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About Alma
Mother of djevina, goddess of disobedience and ultimate pleasure
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Photo courtesy of Asiana Jurca Avci
The overall purpose of my work is to participate in collective feminist emancipation and the continuous development of my artwork towards multiplex visual forms.
Alma Gačanin is a visual artist, poet, and feminist based in Sarajevo. She holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts Education from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, specializing in Art Education. Alma works with different mediums, including drawing, photography, performance, and video. In 2022, she received ZVONO Award as the best artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Bienalle of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean in Milan, 2015. Her work is based on exploring the specificities of labour and the precarity of certain occupations, with a particular focus in the position of women in capitalism and gendered division of labour. She identifies a s a feminist in her personal life and in the roles she assumes as an artist-worker. Her recent role as a flight attendant in the Middle East was tackling the nuances of precarious work and questioning the concept of the good life through something we perceive as a dream job. Alma is a member of CRVENA Association for culture and art. Her poems are published in magazines, collections, and web portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in the region.
*djevina: one name, many manifestations.
Jeza kot produktivno čustvo
Alma Gačanin: Kako dobro si se odrezala danes? Stara mestna elektrarna, datum ogleda 25. 1. 2024.
https://veza.sigledal.org/kritika/jeza-kot-produktivno-custvo-r
HOW WELL DID YOU PERFORM TODAY?/Kako dobro si se odrezala danes?
Performance play, performed with Gal Oblak and Grega Močivnik, 24, 25. and 26. of January, SMEEL, Ljubljana, 2024;
Residency at the NGVU Podgorica- August 2023
HOW WELL DID YOU PERFORM TODAY,
Tehnički muzej Nikola Tesla, July 6th 2023 19h
Exhibition opening at Nova BAZA 20h, RADI GRUBO, IGRAJ NAPORNO
6.7.-23-7.2023
https://www.blok.hr/en/vijesti/alma-gacanin-radi-naporno-igraj-grubo
Winner of ZVONO Award 2022-YVAA The Young Visual Artist Award for young visual artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina up to the age of 35. The ZVONO Award for the award winner consists of a two months residency in New York at Residency Unlimited.
Gastarbeiter 2.0.
Sat, 13.4. – Sun, 16.6.24
Opening :Fri, 12.4.24, 7.00pm
Languages: German, English Location: nGbK am Alex Address: Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin
Admission: free
HOW WELL DID YOU PERFORM TODAY?/Kako dobro si se odrezala danes?
Performance play, performed with Gal Oblak and Grega Močivnik, 24, 25. and 26. of January, SMEEL, Ljubljana, 2024;
Solo Show
NGVU Podgorica
May-June, 2024
My Categorical Imperative is to Serve
Manifesto Gallery, Sarajevo
October, 2023
Mysteries of Orgasm
Collaborative Performance,
Ljubljana, September,2023
Personal Best
Apoteka Space for Contemporary Art, Vodnjan
September, 2023
Horoscope
SunSagittarius1°06' I ASCScorpio9°46'
Home
Sarajevo, BiH
RADI NAPORNO,
IGRAJ GRUBO
(WORK HARD,
PLAY HARD)
Nova BAZA
July 2023
FAMILIAR FANTOMS
Group Show
Residency Unlimited,
New York, USA,
May, 2023
DRAGE DRUGARICE,
Billboards project with Jelena Fužinato and Milena Ivić, produced by CRVENA
(Sarajevo, Banja Luka & Mostar)
October 2022
Exhibition of the finalists of ZVONO Award 2022 (Winner)
Group Show
KRAK, Bihać
October, 2022
NOVI TALASI
Group Show (Winner- The Best Young Artist Award)
Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
September, 2022
ECONOMY OF WOMEN'S WORK
Group Show
Zanatski Centar, Pristina
August-2022
UNDER YOUR GAZE,
Group Show
U10, Belgrade
July- 2022
UMETNOST ANTI-RATA
Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, Group Show, Curator: Ana Simona Zelenović, Belgrade
April 2022
NE SPORAZUM
Historical Musem in Sarajevo, Manifesto Gallery, Group Show, Curator: Adna Muslija;
December 2021
UMETNOST ANTI-RATA
Historical Museum in Sarajevo, Group Show, Curator: Ana Simona Zelenović;
September 2021
Youth Biennials, Belgrade, Good Life (billboard project), Curator:Senka Latinović;
July 2021
2022 ZVONO Award Winner-YVAA The Young Visual Artist Award for young visual artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina up to the age of 35.
