BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Belgrade/ *1967 Art historian, writer and curator Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade Graduated in Art History University of Belgrade 1995, M.A., History & Theory of Art University of Kent Professor Stephen Bann Branislav Dimitrijevic has written on visual culture and contemporary art & politics in Serbia for local and international magazines and catalogues. He edited "Pop Vision", a book on interpretations of popular imagery, in 1996 and has written essays in catalogues on the artists: Zoran Naskovski, Milica Tomic, Zdravko Joksimovic, pRT, among others. With Branislava Andjelkovic he curated exhibitions and edited catalogues including "Map Room" (1995) and "Murder1" (1997), as well as "Beauty and Terror" (1998) and a site-specific show "Overground" (1998). His most recent curatorial project is "Konverzacija" (2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade). He is co-founder of the School for History and Theory of Images at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade where he teaches on "Conceptual Art and Reading the Image". He lectured and participated in conferences and panel discussions in Stockholm, Innsbruck, Ljubljana, Skopje, Oslo, Moscow, Graz, Vienna, Cape Town, etc. His main academic interests are based upon studies of visual culture. His fields of research are: Russian Avantgarde, Conceptual art in Yugoslavia, Theories of visual display, Ideologies in popular culture, Socialist Modernism, Titoism, '60s Cinema, Byzantine art. He is President of the Board of the International Contemporary Art Network (ICAN) and member of AICA, has received the "Lazar Trifunovic" award for art criticism in 1997 and the "Dusan Stojanovic" award for film theory in 1999. ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY 2001 ........................... "Wittgenstein's balls", in: "Konverzacija", Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade "This is Contemporary Art!: Turbo-Folk and its radical potential", in: M. Grzinic ed., "The Real, The Desperate, The Absolute", Celje, Graz "Text about artists", in: "Ars Danubiana", Regina Schmid ed., KunstKnoten, Regensburg/D |
