Igor Antic
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Biography
The art works of Igor Antić aim to explore and highlight economic and political forces operating within a given context. He creates images, objects and situations as physical "grids" beyond which emerges the social and cultural context of the chosen site. Through them, different questions linked to the conditions of the art production and its use in general, are raised.Igor Antić was born in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 1962. After studies at the Novi Sad Academy of Fine Arts, Antić attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...
and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris. In 1995, during the war in former Yugoslavia
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
he founded the Pokret Encounter Centre in Novi Sad. In 2000, he got The Pollock - Krasner Foundation's Grant in New York. In 2004, he was the curator of the 11th Biennial of visual arts Values in Pancevo, Serbia.
Igor Antić has participated in numerous group exhibitions, as for example "The Open House", in IASPIS, Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
(2009), 5x5 in Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló (2009), "Crossing values", the 1st Biennial of Rennes (2008), "L’emprise du lieu", "Expérience Pommery #4" in Reims (2007), "Anthology of art", in "Kunst und Ausstelunggshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" in Bonn (2006), Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
in Berlin, ZKM in Karlsruhe (2005), Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
in Paris (2002) and The Pontus Hulten’s collection, Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet
Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...
, Stockholm (2004).
Among others, he held one-man shows at the Eurogroup, Paris (“Cabinet de consultations”, 2008), Museum of contemporary art, Novi Sad (“Here, faraway”, 2006), The City museum, Ljubljana (“The iconography of bordello”, 2006), Space for contemporary arts HEC, Paris (“Promocreation”, 2003), Centre d'art CLARK, Montréal, (“Kiosquekiosk”, 2002), La Chambre Blanche, Québec, (“Carrefour, Standstill”, 1999), The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Marfa, Texas
Marfa is a town in the high desert of far West Texas in the Southwestern United States. Located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park, it is also the county seat of Presidio County. The population was 1,981 at the 2010 census....
(“Notebuilding”, 1998).
