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…The art engaged us. It is not us who engage art. First understanding, than valuation…

Stage makeup artist – wig maker, art historian, curator.

Originally from Herzegovina, born in Mostar, lived in Bileća, moved to Belgrade at her father’s command as a military officer, graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. After a one-year volunteer internship at the National Museum of Serbia, she passed the exams, defended her habilitation and got the title of Curator. She continued her professional practice by independently founding a gallery, which she led for eight years as an artistic director, after which she initiated the establishment of an association of which she is one of the founders. She is engaged in improving the position of contemporary artistic and curatorial practices with a focus on cooperation between the public and civil sectors in the field of visual art, architecture and design. She has initiated and implemented several authorial projects, regional and international, numerous authorial solo and group exhibitions (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, France (Strasbourg), Belgium (Brussels), national pavilions at biennials, triennials, quadrennials in Venice, London, Milan, Prague, Malta. She was a selector and jury of numerous award-winning exhibitions, initiated and moderated several panels, expert guides at regional and international festivals.

She is the author of numerous exhibition displays, her authorial texts have been published in domestic and foreign professional and scientific journals and publications. She is the author of the documentary series “A Woman About a Woman”, directed by Boris Miljković, and co-author of the documentary film “Media: Once Upon a Time”, produced by the national television (RTS 3), as well as research “Identities of Women in Contemporary Visual Art” with a recommendation in the cultural policy of Serbia. Her author’s projects have been supported several times by the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, the City of Belgrade, as well as the IPA funds of the European Union.

She is the mother of two adult children. In her curatorial work, she focuses on the continuity and strengthening of the role of women in society. During her mandate as director of the Museum of Applied Arts (2021 – 2025), she was actively involved in curatorial and program activities, along with managing and organizing activities, encouraging various forms of cooperation between the public and private sectors, inter-sectoral, inter-museum, inter-generational and international. Commissioner and curator of several national projects with which the Republic of Serbia was represented at international events (Triennale of Design and Architecture in Milan, 2022; Biennale of Design in London and the Prague Quadrennial of Performing Arts Design, 2023; Malta Art Biennale, 2024 and Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 and 2025. She is a member of the Council of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade.

Her work to date has been covered by numerous and diverse media sources and interviews at the regional and international level. Her biography can be found in the publication Successful People in Serbia, published by An Oxford Worldwide Press Publication.

Personally

About my interest in art

If I were to make a division in my current work and practice, I would say that as a curator I am most interested in contemporary art, its existence in relation to space and time. I compare space with the experience of man, with notions of freedom and shaping, openness and closedness, and I look at time through continuity. Art has to be a reflection of the time we live in, because the artist is part of our time, the moment we live and we share together, something like witnesses. With my curatorial practice of revitalizing old spaces with contemporary art, I strive to revive something already created in the past and thus merge the time epochs. Special part of the activities I dedicate to women in contemporary cretivity and the female identity in culture and society

About art

Art is an expression of an active relationship between a sensibility of a person and their need for expression. This means it has to be a reflection of time and space. I believe the sense are an integral part of the interaction between the artist and the observer. That is way the touch with the essential being is necessary. It is not enjoyment but recognition. Art is a matter of spirituality, that is of the touch with the truth. In one of its shapes it follows the established and formed truth, and in another it follows the tendency to discover its own truth, but always in the immediate contact with the truth. The difference in creation is in the experience of truth. On top of it comes the mastery, as another step of the creation process. Specificums, delicateness, recognising of intuitive moments in individual expressions lead to trust. An individual in relation to the society, an individual in relation to the collective through the theory of experience.
  • Projects
  • Exibitions
  • Published author’s texsts
  • You tube channel
  • Media coverage
  • Media hosting
  • Press releases
  • Projects that follow the theme of women and women’s contemporary creativity:

  • Opening of exibitions
  • Guidance
  • Open classes
  • Humanitarian actions

Contact

    Gordana Tomić

    " WONDERFUL HUMANITARIAN ACTION, tomorrow, Friday, December 15, 2017 at 6pm in the Old Captain's Art Gallery in Zemun. Visitors bring gifts for children without parental care and receive signed reproductions of prints by our eminent artists. Every honor to Biljana Jotic at the organization, see you there ...! "

    Foundation "Blue"

    "The Foundation “Blue” would like to thank everyone who visited the exhibition yesterday and attended the excellent guided tour through the exhibition of art historian Biljana Jotic."

    Natalija Miladinović

    "At the opening of the exhibition" Art on Paper ", Art meeting within NOA FEST of course nothing without our Biljana Jotić"

    Vesna Todorović

    "One great exhibition takes place in the showroom of the National Library of Serbia, with the smirk of a museum, although contemporary artists are represented, mostly of the younger generation - don't miss this sweet moment! The author of this idea and curator is my dear colleague, Biljana Jotić "

    Serbia