EXHIBITION “COMA” NEBOJŠA ŠERIĆ SHOBA

We cordially invite you to visit the exhibition “Coma” by Nebojša Šerić Shoba that is open from June, 3.

“In this case the artworks are not similar to those that I’ve been creating up until that point (and after); these works are about psychotherapy, confronting the horrors of war, fears, paranoia, a literal discharge onto paper of all the possible distortions, that were thrown out under the circumstances of 1994. The biggest part of that still stayed inside, and it’s still slowly eating me, tearing my flesh and i doubt that it will ever come out on the surface, right until I reach the point of leaving myself behind and I enter into a new space and time.”

Nebojša Šerić Shoba

(From the poetry book “Coma” by Hidajet Šerkan Šerić)

Artworks from the series “Coma” are published as illustrations for a poetry book “Coma” by Hidajet Šerkan Šerić. The artist Shoba donated this series to the National Gallery of B&H and this is the first time the artworks are exhibited.

Biography

Nebojša Šerić Shoba

Born in Sarajevo in 1968.

He studied at the School of Applied Arts from 1983-1987, then Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 – 1992. In 1999 he moved to Amsterdam to attend Rijksakademie, an international two-year artist residency and studio program.

Nebojša Šeric Shoba works have been exhibited in museums and art spaces worldwide, including Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris; Jeu de Paume, Paris,France; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria; Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany; De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Creative Time, New York City; Exit Art,New York City, Dumbo Arts Center,New York City; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; The 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Venice, Italy; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, and P.S. 1, New York City.

Shoba currently lives in New York City.