austria (cur. Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel)
Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, Witte De With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (cur. Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel)
Belonging. 7th Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (cur. Jack Persekian)
Biennale of Urgency, Groznyy, Chechen Republic (cur. Evelyne Jouanno & Jota Castro)
Don’t Touch White Woman – Contemporary between diversity and liberation, Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli, Italy (cur. Francesco Bonami)
La Actualidad Revisida, Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain (cur. Aline Pujo)
New Video, New Europe, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cur. Hamza Walker)
Next Door, The Barents Art Triennial, Kirkenes, Norway (cur. Jan-Erik Lundström)
Mediterranean Sea: New Visions, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy (cur. Maurizio Coccia and Valentina Sansone)
Conflict, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (cur. Lorand Hegyi)
Going Public 05 /1, aMAZE, Milan, Italy; Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa, Greece
History started playing with my life, National Art Gallery Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo (cur. Erzen Shkololli)
Venus en Périgord, Espace François Mitterand, Périgeux; Centre Culturel, Ribeyrac, France (cur. Alin Avila and Daphné Le Sergent)
E-Maf, Ewha-Media Art Festival, Seoul, South Corea (cur. Young-Ae Kim)
Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Venice Biennial 1993 – 2003, Dom mladih, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Asja Mandic)
ArtRobe, UNESCO, Paris, France (cur. Kim Airyung)
Contemporaneo Liquido, Franco Soffiantino gallery, Turin, Italy (cur. Roberto Pinto)
The Giving Person, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy (cur. Lorand Hedgyi)
La Actualidad Revisada, Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain (cur. Aline Pujo)

2004
BIACS, 1st Sevilla biennial, Monasterio de La Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuevas, Sevilla, Spain (cur. Harald Szeemann)
Don’t Touch White Woman – Contemporary Art Between Diversity And Liberation, Fondazione Sandretto – Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Turin, Italy (cur. Francesco Bonami)
Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland (cur. Anda Rottenberg)
How Do We Want To Be Governed?, Miami Art Central, Miami, USA (cur. Roger Buergel)
Love It or Leave It, Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje, Montenegro (cur. Natasa Ilic, Rene Block)
Delay, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (cur. Wilma Suto)
Channel Zero, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cur. Katerina Gregos)
Passage d’Europe, Musée d’Art Moderne, St Etienne, France (cur. Lorand Hegyi)
The Happy Worker, CCS Museum Bard college, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA (cur. Yasmil Raymond)
Imagine Limerick: ev+a, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland (cur. Zdenka Badovinac)
In Movement: UNESCO salutes Women Video Artists in the World, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France (cur. Kim Airyung)
New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA; The Tate, London, UK (cur. Hamza Walker)
Flipside, Artists Space, New York, USA (cur. Katherine Carl)
Hidden (hi)stories, Galerie K&S, Berlin, Germany (cur. Miriam Bers)
Unbalanced Allocation of Space, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (cur. Julia Schäfer)
I Need a Radical Change, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia (cur. WHW)
Designed in France, Imagined in Beijing, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France (cur. Tony Brown)
7 – k- nights, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma, Italy (cur. Gabi Scardi)
Beijing / de-zoned / Paris, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux, France
Art has a point, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (cur. Harald Szeemann)
The government (die Regierung), Kunstraum der Universität, Lüneburg, Germany (cur. Roger Buergel)

2003
50th Biennale di Venezia, Pavilion of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Venice, Italy (cur. Asja Mandic)
Fuori Uso – Anomalie, Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy (cur. Teresa Macri)
Looking Awry, ApexArt, New York, USA (cur. WHW)
Gestes. Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (cur. Marta Gili)
In den Schluchten des Balkans, Kunsthalle Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany (cur. Réne Block)
Tirana Biennale, U-Topos, Tirana, Albania (cur. Adrian Paci)
Construction of situations, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (cur. Silvia Eiblmayr)
In Progress, Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland (selection Harald Szeemann)
Blood and Honey, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria (cur. Harald Szeemann)
Vacant Community, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, 2nd International Festival of Photography, Rome, Italy
Red, Rad i rod, Kulturni Centar Beograda, Belgrade, Serbia (cur. Bojana Pejic)
Twice Upon a Time, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (cur. Dobrila Denegri)

