Vizionarsko Drustvo

Born 17th January 1978, Prijepolje, Serbia.
Multimedial artist and writer.
Curently living and working in Sarajevo, BiH.

Demis Sinancevic duel fascinations with the language of art and freedom of expressions compel him to create works that explore below surface of contemporary life. Demis's works cover a wide range of visual experiments, from performance , photography and video to installations, paintings and other classical media, and computer works. In some of his computer/manipulated environments, he features himself as an iconic figure, complete with his own doubts, personal matters, and identity issues. In other works he questions art history origins and rewrites it. Lately, researching virtual reality, light and light processes during creation of a matter.Active protaginist of post-war Sarajevo art scene and life. Founder and president of Visionary Society NGO. Together with other VS members, initiator of the BARAKE project ,new alternative art Sarajevo and Balkan cultural movement.

Juan Puntes

One-man shows

2007
DISPLAY PROJECT, streets of Tarragona City, Spain

2006
LIGHTING CREATURES WITH ANGEL ZOE, Gallery 10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

2004
UNTITLED, (with Slaven Tolj and Braco Dimitrijevic), Karantena 8, Lazareti Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2000
Mr.CONNAN of 2000, ACTION Art Club, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
INCARNATION, Meeting Point Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

1999
ALFIRIZM, IPC Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

1988
POP Ending, instalation (crashed car and one vinyl sculpture of Mickey Mouse) ,In front of the family house, Prijepolje, Serbia

Group shows (selected)

2009
VIDEO BOX COMPILATION, Halogalerie, Olstyn, Poland (curated by Pierre Courtin)

2008
kUNSTLERAMBASADOR exhibition, Radoy art center RKS, Radoy, Norway
KUNSTLERAMBASADOR, HKS Hordaland Kunstlersenter gallery, Bergen, Norway (curated by Arne Rygg and Samir Fejzovic)
BALKAN EXPRES FESTIVALl, Pixel Gallery, Warszawa, Poland
6th FESTIVAL OF SHORT FILMS, OKC Abrasevic, Mostar, Bosnia&herzegovina
LA GENERALE, Parcours West Gallery, Paris, France
VIDEO.SALON 3, 10m2 Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
VRANDUK 08 international art collony, Zenica City museum, Zenica, B&H

2007
MY MOTHER TONGUE IS BOSNIAN, Galerie Kunst und Bauschlosserei, Leipzig, Germany ( curated by Veronika Somnitz )
BARAKE PROJECT, PM Gallerie, Zagreb, Croatia
CULTURE FAIR, 10m2 Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
4th BUSAN INTERNATIONAL VIDEO, Space Bande Gallery, Busan, Korea
VRANDUK 07 international art collony exhibition, Zenica City museum, Zenica, B&H

2006
TIPIC_NO, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany ( curated by Sabina Husicic )
PERMANENT PRESENCE, White Box Gallery, New York, USA ( curated by Nebojsa Seric Shoba )
TRANSITION COMPOUND, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany ( curated by Sanna Mericke )
UNCHAIN the EU, Visionary Society exhibition, Kunstverein GRAZ, Regensburg, Germany ( curated by Demis Sinancevic )
TRANSITION COMPOUND, Asahi Art Square Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ( curated by Sohei Iwata )
DADADA Exhibition, Hamam Gallery, Mostar, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Pierre Courtin )
NBA project (New Bosnian Art), Alternative Film&Video festival, Academic Film Center, Belgrade, Serbia ( curated by Ibro Hasanovic )

2005
BASICS Transmediale 05, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany ( curated by Amra Baksic Camo)
VISIONARY SOCIETY AND FRIENDS, Barake, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
INTERGROUND ,City Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
UNPLUGGED, 1st exhibition of Visionary Society NGO, Barake, Sarajevo, (curated by Visionary Society NGO)
RE_CULTIVATION, Visionary Society meets SICE, Barake, Skenderija, Empty House, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
CADAVRE EXUISE, Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, Mostar, Blagaj, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Rienke Enghartd )
NBA (New Bosnian Art), MM Center-SC, Zagreb, Croatia ( curated by Ibro Hasanovic )

2003
9th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL,Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

2002
UPPSALA Short film festival, Uppsala, Sweden
REAL PRESENCE, Museum of 25 May, Belgrade, Serbia ( curated by Biljana tomic and Dobrila Denegri )
CETINJE BIENNALE IV, Blue Castle Gallery, Cetinje, Montenegro
TOPIC, City gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Almedina Ferhatovic and Danilo Kreso )
SEARCHING FOR IDENTIY 02-92, ARSAEVI exhibition, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Asja Mandic )
IN ADVANCE, Artget Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2001
EXTRAPOLATION, White Castle Tabija, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
7th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
BERLINALE, Biennale of video art, Berlin, Germany
MEDI@TERA Video Festival, Athens, Greece
ART DEPO event by Jusuf Hadzifejzovic, Sarajevo Winter Festival, CDA hall, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

2000
6thSRAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina
ARTME, Academy Of Fine Arts Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

1999
ACTA NON VERBA, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
ANUAL STUDENTS EXHIBITION, Academy of Fine Art Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia&herzegovina

1998
BEYOND THE MIRROR, 2nd annual exhibition of SCCA, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina ( curated by Dunja Blazevic )
4th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

1997
UNTITLED, Gallery of Belgian Peace Mission in B&H, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina

Awards

2000
First award for best video, INSERT programe, 6th Sarajevo Film Festival

Video works

2003
DEMIS’S ANGELS, 16 min. Beta SP, dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina

2001
THIS COULD BE HEAVEN FOR EVERYONE, 3,16 min. Beta SP, no dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina
BREAKFAST ON THE GRASS, 3 min. VHS, no dialogue, Real Presence event production, Serbia

2000
INCARNATION, 1,30 min. beta SP, no dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina

1998
I DO NOT HAVE, 3 min. Beta SP, no dialogue, SCCA Pro.Ba, multimedial laboratory, Bosnia&Herzegovina

Projects and Workshops

2008
ARTISTAMBASADOR, long-term developing cooperation project and workshop with Norwegian Artists from
Bergen, Oslo, Radoy, Sogndal. Project started at Hordaland Kunslersenter (HKS), Bergen, Norway.