2022 Politička škola za umjetnike (i sve zainteresirane), [BLOK] - Lokalna baza za osvježavanje kulture, Zagreb;
2019 Video Art Forum, First Video Festival in KSA, Damam;
In parallel, Group Show, Galerie Centrum Graz, May;
Live performance, SKLOP, Sarajevo-Graz, FB live event, May;
2016 Public Art- Performance “Painting”, collaboration with Art Group ZVONO, Festival of Street Art, Sarajevo;
Group exhibition, Festival Sarajevska Zima, Ars Aevi, Sarajevo, March;
Chouftouhonna, Feminist art festival, Tunisia, May;
ZVONO Award finalists exhibition (top four finalists) in Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, May;
Dislocation, Group Show of young artists in Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, May;
Contemporary Refresh, a group show of the young artist, Gallery Brodac, Sarajevo, July;
CREATORS exhibition of contemporary art, Charlama Depo, Sarajevo, August;
2015 Factory of Memories, project of Tirana Express and Association for Culture and Art CRVENA;
Workshop of literature and Multimedia, CK13, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, November;
The Images of Our Time, group exhibition, Pera Musezi-Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, September-October;
Group Exhibition BJCEM 17, Fabrica del Vappore, Milano, October;
2013 Art in public space, Sound Installation in public space, ''Aural Stimuli'' (By Alma Gačanin and Melisa Vreto), Project Bauhaus Goes South - East Europe „City Lab Mostar 2013“
2012 GEMMAKUNSTSCHAUN 2012, International Art Biennale in Villach, Austria;
Best graduate student, Education in Art Department Award, Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo;
2009 EYCI Art Exposition at the Gallery of Roman Petrovic, 2nd prize for creativity and innovation;
MY CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE IS TO SERVE
Manifesto Gallery, Sarajevo
October, 2023
RADI NAPORNO,
IGRAJ GRUBO
(WORK HARD,
PLAY HARD)
Solo Show and Performance
Nova BAZA, Zagreb
July 2023
ABECEDERIAN,
performance,
Residency Unlimited, New York
May, 2023
I needed to cool down,
performance,
KRAK, Bihać,
October, 2022
DEAR BOSS
SOLO SHOW and performance,
Alma Gačanin and Anastasija Pavić
Galerija Novembar, Belgrade
August-2022
WORKOUT
Solo Show,
ZVONO Gallery, Sarajevo
July, 2020
I Will Do What I Want
ZVONO Gallery, Sarajevo,
July, 2018
Ne podliježe selekciji
Performance,
Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo,
April, 2018.
2022 SELFI Magazine, Belgrade, Serbia;
2019 Bona, Magazine for contemporary art and theory, drawing from the series Workout, Lion Pose, Sarajevo, B&H;
2018 Rukopisi 41, Poetry and Prose Anthology for Youth from EX-YU countries, Dom Omladine Pančevo, Serbia;
2017 Bona, Magazine for contemporary art and theory, Interview about artist Alma Gačanin and her work, Sarajevo, B&H;
2016 Sanjatorijum ili ko još sahranjuje mrtve ptice, Novi Sad, CK 13;
Rukopisi 39, Poetry and Prose Anthology for Youth from EX-YU countries, Dom Omladine Pančevo, Serbia;
2015 Rukopisi 38, Poetry and Prose Anthology for Youth from EX-YU countries, Dom Omladine Pančevo, Serbia;
Fanzine for NAZOR, Association for Contemporary Art NAZOR, Sarajevo, B&H;
2014 Tinted Art Magazine, Croatia;
2013 Tracing the public, MFA Program ‘’Public Art and New Artistic Strategies’’, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar in collaboration with: Academy of fine Arts University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Education- Department of Fine Arts, University ‘’Džemal Bijedić’’ in Mostar, Faculty of fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade;