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Saatchi Art Biserka Petrovic
Education
MA / Faculty of Fine Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze), Florence, Italy
BA & MA Fine Art-Graphics / Faculty of Fine Art ( F.L.U.), Belgrade, Serbia
BA Italian and English-language and literature / Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, Serbia
Scholarships
Italian Government
Norwegian Government
Ministry of Education for talents of Serbia
City of Lazarevac, Serbia for the best students
Awards
2003 Annual award for graphics of Belgrade’s Fine Art Accademy
2006 Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints, U.S.A., special mention
2010 Premio Pandosia, Cosenza, Italy, special mention
2010 Premio Città di Novara, finalist
2013 Saatchi artist featured in a collection
2018 Artzine Prize finalist
Residencies
2003 Smederevo,(etching), Serbia
2003 Sirogojno – Zlatibor,(xilography), Serbia
2009 Tara,(painting), Serbia
2011 Gorna Lipnitza,(painting), Bulgaria
2017 Liza Krizanic, (painting), Kosjeric, Serbia
2017 Pliva, (painting), Serbian Republic
2018 Cité internationale des arts, selected, Paris, France
2019 Glo’Art, (painting, animation), Lanaken, Belgium
2019 Pliva, (painting), Serbian Republic
Solo Exhibitions
2003 Kuda idu divlje svinje?, ZAPROKUL (Center for Cultural Development Studies Gallery ), Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Ljubomir Gligorijevic (catalogue)
2013 Human Puzzle, Galleria Via Larga of Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence,Italy, curated by Carmela Battista, (catalogue)
2013 Human Puzzle, Galerija “U Podrumu”, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Slavica Obradinovic, (catalogue)
2015 Fragments of Reality (Delici stvarnosti), Moderna Galerija Lazarevac, Serbia, curated by Carmela Battista, (catalogue)
2015 Fragments of Reality (Delici stvarnosti), Galerija 73, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Slavica Obradinovic, (catalogue)
2016 Sve jedno je (Everything is One), Biserka Petrovic & Vladimir Vinkic, Galerija Savremene Umetnosti, Pancevo, Serbia, curated by Danica Krstic, (catalogue)
2018 Illusions/Contrasts Union, Mali Likovni Salon, Novi Sad, 2018, text Biserka Petrovic (catalogue), Serbia
2018 Disclosure-Razotkrivanje, Prodajna Galerija Beograd, 2018, curated by Slavica Obradinovic, (catalogue), Serbia
2018 Contrasts, Moderna Galerija Lazarevac, 2018, text Biserka Petrovic (catalogue), Serbia
2018 Illusions/Contrasts Union, Mali Likovni Salon Narodni Muzej, Kragujevac, 2018, text Biserka Petrovic (catalogue), Serbia
2018 Illusions, Galerija KC Sopot, (catalogue), Serbia
2018 Illusions, Galerija SULUJ,(catalogue), Belgrade, Serbia
2019 Life Defining Illusions, Artium Gallery, curated by Maja Živanović, (catalogue), Kragujevac, Serbia
2020 Biserka Petrovic, Gallery Cedomir Krstic, (catalogue), Pirot, Serbia
Selected group exhibitions
2001 Drawings and small plastics, Youth Center Gallery ( Galerija DOB),(catalogue), Belgrade, Serbia
2003 Awarded students, Galerija FLU, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2003 Woodcut Residency Sirogojno, (catalogue), Cultural Center Indjija Gallery, Serbia
2003 Etching Residency Smederevo, (catalogue), Cultural Center Smederevo Gallery , Serbia
2003 – 2004 Small graphics, Galerija Graficki Kolektiv,(catalogue), Belgrade, Serbia
2003 – 2004 Small graphics, Niski Graficki Krug Gallery,(catalogue), Nis, Serbia
2004 The Best Students of the Faculty of Fine Arts,Centar za grafiku i vizuelna istrazivanja Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2004 – 2005 Small graphics, Galerija Graficki Kolektiv,(catalogue), Belgrade, Serbia
2004 – 2005 Small graphics, Niski Graficki Krug Gallery,(catalogue), Nis, Serbia
2005 Florean Museum’s Exhibition of graphics,(catalogue), Carbunary, Romania
2006 Exhibition of graphics,(catalogue), Cluj , Romania
2006 Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints, U.S.A.
