nataša galečić => Welcome to the other Planet => Enjoy your journey
Nataša Galečić
Travel, in the widest sense of its meaning, represents an underlining component of my life and artistic practice. As a frequent traveler, who lives between two temporary places of residence, I am often in the position of observer or visitor who is simultaneously a part of the system and/or simply passing through it. In those moments of mobility my body occupies the space imbued with quantities where set of relations among things, cities, beings, creates my reality. I like to think of myself as someone who walks between worlds and needs to be active in more than one environment to feel complete.
Through my travels and artistic work, I am trying to understand my existence, my place and my role in the community of life. I am looking for our (human) culture’s creation myth. I am wondering if the entire cosmic process of creation came to an end, right here on this little planet, with the appearance of man. Did even the planetary process of creation and evolution came to a screeching halt just because man had arrived? People are constantly talking about “our” environment, “our” seas, even “our” wildlife. But who are We, and who are They? And who, when and on what basis made that devision?
The more I travel the more I realize that people have cut all ties between the world we live in and the world we live from - we have escaped gravity. Have you ever worried that when you say that the Earth is a planet, that it is a globe, you actually have to mentally position yourself as if you were considering it from out in space?
In my work I contemplate macrocosmic relationships – self to self, self to community, community to landscape, man-made landscape to nature, and eventually artist to viewers, and vise versa. These relationships constantly remind me that we are at the same time amalgamations and fragmentations of experiences.
Work
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Resume
EDUCATION
Moore College of Art ε Design, Philadelphia, PA
Master’s of Fine Arts in Studio Art, August 2013
Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, June 2010
Major in Painting
RESIDENCES* AND WORKSHOPS
*Burren College of Art and Design, Burren, Ireland (2012)
Photo-Robot (Reverse Mutant Zombies), University of Arts Summer School, Sremski Karlovci,
Serbia (2009)
| 2021 | Exit Through The Landfill, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Artsy platform, online) |
| 2019 | Wherever I go I take my clutter with me, Common Ground Gallery (VisArts), Rockville, MD, USA (upcoming June 5) |
| 2018 | Cosmology of Discarded Things, Sales Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2018 | Field of Teleportation (with Nemanja Nikolić), Belgrade Youth Centre, Belgrade Serbia |
| 2016 | Atlas for an Urban Traveler, U10 art space, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2013 | Selling Fog, U10 art space, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2012 | In-between Spaces, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2007 | Drawings, Potez Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia |
| 2021 | BBA New Currents, Edition 1-Zusammen: Let’s Go, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | Von (Nicht-)Orten und zufälligen Begegnungen, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2015 | LISTE Art Fair Basel, Special Programme selection by Kaskadenkondensator, U10 art space, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2015 | What happens when…?, Forum Creative Europe at the Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2013 | MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Levy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2012 | Art Extravaganza, Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2012 | Promises of Greatness: Young Philadelphia Artists, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2012 | Transform, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 2012 | Drawings, Goethe Institute, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2010 | The Best Student of Generation of the University of Arts, Gallery FLU, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2010 | The Asphalt Paintings, Goethe Institute, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2009 | Find your way, Amsterdam Biennale, Belgrade pavilion, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2009 | Drawing, Gallery of Student’s City, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2008 | Exhibition of Drawings and Sculptures of Small Format, DOB Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2008 | Women with Embroidery, The Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2008 | Bed for Dream, Cat and Feather, April Meetings, SKC gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACES
Mural (2008), Museum of African Art, Belgrade, Serbia
COLLECTIONS AND * COMMISSIONS
Keep Moving II — Private Collection (Charlottesvile,Virginia, USA)
Here and There (drawing) — Collection of the Cabinet of Drawings, Academy of Arts (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Hectic Room — Private Collection (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Not a Day Without a Line (Installation) — Fidux Management, (Vienna, Austria)
Keep Moving III — Private Collection (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Keep Moving I — Private Collection (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
*Strings of Movement (installation) — 2014, Charlottesville, Virginia (Private residency — Somdev Devvarman, Professional Tennis Player)
*Informational Phantasmagoria (site specific installation) — 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Private residency — Edward Richards, Architect and Art Collector)
| 2013 | Selling Fog, U10 art space, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2012 | Art Extravaganza (Fundraising Event), Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
PUBLIC SPEAKING AND INTERVIEWS*
Field of Teleportation, radio show Signs, author Sava Ristović, Radio Belgrade 2 (2018)
*Moore MFA Grad from Serbia originally wanted to be an astronaut, interview with Mellany Armstrong (2016)
*Atlas for an Urban Traveler, interview with Sanda Kalebic (2016)
Guidance through MFA program in the USA [2014], The Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Drawing: Free Play of Possibilities, MFA Thesis Oral Defense (2013), Stewart Auditorium, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
“Selling Fog”, Artist’s talk (2013), U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia
A talk about “Selling Fog project” with Ana Vuckovic in her radio show Art microphone, Radio 202, Belgrade, Serbia
Study in the USA (2012), The Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS
“Evolucija otpada je postala mera uspeha 21. veka”, article in daily newspaper Danas, 2018.
