User:Gjorgje Jovanovik

Gjorgje Jovanovik , Ѓорѓе Јовановиќ (Born in Skopje, 1980). Visual artist living and working in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje in 2003. In his recent work, the question of the integration and disintegration of the contemporary man has been his preoccupation. He re-examine interpersonal communication in the context of the general situation of redefining universal values, man-society relations, and consumerism as a key factor of modern life style, politics as a factor of disintegration of the cities, states, and families…Also, the element of self-reference is present – a re- examination of the self in inner or extensive contexts of decaying old, and creating new values. Using no limits in media he has worked on installations, performances, objects, videos, collages, and paintings in order to achieve a transformation of the artistic dimensions of his individual expression by following up the fluidity of the contemporary context.

He has realized several solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad:, Chocolate Drops, (Hoast, Vienna 2018),  Radio Free Skopje, internet radio project, (CAC Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia 2015) Invention for You Wonderful People!,(Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia  2014), The Confession of a Cake Monster, (Studio Golo brdo, Rovinj, Croatia, 2013), Fragmented Archive of the Artist from the Country in Transition, (MC Gallery, New York, 2010), It’s Complicated, (Gallery Centrum, Graz, Austria, 2010), An Off-Day for Mister Euzebio, Skopje, 2008) The Walk of Mister Chenk Through the Divided Continent, (Skopje, 2005) ctr.

He is an author of the following performances: The Confession of a Cake Monster  performed in New York, Vienna, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Prishtina, Rovinj and Skopje 2008-2013), The Recession of the New Year's Eve (Skopje, 2008), The Depression of the New Year's Eve (Skopje, 2005),  Sales-man of Male Tear (Skopje, 2006) ctr.

Selected group exhibitions: Guerilla of Enlightenment, THEY SHOULDN´T BE ABLE TO PRETEND THEY DIDN´T KNOW ANYTHING, Rotor gallery, Graz, Austria, All That We Have in Common, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia (2018), PONOVO UPOTREBITI: PAST AS COSTUME OR INSPIRATION, Zacheta project space, Warshaw, Poland (2017), Archives of violence’s, CRIC – festival of critical culture, National gallery of Macedonia, Cifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia,  Poetika, DadaEast, The Cloud, Tirana, Albania, Art in Public Spaces- MitOst, Cluj, Romania (2016), The Essence of Existence, Lauba Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, Where (Not) to Go, MC Gallery, New York, USA, Nationless, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece,  Utopia = No Place or Good Place, National gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia  (2015), Balkon zum Balkan,Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Vienna Independent Shorts, Stadtkino -Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Skopje, Solidarity- Unfinished Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (2014), Balkan?, Oslo 10 (Projektarium IAAB), Basel, Participation-Participatory Practices as Artistic Strategy, Tirana Express, Tirana , Ex-Ordinary, Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia, U10, Belgrade, Serbia,  Perjanicki Dom, Podgorica, Montenegro, Reinventing Bridges, Terasa Cărturești, Bucharest, Romania (2013), Where (not) to go, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey (2012), Re-locate , Rumeli Han, Istanbul,  (parallel event of the 12th Istanbul  Biennial, Shelter , Shelter Island, Hamptons, USA , Deadpan Exchange VI, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre , Vilnus, Lithuania, Fragments, Macedonian art scene 1991-2011 , Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia (2011), 255.804 km2 , Hilger Brot Kunst halle, Vienna,  4th Performance festival, Mahmud Moktarh Cultural Center, Cairo (2010) A SLICE OF BLOOD AND HONEY: Experimental Cinema from Macedonia, Nortwest Film Forum, Seattle, Washington, USA (2008),  Cataclysm and Creativity: Art in an Age of Uncertainty , Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Weil gallery,  Corpus Christi,USA (2007), Real Presence Floating Sites , collateral event of the 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2005)

He has participated on several residency programs: IAAB-Basel ,TICA- Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art,( 2013)  Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France, (2012) Watermill Centre, Long Island, New York  and Apartment project, Istanbul, Turkey,( 2011)  ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program),  New York and in Graz, Austria as a fellow of the program of the  Cultural City Network (2010).

Selected Workshops and conferences: Arts Forum Marrakesh: Art, Public Space + Closing Societies”. Marrakesh, Morocco (2017), Battlefield Culture conference, Sarajevo, BIH( 2016), Summer School of Engaged Art, Berlin, Germany, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, (2015) Counter publics: Queer Activism, Nationalism and the Public Space, Seminar by Coalition Sexual and Health Rights of Marginal Communities- Skopje, Queer Zagreb and Centar for Queer Studies- Belgrade, Skopje, Macedonia (2012) '''Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Crisis? , workshop, Athens, Greece (2011), DESCHOOLING CLASSROOM (o^o), [Self-education in the arts and culture] project, organised by TkH (Walking Theory) Belgrade in partnership with Kontrapunkt, Skopje Events in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, Belgrade, Serbia and Skopje Macedonia (2009/10), Real Presence Floating Sites, workshop as a part of the 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Speak Up''', workshop, KUVA Akademie Helsinki, Finland (2005).

Selected Artist talks and presentations: Zacheta project space, Warshaw, Poland (2017) TICA-presentation, Remix, Tirana, Albania, University Polis, presentation, Tirana, Albania (2013 )Regional comics project FWP, presentation, Eurobalkan Institute, Skopje, Macedonia (2012),Network and Synchronization, international symposium / conference, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia , Apartment project, artist talks, Istanbul, Turkey (2011) The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), artist talks, New York, USA (2010) Video art in Macedonia , artist talk, "Student City Centre”, Belgrade, Serbia (2009) Gallery for Contemporary Art, artist talks, Pancevo, Serbia (2008) KUVA, artist talk,  Helsinki , Finland (2005) Real Presence, artist talk, Belgrade, Serbia (2004)

For his practice, he has been awarded with the Award for young visual artist Denes in 2009 the award for video at the international festival Alternative Film/Video in Belgrade in 2009, special award at the Akto Festival in Bitola, Macedonia in 2012 and the award of the 10 Biennial of Young Artist organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia in 2013.