Dejan Kaludjerovic's Page

Website

www.dejankaludjerovic.net

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

FAculty Fine Art Belgrade, Serbia (BFA,MFA) + AppliedArt Akademie Vienna (Erwin Wurm'c class)

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Photography, Video

I am...

In my drawing, painting, photography and video a child is the dominant motif. My intention is to make one think about the existence of the devious development of the collective consciousness and the patterns of behavior. I research phenomenons of violence and fear and the society relation towards these categories (what is interesting and horrific is that violence and fear became a need and a form of entertainment).
Since 2004 I have been working on a project Europoly. It deals with the problematic of the present day European identity and tensions between the two categories of „EU” and „non EU”.

About my artwork

… The art world is rigid and conservative. The art was always living in a big bubble...always…

..of course, your work is controversial, but that’s what makes it interesting, otherwise it would be just a nice fashion image...that’s why I think your work is great…

…it’s always a risky game, if I were your father I would be very scared, I think that you are a good artist but I would be scared…

(Erwin Wurm’s comments ob the work of Dejan Kaludjerovic during their conversation over a lunch in Vienna in September 2007)


"Not one of our views of the universal commercial exploitation of children can remain the same after we have seen the works of Kaludjerović. On the other hand, these paintings are not the result of any didactic intention on the part of the artist. On the contrary, they are themselves deeply enmeshed in a world governed by our inability to play a direct part in it and hence to change it. It is precisely the closeness of these paintings that disturb us."

from the text of Branislav Dimitrijevic

Artists I like

Felix Gonzales Torres; Francis Alys;

Interests

art; films, books; music; people; politics; swimming; biking;

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

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The centre of the artworld is

New York, Berlin, online, nowhere and everywhere

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