Anja Tončić (1996) is a multi-disciplinary artist and scientific researcher.
She graduated and completed M.A. at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the department of painting in 2019. Since 2021, she has been active in scientific and academic levels in the fields of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics while connecting her two separate professions.
A. Tončić works at the intersection of visual arts, statistical physics and optics.
Her work focuses on the processes of cybernetics, oscillations, refractions, and the concept of (cyclic) generativity, using media such as drawing, installations, painting, sound, objects, photography, spatial dynamics, as well as applied science in artistic relations.
The subject matter of her projects includes visual analytics where she derives traditional techniques from two-dimensionality and introduces them into epistemological frameworks, creating expressions of rhythm, hierarchy, errors and networks of connectivity and entropy in systems around human touch.
Since 2019, she has been working with the ITP in Vienna (Institute for Theoretical Physics – Technische Universitat Wien) as an analytical consultant. Since 2023, she has been a regular associate with the Institute for fusion and instrumentation sciences in nuclear environments (ISFIN) within the University of Natural Sciences in Marseille. Since 2024, she has been a consultant for Eastern Europe within the international organization The Science Gallery Network, as well as a participant in the Arts at Cern program. Since 2022, she is part of the Secondary Archive platform in the selection of the most prominent female artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
Following 2025, she is the lecturer at the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade, as well as at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts (FSU) in Belgrade.
As of 2013, she has participated in over 90 group and 15 independent/solo exhibitioning projects in Serbia and abroad. From 2019 onwards, she is a representative of the Rector’s Council of the University of Arts in Belgrade.
She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 2020.
She is the winner of 12 awards and scholarships in the field of artistic and scientific practice and theory, while her works are in 9 public institutional collections (including the purchase award of the Fabriano Gallery (Italy), the prestigious “Rista and Beta Vukanović – painting award” in Belgrade), while she is also a finalist of the drawing award of the Vladimir Veličković Foundation.
Her works are among others featured in the public collections of the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade, X Vitamin Gallery, Haos Gallery in Belgrade, Osten Gallery in Macedonia, Fabriano Gallery in Italy, Degen Gallery in Basel, Steps Gallery in Tokyo, Etemad Gallery in Tehran and in larger private collections in Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Mexico, Iran, Singapore, Argentina and India.
– 2024 solo exhibition “Razumi kamen”, HAOS gallery, Belgrade
– 2023 solo exhibition “RePulse”, Cultural Center Gallery, Pančevo
– 2023 solo exhibition “ECHO CHAMBER”, X Vitamin, Belgrade
– 2022 solo exhibition “PARALLAX /an angle will lie/”, Dom omladine, Belgrade
– 2021 solo exhibition “VACUUM”, Prodajna hđgalerija, Belgrade
– 2021 solo exhibition “Parallax”, Mali likovni salon, Novi Sad
– 2021 solo exhibition “PHI (F) Phenomenon”, Kontakt gallery, Kragujevac
– 2021 solo exhibition “TACHYON II (OR ON THE VIRTUALITY OF THE VOID)”, Bel Art gallery, Novi Sad
– 2020 solo exhibition “Otkucaj(i)”, Gallery of Kolarch’s Endowment, Belgrade
– 2020 solo exhibition “Axis of Conflict”, Student Cultural Center SKC, Belgrade
– 2020 solo exhibition “LULL”, Center for Art Education Šumatovačka, Belgrade
– 2020 solo exhibition “Destabilization”, Dom kulture student grad, New Belgrade
– 2019 solo exhibition “Melting Point”, X Vitamin gallery, Belgrade
– 2019 solo exhibition of the highest-ranked students of the generation of FLU and FPU, Gallery FLU, Belgrade
– 2025 group exhibition Future Legacies (MadeIn Platform), Center ROG and the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana
– 2025 group exhibition “Seeing the Unseen-Quantum Physics and Arts”, MCQST Munich
– 2025 group collaboration “Archaic Futures” at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
– 2025 group exhibition Capítulo VII: Shifting Grounds OMR, Mexico City
– 2025 group project MUZZA Science Week 2025, Zagreb
– 2024 group program Arts at CERN, Geneva
– 2024 group exhibition Mucem Artistic & Scientific Meetings, Marseille
– 2024 group project CYFEST-16: Archive of Feelings – A Journey, Yerevan
– 2023 group collaboration DARK MATTERS, Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne
– 2023 group exhibition Art & Science FORUM and CAMPUS, Berlin
– 2023 group project HOT AND BOTHERED, Science Gallery Youth Symposium, Berlin
– 2022 group exhibition of Vladimir Veličković Drawing Award laureates, Haos Gallery, Belgrade
– 2022 group exhibition “Our Time on Earth”, Barbican Centre, London
– 2022 group exhibition “L’appétit des ruins”, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris
– 2022 group exhibition of the Painting Section of ULUS “PICTURE / NOW”, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade
– 2022 group exhibition Künstlerhaus – From There Through Here, Vienna
– 2021 group exhibition Positions, Tempelhof Hangar, Art Fair Berlin
– 2021 group exhibition “VIEWS”, Gallery 73, Belgrade
– 2021 group exhibition “unknowing now”, Künstlerhaus Stadt, Munich
– 2020 group exhibition “Understanding Art & Research”, MAK Wien, Vienna
– 2020 ULUS spring exhibition “Where does the future begin?”, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade
– 2020 group exhibition “Flux/material, Oubai-in-Tempel”, Goethe Institute, Kyoto
– 2019 group exhibition “MASTERPIECES”, U10 art space, Belgrade
– 2019 group exhibition “Sense of Humor”, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
– 2019 group exhibition “Edition #4”, Frontviews at Maniere Noire, Berlin
– 2019 group exhibition “HUMAN with/out SPACE”, A.P.A. Atelier Pro Arts Center, Budapest
– 2019 contemporary art auction, Progres gallery, Belgrade
– 2019 group exhibition Inter/Akcija, Belgrade Youth Center
– 2018 group exhibition “Die Aufteilung des Raumes”, Q18, Cologne
– 2018 OSTEN drawing biennial, Skopje
– 2018 group exhibition Watercolor International III, Thessaloniki
– 2018 group exhibition of the Miniature Art Biennale, KC Modern Gallery, Gornji Milanovac
– 2017 group exhibition at the 4th International Watercolor Biennale, Progres Gallery, Belgrade
– 2017 group exhibition at the 46th Exhibition of Small Format Drawings and Sculptures, Dom omladine, Belgrade
– 2017 group exhibition at the Biennale Fabriano In Acquarello, Fabriano
– 2017 group exhibition BEOKULIS finalists, Znak Gallery, Sarajevo
– 2017 group exhibition “Dimensional”, Kunstverein Neustadt/Weinstraße, Villa Böhm
Publications and texts in the field of art (selection of references):
– Arts at CERN: In the Spaces Between, 2025
– 30 years of Haos Gallery, Foundation for the Affirmation of Drawings, monographic study of exhibiting artists, 2024
– Contemporary Identities, Issue 18, 2023
– Falling Walls Science Summit: The Young Entrepreneurs in Arts and Science, 2023
– Art-Science Collisions Notes from a choral dialogue in Barcelona, 2023
– Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland) and the partners’ selection of finalist’s exploration, 2022
– Dejan Vasić: Female Artists in the First Person, Secondary Archive, 2022
– Radiant as the End of the World, Hestia gallery, 2022
