VALENTINA SAVIC
VALENTINA SAVIĆ
is a Serbian visual artist working in the field of ceramics art for more than a decade. She explores the connection between the body, space, and consumption. For the past few years of work, her major themes are consumption and challenge of rationalism. Although she works primarily in ceramic and porcelain, her ceramic installations are often mixed with another media, like metal, digital prints, video, and performance.
Over the past 10 years she has exhibited at The Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, National Museum Aranđelovac, Serbia, National Museum Slovenia, Ceramic Museum Westerwald, Germany, Ceramic Museum, Spain, Cultural Centers and Galleries In Serbia, Belgium, Austria, Argentina, New Zealand.
• 2007completed BFA & MFA from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
• 1998- 2000 received scholarship from the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece.
Since 1996 she has exhibited and participated in many solo & group exhibitions, symposiums, and art related project. Born in Prizren, Serbia 1970. Lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.
AWARDS
2014 First prize in ceramic at V.International Exhibition” Art in Miniature” Majdanpek, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 Purchase Award at The 14th Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, Museum of Applied Arts,
Serbia
2009 Second Award, 1st International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM, Slovenia
2009 Second Award, XVI Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
2009 Annual Award for creative contributions by Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia
(ULUPUDS)
2008 First Award at Henkel »Rice Dry Art »New Moment Gallery, Belgrade
2006 Annual Award for creative contributions by Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of
Serbia (ULUPUDS)
2005 Purchase Award from the City of Belgrade- Secretariat for Culture
2004 Annual award for creative contributions by Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of
Serbia (ULUPUDS)
2003 Honorary diploma - 2nd International Ceramic Symposium, Nabeul, Tunisia
2002 Honorary diploma- Flower vase-, Zagreb, Croatia
2001 Grand Award - XII Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia,
1996 Honorary diploma - “I International Triennial of Ceramics” CUP 96” Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Gluttony, (with Snežana Arnautović Stjepanović) Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2016 Network, Aleksandar Djonović Gallery, Arandjelovac, Serbia
2014 Executive Board, Gallery Stara Kapetanija, Belgrade, Serbia
2011 PORCELAIN, Cultural center Maalbek, Brussels, Belgium
2009 MILK, accompanying exhibition for Triennial of ceramics
2008 POETICS OF SOCIALIZATION, Singidunum Gallery, Belgrade
2007 CERAMIC AND CONTEMPORARY ORNAMENT, MA Exhibition District Gallery Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade
2006 CERAMICS, City Cultural Centre Salon, Čačak, Serbia
2005 POETICS OF SPACE, Stara Kapetanija Gallery, Zemun, Serbia
2005 HOMO BALCANICUS, Gallery of Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia Belgrade, Serbia
2005 HUMAN RESOURCES, Little Visual Arts Salon, Novi Sad, Serbia
2003 GIFT, Singidunum Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
1999 RAKU, Gallery of Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia Belgrade, Serbia
PUBLICATIONS/EXHIBITIONS SELECTION...
• "Snow White & Seven Deadly Sins" Belef Festival - Gluttony - performance and solo
exhibition, with Snežana Arnautović, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia 2017
• Selector & curator at ceramic symposium "World of Ceramics" Arandjelovac, Serbia
2014 - 2017
• UNICUM 2015, III. International Ceramic Triennial Unicum 2015, international jury
member, National museum Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Westerwalpreis, Keramik Europas-Schlesvig Holstein-Germany
• World of Ceramics /1974-2014, Curator - Author of the Exhibition /Aleksandar
Djonović Gallery/ Arandjelovac / Serbia
• KERAMIK EUROPAS / 13. Westerwaldpreis 2014, Keramikmuseum Westerwald,
Germany
• V. International Exhibition” Art in Miniature 2014”Majdanpek, Serbia
• The Figure, Sculpture in Ceramics, 7th Nassauische Sparkasse ceramic talent award
Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany, 2013
• 3. International Golcuk Ceramic Symposium, Turkey 2013
• The 14th Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia,2013
• A Women Artist - New Subjects and Ideas in Serbian Ceramics after 2000,
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2012
• The 14th Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2009
• 7.Internationale Keramik Biennale Inside-Out, Kapfenberg, Austria, 2011
• X Biennial Internacional de Ceramica, Manises, Espagne, 2011
• International Mixed Exhibition, Usak University, Usak, Turkey, 2011
• World of Ceramics, National Museum Arandjelovac, Republic Of Serbia, 2011
• XVI Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, Dec 2011
• 12. Westerwaldpreis 2009 ~ Keramik Europas, Germany, 2009
• 1st International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM 2009, Slovenia, 2009
• The 13th Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2009
• XV Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, Dec 2009
• The 12th Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2006
• Herceg Novi Salon, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, 2006
• II Bienal International Del Mosaico Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 2005
• 8. International Biennial of Miniature Arts, Gornji Milanovac, Republic
of Serbia, 2005
• XIV Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2005
• The XIth Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2006
• 1. International Biennial of Miniature Arts, Niksic, Montenegro
• X Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, November 1999
• IX Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1997
• Balkan Ceramic Exhibition, IAC General Assembly, Athens, Greece,
2002
• 43. October Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia 2002
• XII Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2001
• 42. October Salon, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, 2001
• X Yugoslav Triennial of Ceramics, Subotica, FR Yugoslavia 1999
• 2nd International Triennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, 2003
• Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland, New Zealand, 1998
• XXV International Festival-World of Ceramics, Arandjelovac, FR
Yugoslavia,1998
• III International colony of Ceramic Arts- Zlakusa 98, City Gallery Uzice,
FR Yugoslavia, 1998
• X Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2001
• 1st International Triennial of Ceramics- Cup 96, Belgrade, FR
Yugoslavia, 1996
ARTICLES
-Biljana Vukotic - A Women Artist - New Subjects and Ideas in Serbian Ceramics
after 2000, 2012
-Story about…Politika, January 2011
-Biljana Vukotic, The 13th Triennial of Ceramic Art, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia,
2012
-Tanja Vicentic - Into Ceramic World, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 2011
-Maja Skaljac Stanosevic, XVI Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia,
Dec 2011
-Ljubica Jelisavac Katic, BraArt, BELEF, Belgrade,Republic of Serbia 2010
-Ljubica Ranković, 36. Symposium World of Ceramics, Arandjelovac, Republic of
Serbia 2009
- Inspiration on Rice, Politika, May 2008
-Maja Skaljac Stanosevic, Shoe- 39 . May Exhibition, 2007
-Mirjana Vajdic Bajic - Design Recycle, 2007
-2007 Biljana Vukotić, The XIth Triennial of Ceramic Art , Belgrade, Republic of
Serbia, 2006
-Maja Skaljac Stanosevic, XIV Biennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia,
2005
-Ljiljana Joksimovic, Poetics of space, Gallery Stara Kapetanija, Belgrade, Republic
of Serbia, 2005
-Ljubica Jelisavac Katic, Vodic za upotrebu zena, Blic, September 2005
-Gordana Biba Markovic, 2nd International Triennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, FR
Yugoslavia, 2003
-Mirjana Radojcic, Strict Selection, Politika, 1996
-Ljiljana Cinkul - Cup or Sculpture, Politika, 1996
-Gordana Biba Marković, Ist International Triennial of Ceramics, CUP 96
Kerameiki Techni 1996
-Mirjana Bajic, III International colony of Ceramic Arts- Zlakusa 98, FR Yugoslavia,
1998
Interviews:
Ars praktika- RTS 2011- Dijana Milašinović Marić
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMO3dsHR_9E
Ram- Studio B- Dragana Ćosić
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0l1xESGZ