About
Jelena Gajinović
visual artist / designer & owner of the studio
Jelena Gajinović is born in Novi Sad, Serbia. She earned bachelor's degree and master's degree at the Department of New Media Art, Academy of Arts in Novi Sad Serbia and at Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto, Portugal. She specialized in interdisciplinary course ‘Territory’s Representations, it's Drawing and Image’ FBAUP, Portugal. She is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Journalists Association of Serbia. In 2020 she acquired the status of an independent artist. Since 2022, she has been running a multidisciplinary design studio, called Arteria Studio.
education
2018-2021 MA Master studies New art media, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad (RS)
2019 Erasmus +, Master's studies, Image Design Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto (PT)
2019 Specialisation in Territory's Representations, its Drawing and Images, University of Porto, Porto (PT)
2014-2018 BA New art media, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad (RS)
residencies | training
2023 ThisPLACED, Polverigi (IT)
2022 Some Call Us Balkans, Banja Luka (BA)
2022 Some Call Us Balkans, Tour (RS, XK, MK, AL, GR)
2021 Heritage “Today/Tomorrow” Donumenta, Regensburg (DE)
2021 Training Programme for Creative Practitioners interested in Community Art and Anthropology in the City, Graz (AT)
selected solo exhibitions
2023 donumenta Artist in Residence Program – Art in Public Space 2023, Regensburg, Germany
2022 Samsung x Buro, Inspired By You, Studio 22, Zagreb, Croatia
2021 Young Serbian Contemporary, Ausstellungsbrücke City Hall Gallery, St. Polten, Austria
2021 Master exhibition “New horizons of digital and post-digital landscape”, Gallery of Fine Arts gift collection “Rajko Mamuzić”, Novi Sad, Serbia
2020 New Elements of the Past, Svilara Cultural Station, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019 Digitopia, A Virtual Paradise, SULUV Galery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2018 40° 45' 32.0256'' N and 73° 59' 6.4680’’ W FABRIKA, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad
2018 Different painting, painting exhibition with Vanja Novaković & Kristina Maksimović Start IT Centar Novi Sad, Serbia
2017 New city, OWL, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016 „Who is Bosiljka Rakočević?" Partizan Gallery, Shock Cooperative, Petrovaradin, Novi Sad, Serbia
awards | scholarship | nominations
2023 Award-wining project, The Kaleidoscope of Culture, Novi Sad, Serbia
2022 Samsung x Buro, Inspired By You, Studio 22, Zagreb, Croatia
2021 Award-winning project "Young Serbian Contemporary" at the public competition, Foundation "Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture"
2021 Shortlisted, Signature Art Prize 2020/21, London, UK
2020 Award-winning project "New elements of the past" at the public competition "Artists. Now!", Foundation "Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture"
2020 Award-winning project "Digital Touch", public competition of the Inclusive Gallery for accessible artwork,
donors Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the City of Novi Sad - City Administration for Culture, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019 Holder of a scholarship according to the competition of the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia 2018/2019
2018 Holder of a scholarship according to the Fund competition and for oung talents of the Republic of Serbia 2017/2018
2016 Award for conceptual design, "New creative spaces of Vojvodina 3", the Institute for Culture of Vojvodina, the exhibition was supported by the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities. Co-author: Luka Stojanović
2015 Second prize for a series of photographs "Above the Sea" at the International Photography Exhibition "Kvarner above and below the sea and Venice", Novi Sad, Serbia
group exhibitions
2023
2023 Some Call Us Balkans, Rilindja, Priština
2022
2022 3rd International Art Biennale ARTiJA, Kragujevac, Serbia
2022 Some Call Us Balkans, DKC Incel, Banja Luka, BIH
2021
2021 Representações, Desenhos e Imagens do Território, FBAUP Gallery, Porto, Potugal
2021 Pop Up exhibition, Theater am Lend, Graz, Austria
2021 ARS ELECTRONICA Kaleidoscope of Culture Pavilion for New Media Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021 75/50/10, National Museum Krusevac, Serbia
2020
2020. SMIC Project, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019
