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artist statement

Stevan Kojić constructs techno-ecological environments that operate both as real systems and conceptual gestures. His practice merges DIY engineering, ecological improvisation, and systemic absurdity, often forming habitats that question the very notion of sustainability, autonomy, and control.

By incorporating elements such as infrared imaging, solenoids, LED grow lights, and found materials, Kojić explores what it means to simulate survival within post-industrial, post-utopian space. Engaging critically with post-ideological technoutopianism, his installations examine how seemingly autonomous systems mask deeper contradictions, revealing tensions between control and collapse, intention and malfunction.

Within his ongoing cycle Self-Sustaining System of Absurdity, Kojić reclaims dysfunction, error, and improvisation as active agents of critique. His works evoke states of survival and fragility where the organic and the synthetic coexist in unstable, yet poetic symbiosis. The systems he constructs often reflect on techno-social frameworks that appear self-sufficient, yet expose their absurdity and precarity upon closer inspection.


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Stevan Kojić (b. 1973, Serbia) is a visual artist based in Novi Sad. He earned both his BFA and MFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and received his PhD in Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, where he is working as a full professor at the New Media Arts department. He was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje (Montenegro). His practice explores intersections between ecology, technology, and systemic critique, frequently materialized as hybrid, self-regulating environments that function simultaneously as sculptural systems and conceptual provocations.

His long-term conceptual framework, Self-Sustaining System of Absurdity, engages with themes of post-ideological survival, techno-anarchy, and the aesthetics of failure, constructing experimental ecosystems where absurdity becomes a condition of endurance and imagination.

group exhibitions

2024

  • End of Language: Once Again on Wittgenstein, Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković Gallery – Legacy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

2023

  • Touch Nature, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • On the Paths of Serbian Art 1923–2023: From Konjović to Marina Abramović, Creative District, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Afternature, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Untitled: Sculpture After Sculpture, Cazarma U, Timișoara, Romania
  • 28th International Art Exhibition “Art Expo”, Novi Sad Fair, Novi Sad, Serbia

2022

  • Farsickness / Homesickness / Homelessness, ART BOX, Creative District, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Ecomitologies, Art Salon “13th November”, National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro
  • MFRU | IFCA International Festival of Computer Arts, Vetrinjski Dvor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • S.U.T.R.A. Festival | TOMORROW, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia

2021

  • Society and Art in a Forced Reality, Danube Dialogues – Ars Electronica Garden, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • ULUS Autumn Exhibition / State of Emergency, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Hybrid Choices: Art, Nature, Technology, Contemporary Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
  • Privacy in the Public Field, Mala Stanica, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, North Macedonia

2020

  • Unprotected Witness No. 2: MMM, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Second World, Balkan Cinema, Saša Marčeta Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia

2019

  • Triennial of Expanded Media, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Works from the 41st Jalovik Art Colony, King Peter I House, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Niš Salon 12/2: In Accordance with Current Times, Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts, Niš, Serbia
  • Flux Identity: Contemporary Canadian Art Scene in Dialogue with Artists from Serbia, Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • S.U.T.R.A. Festival – In the Name of the Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Fake News, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Retrospective Exhibition – 30 Years of the Galičnik Art Colony, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, North Macedonia

2018

  • Danube Dialogues Festival – The Use of Man, Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Photography as Part of the Artistic Concept, ProArtOrg Belgrade, Magacin in Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Works from the 41st Jalovik Art Colony, Gallery of the House of Culture, Jalovik, Serbia
  • Ambalaža 2018, Former “Ambalaža” Factory, Vela Luka, Korčula, Croatia
  • Performance: Neither Do I See, Nor Do I Hear, Nor Do I Speak, Vela Luka, Korčula, Croatia
  • My Art is My Reality, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
  • My Art is My Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

2017

  • Art Factory, Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Petrović Castle, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Transition, Cultural Centre of Serbia, Paris, France
  • Photo-Transition: The Use of Photography in Different Media of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Mala Stanica, Skopje, North Macedonia
  • Mapping: Humanization of Public Urban Space, Public Urban Space, Novi Sad, Serbia

2016

  • S.U.T.R.A. Festival, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Works by Slobodan, Miroslava, Smiljana and Stevan Kojić, Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Petrović Castle, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • Urban Bio-Geo-Graphy, Photo Gallery in Rathaus, Graz, Austria
  • Urban Bio-Geo-Graphy, Magacin in Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, Serbia

2015

  • Cargo East: Subdued Existence – Contemporary Art Scene of Serbia, Kunsthalle, Košice, Slovakia
  • Cargo East: Subdued Existence – Contemporary Art Scene of Serbia, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Formless: Variable Reality in New Media Art, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Professors and Associates of the Academy of Fine Arts Trebinje, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Science Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Conflicts, Provocations, Relations, Challenges, Fears, Energies – Art in a Widened Field: Overview of the Art Scene of Vojvodina 1995–2014, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art of the Danube Region – Danube Dialogues, Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia

