Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade, 1973) - artist and cultural organiser,
currently engaged as a member of an Steering Committee of the
Association of Fine Artists of Serbia, and Executive Committee of the
International Association of Artists (AIAP-UNESCO). Through her
artistic work she is dedicated to developing methodologies for
collaborative work, expanding base of knowledge, and generating
social and economic equity underlying social functionality of arts.
She is co-founder of the art collectives Rotorrr, Minipogon, member
of Irational.org, in charge of volunteer organization of
NoNameKitchenSerbia. Since 2020 she co-coordinates the Debate-
research program within the Association of Fine artists of Serbia.
She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she
obtained Master (2001) and PhD degree (2019). In 1998/99
specialized at Madrid Complutense University and Fine Arts
University of Barcelona.
Her artistic work mainly develops through long-term research
projects, and collaborations. In 2001 together with Laia Sadurni
founded Rotor collective which from 2001 to 2006 had its base and
mainly operated in Barcelona’s neighborhood of Poblenou at the time
undergoing great urban transformations induced by neoliberal
economy. Using Poblenou as a test sample for understanding
complex processes occurring on a global scale and in order to build
active relation to it Rotor develops its own methodologies grounded
in achieving experience through explorations and adventurous routes,
relying on first hand non-mediated information, developing relation to
material surrounding by exercising physical skills, spontaneous
choreography, playfulness, intuition, improving orientation by
creation of temporary maps, setting conditions for diverse kind of
events, festivals, activist actions to take place. All of this is
comprised in a long term projects such as: Safaris Poble NOW!,
Scuplture Climbing Olimpiade BCN02, alTeraTs, Festival of
AutonomiAereA, Manual GPS, Telechronicas, etc (presented at
Invisible Cities, Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland; Contemporarry
Cartografies, La Caixa, Barcelona; ROTORRRETRO (solo show)
Dispari&Dispari, Reggio Emillia, 2007; Carte Blanche, Le
Commissariat, Paris, 2006; Quòrum, La Capella, Barcelona, 2004;
Procesos oberts, Sala Moncunill, Terrassa, 2004; After the News,
CCCB, Barcelona 2003; Aire Incondicional, Zuric Shedhalle 2003;
Mira como se mueven, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid 2003, OVNI
Video Festival, CCCB, Barcelona 2002, etc, awarded by Generacion
2003, Caja Madrid and Mapas para desorientacion, La Caixa Forum,
2003).
Individual long term project Disputed Histories (2007/ongoing)
consists of a growing library of history text-books and a series of
workshops over the time realised in different contexts ,such as:
Spaport, Banjaluka; NGBK, Berlin; October Salon, Belgrade; Mostar,
Rijeka, Jashi, etc. Segment of this work ‘False Truths’ was awarded
with the main prize of the 52nd October Salon in 2011.
Another long term project Documentary Embroidery has been
operating since 2008, with Aviv Kruglanski, and later Dejan Došljak,
as a method for collective (auto)representation using traditional
techniques of embroidery. It has been realized through the temporary
operation of the Documentary Embroidery Office in Bristol,
Jerusalem, Warsaw, Mexico City, among many other places producing
large scale tapestries.
In 2017. with a group of colleagues, artists, activists and scientists
(Tijana Cvetković, Danilo Prnjat and Chow Sing Tai) she initiated the
Minipogon collective with an aim to experiment new ways of
production and redistribution generating more social equity. For more
than one year Minipogon’s workshop, based on the self-constructed
plastic-recycling plant, has been operating in the refugee camp
Krnjača placed in the Belgrade outskirts, thus gathering in
collaboration camp inmates, art students, informal waste collectors,
etc.
Ramujkic edited a number of artist books Schengen with Ease
(2006); Storm, Return Home and Other Terrible Stories for Children
(2010); co-created Olympic Guide through Barcelona (2004); s-t-i-t-
c-h-i-n-g-s (2014), Irational’s Traum (2012), Rotor Manual for Terrae,
Aqua and Air (2008), Work in Art (2021), etc.
Another projects to mention are: Business as usual (Spike Island,
Bristol), Plastic bag (Belgrade, different places), Neighborhood
Superheroes (Cairo, Barcelona 2010) Microcultures, in collaboration
with microorganisms, (with Moshe Robas and Aviv Kruglanski)
Belgrade, Leskovac, Villarrubia, and Barcelona 2011).
(formal, 2023)
21/06/2024
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