IVAN GRUBANOV

   

1976

Born in Belgrade, Serbia

 

Lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia

   

2008

Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain

2005–06

Delfina Studio Programme, London, UK

2002–03

RABK / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1996–01

Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

   
 

www.grubanov.wordpress.com

   
   
 

SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)

   

2019

The Return of the National, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2017

Painting The Nation, Kulturni Centar Beograda, Belgrade, Serbia

2016

Smoke Nation Screen, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2015

United Dead Nations, Serbian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy

 

Behind The Smokescreen, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

Ivan Grubanov, Stand von Loock Galerie, vienna contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2013

Dead Flags, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2012

Current Pasts (with Vangelis Vlahos, curated by Daphne Vitali), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

 

Smokescreens, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2010

Haunting Memory (associated project of the Architecture Trienale), MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Seven Studies For A Memorial, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2009

Center For Cultural Decontamination (solo presentation within the 50th October Salon), Belgrade, Serbia

2008

Evil Painter, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

Laboratorio 987, MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, (mit Angel Rubia), Leon, Spain

2007

Non-Institutional, Le Grand Café d´Arte Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France

 

Gallery Of The Cultural Center Of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2006

Nogueras Blanchard Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2005

Stroom Contemporary Art Center, The Hague, Netherlands

 

Visitor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

2004

Study Of My Father, A Relation To The Origin, Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

Visitor, Lawrence O´Hana Gallery, London, UK

 

Cages, Expodium, Utrecht, Netherlands

2001

Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro

1999

Zlatno Oko, Novi Sad, Serbia-Montenegro

   
   
 

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

   

2019

When the Present is History, DEPO/Tütün Deposu, Istanbul, Turkey

2018

The World on Paper, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany

2015

Constellation, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris, France

 

Study for a Memorial, Outside Gallery Apolo, Pancevo, Serbia

 

Bonton: Dobro Odrzavanje I Lepo Ponasanje, Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

 

New Horizons, Naval Heritage Collection, Porto Montenegro, Tivat, Montenegro

2014

16. Pancevo Biennale, Pancevo, Serbia

 

Diez Años Después, MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon), Leon, Spain

 

In Bocca al Lupo, Crepi Crepi, Cultural Center of Cyprus in Athens, Athens, Greece

 

Road To Europe/I Want To Speak About The War, Clovic Castle Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

 

Enacting Protest?, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium

 

The Good Cause, Stroom Center for Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands

 

Squares, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 

Celebrities, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2013

Der Geist In Vakuum, 267 Quartiere für Zeitgenössische Kunst & Fotografie, Braunschweig, Germany

 

Wir Überschreiten Den Rubikon, Ostrale´013, Dresden, Germany

 

Genesis, 9. Inspiracje Festival, Szczecin, Poland

 

We Are Everything For Each Other (curated by Maja Ciric), Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, UK

 

Preslisavanje 10 (curated by Sasa Janjic, Miroslav Karic, Slobodan Jovanovic), Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2012

Reality Bites (curated by Eija Aarnio, Leevi Haapala, Saara Hacklin, Patrik Nyberg, Jonna Strandberg), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

 

A Gathering (curated by Maria Thalia and Olga Hatzidaki), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Referencing History, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE

 

That Passes Between Us (curated by Lala Rascic), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, USA

 

Private View, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2011

The Walls That Divide Us (curated by Miguel Amado), Apex Art, New York, USA

 

DONUMENTA 2011- Serbien: Views / Visions, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

 

The 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algiers (FIAC) (curated by Nadira Laggoune), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers, Algeria

 

History In Art (curated by Maria Anna Potocka), MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Poland

 

Selektionseffekte, Blainsouthern Berlin, Germany

 

Thin Air, MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal

2010

Drawing Documents (curated by Anselm Franke), Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerpen, Belgium

 

Politics of Art (curated by Anna Kafetsi), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

 

Morality, Act 3, and the Moral of the Story is (curated by Zoe Gray), Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

Morality, Act 3, and the Moral of the Story is (curated by Zoe Gray), Apex Art, New York, USA

 

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Sicoal at the Berardo Collection (curated by Miguel Amado), Museu Colecção Berardo, Lissabon, Portugal

2009

Where Everything Is Yet To Happen, 2nd Spa Port Biennial (curated by Antonia Majaca, Ivana Bago, Anselm Franke), Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

The Matrix: An Unstable Reality, 28. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slowenia

 

Monument To Transformation, City Gallery Prague, Praha, Czech Republic

 

Courtisane Festival, Film, Video & Media Art, Arts Center Vooruit, Gent, Belgium

 

Los Puertas Abiertas, Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain

 

Solo Projects, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2008

3rd Bucharest Biennial of Young Artists (curated by Ami Barak), Bukarest, Romania

 

1st Spa Port Biennale, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War,, Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto at Mississauga, Toronto, Canada

 

Headlines & Footnotes, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway

 

Italy, Italien, Wlochy, ARCOS Contemporary Art Museum Sannio, Benevento, Italy

 

Between The Images, Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Wasteland, Hattyúház Galéria, Pécs, Hungary

 

Selective Knowledge, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athen, Greece

2007

10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Heterotopias (curated by Jan Erik Lundstorm), 1st Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece

 

Drawing Typologies (curated by Roel Arkesteijn), Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Ground Lost, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

 

Alabama, Office Baroque, Antwerpen, Belgium

 

Every Wind That Blows, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Speakers, Aeroplastics Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2006

12th Pancevo Biennial, Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro

 

Histories (curated by Sophie Legrandjacques), Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France

 

Common Destinations (curated by Katherine Carl), Drawing Center, Selections Fall, New York, USA

 

Around The World In 80 Days (curated by Margot Heller, Jens Hoffman, Kit Kammonds and Claire Fitzsimmons), South London Gallery, London, UK

 

Everyday Every Other Day, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada

 

Interrupted Histories, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slowenia

 

Villa Jelmini, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 

Sweet Taboos (curated by Edi Muka), Apex Art, New York, USA

 

PSW AR, Pixels of Reality, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Affinity By Choice, KCB Belgrade, Belgrad, Serbia-Montenegro

2005

Sweet Taboos, 2nd Tirana Bienale, Tirana, Albania

 

MANIF D´ART, 3rd Biennial of Quebec, Quebec, Canada

 

Information/Transformation, Extra City, Antwerpen, Belgium

 

Off-Key, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 

20/21, Press to Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia

 

20/21, Zvono Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

 

Values, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand, Perigueux, France

2004

Untitled As Yet, The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia-Montenegro

 

Values, 11th Biennial of Visual Arts, Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro

 

The World Is Fine, we Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Coded Cultures, Freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

 

Video Studio, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Den Haag, Netherlands

 

ART Rotterdam, Smart Project Space Stand, Rotterdam, Netherlands

   
   
 

SCHOLARS/FELLOWSHIPS

   

2005

Delfina Studio Trust Award, London, UK

2002-03

RABK / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2001

'Award of 31st Salon of Pancevo' for video, Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro

2000

'Award of 30th October Salon for video artwork' Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro

1999

'Award for poster' World's Health Organization, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

1997

'Award for best drawing', Patagonija Magazine, Vrsac, Serbia-Montenegro

   
   
 

PERFORMANCES

   

2006

Affinity By Choice, Speech in front of the National Parliament Building, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

2003

W139 (with Paulina Olowska), Amsterdam, Netherlands

2000

Soldier's Tale (Performance in Stravinsky’s opera), Beton-Hala Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

   
   
 

FILM/VIDEO SCREENINGS

   

2004

Neuro, Muffathalle, München, Germany

 

VPRO Television, Smart Project Space selection, Netherlands

2001

FLUX 01, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

 

ARTme, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Mikrokino Fest, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

2000

VideoGong Festival, Culture House Gorizia, Gorizia, Italy

 

hEXPO, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

   
   
 

ÖFFENTLICHE SAMMLUNGEN

   
 

MUSAC (Museu de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon), Leon, Spain

 

Collection Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

 

Deutsche Bank Collection, London, UK

 

MSUB (Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad), Belgrade, Serbia

 

Coleección Esencias, Barcelona, Spain

 

Coleeción Vilardell, Mallorca, Spain

 

Collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Art Pancevo, Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro