KSENIJA SAMARDŽIJA

After completing studies in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and passing the curatorial exam (National Museum in Belgrade), they founded the art association PODR.UM (2013), which actively participates in organizing numerous exhibitions, art residency programs, presentations, and other forms of connecting artists and audiences. They collaborate on international projects that promote contemporary artists and provide opportunities for the production and exhibition of works. For more than ten years, they have been performing curatorial duties, managing collections and legacies at the Kuća Legata (Legacy House). They are well-versed in market conditions, exhibition opportunities, and the potentials of the current art scene.

2000-2007: Contributor to Prestup magazine

2009-2019: Expert Associate – Curator, Kuća Legata, Belgrade

For ten years, curator of the legacies of Petar Lubarda, Veljko and Mara Petrović

Curated exhibitions and publications at Kuća Legata:

Author of the exhibition and catalog Veljko Petrović: Memories and Oblivion (2017)

Collaborator on the exhibition Cycle of Paintings Kragujevac, 1941 – Petar Lubarda (2016)

Author of the exhibition Between the Lines: The Veljko Petrović Legacy, Letters from Ivo Andrić to Veljko Petrović (2012)

Curator and exhibition designer for Portraits from the Legacy (2012)

Collaborator on the exhibition The Best of Stijović, RTS Gallery (2011)

Curator of the exhibition The Legacy of Ljubica Cuca Sokić, realized in collaboration with the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (2010)

Curator, exhibition designer, and catalog author for the opening of the Petar Lubarda Legacy (Kuća Legata received the ICOM Award for Museum of the Year)

2013-2014: Managed the Zečević Gallery

Exhibitions organized:

June 2013: In the Presence of the Author – Tijana Petrović

July 2013: Installation by Nina and Miodrag Stanković

September 2013: STOP-AND-DROP, Terri Jo Ross and Tamara Jeremić

October 2013: Mapping the Gallery Space, TKV

October 2013: Soulbox, Marijan Muskinja

November 2013: Partizan Above the Sea of Clouds, Graveyard Trash Romanticism

February 2014: The Indecent Notebook – Mihael Milunović

March 2014: Fragments of Memorabilia, Vladimir Vinkić

March 2014: Industrialization of Portraits, Milan Pantelić

April 2014: Exhibition by Bogdan Pavlović

April 2014: Please Kill the Mainstream, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Belgrade

May 2014: Found Objects, TKV

May 2014: Perfidy, Maja Obradović

June 2014: Hard Backup, Daniel Glid

September 2014: In Between Time, Ksenija Jovišević

September 2014: Theory of Unity, Vojislav Radovanović

October 2014: PUB SUB, Tijana Kojić and Dragan Đorđević

October 2014: Deformiterra, Vladimir Lalić

November 2014: The Boy Who Exploded from Happiness, Bojan Radojčić

December 2014: Nyctophilia, Nemanja Mate Đorđević

Exhibitions and Projects:

Looking Back, 60th anniversary of the founding of the oldest Serbian mountaineering society Pobeda, under the sponsorship of Telekom Srbija and the City Assembly of Belgrade, Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrade

Research – Profession or Passion, 40th anniversary of the founding of the Hristifor Crnilović Legacy

Like There Is No Tomorrow – Opening of the Drina Gallery

Faces – Jovanka Stanojević, Drina Gallery

Staying Here with You, in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Belgrade and supported by the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade

2017: Equilibrium – Luka Belgrade & Blanc

2017: Private view – closed exhibition, Beton Hala

2018: When I Close My Eyes, I See Blue, Svetlana Ninković – Žitomlin, Luka Belgrade

2018: Dragan Zdravković, private view – Hyatt

2018: Slavimir Futro – Imperfect, Višnjićeva 10

2018: Homo Interior, Italian Cultural Institute

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