U10 Biannual Catalogue (2016 – 2017), U10 artspace, Belgrade, Serbia, 2018.
LIQUID LANDSCAPE, Squaring The Circle Pt. II, Artspace 280a, Vienna, Austria, 2017.
ELEVATE, Air Serbia inflight magazine, April edition, 2016.
U10 Annual Catalogue (2012 – 2013), U10, Belgrade, 2014.
Book of Burren, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, (Summer 2012), Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Art Fellowship, (2011– 2013), Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Award for Drawing, 2007, juried by the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Scholarship of Aristotle University for summer course in Thessaloniki (2009), Greece
News
Inside Art: Sunday, July 14, 1 - 4 PM
Tour Nataša Galečić's installation on view at VisArts' Common Ground Gallery, then create your own Cityland learning about the forms
and processes that create an urban landscape. Participants in this workshop will choose an area of a classroom and develop
a site-specific installation using recycled materials and found objects. Participants are encouraged to bring their own disposable
materials (including recycled and found objects) to add to their installation and cameras to document their installation process.
More information
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: June 14, 2019, 7-9 p.m. Common Ground Gallery, 2nd floor.
June 5 - August 11, 2019
Solo exhibition Wherever I go I take my clutter with me at VisArts Centre, Rockville, MD (USA)
More information
December 14, 2018
Članak o izložbi Kosmologija odbačenih stvari
Evolucija otpada je postala mera uspeha 21.veka, dnevni list Danas
Opening Reception November 30, 2018 at 7 p.m. Kosančićev venac 19, Beograd
November 30 - December 17, 2018
Solo exhibition Kosmologija odbačenih stvari / Cosmology of Discarded Things at
Sales Gallery Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia)
Opening Reception September 25, 2018 at 7 p.m., Makedonska 22/IV, Beograd
September 25 - October 12, 2018
Two-person exhibition Field of Teleportation (Nataša Galečić and Nemanja Nikolić) at Gallery DOB, Belgrade (Serbia)
Opening Reception May 12, 2017 at 7 p.m., Residenzplatz 10, 2.OG, Salzburg
May 13 - June 24 2017
Group exhibition VON (NICHT)ORTEN UND ZUFÄLLIGEN BEGEGNUNGENat Galerie 5020, Salzburg (Austria)
March 25, 2017
Intervju Nataša Galečić (počinje na 22min 24sec) u radio emisiji Orbita Kulture, radio Sputnik
Više informacija
September 22, 2016
Moore MFA Grad from Serbia originally wanted to be an astronaut
Interview Nataša Galečić and Mellany Armstrong
More information
April 14, 2016
Intervju Sanda Kalebić and Nataša Galečić
Više informacija
April 1, 2016
Review of my solo show Atlas for an Urban Traveler published in the latest April edition of Air Serbia inflight magazine Elevate
More information
March 3-19, 2016
Atlas for an Urban Traveler
Solo show at U10 art space, Belgrade, Serbia
Links:
Metropolis RTS 2
Citymagazine
E-kultura
Designed
June 15-20, 2015
LISTE Art Fair Basel
Special Programme selection by Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
April 27, 2015
KOLARAC TAKE OVER
Forum Creative Europe at the Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia
For more information please visit:
Supervizuelna
Kreativna Evropa
GET IN TOUCH
- natasasart@gmail.com
