Sanja Iveković
Sanja Iveković was born in 1949 in Zagreb, Croatia where she graduated The Academy for Fine Arts.Her art production has spanned a
range of media such as photography, performance, video, installations and actions in the public domain since the 1970s. She belong to the
artistic generation which emerged after ‘68 and was raised in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia whose post-object art was usually
covered by the umbrella term New Art Practice. Iveković’s work is marked by the critical discourse with the politics of images and body. The
analysis of identity constructions in media as well as political engagement, solidarity and activism belong to her artistic strategies.
In the Yugoslav/Croatian art scene she was the first woman artist to express a clearly feminist attitude. In 1973 she started to work with
video. In the late eighties she was a founder and a member of a number of women’s non-guvernment organizations in Croatia such as
Elektra- Women’s Art Centre, The Centre for Women’s Studies, B.a.B.e – the women’s human rights group . Her work from the 1990s deals
with the collapse of socialist regimes and the consequences of the triumph of capitalism and the market economy over living conditions,
partucularly of women.From 1999 – 2001 she was teaching «Contemporary Women’s Art Practice» at The Center for Women’s Studies.
Her videos were selected for numerous international video festivals (Hague, San Sebastian, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Montreal and
others) and she had solo exhibitions and video presentations in the art institutions such as 49th October Salon, Artist-Citizen, Belgrade;Cutting
Realities, Gender strategies in Art, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; The Living Currency (La Monnaie Vivante),Tate Modern,London
(2008); Dokumenta 12, Kassel; 3rd Prague Biennial, Prag; Memorial to the Iraq war, ICA, London; 10th International Istanbul Biennial,
Istanbul; Gender Battle, Santiago de Compostela; Stalking with Stories – The Pioneers of the Immemorable, Apexart, New York; If I can’t
dance, MuHKA, Antverp; Forms of Resistance - Artists and the Desire for Social Change, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven; WACK! Art and the
Feminist Revolution, MOCA, Los Angeles; General Alert, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Gothenburg Konsthall (2007);General Alert, Kölnischer
Kunstverein (2006); Public Cuts, Galerija P74, Ljubljana (2006);Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970;Tate Modern, London (2005); Die
Regierung, Secession (2005); Women’s House, Palazzo Ferreri, Genoa (2004); documenta 11, Kassel (2002); Personal Cuts NGBK (2002);
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (2001); After the Wall, Moderna Muset, (1999/2001) and Manifesta 2,Luxembourg (1998).
She has been awarded the grants by the instiutions such as the Canada Council Grant for the Visiting artists (1979, 1982, 1994) and the
Arts Link Grant (USA).