Bojan Stojčić – Viva la Transicion

We cordially invite you to the solo exhibition Viva la Transicion by the Bosnian artist Bojan Stojčić, which opens on Thursday, July 30, 2020 at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. First part of Stojčić’s work “Seeking for a person”, displayed on the Gallery building last week, aroused great public interest. The exhibition is realized with the support of the Joint Regional Program of the United Nations “Dialogue for the Future”. The exhibition curator is dr. Amila Ramović.

Bojan Stojčić (b.1988) is one of the clearest voices of the recent Bosnian and Herzegovinian contemporary art.  He received his Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo and began his artistic practice in the Ideologija creative team closely collaborating with Anur Hadžiomerspahić. Central to his expression are simple interventions in everyday life, through which the instantaneity, poetics, traces and politics of his subjects is emphasized. His work is recognized and represented in renowned art institutions as well as private collections in the US and Europe. Solo exhibitions (selection): Gallery Showcase / Grenoble (2019), Brodac / Sarajevo (2018), Collegium Artisticum / Sarajevo (2014) Group exhibitions (selection): Museum of Now / Berlin (2020), Danube Dialogues / Novi Sad, Serbia (2019), MMSU / Rijeka (2019), Good Children Gallery / New Orleans (2016), ZVONO / Sarajevo (2014).

Solo exhibition Viva la Transicion includes Stojčić’s works from various cycles created in Berlin and Sarajevo. The topics of transition, poetics of geopolitics, as well as manifestations of crisis through the collective and individual body dominate this opus. Since 2020 is the year of the crisis, but also the year which marks 25 years since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the exhibition addresses the intimacy of transition. Special focus is given to the transition from the central geopolitical position of Yugoslavia to a geopolitical reality of European periphery. The title Viva la Transicion which encompasses Stojčić’s message is also the artist’s signature statement which granted him international popularity in 2015, when it was painted on one of Sarajevo’s operational trams.

Curator of the exhibition: Amila Ramović

Amila Ramović is a curator and musicologist from Sarajevo. Her career in the arts started when she joined the Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art team in Sarajevo in 2000, where she later served as Executive Director (2005-2017). She has organized dozens of exhibitions and educational projects in the field of contemporary art, and curated exhibitions by leading Bosnian and international artists, including Braco Dimitrijević’s solo show at the Venice Biennale (2009). After joining the faculty of film.factory founded by Béla Tarr in Sarajevo (2016), she continued her collaboration with Tarr through his recent projects (Till the End of the World, Eye Museum Amsterdam, 2017, and Missing People, Wiener Festwochen, 2019). She is an assistant professor at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Performing Arts of the Sarajevo University. In 2019 she was awarded Honorary Fellowship by Plymouth College of Art.

Exhibition production was made possible in collaboration with Ideologija Creative Team as well as numerous friends and associates. It is open every day except Sundays, from 30.7. to 30.8.2020.

We kindly ask all visitors to adhere to all recommended social distancing measures with the aim of COVID-19 infection prevention.

Bojan Stojčić’s solo exhibition “Viva la Transicion” is implemented within the framework of the Joint Regional Program “Dialogue for the Future: Improving Dialogue and Social Cohesion in, and between, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia”, administered by UNDP, UNICEF and UNESCO, and funded by the UN Peacebuilding Fund (UN PBF).