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Igor Antic, visual artist (1962)

The art works of Igor Antic aim to explore and highlight economic and political forces operating within a given context. He creates images, objects and situations as physical "grids" beyond which emerges the social and cultural context of the chosen site. Through them, different questions linked to the conditions of the art production and its use in general, are raised.

Igor Antic was born in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 1962. After studies at the Novi Sad Academy of Fine Arts, Antic attended the Ecole Nationale Supéieure des Beaux-Arts and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris. In 1995, during the war in former Yugoslavia he founded the Pokret Encounter Centre in Novi Sad. In 2000, he got The Pollock- Krasner Foundation's Grant in New York. In 2004, he was the curator of the 11th Biennial of visual arts Values in Pancevo, Serbia.

Igor Antic has participated in numerous group exhibitions, as for example The Open House, in IASPIS, Stockholm (2009), 5x5 in Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló (2009), Crossing values, the 1st Biennial of Rennes (2008), L’emprise du lieu, Expérience Pommery #4 in Reims (2007), Anthology of art in Kunst und Ausstelunggshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn (2006), Akademie der Künste in Berlin, ZKM in Karlsruhe (2005), Museum Georges Pompidou in Paris (2002) and The Pontus Hulten’s collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004).

Among others, he held one-man shows at the Eurogroup (Paris, 2008), Museum of contemporary art, (Novi Sad, 2006), The City museum (Ljubljana, 2006), Space for contemporary arts HEC (Paris, 2003), Centre d'art CLARK (Montréal, 2002), La Chambre Blanche (Québec, 1999), The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas, 1998), etc.