Bojań Fajfric
was born in 1976 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His professional
development started when he left Yugoslavia in 1995 to study
visual arts in the Netherlands. He graduated from the Royal
Academy in The Hague and was the resident of the Rijks Academy
in Amsterdam.
Exhibitions: La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Paris; Baltic
Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; De Appel, Amsterdam;
Künstlerhaus KM, Graz; NGBK, Berlin; MOCA, Belgrade; Tirana
Contemporary Art Biennial; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian;
October Salon, Belgrade; MUHKA, Antwerp; Tim Van Laere
Gallery, Antwerp; ARCUS, Japan; Spaport, Banja Luka; SKUC,
Ljubljana etc.
Screenings and festivals: Moderna Museet
Stockholm, Centre Pompidou - Rencontres Internationales Paris/
Berlin/Madrid, International Film Festival Rotterdam,
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Vienna
International Film Festival, Doc Leipzig, Impakt Festival
Utrecht, Film Institute Netherlands etc.
Lives and works in Amsterdam
RESIDENCIES/EDUCATION
2020 The Tobacco 001 Cultural Center, Ljubljana
2016 Luceberthuis, Bergen
2015 Stichting IK, Vlissingen
2015 Pompgemaal, Den Helder
2014 AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz
2012 Bucharest AiR
2010 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
2010 Seoul Art Space-MULLAE
2004 ARCUS Artist in Residence-Ibaraki,Japan
2000-2001 Rijksacademie van beeldende kunsten,Amsterdam
1996-1999 KABK, The Hague
AWARDS
2016 Cultural Centre of Belgrade award at the
56th October Salon for the film/installation
“The Cause of Death”
2004 Upcoming young star, newspaper DNEVNIK,
Slovenia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 "Home Sequence",exposition taking place in the private homes of Amsterdam-based artists,
initiated and organized by Sascha Pohle and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
2018 "The Memory Appendix", curated by Huib Haye van der Werf, Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
2018 "Lucebert &...", Nouvelles Images, The Hague
2018 "Club Conscious", curated by Thierry Vandenbussche, Observatorium, Antwerp
2018 "Entends-tu ce que je vois?...Do you see what I hear?, curated by France Choiniére, Dazibao Gallery, Montreal
2017 “Dit is Zeeland”, Zeeuwse Museum, Middelburg (permanent collection)
2017 Ponovo Upotrebiti: Past as costume or inspiration, curated by Magda Kardasz, Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw
2016 The 56th Belgrade October Salon: The Pleasure of Love, curated by David Elliott
2016 1966 | GAUR KONSTELAZIOAK | 2016 curated by Fernando Golvano, San Telmo Museum, Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa 2016, San Sebastian
2016 Lustrum, Stichting IK
2015 “Residu 3”, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder
2015 “S’endormir près du monument pendant la revolution”, Gallery of Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
2013 Künstlerhaus KM: "… Was ist Kunst? … Resuming a Fragmented History", Graz
2013 TULCA Festival of Visual Art, “Golden Mountain”, Galway, IR
2012 La Triennale: “Intense Proximity”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 De Appel, “STEM TERUG! VOTE BACK!”, Amsterdam
2011 The Suspension of Time - Spaceship Yugoslavia, NGBK, Berlin
2010 “Museum project / Memoria”, CRAC (Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain), Sete, France
2010 Seoul international NewMedia Festival, Korea
2009 “Dissecting the Ear”- second edition, ŠKUC gallery, Ljubljana
2009 50th October Salon: The Circumstance-An International Exhibition, Belgrade
2009 ”The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame”-Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual, Tirana
2008 Spaport - “It’s raining outside, but I don’t believe that it is.” – international annual exhibition of contemporary art, Banja Luka, BiH
2007 “Dissecting the Ear” Sign Gallery, Groningen
2006 “Dig for fire” Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen
2006 “Fasade” Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2006 “Beauty Unrealized” PSWAR, Amsterdam
2006 “Chose Choice” Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond/Flemish Cultural Center, Amsterdam
2006 Anspach Center, Brussels
2005 ARCO,Madrid,Tim Van Laere Gallery
2005 Project ‘Wall of Micro Sound - Radio for Mice and Bugs’, Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam
2004 ARCO,Madrid,Tim Van Laere Gallery
2004 ARCUS-Ibaraki, Japan
2003 ”Switch” Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, (Elke Boon,Cel Crabeels,
Bojan Fajfric,Damien Hirst,Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky)
2003 Art Brussels, Van Laere Contemporary Art
2003 “Into the Breach”,SMART Project Space,Amsterdam
2003 De Inrichting,Heiloo(NL),project on contemporary art & psychiatry
2003 Noisecrossing-project,border of North & South Nicosia, Cyprus
2002 Art Brussels,Van Laere Contemporary Art
2001 ”Atopia”-Storkterrein,Amsterdam (Bojan Fajfric with Emilio Lopez-Menchero)
2001 Rijks Academie: Open Studios, Amsterdam
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 "Unfinished Business", The Cultural Center of Belgrade
