Igor Bošnjak biography
Igor Bošnjak (b. 1981 in Sarajevo) lives and work in Trebinje (Bosnia & Herzegovina).
He is mainly working within the fields of film, video, installation & photography.
Also works as a video curator & theoretician. Curently works as a asistant professor at Academy of Visual Arts in Trebinje.
In 2005 he finished Academy of Visual Arts (BA) in Trebinje, Department of Painting. From 2006 he is a founder and the curator of the international namaTREba project biennial.
From 2007 to 2011 he finished (MA) and studied (PhD) Interdisciplinary studies, Theory of Art & Media Department at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.
His works have been shown at: New Cinema & Contemporary Art, Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique & Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen;
Atopia Film & VideoKunst Gallery, Oslo; Moderna Galerija & Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana; Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia;
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; CAM Casoria, Contemporary Art Museum, Naples; Kunst Museum, Bonn; Agnes B. Foundation, Galerie du Jour, Paris; Galleria d’ Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona;
Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banja Luka; Point Ephemere, Paris; Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin; Espacio Center Canarias, Tenerife; Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; Center of Contemporary Art,
Plovdiv; Budapest Art Fair Mucsarnok, Budapest; Charinthian Museum of Modern Art Klagenfurt; Spazio Monitor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; 2nd Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic;
Tapetenwerk Halle C, Leipzig; Austrian Gallery Belvedere, 21-Haus, Vienna; Gallery Remont, Belgrade; National Art Gallery B&H, Sarajevo; The Cultural Centre of Belgrade & etc.
In 2010 Igor Bošnjak was a finalist of ZVONO Young Visual Artist Award, organised by Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art;
From 2009 to 2011 he was a finalist for B&H Henkel Art Award organised in Zegreb;
2007 was awarded with 1st prize for video art on 4th Salon Clovek Spomenik in Velenje, Slovenia.
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