2019 SMIC Project, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019 Pop-up gropu exhibition Kulturforum, Nova Iskra, Belgrade, Serbia
2019 X-Group small format exhibition, Cultural Station Eđšeg, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019 Transpositional discourse of identity and space, Gallery of the Novi Sad Branch of SANU, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019. Exhibition of new members of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina, Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia
2018
2018 Project "Differences", Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia
2018 Second Picture, Gallery of the Archive of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2018 Final exhibition of the fourth year of the Academy of Arts, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017
2017 The international project "Danube Connections", in cooperation with Heim.art and the Museum of Vojvodina,
Gallery HOL, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017 Project "Differences", FABRIKA, Student Cultural Center of Novi SadNovi Sad, Serbia
2017 Shop Window 34, Theatre 34, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017 Architectural Photography Exhibition "Focus on Modernism: Architecture of Novi Sad 1950-1970",
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016
2016 New Creative Spaces of Vojvodina 3 - Creative Ideas, Creative Solutions, Institute of Culture of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016 Eco Design Week, FABRIKA, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad
2016 Project "Differences", Factory, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad
2016 Bodies and Organisms, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016 Pop-up exhibition, Money, carts and you’re a badass, Trafika Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016 Alternative Film / Video Festival, Podgorica, Montenegro
2016 Internacional photography exhibition Kvarner 8, Kastav, Croatia
2015
2015 Internacional photography exhibition Kvarner 7, Kastav, Croatia
2015 Project Differences, FABRIKA, Student Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Serbia
2015 International photography exhibition Kvarner 8, Gallery Macut, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014
2014 Internacional photography exhibition Kvarner 7, Gallery Macut, Novi Sad, Serbia
2012
2012 Internacional photography exhibition Kvarner 5, Gallery Macut, Novi Sad, Serbia
lecturer
2019 What art has with that?, The project "Culture on the Palm - Palm Culture", Cultural station Svilara, Novi Sad
2019 Visual Transpositions of Identity and Space, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris, France
workshops
2019 “#ID Places”, Co-author: Vanja Novakovic, Tijana Jevric and Luka Stojanovic, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris, France
projections
2021 La Strada Festival 2021: Projekt "Eggenberger Stadtgeflüster", Graz, Austria
2016 “SHORTZ”, International Video and Short Film Festival, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia (Co-author: Stefan Jovanović)
2016 Alternative Film / Video Festival, Podgorica, Montenegro
2015 “SHORTZ”, International Video and Short Film Festival, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
international publication
Representações, Desenhos e Imagens do Território, Vasco Cardoso, Mário Gonçalves Fernandes,
Carlos Rodrigues, i2ADS, GEGOT, CITTA, 2021, ISBN / ISSN 978-989-9049-19-2
Despotovski, Goran, Art Body Art: CMIC, moving form: Art Body Art Project: SULUV September 28 - October 9, 2020 = Motion art form: The Art Body Art project - The Body Relation = SULUV Gallery, 28th September- 9th October 2020 ISBN 978-86-88319-29-4
Despotovski, Goran, SMIC: mobile small form: international small motion art forms exhibition, December 2019, SULUV, Novi Sad, 2019
ISBN 978-86-88319-26-3
Despotovski, Goran, Projekat Razlike: performans i instalacija = The differences: performance and installation art / Goran Despotovski, Dijana Metlić, Akademija umetnosti, Novi Sad 2019
ISBN 978-86-88191-92-0
in collection
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Student Cultural Centre FACTORY, Novi Sad, Serbia
Gallery Mostovi Balkana, Kragujevac, Serbia
Inclusive Gallery, Serbia
Private collection, Serbia
membership
Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina, Serbia
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Journalists Association of Serbia