Borjana Mrđa
Associate professor
She deals with different types of production, usage, meaning and appearance of body image in time and space in her artistic practice. Media she uses in this process are drawing, painting, objects, video and installation. Subjects she teaches are Painting and Drawing as an Assоciate Professor at the Academy of Arts at the University of Banja Luka. She was born in Banja Luka where she completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in Painting at this Academy and doctoral Art studies in the field of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
In terms of international and regional artistic engagement, she has been exhibiting independently and collectively since 2008. Selected solo exhibitions are "The Shifting Body" in the Museum of Contemporary RS (2012), "Decorative Selves" in the Reflektor Gallery in Uzice (2023) and the Museum of Contemporary Art RS (2022). Selected group exhibitions are: Terminal 00, Ada Street Gallery, London (2008); Amazelab Art&Culture, Milan (2010); Not So Distant Memory, The Big Screen Project, New York (2011); Ms Dockville festival, Hamburg (2011); Not so distant memory, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Delaware (2011); Bring In Take Out Living Archive, Open Systems, Wien (2012); Arrivi e partenze, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona (2012); The hesitating body, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (2013); 3 Generations of Women Artists Perform, Threshold – Concert Hall, Perth (2017), Balkan art, Robert Gordon University, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (2017); Perceptions, RS Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka (2019).
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