2014

  • Premonition / Blood / Hope – Art from Serbia and Vojvodina 1914–2014, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
  • Culture Escape – Toward a Better World, Magacin in Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Cargo East: Subdued Existence – Contemporary Art Scene from Serbia, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Culture Escape – Toward a Better World, Nest Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 40 Years of the Academy of Arts, Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Works by Professors of the Academy of Fine Arts Trebinje, National Museum, Belgrade, Serbia

2013

  • Artist Talk Symposium – Soft Control: Tomorrow, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Matsushiro Contemporary Art Festival, Bunbu Gakko, Nagano, Japan
  • Video Art Lab Festival, Museum of Mining and Metallurgy, Bor, Serbia
  • Autonomies, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 10th Biennale of Watercolor – Flux Liquida, Contemporary Gallery, Salon of the National Museum, Zrenjanin, Serbia
  • Danube Dialogues Festival, Provincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Petrovaradin, Serbia
  • Situations – Installations in Vojvodina, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Device_art 4.013: Low-tech, High-tech and Everything in Between, Školská 28 Gallery & K4 Club, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Creative Trace – Guide to the Future, Wiener Städtische Contemporary Art Collection, Wiener Städtische Insurance, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Graffiti, Matter and Energy of the Spiritual Territory, Railway Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Three Herzegovinian Art Institutions, Queen Katarina Kosača Art Gallery, Croatian House of Duke Stjepan Kosača, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Exhibition of Works by Professors and Associates of the Academy of Fine Arts Trebinje, Academy of Fine Arts Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2012

  • Tvrđav@rt 2012, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
  • For Nerds in Real Time, LJUDMILA, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Novi Sad A Roma, Centro per la Grafica d’Arte, Rome, Italy
  • Graphic Exhibition, Center for Graphic Arts, Night of Museums, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Tensionfield – Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Provisional History – Selection from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina 1942–2012, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Acquisitions: Purchases and Donations (2004–2011), Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Device_art 4.012 – Machines, Robots and Boiled Eggs, Student Center, Zagreb, Croatia

2011

  • The International Sculpture Festa, Seoul, South Korea
  • 5th Science Festival, Gallery of the Serbian National Bank, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 13th Contemporary Art Festival – Plein Art, Budapest, Hungary
  • Tensionfield – Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Works from the 30th International Sculpture Symposium, Terra Gallery, Kikinda, Serbia
  • Novi Sad in New York, Gallery MC, New York, USA
  • Sculpture, Object, or Where the Border Lies V, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Printmakers in Action – Works in Public Space, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • From Traditional to Inventive, Gallery 9, Budapest, Hungary
  • Night of Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • On Photography, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia

2010

  • Annual Exhibition of the Center for Graphic Arts, Small Art Salon, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • S.U.T.R.A. Festival, Gallery of the National Bank of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
  • New Media Practice Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Conflict of Interest, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Mapping the Cityscape, International Sculpture Symposium, Icheon, South Korea
  • Changing Landscape, Otklon Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 30th International Sculpture Symposium “Terra”, Kikinda, Serbia
  • Differences, Cultural Centre Factory, Chinese Quarter, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Differences, University Library “Braća Stamenković”, Belgrade, Serbia

2009

  • Printmaking Without Pressure and Impression – Digital Printmaking of the Belgrade Graphic Circle, Graphic Collective Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Watercolor Biennale, Contemporary Gallery, Zrenjanin, Serbia
  • 38th Novi Sad Salon, Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Closeness – Contemporary Art Scene from Serbia, TOKI Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
  • Behind the Barrier, Cultural City Network, Graz, Austria
  • 11th International Festival Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France

2008

  • Space for a New Dialogue / Polygon, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Chinese Quarter, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2008 Lighthouse Art Colony, Podrum Gallery, Apollo Centre, Novi Sad, Serbia

2007

  • In Situ, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina & Museum of Forgotten Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Sculpture/Objects, Installations, Environments in Urban Space, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Collection of Vojvodina Art from the Second Half of the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Self-Portrait in Contemporary Art, Likovni Susret Gallery, Subotica, Serbia

2006

  • 5th Landscape Biennale – Landscape in Electronic Media, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • City – Artistic Stage, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Painting 2006, Contemporary Art Gallery, Zrenjanin, Serbia
  • 50 Years of the Ečka Art Colony, National Museum, Zrenjanin, Serbia
  • S.A.R.T. Fest – 1+1 Digital Photography, Photo-Cinema Alliance of Vojvodina Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia

2005

  • Valeurs, ADDC Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Dordogne, Périgueux, France
  • Regional – Universal, Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Art Flags Festival, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Aspects of Contemporary Sculpture in Vojvodina, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye” & “Manual”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • International Colony “In the Footsteps of Paja Jovanović”, National Museum, Vršac, Serbia

