Talk:Bojana Barltrop

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Bojana Barltrop (born in 1949 in Skopje, Yugoslavia) is an artist, photographer, videomaker, performer, designer, and architectural historian. Barltrop’s process-based body of work and research investigate the relationship between desire and politics through the lenses of the performative body and the architectural space. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s Barltrop (known then as Bojana Komadina) was an active member and one of the most significant female artists of the experimental Belgrade and Yugoslavian art scene working mainly with media such as photography (with a focus on the use of Polaroid cameras) and video.

Along with her artistic practice Barltrop was Editor of the Design Programme for the Gallery Sebastian in Dubrovnik (1981-1986) and Member of the Managing Board and Chief Executive of Studio 019 Sintum in Belgrade (1984-1992).

Barltrop has lived in the UK since 1993.

Her work ‘Suicide’ (1981) was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MSUB) as part of the permanent collection of its newly opened building (2017).

Education
1973 Graduates from Academy of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1975-1976 Additional studies at the Royal College of Graphics and the Schools of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, Denmark

1977 MPhil at Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

2003 PhD at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK

Solo Exhibition
1979 ‘The Woman Capable Everything’, Happy Gallery, Student’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1981 ‘The Book/ Nineteen stories’, Happy Gallery, Student’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia ‘Imagined Condition/ Transformans’, Happy Gallery, Student’s Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1992 'Bojana Komadina', Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

2017 ‘The Great Chain of Being’, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Legat Rodoljuba Čolakovića I Milice Zorić, Belgrade, Serbia

Other Exhibitions
1982 ‘Arteder ’82 Muestra Internacional de Obra Gráfica/ International Graphic Arts Exhibition’, Bilbao, Spain

‘Some aspects of Yugoslav Contemporary Photography’, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK and The Showroom of the Museum of the Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1983 ‘Einige Aspekte der zeitgenössischen jugoslawischen Fotografie’ (‘Some aspects of Yugoslav Contemporary Photography’) published by Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

‘Examples of Instant Art Polaroid-Video-Xerox’, Art Gallery, Cultural Center Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1991 ‘150 years of Serbian photography’, Gallery of Serbian Academy of Art and Sciences, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1993 ‘Critic’s Choice: Bojana Komadina, Dusan Otasevic and Pedja Neskovic’, Art Gallery, Cultural Center Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia