Slobodanka Stupar


Slobodanka Stupar, is Serbian visual artist who lives and works in Belgrade, Athens and Cologne.

Biography

Slobodanka Stupar graduated from Applied Arts School in Belgrade
She graduated School of Fine Arts at University of Belgrade
She specialized at the School of Fine Arts in Athens.

The work

The separation of elementary metaphors and other figurative mechanisms, i.e. deconstruction, has become an effective tool for understanding and interpreting recent visual art. This is
especially true where the artist has moved from a more "classical" form of expression, arising from an academic training, to a practice involving a visualized language and semantic composition mode of expression, of which Slobodanka Stupar is an example. This transition was all the more likely in her case given the freedom which she already had in using the graphic art medium, closer to experimentation than the reproduction of any standard approach. Even from the outset of her artistic career she had been leaning towards a reexamination of the expressive capabilities of visual art. Combining the incompatible, to maintain any discourse one has to remove or circumvent ordinary comprehensibility, or "sense"; to make something "apparent" the plastic narrative had to be reduced to the brink of unrecognizability in order to be "seen" as a new work. This is precisely the kind of work Stupar has been producing over the last few years. The works at this exhibition are among those which have emerged from this new understanding of the function of art works as self-sufficient structures of meaning, autonomously establishing the scope of their own significance.

Grants and residencies

Awards and recognitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Other works and projects

  • 1984 Symphony, performances at Festival Second New Music, Student Culturale Centre, Belgrade
  • 1986 Secret life, Town Festival, Belgrade
  • 1987 Area of Touch / Space of Contact, lecturing at Open School Djurdjevo,
  • 1992 Ceci n’est pas une pipe, collaboration with composer Lj. Jovanovic, Quantenpool Köln part of Kassel Documenta IX 's Piazza Virtuale TV project; live transmission on TV, Kassel and 3sat from Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
  • 1995 Mirror, performance in collaboration with LJ. Jovanovic, Simultanhalle, Cologne
  • 1996 Ueber den Tiellerrand hinaus, performance with Inge Broska and Hans-Joerg, Tauschert at Tangenten Festival, Köln
  • 1996 Answer to my Lette, open art project upon art communication
  • 1999 WHAT IF…?, performance, Galičnik

Works in museums and public collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade * Ludwig Museum, Cologne * National Museum, Belgrade * Museum of City of Belgrade Belgrade, * Museum Zepter, Belgrade *
National Museum, Kraljevo * National Museum, Vranje * National Gallery of Piraeus,
Greece * American College of Greece, Athens * Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Zrenjanin * Art Collection of the National University Library, Zagreb * Art Collection
"Lazar Vozarevis" Sremska Mitrovica * Collection of Graphic Art, Frechen *
Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad * Collection
Grafički Kolektiv, Belgrade * Art Collections of Art Colonies Sisak, Poreč, Tuzla and Sopoćani