2002
Steirischer Herbst, Enactments of the Self, Hauptplatz, Graz, Austria, with Emanuel Licha (cur. Maia Damianovic)
Fragilités. Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (cur. Marta Gili)
Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany (cur. René Block)
The Big Social Game, Biennale di Torino, Turin, Italy (cur. Giancinto di Pietroantonio and Michelangelo Pistoletto)
Paradise Lost, Rimini, Italy (cur. Ambra Stazzaone)
Home, SCCA, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blazevic)
It Ain’t Much But It’s Home, BINZ 39, Zurich, Switzerland (cur. Maja Bajevic)
Tutti I Nomi Di Dio, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy (cur. Manuela Gandini)

2001
7th Istanbul Biennale, Egofugal, Istanbul, Turkey (cur. Yuko Hasegawa)
Egofugal, selection from the Istanbul biennial, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cur. Yuko Hasegawa, Santo Oshima)
Rumor city / Mutations, La Rafinerie, Brussels, Belgium; TN Probe, Tokyo, Japan (cur. Hans Ulrich Obrist)
East +, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy (cur. Chiara Bertola)
Le Tribu dell’Arte, Galeria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (cur. Achille Bonito Oliva)
Watou Poeziezomer 2001, Watou, Belgium (organised by S.M.A.K., Ghent)
Ars Aevi Rendez-vous, IPC gallery, Sarajevo, BiH (cur. Chiara Bertola)
Central, artLab: neue Kunst aus Mitteleuropa, Museums Quarter, Vienna, Austria; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cur. Lorand Hegy)
Milano Europa 2000, Milan Triennial, Milan, Italy (cur. Zdenka Badovinac)
Perfect Match, The Museum of The City, Skopje, Macedonia (cur. Suzana Milevska)
Freedom and Violence, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland (cur. Dunja Blažević)
Adriatico, Le due sponde, Michetti Museum, Francavilla a Mare, Italy (cur. Angela Vettese)
A Sense of Wellbeing, Palace of the Imperial Thermal Baths, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (cur. Marco Scotini)
Rendez-vous, Ars Aevi, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Bruno Corà)
100 years of Art in Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, B&H
Glo-cal, National Gallery of Tirana, Tirana, Albania (cur. Edi Muka)
Nouveaux dialogues, Espace Ernst Hilger, Paris, France
Devenirs / Becomings, La Sorbonne, Paris, France (cur. Andre Rouiller)
Biennale de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (cur. Achille Bonito Oliva)

2000
Manifesta 3. European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Katherine Rhomberg, Maria Hlavojeva, Francesco Bonami)
20 years of Sculpture and Installation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, B&H
Balkan Art Generator, International House, Brussels, Belgium (cur. Izeta Gradjevic)
Kinema Sarajevo, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje, Slovenia (cur. Dunja Blažević)
Extended Transformation, Natura Naturans 5, Sala Comunale d’Arte-Tergesteo, Trieste, Italy (cur. Ivana Jevdjevic)
What Am I Doing Here, SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Lejla Hodzic)
co.operation, Art workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia (cur. Sanja Ivekovic, Bojana Pejic)

1999  
Hors circuit, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, France and Germany
Minimum, Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blažević)
Under Construction, SCCA, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blažević)
Zrno po Zrno, kafe galerija Zrno, Sarajevo, B&H
Women at Work, Biser, Sarajevo, B&H
Visitors / Obiskovalci, SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cur. Igor Zabel)

1998 
Behind the mirror / Iza ogledala, SCCA, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blazevic)
Arte in Guerra, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy (cur. Izeta Gradjevic)

1997
Felicités du Jury 1996, ENSBA, Paris, France
Meeting point, SCCA, Sarajevo, B&H (cur. Dunja Blazevic)

1994 
Advent in Munchen – Winter in Sarajevo, Munich, Germany

1993
Falling Astronauts, Antwerp, Brussels, Belgium

1992
Collegium artisticum 92, Sarajevo, B&H
Cité des Arts, Paris, France

1991
Collegium artisticum 91, Sarajevo, B&H
Mlada grafika Bosne i Hercegovine, Umjetnicka galerija, Sarajevo, B&H

1990
Zlatno pero Beograda, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1989
Zlatno pero Beograda, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

 

l Public collections l

Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris, France
Erste Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Cerámica Contemporánea, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico
Collezione la Gaia, Busca, Italy
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), France
FRAC Franche-Comté, Dôle, France
NMAC Foundation, Montenmedio Arte Contemporanea, Cadiz, Spain
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
NSMD, les collections d’entreprises au CNP, Paris, France
ARS AEVI, contemporary art museum, Sarajevo, B&H
Sammlung Siemens artLAB, Vienna, Austria
National Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, B&H
SCCA, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, B&H