2006,2007,2008
VRANDUK International art collony, Vranduk, Bosnia&Herzegovina

2006
AUTOPLAY, meeting and workshop of east Europe and Balkan ngo’s, Context Gallery Belgrade, Serbia
4th MSE Meeting, International conference of worldwide NGO’s, National Art Museum, Pristina, Kosovo

2005-2006
BARAKE PROJECT, true cultural revolution, conglomerat of about 15-20 projects and workshops, concerts, and all kind of actions and cultural engagement in abandoned factory, Wilsonovo walkway, Sarajevo, Bosnia&Herzegovina.

2004
Art workshop LAZARETI, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2002
Art workshop and collony Ecka by REMONT art asotiation, Ecka Castle, Zrenjanin, Serbia

Colections

Private collection, Barcelona
Piere Curtain collection, Sarajevo
Huma&Nahit Kabakci collection, Istanbul
Private collection, Dubrovnik
Private collection, New York
Beatrice Schlichtmeier collection, Regensburg
Private collection, Leipzig
Zenica City Museum collection
Onuma Family collection, Tokyo

Education

2001
Academy Of Fine Art Sarajevo

Bibliogrphy (Selected)

Edina Nurikic, Together virtual space, BH Dani, December 2008.
A.Adamovic, In searchin for identity, BH Dani, No. 264.
http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/264/opservatorij.shtml
Molly Kleiman, Sarajevo Art Diary, Artnet magazine
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/kleiman/kleiman9-5-06.asp
Belma Becrbasic, Where visionaries will go? BH Dani No. 450.
Kunstaspekte, International kunstinformationen, SICE-Transition Compound Berlin, presstexte
http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?tid=25009&action=termin
Sabina Husicic, TIPIC_NO - Junge Kunst aus Sarajevo 8. 9. - 23. 9. 2006, KunstlerHaus Stuttgart
http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de/de/archiv/tipic-no-junge-kunst-aus-sarajevo_1348

Stephane Sauzedde, Pierre Courtin collection,
http://www.aoui.org/10m/DP%20-%20PIERRE%20COURTIN%20COLLECTION%2010M2.pdf

Paul M. Art de Tarragona, INICIOS.ES, Display project book.
http://inicios.es/2008/07/21/arte-desde-tarragona-matt-siber-bon-art-y-display/
Abel Figureas, Display, The End, ARTIGA, Revista d’art pensament contemporani, No. 4. Novembre 2007.
http://www.art-tarragona.com/artiga/Artiga4.pdf

Guus Wreeburg, Stiching C SRS newsletter #1. and #2 2006.
http://www.stichtingc.org/read/stichtingc/4049?submenu=4039
Amra Baksic Camo, Sarajevo III, A New Scene, Uppsala Kortfilmfestival cattalog 2002.
http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/filmver2upload/Katalog2002.pdf

Veronika Somnitz, My mother Tongue is Bosnian, Fachschafstrat Slavistik online News, 03.08.2007
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~fsrslav/news/news.php?id=103
Christian Franzika, My mother tongue is Bosnian, artpa newsletter 04.08. 2007. http://galeriekub.de/ ausstellungen 2004-2008
Juan Puntes, Permanent presence cattalogue, New York, July, 2006.
Sohei Iwata, Transition_compound exhibition at Asahy Art square gallery Tokyo, Asahy newpapers, March, 2006.
Regensburg-Kultur, Kulturkolumne: Kunstler aus Sarajevo im KuntvereinGraz, Europe must be better.
Von Helmut Hein, Mittebayerische Zeitunng, Aus der Bosnischen Baracke in die grosse, weite Welt. Jetz im Regenburger Kunstverein GRAZ: Zehn avantgardististiche Kunstler aus Sarajevo Befrein Europa, 03. May 2006.
UNCHAIN the EU, exhibition of Visionary Society NGO catalogue, text by Jurgen Huber
Asja Mandic (ARSAEVI curator), Searching for identity, Praesens 2002./02.
Patricia Kish, Strong and provocative young art scene, Jutarnji list (Morning page), 27.06.2002.
Asja Mandic (ARSAEVI curator), Sarajevo scene, Contemporary, special issue 2002.
Alma Custovic, Audience has made its choice, Oslobodjenje (Liberation), 27.08.2000.
Nisvet Dzanko, Who can speak about art?, BH Dani, Oktober, 1999.
9th Sarajevo Film Festival Catalogue, text by Amra Baksic Camo
6th Sarajevo Film Festival catalogue, Text by SFF team
4th Sarajevo Film Festival Catalogue, Text by SFF team
ARSAEVI 92-02, Searching for identity catalogue, text by Asja Mandic
Medi@tera video festival Greece catalogue
SICE (Sarajevo International Cultural Exchange) catalogue, text by Sanna Mericke
Monography of Academy of Fine Art Sarajevo (ALU)

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