ARTIST STATEMENT

Since the beginning of his career in Belgrade, Dejan Kaludjerović has been exploring the conjunction between consumerism and childhood, to analyse identity formation and stability of representational forms. Most of his paintings, drawings, objects, videos and installations, employ the processes of recycling, copying and reenacting, thus creating patterns that simulate mechanical reproduction, and criticise homogeneity embedded in popular culture. 

BIOGRAPHY

For the achievements in visual arts, Kaludjerović has been granted honourable Austrian citizenship. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Vienna. Before, he was studying in the class of Erwin Wurm at the Academy of Applied Arts, also in Vienna, and gained MA in visual arts at the Acad- emy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in 2004.

Kaludjerović’s work is part of many private and public collections, among others, MUSA, KONTAKT collection and Kunsthalle in Vienna and Salzburg Museum der Moderne. He has exhib- ited internationally at numerous solo and group shows in Europe, USA, Australia and Asia: Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Santa Maria delle Croci Ravenna, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 1st and 4th Beijing International Art Bienniale, Tokyo Wonder- site – Institute of Contemporary Arts, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Kunstpavillion Innsbruck, 28th International Biennial
of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Kunsthalle Krems, 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th International October Salon Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art Saint-Etienne, 2nd Bucharest Biennial of Youndg Artists, Landesgalerie Linz am OÖ Landesmuseum, Linz, Prague Quadriennail and Manifesta 4, Frank- furt, Germany.