Nadja Kracunovic

About

Nadja Kracunovic (Nađa Kračunović) b.1996 in Belgrade, Serbia, is a multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Germany.

In her practice, Kracunovic uses mixed media to create a site and context-specific works. Imagination, humor, stages, the concept of the vortex, and storm are present in her performances, objects, and writings. Her works mostly deal with intimacy, imagination, sexuality, the private body, and different social phenomenons.

With a background in theater, Kracunovic creates situations and experiences that disturb and swallow the audience into the self-created world of a protagonist. She distorts reality in order to extend the space of communication with the observer. Performing her alter-egos, the artist enters and exits different contexts through the interdisciplinary work.

Education

2020 -

MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (GER)

2015 - 2018

BA Media and Picture, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Belgrade (SRB)

Art residencies / workshops

2021

"HERITAGE FOR COMMUNITIES", DAAD workshop in Egypt, Cairo and Luxor (EGY)

"Free Radicals", Floating University residency, Berlin (GER)

"Schöne Aussicht", NEXT GENERATION residency, Stuttgart (GER)

Selected exhibitions

2022

"so·lilo·quy", performance, Bauhaus Museum Weimar (GER)

"Future Nostalgia FM", Hörspielfestival Leipzig (GER)

"Futurology Kiosk", solo exhibition, mixmedia project, kiosk.6, Weimar (GER)

"SPACE, ACTIVATE!", group exhibition, Kunsthaus Erfrut (GER)

"In case of emergency" within the project DU KANNST DAS TRAGEN, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (GER)

2021

"Ebb & Flow", group exhibition, UK Parobrod gallery, Belgrade (SRB)

"Future Nostalgia FM" , The Youth Biennial, sound installation inFootnote center, Belgrade (SRB)

"Undisciplined bodies" & "Ich bin es, Rosa" / Mind Palaces, group & solo performance, Villa Rostenthal, Jena (GER)

"Eavesdropshop" mix-media project
"SSS (Spying Sex Stereotypes)" performance within the group exhibition Encountering the sleeping giant
Matthäikirche, Leipzig &Der Laden, Weimar (GER)

"The thing you are looking for", public intervention, Original Magazine, London (UK)2020

"Where to? What for?", DA!festival, photography, Zagreb (CRO)

"Hunter", 24th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA,Novi Sad (SRB)

"Relay of Youth of new generation", 3D-printed sculpture, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade (SRB)

2019

"COMPLEX ON SALE", mix-media project
Šok Zadruga gallery, Novi Sad, solo show (SRB)
KC GRAD gallery, Belgrade, solo show (SRB)

"fragmentARTy", AWB (Art Weekend Belgrade), group show (SRB)

"Next Balkan", Ostavinska gallery, group show Belgrade (SRB)

"What is your stage?", IMPULS festival of performing arts, Dom b-612, Novi Sad (SRB)

Work experience / Projects

2022

- Crying Institute, Art Department Assistant
Wissenschaftliche Hilskraft im Bereich Kunst und Gestaltung / WLG - Gesichte und Theorie der Kunst, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, professor Birte Kleine-Benne (GER)

-Trashquestra art project, social media designer, Kunstfest Weimar (GER)

2021

- Kiosk.6, art space within marke.6 collective, Weimar (GER)
- Culture Talk Weimar, leader scout, Studierendenwerk Thüringen, Weimar (GER)

2020

- Oblakoder, a magazine for art and culture, journalist, Belgrade (SRB)

2019

SUN, (Solar United Natives) festival, visual identity, Csobánkapuszta (HUN)
FIST, (Festival Of International Student Theater), live stream theater / FIST lab, Belgrade (SRB)
100 Jahre von NaturTheater, stage design, Heidenheim an der Brenz (GER)

2017 – 2019

BITEF Belgrade International Theatre Festival, (SRB)
- Belgrade Remote, Rimini Protokoll, performance assistant
- The world without people, audience protocol
- Mount Olympus/24h by Jan Fabre, the production assistant

2017

- International Art Camp, murals and graffiti, Kosjerić (SRB)
- Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, museum opening curator guide, Belgrade (SRB)

Scholarships

2022-23 Deutschlandstipendium
2016-18 State student scholarship