 

l Grants, awards and artistic residences l

2010
Veuve Clicquot Italy Award
Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Landes Berlin Berlin, Germany
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg Produktionsförderung, Berlin, Germany

2009
Image Mouvement, France

2008/9
Iaspis, International Artists Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

2008  
Bourse de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2007
Material grant, DRAC Ile de France, Paris, France

2006/7  
DAAD, artistic residency program, Berlin, Germany

2006
New York State Council and Etant donnés for the development of the web site for the Dia Foundation, New York, USA

2005 
7th Sharjah Biennial Award, United Arab Emirates
Research grant, DRAC, Ile de France, Paris, France

2004 
Material grant, DRAC Ile de France, Paris, France
Monique Beudert Fund, collaboration with Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

2001/2    
Collegium Helveticum, artistic residency program, Zurich, Switzerland

2000    
Shortlisted for the price Milano/Europa; Milan, Italy

1999  
Arts Link, New York, artistic residency program, Boston, USA

1996 
ENSBA degree with unanimous congratulations of the jury, Paris, France
Study grant, Ministère de la culture, France

1991/5    
Study grant, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, France

1991/2
Cité des Arts, Paris, France

1991  
Collegium artisticum award, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

1989  
Department of Culture grant, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Zlatno pero Beograda award, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

 

l Teaching, symposium, conferences, public presentations l

2016
Conference: A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou at Haus derKunst,
Christine Macel, Julienne Lorz Thomas Hirschhorn et Maja Bajevic; Munich, Germany
President of the jury for “Zvono” award; Sarajevo, BiH

2014
Link : Sanja Ivekovic et Maja Bajevic; moderator Élisabeth Lebovici, Beaubourg, Paris

2011 
Artist talk, NGBK, Berlin, Allemagne

2010
Professor, MA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany;  Student exhibition in the public space of the city of Erfurt

2008
Professor, MFA, Università luav di Venezia, Italy
Initiative and organization of ‘Three actions, 1 exhibition’; mostra laboratorio 2 de Maja Bajevic,
Bevilaqua La Masa, Venise, Italie
Conference with Natasa Ilic, WHW at Bevilaqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Prospectif cinema, screening and discussion, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Something you should know, conference, EHESS, Paris, France
Visiting artist, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), La Seine, Paris, France
Geopolitique des religions: les politiques de la croyance, conference, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France with Boris Groys, Jael Bartana and Willie Doherty

2007 
Professor, MFA, Università luav di Venezia, Italy
Workshop, Viafarini, Milan, Italy

2006
Professor, MFA, Università luav di Venezia, Italy
Initiative and organisation of ‘Dreams and Nightmares, the Class of Maja Bajevic at IUAV’,
Viafarini, Milan, Italie
Workshop, Academy of Fine Art Trondheim, Norway
Conference, Massimiliano Gioni and Maja Bajevic, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
How to perform? Re-enactment and documentation in performance art, symposium organised by Rene Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Germany;

2005 
Professor, BA, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2004 
Creative Politics: Making Art During War, conference, P.S.1 MoMA, New York, USA
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, conference, Paris, France
CCS program, Bard College, conference, workshop and performance, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

2003
Bergen Art School, guest artist, Bergen, Norway
Kesser award jury, ENSBA, Paris, France
GAMeC, lecture, Bergamo, Italy
Academia di belle arti, workshop, Bergamo, Italy

2002
Naba, Nuova Academia di belle Arti, Milan, Italy
Connecting people – figure dello spazio pubblico, lecture, Milan, Italy
Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Zurich, conference, Zurich, Switzerland

2001
Collegium Helveticum, ETH, symposium, Zurich, Switzerland
University of Istanbul, public presentation, Istanbul, Turkey

2000/1
Professor, Post-diplôme de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

2000
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, symposium, Lyon, France
Fine Arts Academy Sarajevo, public presentation, Sarajevo, B&H
University of Sarajevo, Literature and Philosophy Department, public presentation
Co.opertation, Art workshop Lazareti, public presentation, Dubrovnik, Croatia

1999
Mass Art, public presentation, Boston, USA
ArtsLink, New York, USA

1991
Assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts of Sarajevo

 

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