2004

  • Ten Years of the Biennale of Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 11th Biennale of Visual Arts – Values, Contemporary Art Gallery, Pančevo, Serbia
  • Construction / Deconstruction, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2003

  • 21st Salon, Pančevo, Serbia
  • Glass Art Workshop, Contemporary Art Gallery, Pančevo, Serbia
  • 1st International Danube Summer Academy, Danube Swabian Central Museum, Ulm, Germany
  • Regional – Universal, Contemporary Art Gallery, Pančevo, Serbia
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye” & Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia

2002

  • 3rd International Triennial of Contemporary Art “Balkan Art”, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 10th Biennale of Visual Arts – Crossings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Pančevo, Serbia
  • Landscape, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 5th International Biennale of Youth – Codes of Time, Centre for Contemporary Culture “Konkordija”, Vršac, Serbia

2001

  • The Nineties – Resistance and Confrontations: Non-Isolated Space, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye” & Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia

2000

  • 2nd International Biennale of Sketches and Projects, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Insomnia, Centre for Contemporary Art, SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 9th Biennale of Visual Arts – Relations, Contemporary Art Gallery, Pančevo, Serbia
  • 4th International Biennale of Youth – From Left to Right, From Right to Left, Centre for Contemporary Culture “Konkordija”, Vršac, Serbia

1999

  • International Installation Symposium – In-Sit-In, La Charité-sur-Loire, France

1998

  • Landscape Biennale, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 5th International Biennale of Miniature Art, Cultural Centre Gallery, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
  • Exhibition of New Members, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Sculptures and Objects, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

1997

  • Memorial Room, BELEF Festival, Barutana, Kalemegdan, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Perspectives XXV, Andrićev Venac Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Object Sculpture, SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 1st International Biennale of Sketches and Projects, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Drawings and Small Sculptures, Dom Omladine Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Awarded Students, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

1996

  • 2nd Yugoslav Biennale of Youth, Centre for Contemporary Culture “Konkordija”, Vršac, Serbia
  • Exhibition of Drawings and Small Sculptures, Dom Omladine Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

1995

  • 1st Belgrade Biennale of Drawing and Small Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

solo exhibitions

2021

  • Art Kit, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia

2020

  • New Extractivism: On Machines, the Exploitation of People and Nature (with Vladan Joler), Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Small Art Salon, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

2019

  • City Museum, Vršac, Serbia

2017

  • Terra Gallery, Kikinda, Serbia

2016

  • Dr. Vinko Perčić Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
  • Art Gallery of the Cultural Centre, Kovin, Serbia

2014

  • Practice of Multiple Praxis (with Selman Trtovac and the group diSTRUKTURA), Toki Space, Tokyo, Japan
  • Practice of Multiple Praxis (with Selman Trtovac and the group diSTRUKTURA), Museum in Prijepolje, Prijepolje, Serbia
  • Brain Machine, Night of Museums, Zepter International, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Self-Sustaining, Soft Control, Dom Omladine Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Self-Sustaining System of Absurdity: Eco-Technological-Bio-Social Habitat, 12HUB Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Milan Konjović and Stevan Kojić – On Art and on the Bicycle, Milan Konjović Gallery, Sombor, Serbia
  • Milan Konjović and Stevan Kojić – On Art and on the Bicycle, Contemporary Gallery, Zrenjanin, Serbia
  • The Critics’ Choice: Sava Stepanov – Milan Konjović and Stevan Kojić – On Art and on the Bicycle, Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2013

  • The Lost Treasure of Savamala, Third Belgrade Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Absurd Society, Magacin in Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, Serbia

2012

  • Non-Strategic Intelligence, Art Salon, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

2010

  • Self-Sustaining Systems of Absurdity, Contemporary Gallery, Zrenjanin, Serbia

2009

  • The New Game, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Night of Museums, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • The New Game, Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2008

  • Celtis Occidentalis, Terra Gallery, Kikinda, Serbia

2006

  • Iconography of the Brothel, City Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2002

  • Intimate–Public, 3rd International Triennial of Contemporary Art “Balkan Art”, Centre for Visual Culture “Golden Eye”, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Windows, 2META Foundation, Bucharest, Romania

1999

  • redruM, Dom Omladine Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

1998

  • Gallery of the House of Culture “Studentski Grad”, Belgrade, Serbia


awards

2022

  • Award for Fine Arts “Sava Šumanović”, Novi Sad, Serbia

2010

  • Grand Prize of the 29th Novi Sad Salon, Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia

2003

  • Award of the 21st Salon, Pančevo, Serbia

2002

  • 2META Foundation Award, Biennale of Visual Arts, Pančevo, Serbia – Bucharest, Romania
  • Award of the 5th International Biennale of Youth – Codes of Time, Centre for Contemporary Culture “Konkordija”, Vršac, Serbia

2000

  • Award for Large Nude from the “Ilija Kolarević” Fund, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia



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