2015 “Onuitgesproken Gedachten (thoughts unsaid)”, Stichting IK, Oost-Souburg
2012 Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art: “Theta Rhythm”, Gateshead
2011 “5th December 1978”, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2010 “Theta Rhythm (while my father was sleeping…)”, Hamilton Art Space, Seoul
2009 “5th December 1978”, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2006 “Dysfunctional Whistling Band”, Public Space With a Roof. Amsterdam
2006 “Tuning the countries III” Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana, SI
2006 “The Big Bear” PAKT, Amsterdam
2004 “Dark Universe” Mestna/Bezigrajska 2 Galerija, Ljubljana,SI
2004 “Dark Universe”,Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
FILM
FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS
2020 Artists' Film International, Fondacion Proa, Buenos Aires
2020 Artists' Film International, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
2020 Artists' Film International, GAMeC, Bergamo
2020 Artists' Film International, Ballroom, Marfa
2020 Artists' Film International, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2019 Sharjah Film Platform ISharjah Art Foundation)
2018 Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen
2018 Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon
2017 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Int. Competition
2014 WORM, SpOp presents: "Shiny Moments in Layers", Rotterdam
2013 Doc Leipzig, Retrospective 2012 Lost & Found, Amsterdam
2012 Moderna Museet: "The Screen of Memory", Stockholm
2011 Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid: Centre Pompidou – Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt - Berlin
2011 Dutch Art Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
2011 Impakt Festival, Panorama#4: Revisiting the Past, Utrecht
2011 Go Short - International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen
2011 The Northern Film Festival, Leeuwarden
2011 Vienna International Film Festival - VIENNALE, Int. Competition
2011 Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht 2011 Amsterdam premier "Theta Rhythm", EYE institute
2011 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Int. Competition
2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam, "Sliding Past"
2011 Arti et Amicitiae, Black Cube 12, Amsterdam
2011 Pravo Ljudski, Film Festival, Sarajevo
2011 Feminafest, Rio de Janeiro
2011 Stuttgarter Filmwinter
2010 I-GONG, Seoul international NewMedia Festival, Korea Selection
WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
2016 SEMINARIO KAIROS,
Fundación Donostia/San
Sebastián 2016, Museo San
Telmo, San Sebastian
2014 Salon (The Cause of
Death) at the Crash Pad, (with
Gal Kirn, Vedrana Madzar and
Ana Nikitovic), KW Institute
for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2012 Presentation on
exhibition "Theta Rhythm",
Baltic Centre, Gateshead
2012 Presentation "Theta
Rhythm", DAI, Gerrit Rietveld
Academie, Amsterdam
2011 Presentation "Theta
Rhythm", Film Festival
Oberhausen
2010 Presentation on
exhibition "While my father
was sleeping…", Art Space
Hamilton, Seoul, Korea 2008
Video workshop within the
exposition SPAPORT, Banja
Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007 Lecture/workshop "5th
December 1978", Expodium,
Utrecht
FILMOGRAPHY
Unfinished
Business (2017)
Single channel
screening or
installation in loop
with audio, 18min HD
Camera: Aleksandar
Sanicanin
Written and
directed: Bojan
Fajfric
Roles: Mirko
Fajfric, Nikita
Fajfric, Henny
Swaanswijk and Han
Bennink
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Supported by:
Mondriaan Fonds
The Cause
of Death (2015)
Single channel
screening or
installation in loop
with audio, 13min,
HD
Camera: Aleksandar
Sanicanin
Music score: Jasna
Velickovic
Written and
directed: Bojan
Fajfric
Main role: Bojan
Fajfric
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Supported by:
Mondriaan Fonds
Ljuba
(2012-2013)
Single channel
projection, 23’28’’,
DV Pal
Camera: Ljubomir
Sekulic
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Original material
from the RTS archive
1989
Theta
Rhythm (2010)
Single channel
screening or
installation in
loop, 17min HDCam
Camera: Kosta
Glusica
Sound: Vladimir
Jankovic
Editing: Djordje
Markovic
Written and
directed: Bojan
Fajfric
Main role: Bojan
Fajfric
Supported by Het
Nederlands Fonds
voor de Film
Theta
Rhythm (while my
father was
sleeping…)
(2008-2010)
Multi channel
installation,
various length, HD
and DV
Camera: Aleksandar
Goekijan and Kosta
Glusica
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Written and
directed: Bojan
Fajfric
Supported by Het
Nederlands Fonds
voor de Film
The Dome
(2009)
Single channel
video, 10’13”, HD
Camera: Kosta
Glusica
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Concept by: Bojan
Fajfric
Supported by: Fonds
BKVB
5th
December 1978
(2008-2009)
Single channel video
(part of a large
installation), 10min
DV
Camera: Bojan
Fajfric
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Concept by: Bojan
Fajfric
Supported by: Fonds
BKVB
They are
calling us (2006)
Single channel
video, 5min DV
Camera: Zoran Kesic
Editing: Bojan
Fajfric
Concept by: Bojan
Fajfric