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infoPart of project 'By the Means at Hand' by Vlatka Horvat - Croatian pavilion at Venice Biennale 2024
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infoThis work was made during my one month residency at PADA studios in Barreiro, a small post-industrial city near Lisbon.
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infoThis work was made during my one month residency at PADA studios in Barreiro, a small post-industrial city near Lisbon.
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![For The Time Being / Por Enquanto]( "For The Time Being / Por Enquanto")
infoThis work was made during my one month residency at PADA studios in Barreiro, a small post-industrial city near Lisbon.
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infoTotems made for CODA Paper Art Biennale 2023
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infoTotems made for CODA Paper Art Biennale 2023
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infoTotems made for CODA Paper Art Biennale 2023
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Majda Vidakovic is a multidisciplinary artist whose gaze is always focused on objects and spaces. Her practice most often includes collecting and working with discarded or forgotten materials. Shifting through a self-created playing field between photography, sculpture and design, she searches for the relationship between three-dimensional objects and their two-dimensional representation.
“The past plays an important role in my work. The concept of leftovers has always fascinated me. I’m intrigued by traces of what’s left behind; a material or a place, affected by nature or human usage. The poetry of imperfection inspires me to explore how an object, or a place can over time become an 'unintentional' monument. Similar to the country of my birth, Yugoslavia - it no longer exists but it survives in ‘second-hand’ memories, monuments, objects and architecture. Through my work I am rediscovering and recontextualizing the past - materializing a history that might no longer be visible”
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Curriculum vitae
Opleidingen
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2021 - 2022European Ceramic Workcentre ekwc
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2009 - 2015Fotografie Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2024By the Means at Hand Venice Biennale / Croatian pavillion Venice, Italië I was invited to participate in the project by Vlatka Horvat, who is representing this years Croatian pavillion. "Engaging with the theme of Adriano Pedrosa’s main exhibition for La Biennale di Venezia, “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” Vlatka Horvat’s project for the Croatian Pavilion, curated by Antonia Majaca, will exist as an accumulative exhibition of artworks by a wide-ranging group of international artists living “as foreigners,” reflecting on questions and urgencies of the diasporic experience. This exhibition will be generated through a social and performative exchange taking place over the course of the Biennale Arte 2024. Horvat will invite artists living in diaspora all over the world to engage in a series of reciprocal exchanges of artworks and other materials, all of which will be sent between Venice and other places by improvised means – via various friends, travelers, and strangers who will be enlisted as informal couriers for the project." www.croatianpavilion2024.com/ Groep
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2023Wastescape Notes the Pitcairn Museum of Contemporary Art Groningen, Nederland pitcairnmuseum.nl/majda-vidakovic/ Solo
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2023Paper Art BIennale 2023 CODA Museum Apeldoorn, Nederland "Vidakovic has made a series of large totems for CODA Paper Art, using more than a hundred cardboard pulp containers. The work is reminiscent of a ruin, or an archaeology museum display. It questions whether these remains can be glued back together, and whether this reconstruction gives them a new importance." www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/nl/museum/coda-paper-art-2023-en/majda-vidakovic Groep
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2022Leftovers Van Nelle Fabriek / Art Rotterdam Rotterdam, Nederland I presented my work at the Prospects exhibition at Art Rotterdam, as one of the artists who received Artist Start (Stipendium for Emerging Artists) www.mondriaanfonds.nl/profiel/majda-vidakovic/ Groep
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2022LEFTOVERS II M. Simons gallery Amsterdam, Nederland "For the upcoming presentation, Majda Vidakovic - Leftovers II, the Serbian-born artist Majda Vidakovic selected an array of sculptures that she has made over the past 3 years. Each object has a serene quality; they’re made from natural materials such as wood, ceramics or cardboard. Their mainly monochrome colors hold this same natural quality; hues vary from sand to concrete. Each of the works has been made from, or assembled from found objects. Throughout the 20th century, artists scoured streets, flea markets and scrap yards looking for discarded objects with nostalgic or banal qualities to include them in assemblages, photograph them or display them in their own right. Vidakovic does not look for nostalgia or banality, she seems to specifically select found objects whose potential has not fully been exploited. Take for example the legs of one sculpture from her 'Leftover' series. The two structures that support the sculpture as a whole once served their purpose as CD racks. Made from wood, these pieces of furniture have been designed and crafted to last for decades, eventually outliving the one thing it was designed to hold. Another example found in multiple of Vidakovic’s sculptures are cardboard pulp containers. These containers are oddly shaped, made to hold expensive, fragile, contents like televisions, stereos or kitchen appliances. They are built to protect, but as soon as their contents are taken from them, they’re without function, but still full of potential. What continuously comes back in Vidakovic’s work is the association with artifacts, fossils, mystical symbols and relics - different kinds of remains and traces of history, taking on a material form. Whichever material it is, the need to present an object in its ‘imperfect’ form, by giving it a new platform, reflects on how she deals with the past and where she comes from. Vidakovic makes the link with her native Serbia, a ‘leftover’ country of now former Yugoslavia - the country that no longer exists, but lives on through memories, monuments, objects and architecture." www.michielsimons.com/exhibitions/majdavidakovicleftovers-ii Solo
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2020Leftovers I&II Tiny Art Gallery Den Haag, Nederland www.instagram.com/thetinyartgallerythehague/ Groep
