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.
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
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
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