English:Jelena Jureša (Q108628)
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Jelena Jureša is a visual artist and filmmaker, born in Yugoslavia. She has extensively worked with
questions of cultural identity, gender, politics of memory, and oblivion through film, video
installation, photography and text. Her work connects individual stories to collective processes of
oblivion and remembrance, challenging historical and political narratives while destabilizing our
perceptions of truth. In recent years, her research has focused on practices of oppression and their
implications in systems of violence, resulting in multidisciplinary projects that blend the political
with the highly personal.
Her work has been showcased internationally, including solo exhibitions at Argos Centre for
Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, Künstlerhaus in Graz, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Belgrade. She conducted research on public art, capitalism, and patriarchy during her Jackman
Goldwasser residency in 2015 in collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. In 2016, as
a Q21 artist in residence in Vienna, she explored the work of anthropologists and racial hygienists
during the Austrian imperial period, along with post-WWII politics of oblivion in Austria.
Her latest film project Aphasia, which detects a thread of positions of power, racism, injustice, and
violence from Belgian colonialism, Austrian anti-Semitism to the atrocities in Bosnia during the
Yugoslavian wars, was generously supported by VAF Filmlab and produced for a solo show at Argos
Centre for Audiovisual Arts. The film was co-commissioned by Contour Biennale, where it was
exhibited in 2019, and later featured in the Manifesta Biennale in 2022. It has been showcased at
various venues including Kunstverein in Hamburg, Budapest Gallery of the Budapest History
Museum, Display - association for research and collective practice in Prague, Center for Cultural
Decontamination in Belgrade, Cinematek in Brussels, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb,
Fotomuseum in Antwerpen, De Cinema in Antwerp (MHKA), DocLisboa, and received the main
award at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in Prague. Using the previous
line of meticulous research and continuing her collaboration with the performers and musicians
from the film (Nenad and Nenad Sinkauz, Ivana Jozić), she conceptualised and
directed Aphasia concert performance, which premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in
2022. The live concert performance emerged out of praxical research geared towards devising new
strategies for ensuring the embodied involvement of the spectator, addressing issues related to
group dynamics, obedience to authority, and polarization. Supported by the Kunstendecreet, the
project was a collaborative production between KAAP and ROBIN, with co-productions from
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, De Singel, Workspacebrussels, the Hannah Arendt Institute, La Geste (Les
Ballet C de la B), Moussem, Nomadic Art Centre, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). After its
successful premiere at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2022, the performance toured
various venues, including STUK in Leuven, AMOK in Brugge, De Singel in Antwerp, Donaufestival in
Vienna/Krems, Theaterformen in Hannover, and Zürcher Theater Spektakel in Zurich.
Jureša teaches at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and holds a PhD in practice from Ghent
University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, and KASK. In 2017, she was awarded a two-year artistic
research project at KASK titled 'Unfolding Amnesia: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Artistic
Practices and the Politics of Oblivion.' In 2020, she received a post-doctoral fellowship for 'Revolt!
On a Refusal to Sing—Thinking Resistance Through Music, Waste, and Complicity’.
questions of cultural identity, gender, politics of memory, and oblivion through film, video
installation, photography and text. Her work connects individual stories to collective processes of
oblivion and remembrance, challenging historical and political narratives while destabilizing our
perceptions of truth. In recent years, her research has focused on practices of oppression and their
implications in systems of violence, resulting in multidisciplinary projects that blend the political
with the highly personal.
Her work has been showcased internationally, including solo exhibitions at Argos Centre for
Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, Künstlerhaus in Graz, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Belgrade. She conducted research on public art, capitalism, and patriarchy during her Jackman
Goldwasser residency in 2015 in collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. In 2016, as
a Q21 artist in residence in Vienna, she explored the work of anthropologists and racial hygienists
during the Austrian imperial period, along with post-WWII politics of oblivion in Austria.
Her latest film project Aphasia, which detects a thread of positions of power, racism, injustice, and
violence from Belgian colonialism, Austrian anti-Semitism to the atrocities in Bosnia during the
Yugoslavian wars, was generously supported by VAF Filmlab and produced for a solo show at Argos
Centre for Audiovisual Arts. The film was co-commissioned by Contour Biennale, where it was
exhibited in 2019, and later featured in the Manifesta Biennale in 2022. It has been showcased at
various venues including Kunstverein in Hamburg, Budapest Gallery of the Budapest History
Museum, Display - association for research and collective practice in Prague, Center for Cultural
Decontamination in Belgrade, Cinematek in Brussels, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb,
Fotomuseum in Antwerpen, De Cinema in Antwerp (MHKA), DocLisboa, and received the main
award at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in Prague. Using the previous
line of meticulous research and continuing her collaboration with the performers and musicians
from the film (Nenad and Nenad Sinkauz, Ivana Jozić), she conceptualised and
directed Aphasia concert performance, which premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in
2022. The live concert performance emerged out of praxical research geared towards devising new
strategies for ensuring the embodied involvement of the spectator, addressing issues related to
group dynamics, obedience to authority, and polarization. Supported by the Kunstendecreet, the
project was a collaborative production between KAAP and ROBIN, with co-productions from
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, De Singel, Workspacebrussels, the Hannah Arendt Institute, La Geste (Les
Ballet C de la B), Moussem, Nomadic Art Centre, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). After its
successful premiere at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2022, the performance toured
various venues, including STUK in Leuven, AMOK in Brugge, De Singel in Antwerp, Donaufestival in
Vienna/Krems, Theaterformen in Hannover, and Zürcher Theater Spektakel in Zurich.
Jureša teaches at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and holds a PhD in practice from Ghent
University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, and KASK. In 2017, she was awarded a two-year artistic
research project at KASK titled 'Unfolding Amnesia: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Artistic
Practices and the Politics of Oblivion.' In 2020, she received a post-doctoral fellowship for 'Revolt!
On a Refusal to Sing—Thinking Resistance Through Music, Waste, and Complicity’.
