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Aleksandar Jestrović

Aleksandar Jestrović

Aleksandar Jestrović or Jamesdin was born in 1972 in Zagreb (SFRJ). He graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2000, in the class of Professor Čedomir Vasić. In 2016, a master’s degree at the Institute “Art in Context” UDC Berlin. Since 2000, he has been exhibiting at individual and group exhibitions in the country and abroad. In his works, their conceptual determination, he provides a brutal social analysis of a society that is preoccupied with the image of its own representation in the modern media system. For his work, he was awarded the Veličković foundation prize for drawing, the Cultural Center of Belgrade prize at the October Salon and the Rista and Beta Vukanović painting prize of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Apart from painting and multimedia installations, he also plays basketball. He lives and works between Belgrade and Berlin.

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CV

Solo
shows

2016

Psihoterapija,sa (with Tidra and Darkomrak) SeppMaiers 2raumwohnung e.V., Berlin, Germany

2015

Bulky Luggage/ Sperrgepäck,Theater im Pfalzbau , Ludwigshafen  Serbinale & Offene Welt Festivals,Ludwigshafen, Germany

Paradajz turisti (Tomato Tourists), gallery SIZ, curator Zorana Đaković Minniti, Rijeka, Croatia

2011

„Stoka sa Istoka” (“Eastern Hillbillies”), gallery Kulturni Centar , Belgrade, Serbia

2010

Ko koga jebe? (Who is fucking who?), curator Jani Pirnat Galerija erotike Račka, Celje, Slovenia

2009

Hurry u are late, The White Tube project curator Medeleine Park, Oslo, Norway

2004

Chakrea/A4, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2002

Fliper, gallery Doma omladine, Belgrade, Serbia

2000

Izložba pasa (Dog Show), SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

Group
shows

2017

Fahnenversuch, Transform, Wien, Autria

2016

39th Jalovik Art Colony, Jalovik, Serbia

2015

III. Serbinale – Moderne Nomaden, Gastfreundschaft, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany

48 Stunden Neukölln, Dienstleistungszentrum KUNST. Richardplatz, Berlin, Germany

2014

Želim govoriti o ratu, Galerie Klovovićevi dvori Zagreb, Croatien

MOnuMENTS, tȇte Projektraum, Berlin, Germany

2013

Eastern Promises Hybryd Object, Kunsthale am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany

Two Lines of Life (or why a rabbit likes weeds), La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes,

France

2012

Artist Film International, Whitechapel gallery, London, UK

2011

Donumenta 2011 Serbien Regensburg, Germany

2010

Speederbike primitive, Grimmmusem Berlin, Germany

2009

Mahn o Mahn, Emerson Gallery, Berlin, Germany

  1. Oktobarski salon – Okolnosti, Muzej 25. maj, Belgrade

2008

Hiroshima art project 2008, Contemporary migration art project, Berlin, Germany

2007

Steirischer Herbst, Art Festival, Graz

2006

Near Dark, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

2005

Border Disorder, Studentski kulturni centar, Belgrade, Serbia

2004

Break 2.2, festival savremene umetnosti, Galerija Grad, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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