Tanja Ostojic

"Looking for a Husband with EU Passport"

"Looking for a Husband with EU Passport" ist ein interaktives Web-Projekt, das Geschlechterpolitik und Kapitalismus thematisiert und den Zusammenprall von Isolation, Armut und der Abgrenzungspolitik der EU beschreibt: Um eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis für Deutschland zu erhalten, suchte sie mit einem Nacktfoto von sich im Internet nach einem heiratswilligen EU-Bürger. Nach einem kurzen Treffen in Belgrad folgte die Heirat als Performance.

Tanja Ostojic was born in Yugoslavia in 1972 and studied art in Belgrade and Nantes. She is an independent artist and cultural activist based in Berlin. She has been active in the art scene in the former Yugoslavia since 1994 and internationally since 1997. Ostojic includes herself as a character in situationist performances and uses diverse media in artistic research, thereby examining social configurations and relations of power. She works from the migrant woman’s perspective and the approach in her works is predominantly defined by political position, humor and integration of the recipient.

Solo exhibitions/ selection:

2002 “Venice Diary”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Croatia.
“Confrontation”, Lindart – women art center, Tirana, Albania.
2003 “Integration Project: Sprachschule”, Halle fur Kunst, Lüneburg; Germany.
“Strategies of Success/Curator Series”, La Box, Bourges, France.
2004 “Salon for Body&Soul”, Salon MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.
2005 “Integration Project Office” and “Divorce Party”, Gallery 35, Berlin, Germany
2005-06 “Geobodies: A Question of Boundaries” with Ursula Biemann, Kniznik Gallery, Brendeis University, Boston, USA.

Solo performances/ selection

1997 “Personal Space”, Hollywood Leather Venue, London, U.K.
1999 “Would You Digitalize Your Soul”, ICA, London, U.K.
2001 “Crossing Over”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.
2003 “Integration Project – dinner disscusion”, Kunstverein NRWF, Duesseldorf, Germany

Group exhibitions /selection

1999 SKIN, Deste fondation, Athens
2001 “Plato of Humankind”, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
“Zero Gravity”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy.
2003 “Visa”, IFA Gallery, Bonn & IFA Gallery Stuttgart, Germany.
“In Transit", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
2nd Tirana Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania.
2004 “Privatisations”, KW Institute for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany.
“Values” 11th Biennale of visual arts”, Pancevo, Serbia.
2005 “e-flux, video rental”, e-flux space, New York, USA.; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam…
“Xenopolis”, Rathaus Gallery, Munichen, Germany
2005-06 “Shrinking Cities, Interventions”, GfZK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig