Bojan Šarčević

Exhibition View
Invagination
Modern Art/Stuart Shave, London
2016
Exhibition View
Invagination
Modern Art/Stuart Shave, London
2016
Exhibition View
Invagination
Modern Art/Stuart Shave, London
2016
Exhibition View
Invagination
Modern Art/Stuart Shave, London
2016
Exhibition View
Invagination
Modern Art/Stuart Shave, London
2016
Exhibition View
In The Rear View Mirror
BQ, Berlin
2015
Exhibition View
In The Rear View Mirror
BQ, Berlin
2015
Exhibition View
In The Rear View Mirror
BQ, Berlin
2015
Exhibition View
A Curious Contortion in the Method of Progress
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2012
He
2011
She
2010
Exhibition View
Eventuellement
Le Grand-Cafe, Saint-Nazaire
2010
Exhibition View
Eventuellement
Le Grand-Cafe, Saint-Nazaire
2010
Film still
The breath-taker is a breath-giver
2009
Installation View
The breath-taker is a breath-giver
Gallery Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
2009
Film still
Only After Dark (Film 3)
2007
Film still
Only After Dark (Film 5)
2007
Installation View
Only After Dark (Film 5)
Institut d’art contemporain
Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes
2007
Replace the Irreplaceable
2006
Untitled
2006

Ideas of abstraction, in the conceptual and formal senses, rest at the core of Bojan Šarčević’s practice. The Bosnian-French artist’s aesthetic propositions and particular material relationships offer a starting point for the perceptual encounter and experience of form that defers certainty, revealing questions of empirical, theoretical and sensual understandings of the world.
 
Šarčević’s work was the subject of survey exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2012). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Rhombic Oath’, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum and Kirche Sankt Anna, Düren, Germany (2012); ‘Éventuellement’, Le Grand Café Centre d’art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France (2010); ‘Involuntary Twitch’, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands (2010); ‘Only After Dark’, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2008); ‘Already Vanishing’, MAMBO, Bologna, Italy (2008); and ‘Kissing the back of your hand makes a sound like a wounded bird’, BAWAG P.S.K. Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2007). His work was included in the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2003), the 3rd Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany (2004); and Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998). He took part in many group exhibitions at Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2014-2015); WIELS, Brussels, Belgium (2013); Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA (2011); Tate, St. Ives, UK (2009); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2009); ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2012, 2008); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (2006); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (2005); Tate Modern, London, UK (2004); New Museum, New York, USA (2004); Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2004); and Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2004), among others.
 
Bojan Šarčević was born in Belgrade in 1974. He studied at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and undertook postgraduate study at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. He lives and works in Berlin and Paris and teaches at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the Hochschüle für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel and at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.