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Borjana Mrdja,

was born in Banja Luka on 14th June 1982. She has been active in the field of visual arts locally and regionally since 2007. She graduated at the Academy of Arts, Department of Painting, University of Banja Luka, from which she holds a master’s degree in the field of Painting. She also holds diploma of doctoral art studies in the field of Painting which she received at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2020. She is the professor in the first and second cycle of studies at the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka. She is participant in series of lectures Living archive – Bring in take out  in Open systems galerry and VBKÖ in Wien (2012) and also in The hasitating body forum at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden.  She has been selected as one of the best four artists in BiH for national ZVONO award (2012).  

Her works has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of contemporary art  of Vojvodina, Novi Sad (2016), Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona (2012), Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Delaware (2011), Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, St. Petersburg (2011), Ms Dockville festival, Hamburg (2011), The Big Screen Project, New York (2011), aMAZElab Art&Culture, Modena (2010), Photon Gallery, Ljubljana (2010) and Ada Street Gallery, London (2008).

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Perceptions, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banjaluka  2017 Balkan week, Gray’s School of Art Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen / 3 Generations of women artists perform, Threshold artspace, Perth Concert Hall 2016 Contemporary Thesaurus, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banjaluka / Contemporary Thesaurus, Museum of Contemporary Art  of Vojvodina, Novi Sad / Contemporary Thesaurus, Gallery Podroom, Belgrade 2014 Achievements and Challenges, Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Sarajevo / Decoding / Gallery Miodrag – Dado Đurić, Cetinje / WEG mit KUNST, KWG, Kaiserslautern / Iz/uzetnosti, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banjaluka  2013 Neighbouring landscapes, SC gallery, Zagreb / Bosnian/Art, Goucher College, Baltimore / I can be outrageously patient, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banjaluka / 46th Winter Salon, Josip Bepo Benkovic Gallery, Herceg Novi / I can be outrageously patient, Youth Center Gallery, Belgrade / The hesitating body, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden 2012 Time stood still / Multimeridijan, Gallery Anex, Galery Luka, Pula / Not So Distant Memory, No-Festival of Video-art and Animation, Ufa, Russia / Bring In Take Out Living Archive, Open Systems, Wien / Bring In Take Out Living Archive, VBKÖ, Wien / Microstories, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banjaluka / Pichwise, Gallery Mak, Sarajevo / Intime / Intimacies, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo / Arrivi e partenze,  Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona / Individual strategies, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo 2011 Not so distant memory, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Delaware / Cyberfest, Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, St. Petersburg / Urban Maps, Festival of Contemporary Art, Praha / Open City, aMAZElab Art&Culture, Sarajevo / The border – performance, Ms Dockville Festival, Hamburg / Open City, aMAZElab Art&Culture, Tirana / Cut-out moments, Marin Gallery, Umag / Clothes as a symbol of identity, City Gallery,  Bihac / Open City, aMAZElab Art&Culture, Skopje / Algebra/ Life path number, ITS-Z1 Gallery, Belgrade / Not So Distant Memory, The Big Screen Project, New York 2010 #5 Neunundneunzig, Freunde Imnamendesraumes, Berlin / Open City, aMAZElab Art&Culture, Modena / Women’s Writing, Remont Gallery, Belgrade / BiH Video art, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana 2009  Emyan 2/Artifice, International Online Arts Festival / NamaTRE.ba 3 project, B&H Video art, Visual TV Container, Milan / NamaTRE.ba 3 project, B&H Video art, Academy of Fine Arts, Trebinje / Zvono exhibition/Finalist for the best young artist in B&H, Museum of contemporary art, Banjaluka 2008  Spa Port, International annual exhibition of contemporary art, Banjaluka / What is white, Terminal 00, Ada Street Gallery, London / My Lend Štaglinec / Vlasta Delimar, Koprivnica 2007 Sarajevo Winter, Gallery Mak, Sarajevo