Bojana Barltrop

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Bojana Barltrop (born Bojana Jovanovic, in 1949 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Also known as Bojana Komadina) is an artist and photographer. 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.

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Education

Bojana Barltrop graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1973. [1] She undertook additional studies at the Royal College of Graphics and the Schools of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1975 to 1976. [1]

In 1977 Barltrop obtained an MPhil at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, [1] and in 2003 she earned a PhD at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, UK. [2]

Career

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s Barltrop was an active member of the experimental Belgrade and Yugoslavian art scene [3] working mainly with media including 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) and shown at the exhibition Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art. [4]

Solo exhibitions

1979

The Woman Capable Everything, Happy Gallery, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. [5]

1981

The Book/ Nineteen stories, Happy Gallery, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Imagined Condition/ Transformans, Happy Gallery, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1992

Bojana Komadina, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. [6]

2017

The Great Chain of Being, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Legat Rodoljuba Čolakovića I Milice Zorić, Belgrade, Serbia. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Other exhibitions

1982

Arteder ’82 Muestra Internacional de Obra Gráfica/ International Graphic Arts Exhibition, Bilbao, Spain. [15]

Some aspects of Yugoslav Contemporary Photography, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK and The Showroom of the Museum of the Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. [16]

1983

Einige Aspekte der zeitgenössischen jugoslawischen Fotografie (Some aspects of Yugoslav Contemporary Photography) published by Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria. [17]

Examples of Instant Art Polaroid-Video-Xerox, Art Gallery, Cultural Center Belgrade, Yugoslavia. [18]

1991

150 years of Serbian photography, Gallery of Serbian Academy of Art and Sciences, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. [19]

1993

Critic's Choice: Bojana Komadina, Dusan Otasevic and Pedja Neskovic, Art Gallery, Cultural Center Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia

2017

Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Catalogue for One Woman Show, ‘Bojana Komadina’ text by Milanka Todić published by the Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  2. ↑ "Completed PHD | AA PHD".
  3. ↑ "Bojana Barltrop: The Great Chain of Being, Čolaković Legacy".
  4. 1 2 "Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art".
  5. ↑ 1979 ‘About Bojana Komadina’ text by Gordana Marić in ‘Playboyana’ published instead of the catalogue for one woman show ‘Woman who can it all’ by Happy Gallery, Student’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  6. ↑ 1992, Catalogue for the solo exhibition, ‘Bojana Komadina’ text by Milanka Todić published by the Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  7. ↑ "Legat Colakovic Samostalna Izlozba Bojane Barltrop Great Chain Being". www.designed.rs.
  8. ↑ "Arte - Aktuelno :: Bojana Barltrop: The Great Chain of Being". www.arte.rs. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  9. ↑ "Veliki Lanac Postojanja". www.seecult.org.
  10. ↑ "Veliki lanac postojanja u fotografijima Bojane Baltrop - Kultura - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 24 May 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Great Chain of Being". www.radiolaguna.rs.
  12. ↑ "Bojana Barltrop: The Great Chain of Being – BLJ@k". Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  13. ↑ LookerWeekly (20 May 2012). "LookerWeekly.com magazin - Magazin za mlade i radoznale". lookerweekly.com. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  14. ↑ "Izložba Bojane Barltrop u Galeriji-legatu Milice Zorić i Rodoljuba Čolakovića". Blic (in Serbian). 26 May 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  15. ↑ 1982, Catalogue for the exhibition Arteder ’82 Muestra Internacional de Obra Gráfica/ International Graphic Arts Exhibition, Bilbao, Spain
  16. ↑ 1981,‘Boyana Komadina’ text by Slavko Timotijević in the catalogue for the exhibition ‘Some aspects of Yugoslav Contemporary Photography’ published in collaboration Happy Gallery, Student’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  17. ↑ 1983, Catalogue for the exhibition ‘Einige Aspekte der zeitgenössischen jugoslawischen Fotografie’ (‘Some aspects of Yugoslav Contemporary Photography’) published by Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
  18. ↑ Catalogue for the exhibition ‘Examples of Instant Art Video-Polaroid’ text by Slavko Timotijević, Art Gallery, Cultural Center Belgrade, Yugosla
  19. ↑ 1991, Catalogue for the exhibition ‘150 years of Serbian photography’ text by Slavko Timotijević, published by the Serbian Academy of Art and Sciences, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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