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About Alma
Mother of djevina, goddess of disobedience and ultimate pleasure
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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 an artist, poet, and feminist based in Sarajevo. Completed her master's (2016) and bachelor's (2012) degrees in Education in Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. Alma works with different mediums, including drawing, photography, performance, and video. In her works and work experiences, she deals with the position of women in capitalism, problems of the new working class, class stratification and labor, rights, precariousness, and overall critique of capitalism and its structural part, the goddamn patriarchy. ZVONO Award winner in 2022, as the best artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the age of 35. Represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in Mediterranea 17, Young Artists Biennale in Milan, 2015. Guest artist in First International Video Art Forum in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 2018. Alma uses her social roles to emphasize the difficulties and problems that workers experience. 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. 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.
Horoscope
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.
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
UNDER YOUR GAZE,
Group Show
U10, Belgrade
July- 2022
DEAR BOSS
Solo Show with Anastasija Pavić, Curators: Ana Simona Zelenović and Maja Petrović, Galerija Novembar, Belgrade
August-September, 2022
ECONOMY OF (FEMALE) LABOR
Group Show, Curator: Adna Muslija, Mini Studio, Priština
August, 2022
GROUP SHOW
NGVU, Belgrade
November - 2022
SunSagittarius1°06' I ASCScorpio9°46'
Home
Sarajevo, BiH
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;
2018 Como resistir no mundo de hoje?,Group Show, Galeria Canizares, Salvador, Brazil, March;
Video Art Forum, First Video Festival in KSA, Damam;
2017 Panel and exhibition Art against Patriarchy, Kriterion, April;
In parallel, Group Show, Galerie Centrum Graz, May;
Live performance, SKLOP, Sarajevo-Graz, FB live event, May;
In parallel, Group Show, Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, September;
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;
City of Lights Festival, Public art, work Alice wouldn’t like it here, Mostar;
PITCHWISE, collaborative and solo work, Festival of Women’s Art and Activism, Sarajevo;
Workshop of literature and Multimedia, CK13, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, November;
Promotional exhibition of Association NAZOR, Kriterion, Sarajevo, March;
Group exhibition of BJCEM 17 candidates, IPC Galerija, Sarajevo, May(selected as a Bosnian representative for the category of Visual Arts)
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;
2011 TRANSFORM 2011 – International Students’ Exhibition, The National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2009 EYCI Art Exposition at the Gallery of Roman Petrovic, 2nd prize for creativity and innovation;
2020 WORKOUT, Solo Show, Galerija ZVONO, Sarajevo, July;
Mothers and Daughters/Night Shifter, Historijski muzej, Sarajevo, September, Pitchwise, Solo Show;
2019 Art Talk, Saturday Night in The Studio, Berlin;
2016 Solo Show Drugi mi nedostaje, Gallery Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, May;
Performance “Hoću vraga/I Will In Fuck”, ZVONO Café Gallery, Sarajevo, July.
Exhibition “Ja ću raditi šta ja hoću/I Will Do What I Want” of a 30 days performance piece (1st-30th June), ZVONO Café Gallery, Sarajevo, July.
Performance ''Ne podliježe selekciji'', Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, April.
2014 Solo Show ‘Aural Stimuli’ in Gallery BlackBOX
2013 Solo Show, Gallery of Raiffeisen Bank in Sarajevo, as an awarded student in cooperation between Raiffeisen Bank and Academy of Fine arts in Sarajevo;
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;