2006 Inside – Out, Accademia in mostra , ex Chiesa di San Carlo dei Barnabiti, (catalogue, curated by Radu Dragomirescu), Florence, Italy
2007 5°Premio internazionale Biennale d’Incisione Città di Monsummano Terme, (catalogue, curated by Paola Cassinelli, Marco Giori e Domenico Viggiano) Italy
2008 Exhibition of the Columbian and invited artists, Palagio di Parte Guelfa , Florence, Italy, curated by Maria
Cecilia Martinez
2008 Festival della Creatività, drawings made in Arcetri,(catalogue, curated by Monica Franchini), Florence, Italy,
2008 Sconfinamenti, (catalogue), Galleria Alexander Alvarez, Alessandria, Italy
2009 Triennial of Architecture, (catalogue), Florence, Italy
2010 Premio Pandosia, honourable mention, (catalogue), Marano da Principato, Cosenza, Italy
2010 Premio Città di Novara, finalist,(catalogue, curated by Vincenzo Scardigno), Oleggio,Novara, Italy
2011 HjemDomHome, Kulturstationen Vanløse, (catalogue, curated by Tine Møller Sørensen), Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 HjemDomHome, Kulturni Centar GRAD, (catalogue, curated by Tine Møller Sørensen), Belgrade, Serbia,
2012 Art Residency Gorna Lipnitza, Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 HjemDomHome, Embassy of Republic of Serbia, Copenhagen,(catalogue, curated by Tine Møller Sørensen), Denmark
2016 New Members of ULUS, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade, Serbia
2016 Perception, Sztuka Wyboru,(catalogue), Gdansk, Poland
2018 Niski Crtez, Galerija SLU Niš, Oficirski Dom,(catalogue), Nis, Serbia
2018 We Cannot Speak Other Than By Our Paintings, Kurt Vonnegut Museum, Indianapolis, U.S.A.
2018 Collection of the Gallery 73, selection of the artworks, (catalogue), Museum Muzej Hercegovine, Trebinje, RS, BiH
2018 December Salon, Moderna Galerija,(catalogue), Lazarevac, Serbia
2018 Selection of the works of the international art residency Pliva, Centar za kulturu i obrazovanje Doboj, Serbian Republic
2019 Collection of the Gallery 73, selection of the artworks, Pistoriho Palac,(catalogue), Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 100 Years of ULUS (Serbian Artists Association), Pavillion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Kalemegdan,(catalogue), Belgrade, Serbia
2019 Selection of the works of the international art residency Pliva, Galerija Sreten Stojanović, Prijedor, Republika Srpska
2019 Glo’Art Collection Opening, Belgium (catalogue)
Pubblications
2005 Kuda idu divlje svinje 2, etching, cover page of the “Knjizevni List”, May edition, Belgrade, Serbia
2010 Earth and Heaven, drawing, cover of a novel “Non tutto è perduto” by Rossella Poli, Memoranda Edizioni, Italy
2011 PhotoBulletin, number 03/2011, Bulgaria
2013 Wannabe Magazine, http://wannabemagazine.com/wannabe-intervju-biserka-petrovic/, Serbia
2013 Designed Magazine, http://www.designed.rs/news/izlozba_slagalica_biserke_petrovic, Serbia
2014 Hero’s Journey, April 2014, interviewed by Peter de Kuster, Italy
2015 Likovni Zivot, no 149/150, essay by Slavica Obradinovic
2015 TV GEM, 2015, interview, Serbia
2016 Pancevac, essay about double solo “Everything is One”, Petrovic/Vinkic, april 2016
2016 Loving Vincent, painted for Breakthru Films, www.lovingvincent.com, Gdansk, Poland
2017 La Repubblica, Robinson, October 8th 2017, Italy
2017 Le Corse Matin, novembar 12th 2017, France
2017 Blic, December 25th 2017, Serbia
2017 Official presenter of Loving Vincent movie on the premieres in art cinemas around Annecy, France, 2017:
– Cinema La Trace à Villard, Chambery
– Cinema L’Embellie à Fourneaux
– Cinema Le Jeu de Paume à Vizille
– Cinéma-Théâtre à La Mure
– Cinema Le Parnal à Thorens-Glières (Haute-Savoie)
Official presenter of Loving Vincent movie on the premiere on the ViewFest festival, Cinema Massimo,Turin, Italy, 2017
2018 Official presenter of Loving Vincent movie on the Stripolis Festival, Zrenjanin, Serbia
2018 Official presenter of Loving Vincent movie on the Belgrade’s premiere Dom Omladine, Serbia
2018 Prave Novine, April’s edition, Serbia
2018 TV KCN, “Ni crno ni belo”, January 2018, interviewed by Violeta Dimitric, Serbia
2018 Blic, February 7th 2018, https://www.blic.rs/kultura/vesti/razotkrivanje-izlozba-portreta-biserke-petrovic-i-sonje-surbatovic-u-prodajnoj/l0tl5zb?fbclid=IwAR2eNKawj139rwGX5CnMFWrK69dLBsnXczzpAuRfelwHO-XIzsdXAkf-OcY, Disclosures essay, Serbia
2018 Politika November 6th 2018, Illusions exhibition review
2018 Looker Weekly MAgazine Interview
2018 TV KCN, “Ni crno ni belo”, Illusions paintings in the studio during the whole season 2018/2019
2019 TV RTS llusions solo show review
2020 SU16TV Pruga Interview
2020 BRAINZ TV Review of the Illusions solo show and interview
During the 2016 was a part of the painters team of the world’s first ever fully hand painted feature film
(Loving Vincent), directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (the Oscar winning producer for the “Peter and the Wolf”). Loving Vincent won over 20 awards all around the Globe and was the Oscar candidate.
Member of ULUS (Serbian Fine Artists Association) from 2016