About Danijela Jovic
Serbian artist, Danijela Jović was born in Vranje, Serbia, where she finished primary and secondary school. She graduated from the Faculty of Technology, Department of Textiles, and from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in the class of Sasa Filipovic, in 2016, in Belgrade.
Member of ULUPUDS since 2018. She lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.
Solo exhibitions:
- 1999 NUBS, solo exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- 2001 Underground, solo exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- 2002 NUBS, solo exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- 2002 Cite Internationale des Arts, solo exhibition, Paris, France
- 2002 Gallery 21, solo exhibition, Berlin, Germany.
- 2019 Transformation, solo exhibition, Singidunum, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 2020 Diary of Emotions, solo exhibition, ULUPUDS, small gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 2021 Wish Yourself a Good Day, solo exhibition, ULUPUDS small gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 2022 In Stroke - Simplicity, solo exhibition, ULUPUDS small gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
Group Exhibitions:
-1999 Russian House, group exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- 1999 -2000 Agora Gallery, group exhibition, New York-Broadway, USA
- 2000 Greeley Square Gallery, group exhibition, New York, USA
- 2001 Contemporary Art Center, Group Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
- 2001 GSG, group exhibition, New York, USA
- 2001 NUBS, group exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- 2001 Chuo-Ku Gallery, group exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
- 2001 National Gallery Stlbata, group exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2001 MAC 21, group exhibition, Marbella, Spain
- 2002 Paper Heart Gallery, group exhibition, Phoenix, USA
- 2002 Limner Gallery, group exhibition, New York, USA
- 2002 Gallery of National Museum, group exhibition, Ohrid, Macedonia
- 2003 Gallery 73, 3B ABSTRACT, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2013 MINI EXPO, Delta City, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2016 Belgrade Fortress Gallery, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2016 Museum of Applied Arts, the exhibition of miniatures, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2017 Cinematheque, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2018 SKC, Traditional-modern, group exhibition, Belgrade Serbia
- 2018 Steamship, Code, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2019 Contemporary Art in Serbia, group exhibition, NBS, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2019 Art Fair, group exhibition, BTC Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2019 Exhibition of contemporary works, group exhibition, Slavic House, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2020 Serbian fairy tale as inspiration, group exhibition, USILJS Kornjaca, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2020 Watercolor exhibition, group exhibition, USILJS Kornjaca, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2020 Self-portrait, group exhibition, USILJS Kornjača, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 2021 "Insight", Majska exhibition, ULUPUDS, group show, Belgrade Serbia.
- 2021 Anniversary group exhibition 40 years ULUPUDS, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia.
-2022 UlUPUDS group show, Majska exhibition, Museum of Belgrade town, Belgrade, Serbia
-2023 ULUPUDS group show, Majska exhibition, Museum of Belgrade Town, Belgrade Serbia.
Awards:
- 2003 third prize in the 3B ABSTRACT competition, Belgrade, Serbia
Art colonies:
- 2001 Art Colony in Spain, Almeria ‘Valparaiso’,
- 2002 art colony in Ohrid, “Momir”,
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The techniques she uses are mainly acrylic and mixed techniques on paper and canvas.
Her expressions and inspiration are various.
STATEMENT
"I create so I exist".
The first lesson I learned so far in my art career is – patience..!
First, don’t jump and think about the latest work you did – it’s the best, great, amazing..!
Let it sleep for a day or two, or for a few hours, go out, take your eyes off the work for some time, and then come and look at it. You will be surprised how bad or how good it looks…
Patience also for finding the right exhibiting space and the right audience.
Patience for understanding your art and you.
Patience in front of the white canvas…Wait for your painting…take the right moment and catch it…
Patience – wait for yourself..!
The second lesson is – work…You need to work hard, everyday work is necessary I think…Only with a lot of work, you can take out of yourself the best...
The third lesson is – never doubt yourself – work, work, work..! If you don’t sell the painting, at the least you will feel better…
I have a habit of working every day. Some days are better than others, but you can catch the right day only if you work every day….otherwise, that day, that moment will be lost.
My routines in the studio are to play music then I look at what I did the other day…make some corrections if necessary…Then comes work on a new painting, finishing the previous one, or doing some small format works on paper. When I am in trouble with what to do next, I often do some drawings….
I am always in the zone of creativity…! The only conditions that I need for work are music and four walls, without an audience.
ART CRITIC
"Danijela Jović is a painter who is also involved in music, thanks to modern technology. She is a multimedia artist who, despite her experiments, which we might rather call spiritual journeys, preserves the purely artistic values of paintings and drawings, aware of the contemporary visual challenge, as a broader and newer term than art. If we focus only on the painting area of her creativity, and for her it is fundamental, we will see the elements of a wider artistic activity. As a painter, she expresses herself in cycles that have an internal logic of development. Her painting world ranges from full to empty, from light to dark, between abstraction and figuration Danijela Jović is one of our artists who is farthest from the concept of the so-called "painting one picture", using one successfully found solution until wearing out mannerisms and clichés. She operates with multiple models and creative levels, valuing art as a special reality. Perhaps in the background of her work, like that of prominent (post)modern artists, there is basically only the research of awareness of art, of the importance of the creative act. For her method, as with some advanced artists, the process, the path to the image, and not just the finalization, is crucial. It is an open work which, like some avant-garde works, can remain unfinished, so that the observer can finish it in his imagination or imagination. This was already observed in Cézanne. In this way, the viewer is not underestimated but is taken as an active participant in the creation, instead of being exclusively presented and defined literally and banally until the end. It is about the immanent human need to conquer the space of freedom, which would be one of the possible definitions of Danijela Jović's creativity.
Part of her artistic world is built on gestural freedom, on a strong trace of strokes (a picture is always a trace, a reflection of something), and the other part results from the artist's meticulous, almost obsessive dealing with ideas, the idea itself as a phenomenon and a prerequisite for creation ". (art historian Dejan Đorić)
"Danijela Jović does not address the viewer with the artistic elements themselves, but also with an intellectual-spiritual language. The artistic space of the works, through the expansion of the lines of the human body beyond the limited color field, which suggests overcoming human limitations or emotions, becomes the inner space of a person, that is, the space of the painter's spirit. Emphasized linearity brought almost to the form of a drawing - the most sincere and intimate form of conveying thoughts and emotions into a work, requires a deeper insight into the relationship to the image, ourselves, and the world around us. Rejecting everything superfluous, Danijela Jović, on a white background of slightly tactile value, with a free and sure stroke, places a drawing of simultaneously simple and strong lines that become a movement, a cry, a pose, a spasm - bearers of the mood and emotions that she emphasizes with color, thus building compositions of exceptional expression. With this exhibition, the author positions herself in the ranks of those authors who believe in the mental and emotional essence of art and nurture constancy for creation, moving through the spaces of their being in search of overall and personal knowledge", said art historian Jelena Gajić.
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