Invitation to the opening and the Divorce Party
Tanja Ostojic - Integration
Project Office Berlin Friedrichshain
Galerie 35, Simon-Dach-Str. 35, D-10245 Berlin (Friedrichshain). Tel. 030- 257 688 89
Opening: Friday, July 1, 2005, 8 p.m.
Dates: 02.-31.July.2005
Opening hours: Thur.-Sun. 5-8 p.m.
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Tanja Ostojic
Temporary Integration Project Office München
Installation view, Rathaus Galerie München
From Xenopolis exhibition 2005.
photo: Tanja Ostojic
• The Project
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Tanja Ostojic developed a series of works applying several strategies, that migrants are
using to cross borders since decades. Her recent series of works entitled Integration
Project summarizes experiences and investigations related to the situation of
being a female immigrant in Germany / the EU. The preceding project Looking for a
Husband with EU Passport was an initial key frame that thematizes gender politics
and capitalism and describes the collision between isolation, poverty and the EU's
policies of exclusion: to obtain a residence permit for Germany she posted her nude photo
on the Internet in search of an EU citizen interested in marriage. A brief meeting in
Belgrade was followed by the wedding as a performance act, in the media of law.
At present, 5 years since the beginning of the Crossing Borders Series,
Ostojic got divorced recently and on the occasion of the IPO opening invites
to celebrate her Divorce Party.
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Tanja Ostojic includes herself as a character in
situationist performances and uses diverse media in her artistic researches, thereby
examining social configurations and relations of power. She works from the migrant women
perspective and the approach in her works is predominantly defined by political position,
humour and the integration of the recipient.
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CV
Tanja Ostojic (Belgrade/Berlin) was born in Yugoslavia
in 1972 and studied art in Belgrade (Serbia) and Nantes (France). She is an independent
interdisciplinary artist and cultural activist. With the current project stipendium:
“Shrinking Cities, part 2”, Galerie für Zeitgnössische Kunst, Leipzig,
she is developing “XPONA” – Exchange in post nation project.
Solo exhibitions / selection:
2002 “Venice Diary”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2003 “Integration Project: Sprachschule”, Halle
fur Kunst, Lüneburg
2003 “Strategies of Success/Curator Series”,
Gallery La Box, Bourges
2004 “Salon for Body&Soul”, Salon MSU, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Solo Performances/ selection:
1997 “Personal Space”, Hollywood Leather
Venue, London
1999 “Would You Digitalize Your Soul”, ICA, London
2003 “Integration Project”, Kunstverein NRWF,
Düsseldorf
2004 “Copenhagen Integration Dinner”, Kannonhalen, Copenhagen
Group exhibitions / selection:
1998 “Manifesta 2”, Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2001 “Plato of Humankind”, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice
“Zero Gravity”, Palazzo delle
Esposizioni, Roma
“Digital Bodies”, Ludwig Museum,
Budapest
2003 “Visa”, IFA Gallery, Bonn & IFA Gallery Stuttgart
“In Tranzit", Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin
2nd Tirana Biennale, National Gallery,
Tirana
Video Forum, Kyoto Biennale, Kyoto
2004 “Privatisirungen”(Post Communist Condition), Kunst Werke,
Berlin
“Values” 11th Biennale of visual
arts”, Pancevo, Serbia
“Re: Location. Shake ID
Troubles”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
2005 Xenopolis, Rathaus Galerie München
Prague Biennale, National
Gallery in Prague
Links:
<http://www.kultur.at/howl/tanja/>
<http://www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic/>
http://www.parakanal.com/rych/sanspapiers
<http://www.parakanal.com/bridge>
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Galerie 35
Simon-Dach-Str. 35
10245 Berlin (Friedrichshain)
Tel. 030- 257 688 89
www.galerie35.de
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S-bahn: Warschauer Strasse
U-bahn: Frankfurter Tor
Bus: 240
M-Tram: M13, M10
Tram: 20, 21, 23
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