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2018To Reflect To KAF - Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland institute Almere, Nederland For this group exhibition called 'OVERDAAD' I made a commissioned work called 'To Reflect To'. The theme was about the overload of images and information that we consume daily. All the artists reflected on the theme, some already known works and some new. My work was about the basic experience on reflection using mirrors and other reflective materials. It's about how to experience images in a space without looking at images and video, but being surprised what light and colours can do. Online our perception of materials has become much more vague and our curiosity is easily fed - but short lived. In a physical space, reflections created by mirrors, glass and light create new perspectives and angles which can surprise us; perspectives that might not be noticable in the digital world. kaf.nl/expo/overdaad/ Groep
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2017Pot Trouvé Designkwartier 2017 Den Haag, Nederland This project examines form and material in order to be able to look at contemporary materials of western culture. How does the pot of our time look like? How can we represent the future finds, looking through the glasses of the traditional past. festivaldesignkwartier.nl/ Groep
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2017Everything is Editable KABK - Koninlijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag, Nederland Groep
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2016A Passing Space Salone de Mobile Milan, Italië This project was a collaboration with Lorena van Bunningen, which was part of the a group exhibition 'RESET' organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague Groep
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2015Did you mean: anything else Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag Den Haag, Nederland Graduation show Groep
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2015Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam Together with my fellow photography graduate students of the Royal Academy of Art. 'Introducing 'DEAR...': The Printfactory' we organized and put together is a pop-up printsale at the Melkweg gallery in Amsterdam. The concept was selling one photo per person and having a print-on-demand set up in the gallery itself. Groep
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2015de Spanjaardshof, Den Haag This exhibition was organised by the artists who share the old building of Spanjaardshof in the Hague. The idea of the exhibition was to open their studios to the public but at the same time invite young artists to show their work. Therefore a mix of the old and the young. Within this exhibition, I showed a preview of my end exam project, 'Did you mean: anything else.' Groep
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2015Did you mean: anything else - part II Stroom Opzicht Den Haag, Nederland www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/kleine_presentatie.php?kt_id=7308491 Solo
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2015Did you mean: anything else NFM - Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Nederland Part of the Steenberg Stipendium exhibition www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/tentoonstelling/steenbergen-stipendium-2018/ Groep
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2014Like Share Follow Museum voor Communicatie, Den Haag Solo
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2013NEST, Den Haag As a duo together with Lynne Brouwer, we were chosen to participate in the ‘One Nest Stand’ - a one evening pop-up group exhibition in a fine art gallery Nest. After two months of guidance by the curator and three visual artists, we developed a project consisting of three parts – a dia slideshow plus a framed print, a publication and an interactive installation. With the title of the exhibition ‘Me, Myself and I’, Lynne and I made a project based on out amazement which focuses on the art world , and more specifically to the most common forms of presentation; why they have value and status? Groep
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Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2019
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2013Internship with artist Joachim Schmid Berlin, Duitsland
opdrachten
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2018‘Hoe leerlingen zich technologie meester maken’ De Correspondent Amsterdam , Nederland A series of nine images I made for online newspaper De Correspondent about MakerEd in schools and how students can become masters of technology. The objects are their creations decorrespondent.nl/8087/hoe-leerlingen-zich-technologie-meester-maken/642536411-c4b8d40d Uitgevoerd
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2018‘Hoe leerlingen zich technologie meester maken’ De Correspondent Zutphen, Nederland A series of nine images I made for online newspaper De Correspondent about MakerEd in schools and how students can become masters of technology. The objects are their creations decorrespondent.nl/8087/hoe-leerlingen-zich-technologie-meester-maken/642536411-c4b8d40d Uitgevoerd
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2018Prix de Rome Architecture Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, Nederland I made a series of photograph of all the works of the architects that were nominated for the Prix de Rome
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2017‘Hoe het toeval carrières maakt of breekt’ De Correspondent Amsterdam , Nederland Uitgevoerd
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2017‘Je moet je fouten juist niet goedmaken’ De Correspondent Amsterdam, Nederland Uitgevoerd
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2014Like Share Follow Museum voor Communicatie Den Haag, Nederaland Like Share Follow - An Installation meant to visually illustrate digital communication through social media; giving new perspective and side of the museum Uitgevoerd
Aankopen/werken in collecties
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2016Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem, Nederland I sold a part of my graduation work - Did you mean: anything else - to the permanent collection of the Rijnstate hospital in Arnhem. The work is on permanent show in the hospital.
publicaties
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2015Did you mean: anything else Self-published, Designed by Sha Yee Jin, Den Haag Catalogus/kunsternaatsboek
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2013The ABC of Popular Desire self-published Berlin , Duitsland In collaboration with Joachim Schmid
Prijzen en stipendia
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2019Mondriaan fonds, Amsterdam Amsterdam, Nederland Stipendium for Emerging Artists / Artist Start
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2019(sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Den Haag, Nederland PRO Grant - Research/ residency
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2015The Steenbergen Stipendium for Photography is a scholarship that exists since 1998. Annually it’s awarded to a student from one of the accredited photography departments from all Dutch Art Academies. An independent jury judges all of the work of all exa steenbergen stipendium
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